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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 25 18
Rank change year-on-year +16 -7 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 168 94 144
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 13.88% 10.16% 10.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.44% 25.97% 25.09%
Number of salaries quoted 50 60 121
10th Percentile £27,375 £25,281 £46,306
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £55,659 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.90% -17.54% -2.80%
75th Percentile £61,250 £79,648 £76,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £48,000 £45,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -18.18% -12.00%

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 378 362 574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 31.24% 39.14% 42.02%
Number of salaries quoted 177 260 471
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,433 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £72,250 £80,313 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%

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 April 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 8 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (4.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.79%) Apache
3 2 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.19%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) SAS
4 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.60%) WildFly
Applications
1 32 (19.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.95%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 26 (15.48%) Oracle ERP
2 20 (11.90%) Oracle Assets
2 20 (11.90%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (11.90%) Oracle General Ledger
2 20 (11.90%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (11.90%) Oracle Receivables
3 10 (5.95%) Hyperion Planning
4 4 (2.38%) Markit EDM
4 4 (2.38%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.60%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 96 (57.14%) Azure
2 43 (25.60%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (23.81%) Power Platform
4 34 (20.24%) Snowflake
5 32 (19.05%) GitHub
6 30 (17.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (14.29%) dbt
8 22 (13.10%) GitHub Copilot
9 20 (11.90%) Azure AI
10 19 (11.31%) Azure Key Vault
11 16 (9.52%) OCI
12 15 (8.93%) AWS
13 11 (6.55%) Entra ID
14 10 (5.95%) SaaS
15 7 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (4.17%) GCP
15 7 (4.17%) Power Automate
16 4 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
16 4 (2.38%) Serverless
16 4 (2.38%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.76%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (24.40%) Tableau
2 40 (23.81%) Power BI
3 14 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (6.55%) Data Mining
5 10 (5.95%) Essbase
5 10 (5.95%) Metadata
5 10 (5.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 10 (5.95%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.76%) Data Lake
7 7 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.38%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.79%) Big Data
10 3 (1.79%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.60%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.60%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.60%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (21.43%) Oracle Forms
2 18 (10.71%) JIRA
3 16 (9.52%) Jenkins
4 13 (7.74%) Git
5 5 (2.98%) ERwin
6 4 (2.38%) ER Studio
7 2 (1.19%) JUnit
8 1 (0.60%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.60%) ClearQuest
8 1 (0.60%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.60%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.60%) jMock
8 1 (0.60%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 107 (63.69%) Finance
2 41 (24.40%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 8 (4.76%) Front Office
5 7 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.79%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.60%) Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Local Government
9 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (39.29%) Analyst
2 57 (33.93%) Senior
3 33 (19.64%) Data Analyst
4 30 (17.86%) Applications Engineer
5 27 (16.07%) Senior Analyst
6 25 (14.88%) Junior
7 20 (11.90%) Junior Analyst
7 20 (11.90%) Junior Data Analyst
7 20 (11.90%) Oracle Analyst
7 20 (11.90%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 19 (11.31%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (8.33%) Applications Support
10 14 (8.33%) ERP Analyst
11 13 (7.74%) Data Engineer
12 11 (6.55%) Trainee
12 11 (6.55%) Trainee Analyst
12 11 (6.55%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 10 (5.95%) Support Analyst
14 8 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.31%) OAuth
2 17 (10.12%) RESTful
3 14 (8.33%) .NET
4 12 (7.14%) SOAP
5 11 (6.55%) GraphQL
5 11 (6.55%) OpenAPI
5 11 (6.55%) Swagger
6 8 (4.76%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (4.76%) JSON
6 8 (4.76%) OAuth2
6 8 (4.76%) SAML
6 8 (4.76%) XML
6 8 (4.76%) YAML
7 6 (3.57%) Web Services
8 4 (2.38%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.38%) .NET Framework
8 4 (2.38%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.38%) Entity Framework
8 4 (2.38%) REST
9 2 (1.19%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.71%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.76%) Equities
3 8 (4.76%) Fixed Income
3 8 (4.76%) Low-Code
4 7 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.79%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.19%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.60%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.60%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.60%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.60%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.14%) Windows
2 8 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.98%) Linux
4 4 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (50.60%) Asset Management
1 85 (50.60%) Coaching
2 69 (41.07%) Agile
3 61 (36.31%) DevOps
4 59 (35.12%) CI/CD
5 49 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
6 45 (26.79%) AI
7 42 (25.00%) Analytics
8 40 (23.81%) ERP
9 36 (21.43%) Data Modelling
9 36 (21.43%) Mentoring
10 32 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (19.05%) Test Automation
11 29 (17.26%) Data Integration
12 26 (15.48%) Data Governance
12 26 (15.48%) Root Cause Analysis
13 23 (13.69%) Data Pipeline
14 22 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (13.10%) Data Analysis
14 22 (13.10%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 83 (49.40%) Python
2 32 (19.05%) PowerShell
3 24 (14.29%) Java
4 20 (11.90%) Shell Script
5 17 (10.12%) C#
6 16 (9.52%) PL/SQL
7 10 (5.95%) Groovy
8 7 (4.17%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.19%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.60%) R
10 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (11.90%) Azure Certification
2 3 (1.79%) Degree
3 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.60%) GDPR
3 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 15 (8.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (22.62%) Terraform
2 16 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (2.38%) Control-M
Vendors
1 75 (44.64%) Microsoft
2 50 (29.76%) Oracle
3 11 (6.55%) Databricks
4 10 (5.95%) Hyperion
5 8 (4.76%) Charles River
5 8 (4.76%) Okta
6 5 (2.98%) Google
6 5 (2.98%) IBM
7 4 (2.38%) Ab Initio
7 4 (2.38%) Informatica
8 2 (1.19%) Pega
9 1 (0.60%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.60%) FIS
9 1 (0.60%) OpenAI