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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 27 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 -12 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 51 75 105
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 4.87% 8.84% 7.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.77% 31.12% 22.20%
Number of salaries quoted 31 45 68
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £35,074
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -18.03% -6.15%
75th Percentile £64,375 £71,250 £72,625
90th Percentile £102,500 £80,386 £76,250
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -13.04%

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 151 241 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.41% 28.42% 35.91%
Number of salaries quoted 110 159 374
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,650 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £69,688 £80,625 £73,886
90th Percentile £95,500 £99,000 £87,125
Scotland median annual salary £53,750 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.38% +5.51% -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 24 July 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 6 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.88%) Apache
3 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (39.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 28 (54.90%) Azure
2 19 (37.25%) Power Platform
3 15 (29.41%) Azure AI
4 7 (13.73%) GCP
5 5 (9.80%) AWS
6 4 (7.84%) Boomi
6 4 (7.84%) iPaaS
6 4 (7.84%) Workato
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (5.88%) Cloud Composer
7 3 (5.88%) Dataform
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.92%) dbt
8 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (3.92%) SaaS
9 1 (1.96%) Dagster
9 1 (1.96%) GitHub
9 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.96%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.96%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (43.14%) Tableau
2 19 (37.25%) Power BI
3 5 (9.80%) Data Mining
4 4 (7.84%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (7.84%) Big Data
4 4 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.84%) Metadata
5 3 (5.88%) BigQuery
5 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.92%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.92%) Data Vault
6 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.96%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.96%) Redis
7 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) JIRA
2 2 (3.92%) Git
3 1 (1.96%) ERwin
3 1 (1.96%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 18 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 14 (27.45%) Finance
3 8 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.84%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.96%) Games
Job Titles
1 30 (58.82%) Analyst
2 20 (39.22%) Data Analyst
3 17 (33.33%) Junior
4 15 (29.41%) Junior Analyst
4 15 (29.41%) Junior Data Analyst
5 10 (19.61%) Senior
6 8 (15.69%) Data Engineer
7 7 (13.73%) Support Analyst
8 5 (9.80%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (9.80%) Trainee
8 5 (9.80%) Trainee Analyst
8 5 (9.80%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 4 (7.84%) 3rd Line Support
9 4 (7.84%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
9 4 (7.84%) Applications Support
9 4 (7.84%) Applications Support Analyst
9 4 (7.84%) Developer
9 4 (7.84%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
9 4 (7.84%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (7.84%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.61%) .NET
2 5 (9.80%) React
3 4 (7.84%) .NET Core
3 4 (7.84%) ASP.NET
3 4 (7.84%) Web Services
4 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (5.88%) Blazor
4 3 (5.88%) LINQ
5 2 (3.92%) Great Expectations
6 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.96%) CrewAI
6 1 (1.96%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.96%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.96%) NumPy
6 1 (1.96%) PySpark
6 1 (1.96%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.96%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.96%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
1 1 (1.96%) Autonomous Agent
1 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
1 1 (1.96%) Low-Code
1 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (1.96%) Sports Betting
1 1 (1.96%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (33.33%) AI
3 12 (23.53%) Analytics
4 11 (21.57%) Agile
5 8 (15.69%) Requirements Gathering
6 7 (13.73%) Business Analysis
6 7 (13.73%) Data Analysis
6 7 (13.73%) Data Analytics
6 7 (13.73%) Data Modelling
6 7 (13.73%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (11.76%) DevOps
7 6 (11.76%) ETL
7 6 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 6 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (9.80%) Data Engineering
8 5 (9.80%) Microservices
8 5 (9.80%) Project Management
8 5 (9.80%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 5 (9.80%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 31 (60.78%) Python
2 5 (9.80%) C#
3 4 (7.84%) Java
3 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.96%) R
4 1 (1.96%) Scala
4 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (29.41%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.96%) Degree
2 1 (1.96%) MCT
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.73%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.80%) Google
3 4 (7.84%) Oracle
4 3 (5.88%) Databricks
5 2 (3.92%) Pega
6 1 (1.96%) OpenAI