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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 15 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 142 151 142
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 16.17% 11.78% 14.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.66% 30.57% 30.74%
Number of salaries quoted 48 47 119
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,063 £42,200
25th Percentile £26,000 £42,500 £53,098
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -25.00% +21.74%
75th Percentile £48,750 £71,250 £77,542
90th Percentile £64,875 £79,601 £80,250
Scotland median annual salary £44,500 £42,500 £56,318
% change year-on-year +4.71% -24.54% +6.26%

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 311 494 462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 35.42% 38.53% 45.65%
Number of salaries quoted 141 247 369
10th Percentile £25,750 £38,850 £42,874
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,125 £48,750
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 £77,542
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +0.88%

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 14 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 (9.15%) Confluence
2 10 (7.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.70%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.70%) SAS
3 1 (0.70%) Smallworld
Applications
1 21 (14.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.93%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 34 (23.94%) Oracle ERP
2 14 (9.86%) Oracle Assets
2 14 (9.86%) Oracle Financials
2 14 (9.86%) Oracle General Ledger
2 14 (9.86%) Oracle Payables
2 14 (9.86%) Oracle Receivables
3 11 (7.75%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (4.93%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.70%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 84 (59.15%) Azure
2 59 (41.55%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (27.46%) Power Platform
4 35 (24.65%) Snowflake
5 34 (23.94%) GitHub
6 27 (19.01%) OCI
7 22 (15.49%) Entra ID
8 17 (11.97%) GitHub Copilot
9 16 (11.27%) AWS
10 15 (10.56%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (7.75%) PowerApps
11 11 (7.75%) SaaS
12 9 (6.34%) dbt
13 5 (3.52%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (3.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (2.82%) Azure App Service
14 4 (2.82%) Power Automate
15 2 (1.41%) Amazon SageMaker
15 2 (1.41%) Azure AKS
16 1 (0.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.82%) DNS
1 4 (2.82%) Firewall
1 4 (2.82%) VPN
2 1 (0.70%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (27.46%) Power BI
2 31 (21.83%) Tableau
3 19 (13.38%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (8.45%) Relational Database
5 11 (7.75%) SQL Server
6 9 (6.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (4.93%) Essbase
7 7 (4.93%) Metadata
7 7 (4.93%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 6 (4.23%) Data Mining
9 4 (2.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (2.11%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.11%) Oracle ODI
11 1 (0.70%) Big Data
11 1 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.70%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.70%) MS Access
11 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (26.06%) Oracle Forms
2 24 (16.90%) JIRA
3 23 (16.20%) Jenkins
4 10 (7.04%) Git
5 8 (5.63%) ER Studio
5 8 (5.63%) ERwin
General
1 102 (71.83%) Finance
2 42 (29.58%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (26.76%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.75%) Manufacturing
4 11 (7.75%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (5.63%) Marketing
6 5 (3.52%) Banking
6 5 (3.52%) Front Office
6 5 (3.52%) Retail
7 3 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.41%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.41%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.70%) Games
9 1 (0.70%) Legal
9 1 (0.70%) Local Government
9 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 52 (36.62%) Analyst
2 43 (30.28%) Senior
3 36 (25.35%) Applications Engineer
4 27 (19.01%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (15.49%) Applications Support
6 19 (13.38%) Senior Analyst
7 17 (11.97%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 14 (9.86%) Oracle Analyst
8 14 (9.86%) Senior Oracle Analyst
9 13 (9.15%) Applications Support Analyst
9 13 (9.15%) Business Analyst
9 13 (9.15%) Support Analyst
10 12 (8.45%) Consultant
11 11 (7.75%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (7.04%) Database Consultant
12 10 (7.04%) Graduate
12 10 (7.04%) Graduate Consultant
12 10 (7.04%) Graduate Database Consultant
12 10 (7.04%) Graduate Support Consultant
12 10 (7.04%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.20%) RESTful
2 14 (9.86%) OAuth
3 13 (9.15%) JSON
3 13 (9.15%) SOAP
3 13 (9.15%) XML
4 10 (7.04%) OAuth2
4 10 (7.04%) SAML
5 4 (2.82%) GraphQL
5 4 (2.82%) OpenAPI
5 4 (2.82%) Swagger
6 2 (1.41%) .NET
6 2 (1.41%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.41%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.41%) Kafka
6 2 (1.41%) React
7 1 (0.70%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.70%) ADO
7 1 (0.70%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.70%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.70%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 33 (23.24%) Enterprise Software
2 28 (19.72%) Cloud Native
3 16 (11.27%) Product Ownership
4 10 (7.04%) e-Learning
5 8 (5.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (5.63%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.63%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.82%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.82%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.70%) Equities
8 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.70%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.82%) VMS
2 1 (0.70%) Windows
2 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (57.75%) Asset Management
1 82 (57.75%) Coaching
2 72 (50.70%) Agile
3 71 (50.00%) DevOps
4 50 (35.21%) Business Intelligence
5 48 (33.80%) ERP
6 47 (33.10%) CI/CD
7 37 (26.06%) Test Automation
8 35 (24.65%) Analytics
9 33 (23.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (20.42%) AI
11 28 (19.72%) Data Governance
11 28 (19.72%) Migration
11 28 (19.72%) Translating Business Requirements
12 26 (18.31%) Mentoring
12 26 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (16.20%) API Integration
14 21 (14.79%) ITIL
15 20 (14.08%) Root Cause Analysis
16 19 (13.38%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 71 (50.00%) Python
2 34 (23.94%) PL/SQL
3 24 (16.90%) Java
4 23 (16.20%) Shell Script
5 14 (9.86%) PowerShell
6 7 (4.93%) Groovy
7 6 (4.23%) C#
8 4 (2.82%) Bicep
9 3 (2.11%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.41%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.70%) Magik
11 1 (0.70%) R
11 1 (0.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (11.97%) Degree
2 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.15%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.70%) QA
System Software
1 22 (15.49%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 38 (26.76%) Terraform
2 23 (16.20%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (4.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 62 (43.66%) Oracle
2 32 (22.54%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.15%) Okta
4 11 (7.75%) Concur
4 11 (7.75%) SAP
5 7 (4.93%) Hyperion
6 5 (3.52%) Charles River
7 4 (2.82%) Databricks
8 1 (0.70%) ESRI
8 1 (0.70%) Genesys
8 1 (0.70%) Intapp
8 1 (0.70%) Verint