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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 212 152 162
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 19.05% 13.97% 13.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.90% 31.93% 28.83%
Number of salaries quoted 50 53 144
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £27,625 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £60,000 £79,569 £80,000
90th Percentile £69,125 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £44,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.12% -22.61% -0.54%

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 452 476 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.61% 43.75% 47.19%
Number of salaries quoted 173 247 451
10th Percentile £28,050 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £50,429
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,312 £77,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £56,318
% change year-on-year +4.55% -2.34% -2.58%

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 30 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 (8.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (5.66%) Confluence
3 4 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.47%) SAS
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.47%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.47%) WildFly
Applications
1 28 (13.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.60%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 55 (25.94%) Oracle ERP
2 28 (13.21%) Oracle Assets
2 28 (13.21%) Oracle Financials
2 28 (13.21%) Oracle General Ledger
2 28 (13.21%) Oracle Payables
2 28 (13.21%) Oracle Receivables
3 14 (6.60%) Hyperion Planning
4 8 (3.77%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.89%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.47%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 135 (63.68%) Azure
2 88 (41.51%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (27.36%) Snowflake
4 56 (26.42%) GitHub
5 53 (25.00%) Power Platform
6 41 (19.34%) OCI
7 33 (15.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (14.62%) GitHub Copilot
9 29 (13.68%) Entra ID
10 27 (12.74%) dbt
11 25 (11.79%) AWS
12 19 (8.96%) Azure Key Vault
13 14 (6.60%) SaaS
14 8 (3.77%) PowerApps
15 7 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (3.30%) Power Automate
16 6 (2.83%) Azure AI
17 4 (1.89%) AWS CodePipeline
17 4 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
17 4 (1.89%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.77%) Telnet
2 4 (1.89%) DNS
2 4 (1.89%) Firewall
2 4 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (25.00%) Power BI
2 45 (21.23%) Tableau
3 28 (13.21%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (6.60%) Essbase
4 14 (6.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 11 (5.19%) Metadata
5 11 (5.19%) SQL Server
6 10 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (4.25%) Data Mining
8 7 (3.30%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.30%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.89%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.47%) GIS
11 1 (0.47%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 65 (30.66%) Oracle Forms
2 37 (17.45%) Jenkins
2 37 (17.45%) JIRA
3 22 (10.38%) Git
4 13 (6.13%) ERwin
5 12 (5.66%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.94%) JUnit
7 1 (0.47%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.47%) ClearQuest
7 1 (0.47%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.47%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.47%) jMock
7 1 (0.47%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 158 (74.53%) Finance
2 63 (29.72%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (18.40%) Social Skills
4 12 (5.66%) Front Office
5 8 (3.77%) Manufacturing
5 8 (3.77%) Marketing
5 8 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.94%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.47%) Banking
8 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.47%) Local Government
8 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 77 (36.32%) Senior
2 72 (33.96%) Analyst
3 57 (26.89%) Applications Engineer
4 41 (19.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 34 (16.04%) Senior Analyst
6 28 (13.21%) Oracle Analyst
6 28 (13.21%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 24 (11.32%) Applications Support
7 24 (11.32%) Azure Engineer
7 24 (11.32%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 17 (8.02%) Data Analyst
9 13 (6.13%) Applications Support Engineer
9 13 (6.13%) Data Engineer
9 13 (6.13%) Support Engineer
10 12 (5.66%) Business Analyst
10 12 (5.66%) Data Modeller
11 11 (5.19%) Applications Support Analyst
11 11 (5.19%) Support Analyst
12 10 (4.72%) ERP Analyst
12 10 (4.72%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (17.92%) RESTful
2 28 (13.21%) OAuth
3 24 (11.32%) SOAP
4 20 (9.43%) JSON
4 20 (9.43%) XML
5 17 (8.02%) OAuth2
5 17 (8.02%) SAML
6 11 (5.19%) GraphQL
6 11 (5.19%) OpenAPI
6 11 (5.19%) Swagger
7 8 (3.77%) .NET
7 8 (3.77%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (3.77%) YAML
8 4 (1.89%) REST
9 3 (1.42%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.42%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.42%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.42%) Entity Framework
10 2 (0.94%) Swing
10 2 (0.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (23.11%) Cloud Native
2 42 (19.81%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (7.55%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.66%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.77%) Equities
5 8 (3.77%) Fixed Income
5 8 (3.77%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.77%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.30%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.36%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.89%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.47%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.47%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.47%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.66%) Windows
2 8 (3.77%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.36%) Linux
4 4 (1.89%) Unix
4 4 (1.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (68.87%) Asset Management
1 146 (68.87%) Coaching
2 115 (54.25%) Agile
3 108 (50.94%) DevOps
4 87 (41.04%) CI/CD
5 73 (34.43%) ERP
6 67 (31.60%) Business Intelligence
7 58 (27.36%) Test Automation
8 50 (23.58%) AI
8 50 (23.58%) Analytics
9 48 (22.64%) Data Governance
10 47 (22.17%) Mentoring
11 46 (21.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (19.81%) Migration
12 42 (19.81%) Root Cause Analysis
12 42 (19.81%) Translating Business Requirements
13 41 (19.34%) API Integration
13 41 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (18.40%) Data Modelling
15 37 (17.45%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 109 (51.42%) Python
2 45 (21.23%) PL/SQL
3 42 (19.81%) Java
4 41 (19.34%) Shell Script
5 39 (18.40%) PowerShell
6 16 (7.55%) C#
7 14 (6.60%) Groovy
8 7 (3.30%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.89%) Bicep
10 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.47%) Magik
Qualifications
1 7 (3.30%) Degree
2 6 (2.83%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.43%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.60%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 33 (15.57%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 65 (30.66%) Terraform
2 37 (17.45%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (2.36%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.89%) Control-M
Vendors
1 87 (41.04%) Oracle
2 69 (32.55%) Microsoft
3 20 (9.43%) Okta
4 14 (6.60%) Hyperion
5 12 (5.66%) Charles River
6 9 (4.25%) Databricks
7 8 (3.77%) Concur
7 8 (3.77%) SAP
8 5 (2.36%) IBM
9 4 (1.89%) Ab Initio
9 4 (1.89%) Informatica
10 1 (0.47%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.47%) ESRI
10 1 (0.47%) FIS