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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 13 11
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +8
Permanent jobs citing SQL 132 146 146
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 15.66% 11.77% 14.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.64% 30.80% 32.23%
Number of salaries quoted 46 43 123
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,000 £40,550
25th Percentile £26,000 £40,625 £53,098
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,309 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.49% -28.13% +22.81%
75th Percentile £48,750 £66,313 £77,521
90th Percentile £65,625 £73,886 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £56,318
% change year-on-year +5.88% -24.54% +7.27%

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 283 474 453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 33.57% 38.23% 45.21%
Number of salaries quoted 121 233 367
10th Percentile £25,750 £37,500 £42,824
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,750 £47,644
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,886 £77,521
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%

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 6 November 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 13 (9.85%) Confluence
2 9 (6.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.76%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.76%) SAS
3 1 (0.76%) Smallworld
Applications
1 19 (14.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.55%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 31 (23.48%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (9.09%) Oracle Assets
2 12 (9.09%) Oracle Financials
2 12 (9.09%) Oracle General Ledger
2 12 (9.09%) Oracle Payables
2 12 (9.09%) Oracle Receivables
3 11 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (4.55%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.76%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 78 (59.09%) Azure
2 54 (40.91%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (28.79%) Power Platform
4 34 (25.76%) Snowflake
5 31 (23.48%) GitHub
6 25 (18.94%) OCI
7 20 (15.15%) Entra ID
8 16 (12.12%) AWS
9 15 (11.36%) GitHub Copilot
10 13 (9.85%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (8.33%) PowerApps
12 10 (7.58%) SaaS
13 7 (5.30%) dbt
14 5 (3.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (3.03%) Azure App Service
16 3 (2.27%) Amazon SageMaker
16 3 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
16 3 (2.27%) Power Automate
17 2 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
17 2 (1.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.03%) DNS
1 4 (3.03%) Firewall
1 4 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (28.79%) Power BI
2 28 (21.21%) Tableau
3 18 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 11 (8.33%) SQL Server
6 8 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (5.30%) Metadata
8 6 (4.55%) Essbase
8 6 (4.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 4 (3.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (3.03%) Data Mining
9 4 (3.03%) Oracle ODI
10 3 (2.27%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.52%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.76%) Big Data
12 1 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.76%) Crystal Reports
12 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.76%) GIS
Development Applications
1 33 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
2 22 (16.67%) JIRA
3 21 (15.91%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.82%) Git
5 8 (6.06%) ER Studio
5 8 (6.06%) ERwin
General
1 92 (69.70%) Finance
2 38 (28.79%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (28.03%) Social Skills
4 11 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 11 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (6.06%) Marketing
6 5 (3.79%) Banking
6 5 (3.79%) Retail
7 4 (3.03%) Front Office
8 3 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.52%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.52%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Games
10 1 (0.76%) Legal
10 1 (0.76%) Local Government
10 1 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 48 (36.36%) Analyst
2 38 (28.79%) Senior
3 32 (24.24%) Applications Engineer
4 25 (18.94%) Cloud Engineer
5 21 (15.91%) Applications Support
6 17 (12.88%) Senior Analyst
7 16 (12.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 13 (9.85%) Applications Support Analyst
8 13 (9.85%) Business Analyst
8 13 (9.85%) Support Analyst
9 12 (9.09%) Consultant
9 12 (9.09%) Oracle Analyst
9 12 (9.09%) Senior Oracle Analyst
10 10 (7.58%) Database Consultant
10 10 (7.58%) Graduate
10 10 (7.58%) Graduate Consultant
10 10 (7.58%) Graduate Database Consultant
10 10 (7.58%) Graduate Support Consultant
10 10 (7.58%) Support Consultant
11 9 (6.82%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.91%) RESTful
2 12 (9.09%) JSON
2 12 (9.09%) OAuth
2 12 (9.09%) SOAP
2 12 (9.09%) XML
3 9 (6.82%) OAuth2
3 9 (6.82%) SAML
4 3 (2.27%) GraphQL
4 3 (2.27%) OpenAPI
4 3 (2.27%) Swagger
5 2 (1.52%) .NET
5 2 (1.52%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.52%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.52%) Kafka
5 2 (1.52%) React
6 1 (0.76%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.76%) ADO
6 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.76%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.76%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 31 (23.48%) Enterprise Software
2 26 (19.70%) Cloud Native
3 16 (12.12%) Product Ownership
4 10 (7.58%) e-Learning
5 8 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (6.06%) Management Information System
5 8 (6.06%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.27%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.27%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.52%) Replication
8 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.76%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (56.06%) Asset Management
1 74 (56.06%) Coaching
2 68 (51.52%) Agile
3 65 (49.24%) DevOps
4 48 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
5 44 (33.33%) ERP
6 43 (32.58%) CI/CD
7 35 (26.52%) Test Automation
8 32 (24.24%) Analytics
9 31 (23.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (20.45%) AI
10 27 (20.45%) Data Governance
11 26 (19.70%) Migration
11 26 (19.70%) Translating Business Requirements
12 24 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (17.42%) Mentoring
14 21 (15.91%) API Integration
15 19 (14.39%) ITIL
16 18 (13.64%) Data Architecture
16 18 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 66 (50.00%) Python
2 32 (24.24%) PL/SQL
3 22 (16.67%) Java
4 21 (15.91%) Shell Script
5 11 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 6 (4.55%) Groovy
7 5 (3.79%) C#
8 4 (3.03%) Bicep
9 3 (2.27%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.52%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.76%) Magik
11 1 (0.76%) R
11 1 (0.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (12.88%) Degree
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.79%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 20 (15.15%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (25.76%) Terraform
2 21 (15.91%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 59 (44.70%) Oracle
2 27 (20.45%) Microsoft
3 12 (9.09%) Okta
4 11 (8.33%) Concur
4 11 (8.33%) SAP
5 6 (4.55%) Hyperion
6 4 (3.03%) Charles River
6 4 (3.03%) Databricks
7 1 (0.76%) ESRI
7 1 (0.76%) Genesys
7 1 (0.76%) Intapp
7 1 (0.76%) Verint