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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 27 11
Rank change year-on-year +14 -16 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 76 77 132
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 7.20% 9.07% 9.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.38% 29.73% 24.18%
Number of salaries quoted 38 43 102
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,063 £40,000
25th Percentile £36,482 £37,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% -11.54% -0.54%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,625 £89,500 £82,293
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £49,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.55% -10.45% -4.86%

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 198 259 546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 18.77% 30.51% 38.21%
Number of salaries quoted 130 167 450
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,000 £44,875
25th Percentile £43,125 £49,118 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £85,125 £74,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £99,250 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -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 16 June 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 (11.84%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.95%) Apache
3 2 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.63%) Confluence
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (31.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (3.95%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (2.63%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (2.63%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (2.63%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (2.63%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.63%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.32%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (1.32%) Hyperion Planning
4 1 (1.32%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 41 (53.95%) Azure
2 22 (28.95%) Power Platform
3 16 (21.05%) Azure AI
4 9 (11.84%) AWS
5 7 (9.21%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (9.21%) GCP
5 7 (9.21%) SaaS
6 6 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.58%) dbt
7 5 (6.58%) GitHub
7 5 (6.58%) Snowflake
8 4 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (5.26%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (5.26%) Boomi
8 4 (5.26%) Serverless
8 4 (5.26%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) Broadband
1 1 (1.32%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (35.53%) Tableau
2 22 (28.95%) Power BI
3 9 (11.84%) SQL Server
4 7 (9.21%) Data Mining
5 6 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (6.58%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (6.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (5.26%) Big Data
7 4 (5.26%) Metadata
8 3 (3.95%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.95%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.63%) Data Vault
9 2 (2.63%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.32%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Git
2 5 (6.58%) JIRA
3 4 (5.26%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (3.95%) ERwin
5 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.32%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.32%) ClearQuest
6 1 (1.32%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.32%) HP UFT
6 1 (1.32%) JUnit
6 1 (1.32%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.32%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 29 (38.16%) Finance
2 22 (28.95%) Social Skills
3 18 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Financial Institution
5 5 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.32%) Front Office
8 1 (1.32%) Games
Job Titles
1 37 (48.68%) Analyst
2 23 (30.26%) Data Analyst
3 20 (26.32%) Junior
4 16 (21.05%) Junior Analyst
4 16 (21.05%) Junior Data Analyst
4 16 (21.05%) Senior
5 11 (14.47%) Data Engineer
6 9 (11.84%) Senior Analyst
6 9 (11.84%) Support Analyst
7 7 (9.21%) Applications Support
7 7 (9.21%) Trainee
7 7 (9.21%) Trainee Analyst
7 7 (9.21%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 6 (7.89%) Applications Support Analyst
8 6 (7.89%) Senior Applications Support
8 6 (7.89%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
8 6 (7.89%) Senior Support Analyst
9 5 (6.58%) ERP Analyst
10 4 (5.26%) ERP Support
10 4 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.11%) .NET
2 6 (7.89%) .NET Core
3 5 (6.58%) SOAP
3 5 (6.58%) Web Services
4 4 (5.26%) .NET Framework
4 4 (5.26%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.26%) ASP.NET
4 4 (5.26%) Entity Framework
4 4 (5.26%) React
4 4 (5.26%) REST
5 2 (2.63%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (2.63%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (2.63%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (2.63%) Blazor
5 2 (2.63%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.63%) LINQ
5 2 (2.63%) OAuth
5 2 (2.63%) RESTful
5 2 (2.63%) Vue
6 1 (1.32%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.58%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.32%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.32%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.32%) Equities
4 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.32%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.32%) SCADA
4 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.32%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.32%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.26%) Linux
1 4 (5.26%) Unix
2 2 (2.63%) Windows
3 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.95%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (27.63%) AI
3 18 (23.68%) Agile
4 17 (22.37%) Data Modelling
5 15 (19.74%) Analytics
6 13 (17.11%) CI/CD
6 13 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (15.79%) DevOps
8 11 (14.47%) Data Governance
8 11 (14.47%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (14.47%) Mentoring
9 10 (13.16%) Asset Management
9 10 (13.16%) Coaching
10 9 (11.84%) Business Analysis
10 9 (11.84%) Data Analysis
10 9 (11.84%) Workflow
11 8 (10.53%) ERP
11 8 (10.53%) Microservices
11 8 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
12 7 (9.21%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 39 (51.32%) Python
2 9 (11.84%) Java
3 6 (7.89%) C#
3 6 (7.89%) Shell Script
4 5 (6.58%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.63%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.32%) Groovy
7 1 (1.32%) R
7 1 (1.32%) Scala
7 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (21.05%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.63%) Degree
3 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.32%) MCT
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.79%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (9.21%) Terraform
2 4 (5.26%) Control-M
3 2 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (51.32%) Microsoft
2 16 (21.05%) Oracle
3 5 (6.58%) Google
4 4 (5.26%) Informatica
5 3 (3.95%) Databricks
6 2 (2.63%) IBM
6 2 (2.63%) Pega
7 1 (1.32%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.32%) Charles River
7 1 (1.32%) FIS
7 1 (1.32%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.32%) Okta
7 1 (1.32%) OpenAI