SQL Jobs in Edinburgh

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 21 20
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 74 121 212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.32% 7.75% 12.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.02% 21.68% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 43 83 162
10th Percentile £25,000 £39,000 £37,971
25th Percentile £37,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% - +23.81%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,886 £78,590
90th Percentile £82,751 £76,250 £82,543
Scotland median annual salary £48,500 £53,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.49% -7.83% +9.52%

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 255 558 654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 28.68% 35.75% 38.70%
Number of salaries quoted 167 417 444
10th Percentile £39,300 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £86,875 £73,886 £78,108
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £89,956
Scotland median annual salary £58,033 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.51% -4.35% +4.55%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Edinburgh

SQL
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for SQL in Edinburgh

SQL
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Edinburgh

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.70%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.70%) SAS
1 2 (2.70%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.35%) CICS
2 1 (1.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 21 (28.38%) AWS
2 19 (25.68%) Azure
3 11 (14.86%) SaaS
3 11 (14.86%) Snowflake
4 8 (10.81%) Power Platform
5 6 (8.11%) GCP
6 4 (5.41%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.70%) Apigee
8 2 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.70%) Serverless
9 1 (1.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.70%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.27%) SQL Server
2 14 (18.92%) Tableau
3 9 (12.16%) NoSQL
4 8 (10.81%) Big Data
4 8 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (10.81%) Power BI
5 7 (9.46%) Relational Database
6 4 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (5.41%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (4.05%) DB2
8 2 (2.70%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.70%) OLAP
8 2 (2.70%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.70%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.35%) MS Access
9 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Git
2 4 (5.41%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.05%) JIRA
3 3 (4.05%) Postman
4 2 (2.70%) Fiddler
4 2 (2.70%) GitLab
4 2 (2.70%) JUnit
4 2 (2.70%) Maven
4 2 (2.70%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (2.70%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.70%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.70%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.35%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.35%) SoapUI
General
1 36 (48.65%) Finance
2 22 (29.73%) Social Skills
3 20 (27.03%) Banking
4 17 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.11%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (5.41%) Retail
7 3 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.05%) Law
8 2 (2.70%) Agriculture
8 2 (2.70%) Automotive
8 2 (2.70%) Marketing
8 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.70%) Tech for Good
8 2 (2.70%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (1.35%) Front Office
9 1 (1.35%) Games
9 1 (1.35%) Legal
9 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (28.38%) Analyst
2 15 (20.27%) Data Analyst
2 15 (20.27%) Software Engineer
3 13 (17.57%) Senior
4 10 (13.51%) Lead
5 7 (9.46%) Consultant
6 6 (8.11%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) DBA
7 5 (6.76%) Developer
7 5 (6.76%) SQL DBA
7 5 (6.76%) SQL Server DBA
8 4 (5.41%) Team Leader
9 3 (4.05%) Business Analyst
9 3 (4.05%) Database Consultant
9 3 (4.05%) Database Team Leader
9 3 (4.05%) Development Team Leader
9 3 (4.05%) Graduate
9 3 (4.05%) Graduate Consultant
9 3 (4.05%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (4.05%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.11%) .NET
1 6 (8.11%) .NET Core
1 6 (8.11%) JSON
1 6 (8.11%) React
1 6 (8.11%) RESTful
2 4 (5.41%) Spring
2 4 (5.41%) Spring Boot
2 4 (5.41%) Web Services
3 3 (4.05%) .NET Framework
3 3 (4.05%) ASP.NET
3 3 (4.05%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (4.05%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (4.05%) Entity Framework
3 3 (4.05%) HTML
4 2 (2.70%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.70%) CSS3
4 2 (2.70%) HTML5
4 2 (2.70%) jQuery
4 2 (2.70%) Kafka
4 2 (2.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.76%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.41%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.05%) e-Learning
3 3 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.70%) AS400
4 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.70%) iSeries
4 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.70%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.70%) Replication
4 2 (2.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.35%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.35%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.35%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.81%) Linux
2 5 (6.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.49%) Agile
2 24 (32.43%) Analytics
3 18 (24.32%) Software Engineering
4 17 (22.97%) Data Extraction
4 17 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (20.27%) Visualisation
6 14 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (17.57%) Data Analytics
8 12 (16.22%) Data Analysis
9 11 (14.86%) CI/CD
9 11 (14.86%) DevOps
9 11 (14.86%) Test Automation
10 10 (13.51%) Data Management
10 10 (13.51%) Mathematics
10 10 (13.51%) Migration
11 9 (12.16%) Data Science
11 9 (12.16%) Performance Tuning
11 9 (12.16%) Scrum
11 9 (12.16%) Statistical Modelling
12 8 (10.81%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 20 (27.03%) Python
2 10 (13.51%) JavaScript
3 8 (10.81%) Java
4 6 (8.11%) C#
5 5 (6.76%) T-SQL
5 5 (6.76%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.41%) R
7 2 (2.70%) Go
7 2 (2.70%) RPG
7 2 (2.70%) RPG IV
8 1 (1.35%) COBOL
8 1 (1.35%) JCL
8 1 (1.35%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.35%) REXX
Qualifications
1 16 (21.62%) Degree
2 2 (2.70%) CISM
2 2 (2.70%) CISSP
2 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.35%) ACCA
3 1 (1.35%) CFA
3 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.41%) QA
3 3 (4.05%) ISO 9001
4 2 (2.70%) NIST
5 1 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 5 (6.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.70%) Istio
2 2 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (17.57%) Oracle
2 9 (12.16%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.05%) Genesys
3 3 (4.05%) Verint
4 2 (2.70%) IBM
5 1 (1.35%) Concur
5 1 (1.35%) SAP