SQL Job Trends in Edinburgh

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 16 14
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 146 156 141
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 16.76% 12.05% 13.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.20% 30.89% 30.65%
Number of salaries quoted 47 51 117
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,105 £41,650
25th Percentile £26,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -25.00% +21.74%
75th Percentile £48,750 £71,250 £77,542
90th Percentile £65,250 £79,648 £82,750
Scotland median annual salary £44,000 £44,500 £55,733
% change year-on-year -1.12% -20.15% +1.33%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 323 505 460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.08% 39.00% 45.41%
Number of salaries quoted 144 256 367
10th Percentile £25,825 £39,875 £42,874
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,110 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £79,092 £75,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

SQL
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Salary histogram for SQL in Edinburgh

SQL
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 13 (8.90%) Confluence
2 11 (7.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.68%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.68%) SAS
3 1 (0.68%) Smallworld
Applications
1 21 (14.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.48%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 37 (25.34%) Oracle ERP
2 16 (10.96%) Oracle Assets
2 16 (10.96%) Oracle Financials
2 16 (10.96%) Oracle General Ledger
2 16 (10.96%) Oracle Payables
2 16 (10.96%) Oracle Receivables
3 11 (7.53%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (5.48%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.68%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 87 (59.59%) Azure
2 64 (43.84%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (28.08%) Power Platform
4 37 (25.34%) GitHub
5 36 (24.66%) Snowflake
6 29 (19.86%) OCI
7 23 (15.75%) Entra ID
8 19 (13.01%) GitHub Copilot
9 16 (10.96%) AWS
9 16 (10.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (7.53%) dbt
10 11 (7.53%) PowerApps
11 10 (6.85%) SaaS
12 7 (4.79%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (3.42%) Power Automate
14 4 (2.74%) Azure App Service
14 4 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 2 (1.37%) Azure AKS
16 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
16 1 (0.68%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.74%) DNS
1 4 (2.74%) Firewall
1 4 (2.74%) VPN
2 2 (1.37%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (28.08%) Power BI
2 30 (20.55%) Tableau
3 20 (13.70%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (8.22%) Relational Database
5 11 (7.53%) SQL Server
6 9 (6.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (5.48%) Essbase
7 8 (5.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 7 (4.79%) Metadata
9 6 (4.11%) Data Mining
10 4 (2.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.05%) Data Lake
11 3 (2.05%) Oracle ODI
12 1 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.68%) Crystal Reports
12 1 (0.68%) GIS
12 1 (0.68%) MS Access
12 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
12 1 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (28.08%) Oracle Forms
2 26 (17.81%) JIRA
3 25 (17.12%) Jenkins
4 11 (7.53%) Git
5 8 (5.48%) ER Studio
5 8 (5.48%) ERwin
General
1 107 (73.29%) Finance
2 43 (29.45%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (26.71%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.53%) Manufacturing
4 11 (7.53%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (5.48%) Marketing
6 6 (4.11%) Front Office
7 3 (2.05%) Banking
7 3 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.05%) Retail
8 2 (1.37%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Local Government
9 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.68%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (36.99%) Analyst
2 47 (32.19%) Senior
3 39 (26.71%) Applications Engineer
4 29 (19.86%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (15.07%) Applications Support
6 21 (14.38%) Senior Analyst
7 18 (12.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 16 (10.96%) Oracle Analyst
8 16 (10.96%) Senior Oracle Analyst
9 13 (8.90%) Applications Support Analyst
9 13 (8.90%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (8.90%) Business Analyst
9 13 (8.90%) Support Analyst
10 11 (7.53%) Consultant
11 10 (6.85%) Database Consultant
11 10 (6.85%) Graduate
11 10 (6.85%) Graduate Consultant
11 10 (6.85%) Graduate Database Consultant
11 10 (6.85%) Graduate Support Consultant
11 10 (6.85%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.12%) RESTful
2 16 (10.96%) OAuth
3 14 (9.59%) JSON
3 14 (9.59%) SOAP
3 14 (9.59%) XML
4 11 (7.53%) OAuth2
4 11 (7.53%) SAML
5 5 (3.42%) GraphQL
5 5 (3.42%) OpenAPI
5 5 (3.42%) Swagger
6 2 (1.37%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.37%) YAML
7 1 (0.68%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.68%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.68%) ADO
7 1 (0.68%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.68%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.68%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.68%) React
7 1 (0.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 35 (23.97%) Enterprise Software
2 30 (20.55%) Cloud Native
3 16 (10.96%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.85%) e-Learning
5 8 (5.48%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (5.48%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.48%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.42%) Low-Code
6 5 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.74%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.37%) Equities
8 2 (1.37%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.68%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.74%) VMS
2 2 (1.37%) Windows
2 2 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (61.64%) Asset Management
1 90 (61.64%) Coaching
2 76 (52.05%) Agile
2 76 (52.05%) DevOps
3 53 (36.30%) Business Intelligence
4 52 (35.62%) CI/CD
4 52 (35.62%) ERP
5 40 (27.40%) Test Automation
6 35 (23.97%) Analytics
6 35 (23.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (21.23%) AI
8 30 (20.55%) Migration
8 30 (20.55%) Translating Business Requirements
9 29 (19.86%) Data Governance
9 29 (19.86%) Mentoring
10 27 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (17.12%) API Integration
12 22 (15.07%) ITIL
12 22 (15.07%) Root Cause Analysis
13 21 (14.38%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 73 (50.00%) Python
2 36 (24.66%) PL/SQL
3 26 (17.81%) Java
4 25 (17.12%) Shell Script
5 17 (11.64%) PowerShell
6 8 (5.48%) Groovy
7 6 (4.11%) C#
8 4 (2.74%) Bicep
9 3 (2.05%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.68%) Magik
10 1 (0.68%) R
10 1 (0.68%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (10.96%) Degree
2 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.59%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.74%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 23 (15.75%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (28.77%) Terraform
2 25 (17.12%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (4.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 66 (45.21%) Oracle
2 33 (22.60%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.59%) Okta
4 11 (7.53%) Concur
4 11 (7.53%) SAP
5 8 (5.48%) Hyperion
6 6 (4.11%) Charles River
7 4 (2.74%) Databricks
8 1 (0.68%) ESRI
8 1 (0.68%) Genesys
8 1 (0.68%) Intapp
8 1 (0.68%) Verint