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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 23 16
Rank change year-on-year +14 -7 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 100 86 137
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 9.34% 9.90% 10.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.29% 29.97% 25.95%
Number of salaries quoted 39 46 116
10th Percentile £34,750 £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £50,557
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -19.23% -3.89%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £88,750 £85,649
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -8.33%

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 231 287 528
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.57% 33.03% 39.76%
Number of salaries quoted 132 183 447
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,375 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £82,625 £74,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -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 29 May 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 (9.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.00%) Apache
2 3 (3.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.00%) Confluence
4 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.00%) WildFly
Applications
1 28 (28.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.00%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 9 (9.00%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (6.00%) Oracle Assets
2 6 (6.00%) Oracle Financials
2 6 (6.00%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (6.00%) Oracle Payables
2 6 (6.00%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (4.00%) Unit4 Business World
4 3 (3.00%) Hyperion Planning
4 3 (3.00%) Markit EDM
5 1 (1.00%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 57 (57.00%) Azure
2 27 (27.00%) Power Platform
3 19 (19.00%) Azure AI
4 15 (15.00%) Snowflake
5 13 (13.00%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (11.00%) AWS
7 11 (11.00%) dbt
7 11 (11.00%) GitHub
8 7 (7.00%) GCP
8 7 (7.00%) SaaS
9 6 (6.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 6 (6.00%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (6.00%) OCI
10 4 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.00%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (4.00%) Serverless
10 4 (4.00%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.00%) Telnet
2 1 (1.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (33.00%) Tableau
2 27 (27.00%) Power BI
3 9 (9.00%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (9.00%) SQL Server
4 8 (8.00%) Data Mining
5 7 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (6.00%) Metadata
7 5 (5.00%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (3.00%) Big Data
9 3 (3.00%) BigQuery
9 3 (3.00%) Essbase
9 3 (3.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 2 (2.00%) Data Vault
11 1 (1.00%) Delta Lake
11 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (12.00%) Oracle Forms
2 8 (8.00%) Git
2 8 (8.00%) JIRA
3 6 (6.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.00%) ERwin
5 3 (3.00%) ER Studio
6 2 (2.00%) JUnit
7 1 (1.00%) ClearCase
7 1 (1.00%) ClearQuest
7 1 (1.00%) HP UFT
7 1 (1.00%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.00%) jMock
7 1 (1.00%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (49.00%) Finance
2 25 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 24 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.00%) Financial Institution
4 6 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.00%) Front Office
6 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 45 (45.00%) Analyst
2 27 (27.00%) Data Analyst
3 26 (26.00%) Senior
4 24 (24.00%) Junior
5 19 (19.00%) Junior Analyst
5 19 (19.00%) Junior Data Analyst
6 13 (13.00%) Senior Analyst
7 11 (11.00%) Data Engineer
8 9 (9.00%) Applications Engineer
8 9 (9.00%) Applications Support
8 9 (9.00%) Support Analyst
9 8 (8.00%) Trainee
9 8 (8.00%) Trainee Analyst
9 8 (8.00%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 7 (7.00%) ERP Analyst
11 6 (6.00%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (6.00%) Oracle Analyst
11 6 (6.00%) Senior Applications Support
11 6 (6.00%) Senior Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.00%) .NET
2 7 (7.00%) RESTful
2 7 (7.00%) SOAP
3 6 (6.00%) OAuth
3 6 (6.00%) Web Services
4 5 (5.00%) .NET Core
5 4 (4.00%) .NET Framework
5 4 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 4 (4.00%) Entity Framework
5 4 (4.00%) REST
6 3 (3.00%) ASP.NET
6 3 (3.00%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (3.00%) GraphQL
6 3 (3.00%) JSON
6 3 (3.00%) OAuth2
6 3 (3.00%) React
6 3 (3.00%) SAML
6 3 (3.00%) Swagger
6 3 (3.00%) XML
6 3 (3.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.00%) Equities
4 3 (3.00%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.00%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.00%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.00%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.00%) SCADA
5 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.00%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.00%) Windows
2 5 (5.00%) Linux
3 4 (4.00%) Unix
4 3 (3.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.00%) Agile
2 30 (30.00%) Asset Management
2 30 (30.00%) Coaching
3 29 (29.00%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (28.00%) AI
5 25 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 24 (24.00%) CI/CD
7 23 (23.00%) DevOps
8 22 (22.00%) Analytics
9 17 (17.00%) Mentoring
9 17 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (16.00%) Data Governance
10 16 (16.00%) ERP
11 15 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (13.00%) Root Cause Analysis
13 11 (11.00%) API Integration
13 11 (11.00%) Data Architecture
13 11 (11.00%) Data Integration
13 11 (11.00%) Requirements Gathering
13 11 (11.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 53 (53.00%) Python
2 14 (14.00%) Java
3 13 (13.00%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 7 (7.00%) C#
6 6 (6.00%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.00%) Groovy
7 3 (3.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.00%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.00%) R
8 1 (1.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (19.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.00%) Degree
2 1 (1.00%) MCT
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.00%) GDPR
3 1 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (15.00%) Terraform
2 6 (6.00%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (4.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 50 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (24.00%) Oracle
3 5 (5.00%) Databricks
3 5 (5.00%) Google
4 4 (4.00%) IBM
4 4 (4.00%) Informatica
5 3 (3.00%) Ab Initio
5 3 (3.00%) Charles River
5 3 (3.00%) Hyperion
5 3 (3.00%) Okta
6 2 (2.00%) Pega
7 1 (1.00%) FIS
7 1 (1.00%) OpenAI