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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 26 13
Rank change year-on-year +15 -13 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 85 79 131
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 8.01% 9.23% 9.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.87% 29.92% 24.26%
Number of salaries quoted 37 43 106
10th Percentile - £25,063 £39,375
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £51,139
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -11.54% -0.54%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £89,500 £82,548
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £49,250 £54,500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -9.63% -8.44%

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 208 264 540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.60% 30.84% 38.52%
Number of salaries quoted 127 170 451
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,375 £43,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,118 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £89,375 £74,500
90th Percentile £82,000 £100,000 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £57,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.86%

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 12 June 2026.

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 9 (10.59%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.53%) Apache
3 2 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.35%) Confluence
3 2 (2.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (28.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.35%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (4.71%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (4.71%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (4.71%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (4.71%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (4.71%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (4.71%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (2.35%) Hyperion Planning
3 2 (2.35%) Markit EDM
4 1 (1.18%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 47 (55.29%) Azure
2 23 (27.06%) Power Platform
3 16 (18.82%) Azure AI
4 10 (11.76%) AWS
4 10 (11.76%) Snowflake
5 9 (10.59%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (9.41%) dbt
6 8 (9.41%) GitHub
7 7 (8.24%) GCP
7 7 (8.24%) SaaS
8 4 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (4.71%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.71%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (4.71%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (4.71%) Boomi
8 4 (4.71%) iPaaS
8 4 (4.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) Telnet
2 1 (1.18%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (32.94%) Tableau
2 23 (27.06%) Power BI
3 9 (10.59%) SQL Server
4 7 (8.24%) Data Mining
4 7 (8.24%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (5.88%) Metadata
7 4 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (4.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (4.71%) Data Lake
7 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.53%) Big Data
8 3 (3.53%) BigQuery
9 2 (2.35%) Data Vault
9 2 (2.35%) Essbase
9 2 (2.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (1.18%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.18%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Oracle Forms
2 6 (7.06%) Git
2 6 (7.06%) JIRA
3 4 (4.71%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.53%) ERwin
5 2 (2.35%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.18%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.18%) ClearQuest
6 1 (1.18%) HP UFT
6 1 (1.18%) JUnit
6 1 (1.18%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (44.71%) Finance
2 22 (25.88%) Social Skills
3 20 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.06%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.53%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.35%) Front Office
9 1 (1.18%) Games
Job Titles
1 39 (45.88%) Analyst
2 23 (27.06%) Data Analyst
3 21 (24.71%) Senior
4 20 (23.53%) Junior
5 16 (18.82%) Junior Analyst
5 16 (18.82%) Junior Data Analyst
6 11 (12.94%) Senior Analyst
7 10 (11.76%) Data Engineer
8 9 (10.59%) Support Analyst
9 8 (9.41%) Applications Support
10 7 (8.24%) Trainee
10 7 (8.24%) Trainee Analyst
10 7 (8.24%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 6 (7.06%) Applications Engineer
11 6 (7.06%) Applications Support Analyst
11 6 (7.06%) ERP Analyst
11 6 (7.06%) Senior Applications Support
11 6 (7.06%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
11 6 (7.06%) Senior Support Analyst
12 4 (4.71%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.29%) .NET
2 6 (7.06%) .NET Core
2 6 (7.06%) SOAP
3 5 (5.88%) Web Services
4 4 (4.71%) .NET Framework
4 4 (4.71%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.71%) ASP.NET
4 4 (4.71%) Entity Framework
4 4 (4.71%) OAuth
4 4 (4.71%) React
4 4 (4.71%) REST
4 4 (4.71%) RESTful
5 2 (2.35%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (2.35%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (2.35%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (2.35%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.35%) OAuth2
5 2 (2.35%) Swagger
5 2 (2.35%) Vue
5 2 (2.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.59%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.71%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.35%) Equities
3 2 (2.35%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.18%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.18%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.18%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.18%) SCADA
4 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.18%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.71%) Linux
1 4 (4.71%) Unix
1 4 (4.71%) Windows
2 2 (2.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.24%) Agile
1 24 (28.24%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (27.06%) AI
3 21 (24.71%) Data Modelling
4 20 (23.53%) Asset Management
4 20 (23.53%) Coaching
5 18 (21.18%) Analytics
5 18 (21.18%) CI/CD
6 17 (20.00%) DevOps
7 15 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (16.47%) Mentoring
9 13 (15.29%) Data Governance
9 13 (15.29%) Data Pipeline
10 12 (14.12%) ERP
11 10 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (10.59%) API Integration
12 9 (10.59%) Data Analysis
12 9 (10.59%) Data Architecture
12 9 (10.59%) Data Integration
12 9 (10.59%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 44 (51.76%) Python
2 11 (12.94%) Java
3 9 (10.59%) PowerShell
4 8 (9.41%) Shell Script
5 7 (8.24%) C#
6 4 (4.71%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.71%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.35%) Groovy
7 2 (2.35%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.18%) R
8 1 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (18.82%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.18%) Degree
2 1 (1.18%) MCT
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.18%) GDPR
3 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (12.94%) Terraform
2 4 (4.71%) Control-M
2 4 (4.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (50.59%) Microsoft
2 20 (23.53%) Oracle
3 5 (5.88%) Google
4 4 (4.71%) Databricks
4 4 (4.71%) Informatica
5 3 (3.53%) IBM
6 2 (2.35%) Ab Initio
6 2 (2.35%) Charles River
6 2 (2.35%) Hyperion
6 2 (2.35%) Okta
6 2 (2.35%) Pega
7 1 (1.18%) FIS
7 1 (1.18%) OpenAI