SQL Server Job Trends in Edinburgh

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 65 67
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 13 30 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 1.07% 3.24% 2.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.55% 17.34% 15.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6 26 40
10th Percentile £26,000 £43,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £27,875 £47,125 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,250 £66,367 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -43.87% +6.19% -3.85%
75th Percentile £56,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £66,750 £76,250 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% +9.38%

All Database & 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 152 173 265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.56% 18.70% 19.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48 110 200
10th Percentile £27,125 £32,906 £40,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £49,984 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £73,188
90th Percentile £92,125 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% +1.85% -10.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Edinburgh

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) SaaS
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) AWS CodePipeline
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Step Functions
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (30.77%) Relational Database
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (7.69%) MySQL
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) ERwin
2 1 (7.69%) Subversion
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Informatica Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Database Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Graduate
3 2 (15.38%) Graduate Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Graduate Database Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Graduate Support Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Support Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Data Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Server Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Server Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) .NET
1 4 (30.77%) REST
1 4 (30.77%) SOAP
2 3 (23.08%) React
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Core
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
3 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
3 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
3 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (15.38%) Entity Framework
3 2 (15.38%) Vue
4 1 (7.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (15.38%) e-Learning
2 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
3 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.69%) Replication
3 1 (7.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Linux
1 5 (38.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Data Integration
1 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
2 5 (38.46%) API Integration
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Data Governance
2 5 (38.46%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (38.46%) Workflow
3 4 (30.77%) BDD
3 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven
3 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (30.77%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (15.38%) Data Entry
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) C
5 1 (7.69%) C++
5 1 (7.69%) Java
5 1 (7.69%) Perl
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Oracle
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 4 (30.77%) Informatica
4 1 (7.69%) IBM
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.69%) Siemens
4 1 (7.69%) Xamarin