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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 13 11
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 175 163 144
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 18.68% 12.74% 14.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.30% 31.41% 30.38%
Number of salaries quoted 48 60 124
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,105 £41,500
25th Percentile £26,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -25.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £48,750 £71,250 £78,566
90th Percentile £62,250 £80,183 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £56,318
% change year-on-year -2.22% -20.10% +2.40%

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 378 519 474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.34% 40.58% 46.61%
Number of salaries quoted 152 275 378
10th Percentile £26,000 £40,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £32,639 £46,153 £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 £77,715
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,253 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -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 2 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 14 (8.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (6.86%) Confluence
3 1 (0.57%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.57%) SAS
3 1 (0.57%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.57%) WildFly
Applications
1 24 (13.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (6.29%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 46 (26.29%) Oracle ERP
2 22 (12.57%) Oracle Assets
2 22 (12.57%) Oracle Financials
2 22 (12.57%) Oracle General Ledger
2 22 (12.57%) Oracle Payables
2 22 (12.57%) Oracle Receivables
3 11 (6.29%) Hyperion Planning
3 11 (6.29%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.57%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.57%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 106 (60.57%) Azure
2 78 (44.57%) Azure DevOps
3 48 (27.43%) Power Platform
4 46 (26.29%) GitHub
5 44 (25.14%) Snowflake
6 35 (20.00%) OCI
7 26 (14.86%) Entra ID
8 25 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
9 22 (12.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 18 (10.29%) AWS
10 18 (10.29%) dbt
11 13 (7.43%) Azure Key Vault
12 11 (6.29%) PowerApps
13 10 (5.71%) SaaS
14 7 (4.00%) Power Automate
15 4 (2.29%) Azure App Service
15 4 (2.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 3 (1.71%) Azure AI
17 2 (1.14%) Azure AKS
18 1 (0.57%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.86%) Telnet
2 4 (2.29%) DNS
2 4 (2.29%) Firewall
2 4 (2.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (27.43%) Power BI
2 35 (20.00%) Tableau
3 24 (13.71%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.86%) Relational Database
5 11 (6.29%) Essbase
5 11 (6.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 11 (6.29%) SQL Server
6 9 (5.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (4.57%) Metadata
8 6 (3.43%) Data Mining
9 4 (2.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.29%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.14%) Oracle ODI
11 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.57%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.57%) GIS
11 1 (0.57%) MS Access
11 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 53 (30.29%) Oracle Forms
2 31 (17.71%) Jenkins
2 31 (17.71%) JIRA
3 15 (8.57%) Git
4 9 (5.14%) ER Studio
4 9 (5.14%) ERwin
5 1 (0.57%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.57%) jMock
5 1 (0.57%) JUnit
General
1 129 (73.71%) Finance
2 48 (27.43%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (25.14%) Social Skills
4 11 (6.29%) Manufacturing
4 11 (6.29%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (5.14%) Front Office
6 8 (4.57%) Marketing
7 3 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.14%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.57%) Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Legal
9 1 (0.57%) Local Government
9 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (36.00%) Analyst
2 61 (34.86%) Senior
3 48 (27.43%) Applications Engineer
4 35 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 27 (15.43%) Senior Analyst
6 23 (13.14%) Applications Support
7 22 (12.57%) Oracle Analyst
7 22 (12.57%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 21 (12.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 19 (10.86%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (7.43%) Applications Support Analyst
10 13 (7.43%) Support Analyst
11 12 (6.86%) Business Analyst
12 11 (6.29%) Data Analyst
13 10 (5.71%) Applications Support Engineer
13 10 (5.71%) Consultant
13 10 (5.71%) Database Consultant
13 10 (5.71%) Graduate
13 10 (5.71%) Support Consultant
13 10 (5.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.29%) RESTful
2 22 (12.57%) OAuth
3 17 (9.71%) JSON
3 17 (9.71%) SOAP
3 17 (9.71%) XML
4 14 (8.00%) OAuth2
4 14 (8.00%) SAML
5 8 (4.57%) GraphQL
5 8 (4.57%) OpenAPI
5 8 (4.57%) Swagger
6 5 (2.86%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (2.86%) YAML
7 4 (2.29%) .NET
8 1 (0.57%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.57%) ADO
8 1 (0.57%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.57%) Java SE
8 1 (0.57%) Swing
8 1 (0.57%) Web Services
8 1 (0.57%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 41 (23.43%) Enterprise Software
2 38 (21.71%) Cloud Native
3 16 (9.14%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.71%) e-Learning
5 8 (4.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (4.57%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.57%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.00%) Low-Code
6 7 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.86%) Equities
7 5 (2.86%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.29%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.57%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.57%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.43%) Windows
2 5 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.29%) VMS
4 1 (0.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (66.29%) Asset Management
1 116 (66.29%) Coaching
2 95 (54.29%) Agile
3 92 (52.57%) DevOps
4 67 (38.29%) CI/CD
5 64 (36.57%) ERP
6 62 (35.43%) Business Intelligence
7 48 (27.43%) Test Automation
8 40 (22.86%) AI
8 40 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (21.71%) Analytics
9 38 (21.71%) Mentoring
10 36 (20.57%) Migration
10 36 (20.57%) Translating Business Requirements
11 34 (19.43%) Data Governance
12 32 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (17.71%) API Integration
14 29 (16.57%) Root Cause Analysis
15 27 (15.43%) Data Integration
15 27 (15.43%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (49.14%) Python
2 42 (24.00%) PL/SQL
3 33 (18.86%) Java
4 31 (17.71%) Shell Script
5 27 (15.43%) PowerShell
6 12 (6.86%) C#
7 11 (6.29%) Groovy
8 4 (2.29%) Bicep
8 4 (2.29%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.57%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.57%) Magik
9 1 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (8.57%) Degree
2 3 (1.71%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.71%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (15.43%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (30.86%) Terraform
2 31 (17.71%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (3.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 77 (44.00%) Oracle
2 48 (27.43%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.71%) Okta
4 11 (6.29%) Concur
4 11 (6.29%) Hyperion
4 11 (6.29%) SAP
5 9 (5.14%) Charles River
6 6 (3.43%) Databricks
7 1 (0.57%) Ab Initio
7 1 (0.57%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.57%) ESRI
7 1 (0.57%) IBM
7 1 (0.57%) Intapp