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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 22 18
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 45 75 98
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 4.28% 8.98% 7.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.80% 33.48% 22.27%
Number of salaries quoted 26 46 62
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £35,011
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65,938 £70,313 £72,313
90th Percentile £98,750 £76,840 £76,125
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 151 224 440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.37% 26.83% 34.81%
Number of salaries quoted 105 146 342
10th Percentile £37,371 £37,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £48,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -3.61%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £73,886
90th Percentile £83,000 £98,474 £89,875
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 4 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 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.67%) Apache
3 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (37.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 26 (57.78%) Azure
2 18 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 14 (31.11%) Azure AI
4 7 (15.56%) GCP
5 5 (11.11%) AWS
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (6.67%) Boomi
6 3 (6.67%) Cloud Composer
6 3 (6.67%) Dataform
6 3 (6.67%) iPaaS
6 3 (6.67%) Workato
7 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.44%) dbt
7 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.22%) Dagster
8 1 (2.22%) GitHub
8 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.22%) Prefect
8 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (42.22%) Tableau
2 18 (40.00%) Power BI
3 5 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (11.11%) Metadata
4 3 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (6.67%) Big Data
4 3 (6.67%) BigQuery
4 3 (6.67%) Data Mining
5 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.44%) Data Vault
5 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.22%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.22%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.22%) Redis
6 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) Git
3 1 (2.22%) ERwin
3 1 (2.22%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 17 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (24.44%) Finance
3 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.22%) Games
6 1 (2.22%) Law
6 1 (2.22%) Marketing
6 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (57.78%) Analyst
2 17 (37.78%) Data Analyst
3 15 (33.33%) Junior
4 14 (31.11%) Junior Analyst
4 14 (31.11%) Junior Data Analyst
5 10 (22.22%) Senior
6 8 (17.78%) Data Engineer
7 6 (13.33%) Support Analyst
8 5 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (8.89%) Developer
9 4 (8.89%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (6.67%) .NET Developer
10 3 (6.67%) Applications Support
10 3 (6.67%) Applications Support Analyst
10 3 (6.67%) Senior Applications Support
10 3 (6.67%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
10 3 (6.67%) Senior Support Analyst
10 3 (6.67%) Trainee
10 3 (6.67%) Trainee Analyst
10 3 (6.67%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) .NET
2 5 (11.11%) React
3 4 (8.89%) .NET Core
3 4 (8.89%) ASP.NET
4 3 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (6.67%) Blazor
4 3 (6.67%) LINQ
4 3 (6.67%) Web Services
5 2 (4.44%) Great Expectations
6 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.22%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.22%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.22%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.22%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.22%) Kafka
6 1 (2.22%) PySpark
6 1 (2.22%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
1 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (2.22%) Sports Betting
1 1 (2.22%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (33.33%) AI
3 11 (24.44%) Analytics
4 10 (22.22%) Agile
5 8 (17.78%) Data Modelling
5 8 (17.78%) Requirements Gathering
6 7 (15.56%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (15.56%) ETL
7 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (11.11%) Business Analysis
8 5 (11.11%) Data Analysis
8 5 (11.11%) Data Analytics
8 5 (11.11%) DevOps
8 5 (11.11%) Mentoring
8 5 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 4 (8.89%) Data Engineering
9 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (8.89%) Metadata Management
9 4 (8.89%) Microservices
9 4 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 27 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (8.89%) C#
2 4 (8.89%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (2.22%) R
4 1 (2.22%) Scala
4 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (31.11%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.44%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.22%) MCT
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.78%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.44%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (57.78%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Google
3 3 (6.67%) Databricks
3 3 (6.67%) Oracle
4 2 (4.44%) Pega