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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 22 15
Rank change year-on-year +12 -7 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 181 103 159
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 15.50% 10.54% 12.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.93% 26.89% 28.39%
Number of salaries quoted 55 54 133
10th Percentile £26,100 £25,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £33,625 £43,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,659 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% -20.49% +3.50%
75th Percentile £60,625 £79,628 £80,000
90th Percentile £70,850 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -21.74% -4.17%

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 412 383 560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 35.27% 39.20% 43.55%
Number of salaries quoted 192 257 447
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -1.64% -6.15%
75th Percentile £75,828 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,625 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +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 18 March 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 10 (5.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.21%) Confluence
4 2 (1.10%) Apache
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.55%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.55%) SAS
5 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.55%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.55%) WildFly
Applications
1 29 (16.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.52%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 32 (17.68%) Oracle ERP
2 20 (11.05%) Oracle Assets
2 20 (11.05%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (11.05%) Oracle General Ledger
2 20 (11.05%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (11.05%) Oracle Receivables
3 10 (5.52%) Hyperion Planning
4 4 (2.21%) Markit EDM
4 4 (2.21%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.55%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 106 (58.56%) Azure
2 54 (29.83%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (22.10%) Snowflake
4 37 (20.44%) GitHub
4 37 (20.44%) Power Platform
5 30 (16.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (14.36%) dbt
7 24 (13.26%) GitHub Copilot
8 22 (12.15%) OCI
9 19 (10.50%) Azure Key Vault
10 18 (9.94%) AWS
10 18 (9.94%) Entra ID
11 14 (7.73%) Azure AI
12 13 (7.18%) SaaS
13 7 (3.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (3.87%) Power Automate
14 5 (2.76%) GCP
15 4 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (2.21%) Boomi
15 4 (2.21%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.42%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (21.55%) Tableau
2 37 (20.44%) Power BI
3 18 (9.94%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.63%) Data Mining
4 12 (6.63%) SQL Server
5 11 (6.08%) Metadata
6 10 (5.52%) Essbase
6 10 (5.52%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 8 (4.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (4.42%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.76%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.66%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.10%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.10%) Big Data
13 1 (0.55%) IBM InfoSphere
13 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (23.20%) Oracle Forms
2 22 (12.15%) Jenkins
2 22 (12.15%) JIRA
3 15 (8.29%) Git
4 7 (3.87%) ERwin
5 6 (3.31%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.10%) JUnit
7 1 (0.55%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.55%) ClearQuest
7 1 (0.55%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.55%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.55%) jMock
7 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 122 (67.40%) Finance
2 44 (24.31%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (19.34%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.52%) Front Office
5 6 (3.31%) Financial Institution
5 6 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.66%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.55%) Banking
8 1 (0.55%) Local Government
8 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 65 (35.91%) Analyst
2 62 (34.25%) Senior
3 39 (21.55%) Applications Engineer
4 29 (16.02%) Senior Analyst
5 28 (15.47%) Data Analyst
6 22 (12.15%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (11.05%) Oracle Analyst
7 20 (11.05%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 19 (10.50%) Azure Engineer
8 19 (10.50%) Junior
9 17 (9.39%) Applications Support
10 14 (7.73%) Data Engineer
10 14 (7.73%) ERP Analyst
10 14 (7.73%) Junior Analyst
10 14 (7.73%) Junior Data Analyst
11 12 (6.63%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 12 (6.63%) Trainee
11 12 (6.63%) Trainee Analyst
11 12 (6.63%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 10 (5.52%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.71%) RESTful
2 21 (11.60%) OAuth
3 16 (8.84%) SOAP
4 14 (7.73%) .NET
5 12 (6.63%) JSON
5 12 (6.63%) XML
6 11 (6.08%) GraphQL
6 11 (6.08%) OpenAPI
6 11 (6.08%) Swagger
7 10 (5.52%) OAuth2
7 10 (5.52%) SAML
8 8 (4.42%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (4.42%) YAML
9 6 (3.31%) Web Services
10 4 (2.21%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.21%) .NET Framework
10 4 (2.21%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.21%) Entity Framework
10 4 (2.21%) REST
11 2 (1.10%) React
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.23%) Cloud Native
2 26 (14.36%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.42%) Equities
3 8 (4.42%) Fixed Income
3 8 (4.42%) Low-Code
4 7 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.21%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.21%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.21%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.55%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.55%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.55%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.55%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.55%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.63%) Windows
2 8 (4.42%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.76%) Linux
4 4 (2.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (54.70%) Asset Management
1 99 (54.70%) Coaching
2 80 (44.20%) Agile
3 74 (40.88%) DevOps
4 66 (36.46%) CI/CD
5 46 (25.41%) Business Intelligence
5 46 (25.41%) ERP
6 44 (24.31%) Analytics
7 42 (23.20%) AI
7 42 (23.20%) Mentoring
8 38 (20.99%) Test Automation
9 36 (19.89%) Data Modelling
10 34 (18.78%) Data Governance
11 33 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (17.68%) Data Integration
13 30 (16.57%) Root Cause Analysis
14 27 (14.92%) API Integration
15 26 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 26 (14.36%) Migration
16 25 (13.81%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 88 (48.62%) Python
2 34 (18.78%) PowerShell
3 31 (17.13%) Java
4 26 (14.36%) Shell Script
5 22 (12.15%) PL/SQL
6 17 (9.39%) C#
7 10 (5.52%) Groovy
8 7 (3.87%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.10%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.55%) Magik
10 1 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (7.73%) Azure Certification
2 6 (3.31%) Degree
3 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.39%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.55%) GDPR
3 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 22 (12.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (24.86%) Terraform
2 22 (12.15%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (2.21%) Control-M
Vendors
1 74 (40.88%) Microsoft
2 59 (32.60%) Oracle
3 12 (6.63%) Okta
4 10 (5.52%) Charles River
4 10 (5.52%) Databricks
4 10 (5.52%) Hyperion
5 5 (2.76%) IBM
6 4 (2.21%) Ab Initio
6 4 (2.21%) Google
6 4 (2.21%) Informatica
7 2 (1.10%) Pega
8 1 (0.55%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.55%) ESRI
8 1 (0.55%) FIS
8 1 (0.55%) OpenAI