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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 -9
Permanent jobs citing SQL 34 76 95
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 3.16% 9.82% 7.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.11% 36.54% 21.16%
Number of salaries quoted 19 42 61
10th Percentile £41,250 £25,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £44,063 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £71,750
90th Percentile £105,500 £76,406 £76,250
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £49,750 £47,557
% change year-on-year +0.50% +4.61% -13.53%

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 141 208 449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.10% 26.87% 34.65%
Number of salaries quoted 97 125 333
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,840 £73,886
90th Percentile £86,000 £98,474 £88,750
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 20 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 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (8.82%) Apache
3 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
3 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 21 (61.76%) Azure
2 16 (47.06%) Power Platform
3 11 (32.35%) Azure AI
4 7 (20.59%) GCP
5 5 (14.71%) AWS
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (8.82%) Cloud Composer
6 3 (8.82%) Dataform
7 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.88%) dbt
7 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.94%) Boomi
8 1 (2.94%) Dagster
8 1 (2.94%) GitHub
8 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.94%) iPaaS
8 1 (2.94%) Prefect
8 1 (2.94%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (47.06%) Power BI
2 13 (38.24%) Tableau
3 6 (17.65%) Metadata
4 5 (14.71%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (8.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (8.82%) Big Data
5 3 (8.82%) BigQuery
6 2 (5.88%) Data Vault
6 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
7 1 (2.94%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.94%) Redis
7 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) ERwin
3 1 (2.94%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Finance
4 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.88%) Law
5 2 (5.88%) Marketing
5 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.94%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) Analyst
2 11 (32.35%) Data Analyst
2 11 (32.35%) Junior
2 11 (32.35%) Junior Analyst
2 11 (32.35%) Junior Data Analyst
3 8 (23.53%) Senior
4 7 (20.59%) Data Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) .NET Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Data Manager
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Big Data Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Fraud Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Big Data Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Strategy Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Strategy Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) .NET
2 4 (11.76%) React
3 3 (8.82%) .NET Core
3 3 (8.82%) ASP.NET
3 3 (8.82%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (8.82%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (8.82%) Blazor
3 3 (8.82%) LINQ
3 3 (8.82%) Terraform
4 2 (5.88%) Great Expectations
5 1 (2.94%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.94%) Kafka
5 1 (2.94%) PySpark
5 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
1 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (2.94%) Sports Betting
1 1 (2.94%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (35.29%) AI
3 10 (29.41%) Analytics
4 9 (26.47%) Agile
5 8 (23.53%) Data Modelling
5 8 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (20.59%) ETL
6 7 (20.59%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (14.71%) Data Architecture
7 5 (14.71%) Data Governance
7 5 (14.71%) DevOps
7 5 (14.71%) Metadata Management
7 5 (14.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 4 (11.76%) Decision-Making
8 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (8.82%) Customer Insight
9 3 (8.82%) Data Transformation
9 3 (8.82%) Kanban
9 3 (8.82%) Mentoring
9 3 (8.82%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) Python
2 4 (11.76%) C#
3 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.94%) Java
4 1 (2.94%) Scala
4 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Azure Certification
2 3 (8.82%) Degree
3 2 (5.88%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.94%) MCT
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.88%) GDPR
Vendors
1 18 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Google
3 3 (8.82%) Databricks
4 2 (5.88%) Pega
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle