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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 13 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 205 138 158
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 17.10% 13.70% 13.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.56% 32.47% 28.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59 55 134
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £29,904 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £69,750
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -28.32% +3.13%
75th Percentile £60,000 £79,648 £80,000
90th Percentile £69,450 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -21.74% -4.17%

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 450 425 549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.53% 42.20% 45.98%
Number of salaries quoted 194 250 436
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +0.78%
75th Percentile £78,171 £79,569 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £56,318 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.10% +2.40% -7.60%

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 4 March 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 14 (6.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (2.93%) Confluence
3 4 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.49%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.49%) SAS
4 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.49%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.49%) WildFly
Applications
1 32 (15.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (5.37%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 43 (20.98%) Oracle ERP
2 22 (10.73%) Oracle Assets
2 22 (10.73%) Oracle Financials
2 22 (10.73%) Oracle General Ledger
2 22 (10.73%) Oracle Payables
2 22 (10.73%) Oracle Receivables
3 11 (5.37%) Hyperion Planning
4 4 (1.95%) Markit EDM
4 4 (1.95%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.95%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.49%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 128 (62.44%) Azure
2 72 (35.12%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (23.90%) Snowflake
4 47 (22.93%) GitHub
4 47 (22.93%) Power Platform
5 32 (15.61%) OCI
6 31 (15.12%) Azure Data Factory
7 28 (13.66%) GitHub Copilot
8 27 (13.17%) dbt
9 26 (12.68%) Entra ID
10 22 (10.73%) AWS
11 19 (9.27%) Azure Key Vault
12 16 (7.80%) SaaS
13 12 (5.85%) Azure AI
14 7 (3.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (3.41%) Power Automate
15 4 (1.95%) AWS CodePipeline
15 4 (1.95%) AWS Step Functions
15 4 (1.95%) PowerApps
15 4 (1.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.90%) Telnet
2 1 (0.49%) DNS
2 1 (0.49%) Firewall
2 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (22.93%) Power BI
2 46 (22.44%) Tableau
3 23 (11.22%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (6.34%) Data Mining
5 12 (5.85%) SQL Server
6 11 (5.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (5.37%) Essbase
6 11 (5.37%) Metadata
6 11 (5.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 8 (3.90%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.44%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.95%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.49%) Big Data
11 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.49%) GIS
11 1 (0.49%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 53 (25.85%) Oracle Forms
2 31 (15.12%) Jenkins
3 28 (13.66%) JIRA
4 19 (9.27%) Git
5 10 (4.88%) ERwin
6 9 (4.39%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.98%) JUnit
8 1 (0.49%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.49%) ClearQuest
8 1 (0.49%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.49%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.49%) jMock
8 1 (0.49%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 146 (71.22%) Finance
2 52 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (19.02%) Social Skills
4 12 (5.85%) Front Office
5 6 (2.93%) Financial Institution
6 4 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.95%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (0.98%) Marketing
7 2 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.49%) Banking
8 1 (0.49%) Local Government
8 1 (0.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (36.10%) Analyst
2 70 (34.15%) Senior
3 51 (24.88%) Applications Engineer
4 32 (15.61%) Cloud Engineer
4 32 (15.61%) Senior Analyst
5 27 (13.17%) Data Analyst
6 24 (11.71%) Applications Support
7 22 (10.73%) Oracle Analyst
7 22 (10.73%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 20 (9.76%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (8.78%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 17 (8.29%) Junior
11 14 (6.83%) Data Engineer
11 14 (6.83%) ERP Analyst
11 14 (6.83%) Support Analyst
12 13 (6.34%) Applications Support Engineer
12 13 (6.34%) Support Engineer
12 13 (6.34%) Trainee
12 13 (6.34%) Trainee Analyst
12 13 (6.34%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (15.61%) RESTful
2 25 (12.20%) OAuth
3 21 (10.24%) SOAP
4 17 (8.29%) JSON
4 17 (8.29%) XML
5 14 (6.83%) .NET
5 14 (6.83%) OAuth2
5 14 (6.83%) SAML
6 11 (5.37%) GraphQL
6 11 (5.37%) OpenAPI
6 11 (5.37%) Swagger
7 8 (3.90%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (3.90%) YAML
8 6 (2.93%) Web Services
9 4 (1.95%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.95%) .NET Framework
9 4 (1.95%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.95%) Entity Framework
9 4 (1.95%) REST
10 2 (0.98%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 42 (20.49%) Cloud Native
2 35 (17.07%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.90%) Equities
4 8 (3.90%) Fixed Income
4 8 (3.90%) Low-Code
5 7 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.95%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.95%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.49%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.49%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.49%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.49%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.85%) Windows
2 8 (3.90%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.44%) Linux
4 4 (1.95%) Unix
5 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (59.51%) Asset Management
1 122 (59.51%) Coaching
2 96 (46.83%) Agile
3 93 (45.37%) DevOps
4 78 (38.05%) CI/CD
5 61 (29.76%) ERP
6 57 (27.80%) Business Intelligence
7 49 (23.90%) Analytics
8 48 (23.41%) AI
8 48 (23.41%) Mentoring
8 48 (23.41%) Test Automation
9 43 (20.98%) Data Governance
10 37 (18.05%) Data Modelling
10 37 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (17.56%) Root Cause Analysis
12 35 (17.07%) API Integration
12 35 (17.07%) Data Integration
13 34 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (16.59%) Migration
14 30 (14.63%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 104 (50.73%) Python
2 40 (19.51%) Java
3 37 (18.05%) PowerShell
4 35 (17.07%) PL/SQL
4 35 (17.07%) Shell Script
5 17 (8.29%) C#
6 11 (5.37%) Groovy
7 7 (3.41%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.98%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.49%) Bicep
9 1 (0.49%) Magik
9 1 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (5.85%) Azure Certification
2 6 (2.93%) Degree
3 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.83%) Accessibility
1 14 (6.83%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.49%) QA
System Software
1 30 (14.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 55 (26.83%) Terraform
2 31 (15.12%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.95%) Control-M
4 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 79 (38.54%) Microsoft
2 74 (36.10%) Oracle
3 17 (8.29%) Okta
4 12 (5.85%) Charles River
5 11 (5.37%) Hyperion
6 9 (4.39%) Databricks
7 5 (2.44%) IBM
8 4 (1.95%) Ab Initio
8 4 (1.95%) Concur
8 4 (1.95%) Informatica
8 4 (1.95%) SAP
9 1 (0.49%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.49%) ESRI
9 1 (0.49%) FIS
9 1 (0.49%) OpenAI