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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 14 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 211 159 144
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 20.04% 14.18% 13.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.17% 33.06% 29.15%
Number of salaries quoted 51 59 128
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £42,500 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,309 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -20.49% -28.72% +8.58%
75th Percentile £56,250 £68,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £90,756 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -25.00% +4.35%

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 438 481 494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.60% 42.91% 46.87%
Number of salaries quoted 165 249 399
10th Percentile £26,950 £38,500 £46,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £50,429
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £57,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -12.01% +5.40%
75th Percentile £78,312 £75,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,249 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +0.45% -7.60% +3.52%

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 January 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 17 (8.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (5.69%) Confluence
3 4 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.47%) SAS
4 1 (0.47%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.47%) WildFly
Applications
1 28 (13.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.64%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 55 (26.07%) Oracle ERP
2 28 (13.27%) Oracle Assets
2 28 (13.27%) Oracle Financials
2 28 (13.27%) Oracle General Ledger
2 28 (13.27%) Oracle Payables
2 28 (13.27%) Oracle Receivables
3 14 (6.64%) Hyperion Planning
4 10 (4.74%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.90%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.47%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 133 (63.03%) Azure
2 89 (42.18%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (27.49%) Snowflake
4 55 (26.07%) GitHub
5 53 (25.12%) Power Platform
6 41 (19.43%) OCI
7 32 (15.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (14.69%) GitHub Copilot
9 29 (13.74%) Entra ID
10 27 (12.80%) dbt
11 24 (11.37%) AWS
12 19 (9.00%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (6.16%) SaaS
14 10 (4.74%) PowerApps
15 7 (3.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (3.32%) Power Automate
16 5 (2.37%) Azure AI
17 4 (1.90%) AWS Step Functions
17 4 (1.90%) Azure App Service
17 4 (1.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.79%) Telnet
2 4 (1.90%) DNS
2 4 (1.90%) Firewall
2 4 (1.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (25.12%) Power BI
2 43 (20.38%) Tableau
3 28 (13.27%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (6.64%) Essbase
4 14 (6.64%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 11 (5.21%) Metadata
5 11 (5.21%) SQL Server
6 9 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (4.27%) Data Mining
6 9 (4.27%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.32%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.47%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.47%) GIS
Development Applications
1 65 (30.81%) Oracle Forms
2 37 (17.54%) Jenkins
2 37 (17.54%) JIRA
3 22 (10.43%) Git
4 12 (5.69%) ER Studio
4 12 (5.69%) ERwin
5 1 (0.47%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.47%) jMock
5 1 (0.47%) JUnit
General
1 159 (75.36%) Finance
2 63 (29.86%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (20.38%) Social Skills
4 12 (5.69%) Front Office
5 10 (4.74%) Manufacturing
5 10 (4.74%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (3.79%) Marketing
7 4 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.95%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Banking
9 1 (0.47%) Legal
9 1 (0.47%) Local Government
9 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (36.02%) Senior
2 73 (34.60%) Analyst
3 57 (27.01%) Applications Engineer
4 41 (19.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (15.64%) Senior Analyst
6 28 (13.27%) Oracle Analyst
6 28 (13.27%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 25 (11.85%) Applications Support
7 25 (11.85%) Azure Engineer
8 24 (11.37%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 16 (7.58%) Data Analyst
10 13 (6.16%) Applications Support Engineer
10 13 (6.16%) Support Engineer
11 12 (5.69%) Applications Support Analyst
11 12 (5.69%) Business Analyst
11 12 (5.69%) Data Engineer
11 12 (5.69%) Data Modeller
11 12 (5.69%) Support Analyst
12 10 (4.74%) ERP Analyst
13 9 (4.27%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (18.01%) RESTful
2 28 (13.27%) OAuth
3 24 (11.37%) SOAP
4 20 (9.48%) JSON
4 20 (9.48%) XML
5 17 (8.06%) OAuth2
5 17 (8.06%) SAML
6 11 (5.21%) GraphQL
6 11 (5.21%) OpenAPI
6 11 (5.21%) Swagger
7 8 (3.79%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (3.79%) YAML
8 5 (2.37%) .NET
9 4 (1.90%) REST
10 2 (0.95%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.95%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.95%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.95%) Entity Framework
11 1 (0.47%) Java EE
11 1 (0.47%) Java SE
Miscellaneous
1 50 (23.70%) Cloud Native
2 44 (20.85%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (7.58%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.79%) Equities
5 8 (3.79%) Fixed Income
5 8 (3.79%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.79%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.32%) e-Learning
6 7 (3.32%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.90%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.47%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.47%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.69%) Windows
2 8 (3.79%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.37%) Linux
4 4 (1.90%) Unix
4 4 (1.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (69.19%) Asset Management
1 146 (69.19%) Coaching
2 114 (54.03%) Agile
3 109 (51.66%) DevOps
4 88 (41.71%) CI/CD
5 75 (35.55%) ERP
6 68 (32.23%) Business Intelligence
7 57 (27.01%) Test Automation
8 50 (23.70%) Analytics
9 48 (22.75%) AI
10 47 (22.27%) Data Governance
11 46 (21.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (21.33%) Mentoring
13 42 (19.91%) Migration
13 42 (19.91%) Root Cause Analysis
13 42 (19.91%) Translating Business Requirements
14 41 (19.43%) API Integration
15 40 (18.96%) Problem-Solving
16 37 (17.54%) Data Integration
16 37 (17.54%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 107 (50.71%) Python
2 47 (22.27%) PL/SQL
3 41 (19.43%) Shell Script
4 39 (18.48%) Java
4 39 (18.48%) PowerShell
5 16 (7.58%) C#
6 14 (6.64%) Groovy
7 7 (3.32%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.90%) Bicep
9 1 (0.47%) Magik
9 1 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (4.74%) Degree
2 5 (2.37%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.48%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 33 (15.64%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (31.28%) Terraform
2 37 (17.54%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (2.84%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.90%) Control-M
Vendors
1 87 (41.23%) Oracle
2 65 (30.81%) Microsoft
3 20 (9.48%) Okta
4 14 (6.64%) Hyperion
5 12 (5.69%) Charles River
6 10 (4.74%) Concur
6 10 (4.74%) SAP
7 9 (4.27%) Databricks
8 4 (1.90%) Ab Initio
8 4 (1.90%) IBM
8 4 (1.90%) Informatica
9 1 (0.47%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.47%) ESRI
9 1 (0.47%) Intapp