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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 23 15
Rank change year-on-year +12 -8 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 87 82 132
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 8.29% 9.59% 9.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.43% 29.50% 24.95%
Number of salaries quoted 38 44 110
10th Percentile - £25,094 £39,875
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% -12.31% -5.17%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,625 £89,250 £82,548
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £48,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -12.73% -8.33%

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 210 278 529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.02% 32.51% 39.24%
Number of salaries quoted 128 180 445
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,375 £44,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £49,118 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,875 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.54% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,875 £91,761
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.23% +5.51% -4.86%

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 5 June 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 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.45%) Apache
3 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.30%) Confluence
3 2 (2.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 26 (29.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.30%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (6.90%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (4.60%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (4.60%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (4.60%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (4.60%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (4.60%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (4.60%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (2.30%) Hyperion Planning
3 2 (2.30%) Markit EDM
4 1 (1.15%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 48 (55.17%) Azure
2 24 (27.59%) Power Platform
3 17 (19.54%) Azure AI
4 10 (11.49%) AWS
4 10 (11.49%) Snowflake
5 9 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (9.20%) dbt
6 8 (9.20%) GitHub
7 7 (8.05%) GCP
7 7 (8.05%) SaaS
8 4 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (4.60%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.60%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (4.60%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (4.60%) Boomi
8 4 (4.60%) iPaaS
8 4 (4.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) Telnet
2 1 (1.15%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (34.48%) Tableau
2 24 (27.59%) Power BI
3 9 (10.34%) SQL Server
4 8 (9.20%) Data Mining
5 7 (8.05%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (5.75%) Metadata
8 4 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (4.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (4.60%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (3.45%) Big Data
9 3 (3.45%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.30%) Data Vault
10 2 (2.30%) Essbase
10 2 (2.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 1 (1.15%) Delta Lake
11 1 (1.15%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (9.20%) Oracle Forms
2 6 (6.90%) Git
2 6 (6.90%) JIRA
3 4 (4.60%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.45%) ERwin
5 2 (2.30%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.15%) ClearCase
6 1 (1.15%) ClearQuest
6 1 (1.15%) HP UFT
6 1 (1.15%) JUnit
6 1 (1.15%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (44.83%) Finance
2 23 (26.44%) Social Skills
3 21 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.90%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.30%) Front Office
9 1 (1.15%) Games
Job Titles
1 41 (47.13%) Analyst
2 25 (28.74%) Data Analyst
3 21 (24.14%) Junior
3 21 (24.14%) Senior
4 17 (19.54%) Junior Analyst
4 17 (19.54%) Junior Data Analyst
5 11 (12.64%) Data Engineer
5 11 (12.64%) Senior Analyst
6 9 (10.34%) Support Analyst
7 8 (9.20%) Applications Support
7 8 (9.20%) Trainee
7 8 (9.20%) Trainee Analyst
7 8 (9.20%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 6 (6.90%) Applications Engineer
8 6 (6.90%) Applications Support Analyst
8 6 (6.90%) ERP Analyst
8 6 (6.90%) Senior Applications Support
8 6 (6.90%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
8 6 (6.90%) Senior Support Analyst
9 4 (4.60%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.79%) .NET
2 6 (6.90%) SOAP
3 5 (5.75%) .NET Core
3 5 (5.75%) Web Services
4 4 (4.60%) .NET Framework
4 4 (4.60%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.60%) Entity Framework
4 4 (4.60%) OAuth
4 4 (4.60%) REST
4 4 (4.60%) RESTful
5 3 (3.45%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.45%) React
6 2 (2.30%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (2.30%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.30%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.30%) SAML
6 2 (2.30%) Swagger
6 2 (2.30%) Vue
6 2 (2.30%) XML
6 2 (2.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.60%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.30%) Equities
3 2 (2.30%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.15%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.15%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.15%) SCADA
4 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.15%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Linux
1 4 (4.60%) Unix
1 4 (4.60%) Windows
2 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.74%) Business Intelligence
2 24 (27.59%) AI
3 23 (26.44%) Agile
4 21 (24.14%) Data Modelling
5 20 (22.99%) Asset Management
5 20 (22.99%) Coaching
6 19 (21.84%) Analytics
7 18 (20.69%) CI/CD
8 17 (19.54%) DevOps
9 15 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (16.09%) Mentoring
11 13 (14.94%) Data Governance
11 13 (14.94%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (13.79%) ERP
13 10 (11.49%) Business Analysis
13 10 (11.49%) Data Analysis
13 10 (11.49%) Root Cause Analysis
14 9 (10.34%) API Integration
14 9 (10.34%) Data Architecture
14 9 (10.34%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 46 (52.87%) Python
2 11 (12.64%) Java
3 9 (10.34%) PowerShell
4 8 (9.20%) Shell Script
5 6 (6.90%) C#
6 4 (4.60%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.45%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.30%) Groovy
8 2 (2.30%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.15%) R
9 1 (1.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (19.54%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.15%) Degree
2 1 (1.15%) MCT
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.15%) GDPR
3 1 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (12.64%) Terraform
2 4 (4.60%) Control-M
2 4 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (50.57%) Microsoft
2 20 (22.99%) Oracle
3 5 (5.75%) Google
4 4 (4.60%) Databricks
4 4 (4.60%) Informatica
5 3 (3.45%) IBM
6 2 (2.30%) Ab Initio
6 2 (2.30%) Charles River
6 2 (2.30%) Hyperion
6 2 (2.30%) Okta
6 2 (2.30%) Pega
7 1 (1.15%) FIS
7 1 (1.15%) OpenAI