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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 14 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 199 158 141
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 20.16% 12.90% 14.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.30% 31.04% 29.94%
Number of salaries quoted 50 58 124
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,105 £41,500
25th Percentile £26,063 £43,125 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,309 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.49% -28.13% +12.00%
75th Percentile £48,750 £65,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £60,750 £81,253 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £56,318
% change year-on-year -3.33% -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 412 509 471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 41.74% 41.55% 47.01%
Number of salaries quoted 159 265 377
10th Percentile £26,000 £40,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £34,125 £45,000 £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 £78,770 £75,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,253 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £54,375 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.14% -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 14 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 16 (8.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (6.03%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.50%) SAS
3 1 (0.50%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.50%) WildFly
Applications
1 27 (13.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (6.53%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 52 (26.13%) Oracle ERP
2 26 (13.07%) Oracle Assets
2 26 (13.07%) Oracle Financials
2 26 (13.07%) Oracle General Ledger
2 26 (13.07%) Oracle Payables
2 26 (13.07%) Oracle Receivables
3 13 (6.53%) Hyperion Planning
4 11 (5.53%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (1.51%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.50%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 123 (61.81%) Azure
2 86 (43.22%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (27.14%) Snowflake
4 52 (26.13%) GitHub
4 52 (26.13%) Power Platform
5 39 (19.60%) OCI
6 29 (14.57%) GitHub Copilot
7 28 (14.07%) Azure Data Factory
7 28 (14.07%) Entra ID
8 24 (12.06%) dbt
9 20 (10.05%) AWS
10 17 (8.54%) Azure Key Vault
11 11 (5.53%) PowerApps
12 10 (5.03%) SaaS
13 7 (3.52%) Power Automate
14 6 (3.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (2.51%) Azure AI
16 4 (2.01%) Azure App Service
17 2 (1.01%) Azure AKS
18 1 (0.50%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.52%) Telnet
2 4 (2.01%) DNS
2 4 (2.01%) Firewall
2 4 (2.01%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (26.13%) Power BI
2 40 (20.10%) Tableau
3 28 (14.07%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (6.53%) Essbase
4 13 (6.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 12 (6.03%) Relational Database
6 11 (5.53%) SQL Server
7 10 (5.03%) Metadata
8 9 (4.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (3.52%) Data Mining
10 6 (3.02%) Data Lake
11 4 (2.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.01%) Oracle ODI
13 1 (0.50%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
13 1 (0.50%) Crystal Reports
13 1 (0.50%) GIS
13 1 (0.50%) MS Access
13 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 61 (30.65%) Oracle Forms
2 35 (17.59%) Jenkins
2 35 (17.59%) JIRA
3 17 (8.54%) Git
4 11 (5.53%) ER Studio
4 11 (5.53%) ERwin
5 1 (0.50%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.50%) jMock
5 1 (0.50%) JUnit
General
1 150 (75.38%) Finance
2 55 (27.64%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (23.12%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.53%) Front Office
4 11 (5.53%) Manufacturing
4 11 (5.53%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (4.02%) Marketing
6 3 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.01%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.50%) Banking
8 1 (0.50%) Legal
8 1 (0.50%) Local Government
8 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 71 (35.68%) Senior
2 70 (35.18%) Analyst
3 54 (27.14%) Applications Engineer
4 39 (19.60%) Cloud Engineer
5 31 (15.58%) Senior Analyst
6 26 (13.07%) Oracle Analyst
6 26 (13.07%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 25 (12.56%) Applications Support
8 23 (11.56%) Azure Engineer
8 23 (11.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 14 (7.04%) Data Analyst
10 13 (6.53%) Applications Support Analyst
10 13 (6.53%) Support Analyst
11 12 (6.03%) Applications Support Engineer
11 12 (6.03%) Business Analyst
11 12 (6.03%) Support Engineer
12 11 (5.53%) Data Modeller
13 10 (5.03%) Consultant
13 10 (5.03%) Database Consultant
13 10 (5.03%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (18.09%) RESTful
2 26 (13.07%) OAuth
3 19 (9.55%) JSON
3 19 (9.55%) SOAP
3 19 (9.55%) XML
4 16 (8.04%) OAuth2
4 16 (8.04%) SAML
5 10 (5.03%) GraphQL
5 10 (5.03%) OpenAPI
5 10 (5.03%) Swagger
6 7 (3.52%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (3.52%) YAML
7 4 (2.01%) .NET
8 1 (0.50%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.50%) ADO
8 1 (0.50%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.50%) Java SE
8 1 (0.50%) Swing
8 1 (0.50%) Web Services
8 1 (0.50%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 46 (23.12%) Cloud Native
2 45 (22.61%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (8.04%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.03%) e-Learning
5 8 (4.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (4.02%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.02%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.52%) Equities
6 7 (3.52%) Fixed Income
6 7 (3.52%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.01%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.50%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.50%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.03%) Windows
2 7 (3.52%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.01%) VMS
4 1 (0.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (68.34%) Asset Management
1 136 (68.34%) Coaching
2 109 (54.77%) Agile
3 104 (52.26%) DevOps
4 79 (39.70%) CI/CD
5 72 (36.18%) ERP
6 68 (34.17%) Business Intelligence
7 54 (27.14%) Test Automation
8 46 (23.12%) AI
9 45 (22.61%) Analytics
10 44 (22.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (22.11%) Mentoring
11 40 (20.10%) Data Governance
11 40 (20.10%) Migration
11 40 (20.10%) Translating Business Requirements
12 36 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (17.59%) API Integration
13 35 (17.59%) Root Cause Analysis
14 31 (15.58%) Data Integration
14 31 (15.58%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 99 (49.75%) Python
2 46 (23.12%) PL/SQL
3 37 (18.59%) Java
4 35 (17.59%) PowerShell
4 35 (17.59%) Shell Script
5 14 (7.04%) C#
6 13 (6.53%) Groovy
7 6 (3.02%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.01%) Bicep
9 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.50%) Magik
9 1 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (7.54%) Degree
2 5 (2.51%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.55%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 31 (15.58%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 62 (31.16%) Terraform
2 35 (17.59%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (3.02%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 85 (42.71%) Oracle
2 59 (29.65%) Microsoft
3 19 (9.55%) Okta
4 13 (6.53%) Hyperion
5 11 (5.53%) Charles River
5 11 (5.53%) Concur
5 11 (5.53%) SAP
6 8 (4.02%) Databricks
7 3 (1.51%) Ab Initio
7 3 (1.51%) IBM
8 1 (0.50%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.50%) ESRI
8 1 (0.50%) Intapp