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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 28 14
Rank change year-on-year +7 -14 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 53 73 116
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 5.03% 8.46% 8.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.87% 29.92% 22.92%
Number of salaries quoted 33 43 77
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £35,105
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% -7.38% -6.15%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £73,000
90th Percentile £101,000 £81,568 £76,250
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £48,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.06% -7.62% -4.55%

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 152 244 506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.42% 28.27% 36.91%
Number of salaries quoted 112 161 399
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - -
75th Percentile £69,063 £82,751 £73,818
90th Percentile £94,000 £100,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £54,069 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.83% +5.51% -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 July 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 (11.32%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.66%) Apache
3 2 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (37.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 27 (50.94%) Azure
2 18 (33.96%) Power Platform
3 15 (28.30%) Azure AI
4 7 (13.21%) GCP
5 5 (9.43%) AWS
6 4 (7.55%) Boomi
6 4 (7.55%) iPaaS
6 4 (7.55%) Workato
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (5.66%) Cloud Composer
7 3 (5.66%) Dataform
8 2 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.77%) dbt
8 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (3.77%) SaaS
9 1 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.89%) Dagster
9 1 (1.89%) GitHub
9 1 (1.89%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (41.51%) Tableau
2 18 (33.96%) Power BI
3 5 (9.43%) Data Mining
4 4 (7.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (7.55%) Big Data
5 3 (5.66%) BigQuery
5 3 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.66%) Metadata
5 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.77%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.77%) Data Vault
6 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.89%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.89%) Redis
7 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) Git
3 1 (1.89%) ERwin
3 1 (1.89%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 18 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 16 (30.19%) Finance
3 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.32%) Financial Institution
5 5 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 32 (60.38%) Analyst
2 20 (37.74%) Data Analyst
3 17 (32.08%) Junior
4 15 (28.30%) Junior Analyst
4 15 (28.30%) Junior Data Analyst
5 12 (22.64%) Senior
6 9 (16.98%) Support Analyst
7 8 (15.09%) Data Engineer
8 7 (13.21%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (11.32%) Applications Support
9 6 (11.32%) Applications Support Analyst
9 6 (11.32%) Senior Applications Support
9 6 (11.32%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
9 6 (11.32%) Senior Support Analyst
10 5 (9.43%) Trainee
10 5 (9.43%) Trainee Analyst
10 5 (9.43%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 4 (7.55%) ERP Analyst
11 4 (7.55%) ERP Support
11 4 (7.55%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.64%) .NET
2 5 (9.43%) React
3 4 (7.55%) .NET Core
3 4 (7.55%) ASP.NET
3 4 (7.55%) Web Services
4 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (5.66%) Blazor
4 3 (5.66%) LINQ
5 2 (3.77%) Great Expectations
6 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (1.89%) CrewAI
6 1 (1.89%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.89%) LangGraph
6 1 (1.89%) NumPy
6 1 (1.89%) PySpark
6 1 (1.89%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.89%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.89%) TensorFlow
6 1 (1.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.89%) AI Agents
1 1 (1.89%) Autonomous Agent
1 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
1 1 (1.89%) Low-Code
1 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (1.89%) Sports Betting
1 1 (1.89%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.08%) AI
1 17 (32.08%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (20.75%) Agile
2 11 (20.75%) Analytics
3 8 (15.09%) Mentoring
4 7 (13.21%) Business Analysis
4 7 (13.21%) Data Analysis
4 7 (13.21%) Data Analytics
4 7 (13.21%) Requirements Gathering
4 7 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (11.32%) Collateral Management
5 6 (11.32%) Data Modelling
5 6 (11.32%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (11.32%) DevOps
5 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (9.43%) ETL
6 5 (9.43%) Microservices
6 5 (9.43%) Project Management
6 5 (9.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 5 (9.43%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 31 (58.49%) Python
2 6 (11.32%) Java
3 5 (9.43%) C#
4 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.89%) R
5 1 (1.89%) Scala
5 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (28.30%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.89%) Degree
2 1 (1.89%) MCT
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.77%) GDPR
3 1 (1.89%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (54.72%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.32%) Oracle
3 5 (9.43%) Google
4 3 (5.66%) Databricks
5 2 (3.77%) Pega
6 1 (1.89%) OpenAI