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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 25 18
Rank change year-on-year +16 -7 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 174 92 157
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 14.87% 9.59% 12.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.83% 25.07% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 53 53 131
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,063 £46,306
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -17.27% +2.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £79,648 £80,000
90th Percentile £71,550 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £49,250 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.44% -21.74% -8.00%

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 397 367 568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 33.93% 38.27% 43.63%
Number of salaries quoted 190 256 458
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,999 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £61,250 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +0.41% -6.15%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,563 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,625 £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 25 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 9 (5.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.72%) Apache
3 3 (1.72%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.57%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.57%) SAS
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.57%) WildFly
Applications
1 30 (17.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.75%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 29 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
2 20 (11.49%) Oracle Assets
2 20 (11.49%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (11.49%) Oracle General Ledger
2 20 (11.49%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (11.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 10 (5.75%) Hyperion Planning
4 4 (2.30%) Markit EDM
4 4 (2.30%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.57%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 100 (57.47%) Azure
2 48 (27.59%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (21.26%) Power Platform
3 37 (21.26%) Snowflake
4 34 (19.54%) GitHub
5 30 (17.24%) Azure Data Factory
6 25 (14.37%) dbt
7 23 (13.22%) GitHub Copilot
8 19 (10.92%) Azure Key Vault
8 19 (10.92%) OCI
9 16 (9.20%) AWS
9 16 (9.20%) Azure AI
10 15 (8.62%) Entra ID
11 12 (6.90%) SaaS
12 7 (4.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (4.02%) Power Automate
13 6 (3.45%) GCP
14 4 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.30%) Boomi
14 4 (2.30%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.60%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (22.41%) Tableau
2 37 (21.26%) Power BI
3 16 (9.20%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.90%) Data Mining
5 11 (6.32%) Metadata
6 10 (5.75%) Essbase
6 10 (5.75%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 10 (5.75%) SQL Server
7 8 (4.60%) Data Lake
8 7 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.30%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.72%) Big Data
10 3 (1.72%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.57%) GIS
11 1 (0.57%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (22.41%) Oracle Forms
2 20 (11.49%) JIRA
3 19 (10.92%) Jenkins
4 14 (8.05%) Git
5 6 (3.45%) ERwin
6 5 (2.87%) ER Studio
7 2 (1.15%) JUnit
8 1 (0.57%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.57%) ClearQuest
8 1 (0.57%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.57%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.57%) jMock
8 1 (0.57%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 115 (66.09%) Finance
2 43 (24.71%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (18.97%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.17%) Front Office
5 7 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.45%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.72%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.57%) Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Local Government
9 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 65 (37.36%) Analyst
2 60 (34.48%) Senior
3 35 (20.11%) Applications Engineer
4 30 (17.24%) Data Analyst
5 28 (16.09%) Senior Analyst
6 21 (12.07%) Junior
7 20 (11.49%) Oracle Analyst
7 20 (11.49%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 19 (10.92%) Azure Engineer
8 19 (10.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (9.20%) Applications Support
9 16 (9.20%) Junior Analyst
9 16 (9.20%) Junior Data Analyst
10 14 (8.05%) Data Engineer
10 14 (8.05%) ERP Analyst
11 12 (6.90%) Trainee
11 12 (6.90%) Trainee Analyst
11 12 (6.90%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 10 (5.75%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 10 (5.75%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.49%) OAuth
1 20 (11.49%) RESTful
2 14 (8.05%) .NET
2 14 (8.05%) SOAP
3 11 (6.32%) GraphQL
3 11 (6.32%) OpenAPI
3 11 (6.32%) Swagger
4 10 (5.75%) JSON
4 10 (5.75%) XML
5 9 (5.17%) OAuth2
5 9 (5.17%) SAML
6 8 (4.60%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (4.60%) YAML
7 6 (3.45%) Web Services
8 4 (2.30%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.30%) .NET Framework
8 4 (2.30%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.30%) Entity Framework
8 4 (2.30%) REST
9 2 (1.15%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 21 (12.07%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.60%) Equities
3 8 (4.60%) Fixed Income
3 8 (4.60%) Low-Code
4 7 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.30%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.15%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.15%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.57%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.57%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.90%) Windows
2 8 (4.60%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.87%) Linux
4 4 (2.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (52.87%) Asset Management
1 92 (52.87%) Coaching
2 75 (43.10%) Agile
3 68 (39.08%) DevOps
4 62 (35.63%) CI/CD
5 46 (26.44%) Business Intelligence
6 43 (24.71%) Analytics
6 43 (24.71%) ERP
7 42 (24.14%) AI
8 39 (22.41%) Mentoring
9 36 (20.69%) Data Modelling
10 35 (20.11%) Test Automation
11 32 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (17.82%) Data Integration
13 30 (17.24%) Data Governance
14 28 (16.09%) Root Cause Analysis
15 24 (13.79%) API Integration
15 24 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (13.79%) Data Analysis
15 24 (13.79%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 85 (48.85%) Python
2 33 (18.97%) PowerShell
3 28 (16.09%) Java
4 23 (13.22%) Shell Script
5 19 (10.92%) PL/SQL
6 17 (9.77%) C#
7 10 (5.75%) Groovy
8 7 (4.02%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.15%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.57%) Magik
10 1 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (9.20%) Azure Certification
2 4 (2.30%) Degree
3 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.57%) GDPR
3 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 19 (10.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (24.14%) Terraform
2 19 (10.92%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (2.30%) Control-M
Vendors
1 74 (42.53%) Microsoft
2 54 (31.03%) Oracle
3 10 (5.75%) Databricks
3 10 (5.75%) Hyperion
3 10 (5.75%) Okta
4 9 (5.17%) Charles River
5 5 (2.87%) Google
5 5 (2.87%) IBM
6 4 (2.30%) Ab Initio
6 4 (2.30%) Informatica
7 2 (1.15%) Pega
8 1 (0.57%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.57%) ESRI
8 1 (0.57%) FIS
8 1 (0.57%) OpenAI