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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 15 14
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 210 156 145
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 20.53% 13.08% 14.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.84% 31.20% 29.90%
Number of salaries quoted 51 54 129
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,105 £44,000
25th Percentile £26,125 £45,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,309 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.49% -28.13% +12.00%
75th Percentile £48,750 £65,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £83,394 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £43,000 £45,000 £59,451
% change year-on-year -4.44% -24.31% +5.22%

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 430 500 485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 42.03% 41.91% 47.78%
Number of salaries quoted 163 257 388
10th Percentile £26,050 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £32,029 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,790 £75,000 £77,554
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,253 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.27% -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 25 December 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 17 (8.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (5.71%) Confluence
3 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.48%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.48%) SAS
3 1 (0.48%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.48%) WildFly
Applications
1 27 (12.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.67%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 55 (26.19%) Oracle ERP
2 28 (13.33%) Oracle Assets
2 28 (13.33%) Oracle Financials
2 28 (13.33%) Oracle General Ledger
2 28 (13.33%) Oracle Payables
2 28 (13.33%) Oracle Receivables
3 14 (6.67%) Hyperion Planning
4 11 (5.24%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.90%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.48%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 130 (61.90%) Azure
2 89 (42.38%) Azure DevOps
3 59 (28.10%) Snowflake
4 55 (26.19%) GitHub
5 54 (25.71%) Power Platform
6 41 (19.52%) OCI
7 32 (15.24%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (14.76%) GitHub Copilot
9 29 (13.81%) Entra ID
10 27 (12.86%) dbt
11 22 (10.48%) AWS
12 19 (9.05%) Azure Key Vault
13 11 (5.24%) PowerApps
13 11 (5.24%) SaaS
14 7 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (3.33%) Power Automate
15 5 (2.38%) Azure AI
16 4 (1.90%) Azure App Service
17 2 (0.95%) Azure AKS
17 2 (0.95%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.81%) Telnet
2 4 (1.90%) DNS
2 4 (1.90%) Firewall
2 4 (1.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (25.71%) Power BI
2 42 (20.00%) Tableau
3 30 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (6.67%) Essbase
4 14 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 12 (5.71%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.71%) SQL Server
6 11 (5.24%) Metadata
7 9 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (3.81%) Data Mining
9 7 (3.33%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.95%) Oracle ODI
11 2 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
12 1 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.48%) Crystal Reports
12 1 (0.48%) GIS
12 1 (0.48%) MS Access
12 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 65 (30.95%) Oracle Forms
2 37 (17.62%) Jenkins
2 37 (17.62%) JIRA
3 19 (9.05%) Git
4 12 (5.71%) ER Studio
4 12 (5.71%) ERwin
5 1 (0.48%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.48%) jMock
5 1 (0.48%) JUnit
General
1 160 (76.19%) Finance
2 59 (28.10%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 12 (5.71%) Front Office
5 11 (5.24%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.81%) Marketing
8 2 (0.95%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Banking
9 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Legal
9 1 (0.48%) Local Government
9 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (36.19%) Senior
2 73 (34.76%) Analyst
3 57 (27.14%) Applications Engineer
4 41 (19.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (15.71%) Senior Analyst
6 28 (13.33%) Oracle Analyst
6 28 (13.33%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 26 (12.38%) Applications Support
8 25 (11.90%) Azure Engineer
9 24 (11.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 15 (7.14%) Data Analyst
11 13 (6.19%) Applications Support Analyst
11 13 (6.19%) Applications Support Engineer
11 13 (6.19%) Support Analyst
11 13 (6.19%) Support Engineer
12 12 (5.71%) Business Analyst
12 12 (5.71%) Data Modeller
13 10 (4.76%) Consultant
13 10 (4.76%) Database Consultant
13 10 (4.76%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (18.10%) RESTful
2 28 (13.33%) OAuth
3 21 (10.00%) SOAP
4 20 (9.52%) JSON
4 20 (9.52%) XML
5 17 (8.10%) OAuth2
5 17 (8.10%) SAML
6 11 (5.24%) GraphQL
6 11 (5.24%) OpenAPI
6 11 (5.24%) Swagger
7 8 (3.81%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (3.81%) YAML
8 4 (1.90%) .NET
9 1 (0.48%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.48%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.48%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.48%) Java EE
9 1 (0.48%) Java SE
9 1 (0.48%) Swing
9 1 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 47 (22.38%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (7.62%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.76%) e-Learning
5 9 (4.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (3.81%) Equities
6 8 (3.81%) Fixed Income
6 8 (3.81%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.81%) Onboarding
7 7 (3.33%) Low-Code
7 7 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.90%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.48%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.48%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.71%) Windows
2 8 (3.81%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.90%) VMS
4 2 (0.95%) Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (69.52%) Asset Management
1 146 (69.52%) Coaching
2 115 (54.76%) Agile
3 109 (51.90%) DevOps
4 85 (40.48%) CI/CD
5 76 (36.19%) ERP
6 71 (33.81%) Business Intelligence
7 57 (27.14%) Test Automation
8 50 (23.81%) Analytics
9 48 (22.86%) AI
10 47 (22.38%) Mentoring
11 46 (21.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (20.95%) Data Governance
13 42 (20.00%) Migration
13 42 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
14 39 (18.57%) Root Cause Analysis
15 38 (18.10%) API Integration
16 37 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
17 34 (16.19%) Data Integration
17 34 (16.19%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 106 (50.48%) Python
2 48 (22.86%) PL/SQL
3 39 (18.57%) Java
3 39 (18.57%) PowerShell
4 38 (18.10%) Shell Script
5 14 (6.67%) C#
5 14 (6.67%) Groovy
6 7 (3.33%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.90%) Bicep
8 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.48%) Magik
8 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (6.19%) Degree
2 5 (2.38%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 33 (15.71%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (31.43%) Terraform
2 37 (17.62%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (2.86%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.48%) Control-M
Vendors
1 90 (42.86%) Oracle
2 65 (30.95%) Microsoft
3 20 (9.52%) Okta
4 14 (6.67%) Hyperion
5 12 (5.71%) Charles River
6 11 (5.24%) Concur
6 11 (5.24%) SAP
7 9 (4.29%) Databricks
8 4 (1.90%) Ab Initio
8 4 (1.90%) IBM
9 1 (0.48%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.48%) ESRI
9 1 (0.48%) Informatica
9 1 (0.48%) Intapp