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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 27 16
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 48 76 98
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 4.54% 9.00% 7.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.57% 32.90% 22.32%
Number of salaries quoted 29 47 63
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £35,021
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £45,028
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -24.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,375 £72,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £76,840 £76,000
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -9.09%

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 157 231 439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.85% 27.37% 34.54%
Number of salaries quoted 112 151 349
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -3.61%
75th Percentile £71,500 £80,000 £74,000
90th Percentile £99,500 £98,474 £89,000
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 1 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 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.25%) Apache
3 2 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 27 (56.25%) Azure
2 18 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 14 (29.17%) Azure AI
4 7 (14.58%) GCP
5 5 (10.42%) AWS
6 4 (8.33%) Boomi
6 4 (8.33%) iPaaS
6 4 (8.33%) Workato
7 3 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (6.25%) Cloud Composer
7 3 (6.25%) Dataform
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.17%) dbt
8 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (4.17%) SaaS
9 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.08%) Dagster
9 1 (2.08%) GitHub
9 1 (2.08%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (41.67%) Tableau
2 18 (37.50%) Power BI
3 4 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (8.33%) Big Data
3 4 (8.33%) Data Mining
3 4 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (8.33%) Metadata
4 3 (6.25%) BigQuery
4 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.17%) Data Vault
5 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.08%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.08%) Redis
6 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (2.08%) ERwin
3 1 (2.08%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 18 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.08%) Finance
3 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.08%) Games
6 1 (2.08%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Marketing
6 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (58.33%) Analyst
2 18 (37.50%) Data Analyst
3 15 (31.25%) Junior
4 14 (29.17%) Junior Analyst
4 14 (29.17%) Junior Data Analyst
5 10 (20.83%) Senior
6 8 (16.67%) Data Engineer
7 6 (12.50%) Support Analyst
8 5 (10.42%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
9 4 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
9 4 (8.33%) Developer
9 4 (8.33%) ERP Analyst
9 4 (8.33%) ERP Support
9 4 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (8.33%) Trainee
9 4 (8.33%) Trainee Analyst
9 4 (8.33%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 3 (6.25%) Applications Support
10 3 (6.25%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) .NET
2 5 (10.42%) React
3 4 (8.33%) .NET Core
3 4 (8.33%) ASP.NET
3 4 (8.33%) Web Services
4 3 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (6.25%) Blazor
4 3 (6.25%) LINQ
5 2 (4.17%) Great Expectations
6 1 (2.08%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.08%) CrewAI
6 1 (2.08%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.08%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.08%) LangGraph
6 1 (2.08%) PySpark
6 1 (2.08%) PyTorch
6 1 (2.08%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.08%) AI Agents
1 1 (2.08%) Autonomous Agent
1 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
1 1 (2.08%) Low-Code
1 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (2.08%) Sports Betting
1 1 (2.08%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (35.42%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (33.33%) AI
3 12 (25.00%) Analytics
4 11 (22.92%) Agile
5 8 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 7 (14.58%) Data Modelling
6 7 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (12.50%) Business Analysis
7 6 (12.50%) Data Analysis
7 6 (12.50%) Data Analytics
7 6 (12.50%) DevOps
7 6 (12.50%) ETL
8 5 (10.42%) Data Engineering
8 5 (10.42%) Mentoring
8 5 (10.42%) Microservices
8 5 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.42%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 5 (10.42%) Workflow
9 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 30 (62.50%) Python
2 5 (10.42%) C#
3 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.08%) R
5 1 (2.08%) Scala
5 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (29.17%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.08%) MCT
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.17%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) Google
3 3 (6.25%) Databricks
3 3 (6.25%) Oracle
4 2 (4.17%) Pega
5 1 (2.08%) OpenAI