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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 214 161 146
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 20.78% 13.56% 14.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.75% 31.94% 29.86%
Number of salaries quoted 54 58 129
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,167 £40,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £43,125 £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 £69,688 £80,000
90th Percentile £71,375 £91,133 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £59,451
% change year-on-year -3.33% -24.31% +4.30%

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 439 504 489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 42.62% 42.46% 47.71%
Number of salaries quoted 171 262 391
10th Percentile £26,250 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,400 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £59,451
% change year-on-year -2.27% -7.49% +3.39%

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 28 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 (7.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (5.61%) Confluence
3 2 (0.93%) 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 (13.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.54%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 55 (25.70%) Oracle ERP
2 28 (13.08%) Oracle Assets
2 28 (13.08%) Oracle Financials
2 28 (13.08%) Oracle General Ledger
2 28 (13.08%) Oracle Payables
2 28 (13.08%) Oracle Receivables
3 14 (6.54%) Hyperion Planning
4 11 (5.14%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.87%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.47%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 132 (61.68%) Azure
2 89 (41.59%) Azure DevOps
3 59 (27.57%) Snowflake
4 55 (25.70%) GitHub
5 54 (25.23%) Power Platform
6 41 (19.16%) OCI
7 32 (14.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (14.49%) GitHub Copilot
9 29 (13.55%) Entra ID
10 27 (12.62%) dbt
11 23 (10.75%) AWS
12 19 (8.88%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (5.61%) SaaS
14 11 (5.14%) PowerApps
15 7 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (3.27%) Power Automate
16 5 (2.34%) Azure AI
17 4 (1.87%) Azure App Service
18 2 (0.93%) AWS Step Functions
18 2 (0.93%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.74%) Telnet
2 4 (1.87%) DNS
2 4 (1.87%) Firewall
2 4 (1.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (25.23%) Power BI
2 43 (20.09%) Tableau
3 30 (14.02%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (6.54%) Essbase
4 14 (6.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 13 (6.07%) SQL Server
6 12 (5.61%) Relational Database
7 11 (5.14%) Metadata
8 9 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (4.21%) Data Mining
9 7 (3.27%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.87%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.93%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.47%) GIS
Development Applications
1 65 (30.37%) Oracle Forms
2 37 (17.29%) Jenkins
2 37 (17.29%) JIRA
3 20 (9.35%) Git
4 12 (5.61%) ER Studio
4 12 (5.61%) ERwin
5 1 (0.47%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.47%) jMock
5 1 (0.47%) JUnit
General
1 161 (75.23%) Finance
2 61 (28.50%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (21.50%) Social Skills
4 12 (5.61%) Front Office
5 11 (5.14%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.74%) Marketing
8 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.93%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.93%) 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 (35.51%) Senior
2 74 (34.58%) Analyst
3 57 (26.64%) Applications Engineer
4 41 (19.16%) Cloud Engineer
5 33 (15.42%) Senior Analyst
6 28 (13.08%) Oracle Analyst
6 28 (13.08%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 26 (12.15%) Applications Support
8 25 (11.68%) Azure Engineer
9 24 (11.21%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 16 (7.48%) Data Analyst
11 13 (6.07%) Applications Support Analyst
11 13 (6.07%) Applications Support Engineer
11 13 (6.07%) Support Analyst
11 13 (6.07%) Support Engineer
12 12 (5.61%) Business Analyst
12 12 (5.61%) Data Modeller
13 10 (4.67%) Consultant
13 10 (4.67%) Database Consultant
13 10 (4.67%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (17.76%) RESTful
2 28 (13.08%) OAuth
3 22 (10.28%) SOAP
4 20 (9.35%) JSON
4 20 (9.35%) XML
5 17 (7.94%) OAuth2
5 17 (7.94%) SAML
6 11 (5.14%) GraphQL
6 11 (5.14%) OpenAPI
6 11 (5.14%) Swagger
7 8 (3.74%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (3.74%) YAML
8 6 (2.80%) .NET
9 3 (1.40%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.40%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.40%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.40%) Entity Framework
10 2 (0.93%) REST
11 1 (0.47%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1 (0.47%) Java SE
Miscellaneous
1 50 (23.36%) Cloud Native
2 47 (21.96%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (7.48%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (4.67%) e-Learning
5 8 (3.74%) Equities
5 8 (3.74%) Fixed Income
5 8 (3.74%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.74%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.27%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.87%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.47%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.47%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.61%) Windows
2 8 (3.74%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.87%) VMS
4 3 (1.40%) Linux
5 2 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (68.22%) Asset Management
1 146 (68.22%) Coaching
2 115 (53.74%) Agile
3 109 (50.93%) DevOps
4 86 (40.19%) CI/CD
5 76 (35.51%) ERP
6 71 (33.18%) Business Intelligence
7 57 (26.64%) Test Automation
8 51 (23.83%) Analytics
9 48 (22.43%) AI
10 47 (21.96%) Mentoring
11 46 (21.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (21.03%) Data Governance
13 42 (19.63%) Migration
13 42 (19.63%) Translating Business Requirements
14 40 (18.69%) Root Cause Analysis
15 39 (18.22%) API Integration
16 38 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
17 35 (16.36%) Data Integration
17 35 (16.36%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 107 (50.00%) Python
2 48 (22.43%) PL/SQL
3 39 (18.22%) Java
3 39 (18.22%) PowerShell
3 39 (18.22%) Shell Script
4 16 (7.48%) C#
5 14 (6.54%) Groovy
6 7 (3.27%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.87%) Bicep
8 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.47%) Magik
8 1 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (6.07%) Degree
2 5 (2.34%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.35%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 33 (15.42%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 66 (30.84%) Terraform
2 37 (17.29%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (2.80%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.93%) Control-M
Vendors
1 91 (42.52%) Oracle
2 66 (30.84%) Microsoft
3 20 (9.35%) Okta
4 14 (6.54%) Hyperion
5 12 (5.61%) Charles River
6 11 (5.14%) Concur
6 11 (5.14%) SAP
7 9 (4.21%) Databricks
8 4 (1.87%) Ab Initio
8 4 (1.87%) IBM
9 2 (0.93%) Informatica
10 1 (0.47%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.47%) ESRI
10 1 (0.47%) Intapp