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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 19 19
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 41 73 97
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 3.82% 9.17% 7.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.52% 34.11% 21.70%
Number of salaries quoted 24 45 63
10th Percentile £36,778 £25,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -20.83% -7.94%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £71,750
90th Percentile £100,250 £76,840 £76,000
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £49,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -9.09%

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 149 214 447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.87% 26.88% 35.09%
Number of salaries quoted 103 138 336
10th Percentile £40,992 £37,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,625 £80,000 £73,886
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,556 £89,375
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 13 August 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 6 (14.63%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.32%) Apache
3 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (34.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 24 (58.54%) Azure
2 17 (41.46%) Power Platform
3 12 (29.27%) Azure AI
4 7 (17.07%) GCP
5 5 (12.20%) AWS
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (7.32%) Cloud Composer
6 3 (7.32%) Dataform
7 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.88%) Boomi
7 2 (4.88%) dbt
7 2 (4.88%) iPaaS
7 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (4.88%) Workato
8 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.44%) Dagster
8 1 (2.44%) GitHub
8 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.44%) Prefect
8 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (41.46%) Power BI
2 16 (39.02%) Tableau
3 6 (14.63%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (14.63%) Metadata
4 3 (7.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (7.32%) Big Data
4 3 (7.32%) BigQuery
5 2 (4.88%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.88%) Data Mining
5 2 (4.88%) Data Vault
5 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.44%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.44%) Redis
6 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) Git
3 1 (2.44%) ERwin
3 1 (2.44%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 16 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.95%) Finance
3 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.88%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.88%) Law
5 2 (4.88%) Marketing
5 2 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 22 (53.66%) Analyst
2 14 (34.15%) Data Analyst
3 12 (29.27%) Junior
3 12 (29.27%) Junior Analyst
3 12 (29.27%) Junior Data Analyst
4 10 (24.39%) Senior
5 8 (19.51%) Data Engineer
6 5 (12.20%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (9.76%) Developer
7 4 (9.76%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (9.76%) Support Analyst
8 3 (7.32%) .NET Developer
8 3 (7.32%) Data Manager
9 2 (4.88%) Applications Support
9 2 (4.88%) Applications Support Analyst
9 2 (4.88%) Fraud Analyst
9 2 (4.88%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
9 2 (4.88%) Senior Support Analyst
9 2 (4.88%) Trainee
9 2 (4.88%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) .NET
2 5 (12.20%) React
3 4 (9.76%) .NET Core
3 4 (9.76%) ASP.NET
4 3 (7.32%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (7.32%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (7.32%) Blazor
4 3 (7.32%) LINQ
5 2 (4.88%) Great Expectations
5 2 (4.88%) Web Services
6 1 (2.44%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.44%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.44%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.44%) Kafka
6 1 (2.44%) PySpark
6 1 (2.44%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
1 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (2.44%) Sports Betting
1 1 (2.44%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (31.71%) AI
3 12 (29.27%) Analytics
4 10 (24.39%) Agile
5 9 (21.95%) Data Modelling
6 8 (19.51%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (19.51%) ETL
6 8 (19.51%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (12.20%) Data Architecture
7 5 (12.20%) Data Governance
7 5 (12.20%) DevOps
7 5 (12.20%) Metadata Management
7 5 (12.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (12.20%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 4 (9.76%) Business Analysis
8 4 (9.76%) Data Analysis
8 4 (9.76%) Data Analytics
8 4 (9.76%) Data Engineering
8 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
8 4 (9.76%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 25 (60.98%) Python
2 4 (9.76%) C#
2 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.88%) Java
4 1 (2.44%) R
4 1 (2.44%) Scala
4 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (29.27%) Azure Certification
2 3 (7.32%) Degree
3 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.44%) MCT
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.88%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (56.10%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) Google
3 3 (7.32%) Databricks
4 2 (4.88%) Oracle
4 2 (4.88%) Pega