SQL Server Jobs in Edinburgh

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 72 70
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 -12
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 30 37 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.32% 2.49% 4.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.54% 13.12% 18.45%
Number of salaries quoted 26 36 52
10th Percentile £44,375 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £62,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.04% +16.67%
75th Percentile £72,188 £72,813 £82,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £49,250 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.19% +10.53% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 171 282 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 18.94% 18.96% 21.69%
Number of salaries quoted 103 163 239
10th Percentile £26,697 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £46,306 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -6.15% +18.18%
75th Percentile £76,840 £72,466 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £81,600 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +9.09%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Edinburgh

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for SQL Server in Edinburgh

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Edinburgh

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.33%) CMS
1 1 (3.33%) Headless CMS
1 1 (3.33%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 20 (66.67%) Azure
2 13 (43.33%) AWS
3 10 (33.33%) SaaS
4 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.33%) GCP
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (43.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.00%) MySQL
3 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (10.00%) Power BI
3 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.00%) Fiddler
2 3 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) GitLab
2 3 (10.00%) Postman
2 3 (10.00%) TeamCity
2 3 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Forms
General
1 7 (23.33%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Law
4 3 (10.00%) Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Electronics
6 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Developer
1 8 (26.67%) Lead
2 7 (23.33%) Team Leader
3 5 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 5 (16.67%) DBA
3 5 (16.67%) SQL DBA
3 5 (16.67%) SQL Server DBA
4 4 (13.33%) Senior
4 4 (13.33%) Software Team Leader
5 3 (10.00%) Database Team Leader
5 3 (10.00%) Development Team Leader
6 2 (6.67%) Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Database Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Database Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Senior SQL Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (36.67%) .NET
2 10 (33.33%) RESTful
3 8 (26.67%) CSS
3 8 (26.67%) HTML
4 6 (20.00%) .NET Core
5 5 (16.67%) .NET Framework
5 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET
5 5 (16.67%) React
5 5 (16.67%) Web Services
6 3 (10.00%) ADO.NET
6 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
6 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (10.00%) CSS3
6 3 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (10.00%) Entity Framework
6 3 (10.00%) HTML5
6 3 (10.00%) REST
6 3 (10.00%) Swagger
7 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (6.67%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.33%) e-Learning
2 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) DevOps
2 12 (40.00%) Agile
3 11 (36.67%) Microservices
3 11 (36.67%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (30.00%) Coaching
6 8 (26.67%) Mentoring
7 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
8 6 (20.00%) Design Patterns
8 6 (20.00%) Line Management
9 5 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (16.67%) OO
9 5 (16.67%) OOP
9 5 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 5 (16.67%) TDD
9 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 5 (16.67%) Unit Testing
10 4 (13.33%) SOLID
11 3 (10.00%) Containerisation
11 3 (10.00%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) SQL
2 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 7 (23.33%) C#
4 6 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 6 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (13.33%) Python
6 2 (6.67%) Elixir
6 2 (6.67%) F#
6 2 (6.67%) Go
6 2 (6.67%) Ruby
6 2 (6.67%) Scala
7 1 (3.33%) C
7 1 (3.33%) Java
7 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Grafana
2 1 (3.33%) Puppet
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks