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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 19 15
Rank change year-on-year +10 -4 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 190 116 161
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 16.13% 11.81% 12.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.98% 28.86% 28.65%
Number of salaries quoted 58 55 137
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £33,563 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -21.43% +3.50%
75th Percentile £60,000 £79,648 £80,000
90th Percentile £69,800 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -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 432 402 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 36.67% 40.94% 44.32%
Number of salaries quoted 199 260 447
10th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -1.64% -6.15%
75th Percentile £76,375 £79,736 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 12 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 11 (5.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.63%) Confluence
4 2 (1.05%) Apache
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.53%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.53%) SAS
5 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.53%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.53%) WildFly
Applications
1 30 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.26%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 35 (18.42%) Oracle ERP
2 20 (10.53%) Oracle Assets
2 20 (10.53%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (10.53%) Oracle General Ledger
2 20 (10.53%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (10.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 10 (5.26%) Hyperion Planning
4 4 (2.11%) Markit EDM
4 4 (2.11%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.53%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 113 (59.47%) Azure
2 60 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (22.63%) Snowflake
4 40 (21.05%) GitHub
5 39 (20.53%) Power Platform
6 30 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 27 (14.21%) dbt
8 25 (13.16%) GitHub Copilot
8 25 (13.16%) OCI
9 21 (11.05%) Entra ID
10 20 (10.53%) AWS
11 19 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
12 14 (7.37%) SaaS
13 13 (6.84%) Azure AI
14 7 (3.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (3.68%) Power Automate
15 5 (2.63%) GCP
16 4 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (2.11%) Boomi
16 4 (2.11%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.21%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (21.58%) Tableau
2 39 (20.53%) Power BI
3 20 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (6.84%) Data Mining
5 12 (6.32%) Metadata
5 12 (6.32%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.26%) Essbase
6 10 (5.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 9 (4.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (4.21%) Data Lake
9 7 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.63%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.58%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.58%) BigQuery
13 2 (1.05%) Big Data
14 1 (0.53%) GIS
14 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 45 (23.68%) Oracle Forms
2 25 (13.16%) Jenkins
3 24 (12.63%) JIRA
4 16 (8.42%) Git
5 8 (4.21%) ERwin
6 7 (3.68%) ER Studio
7 2 (1.05%) JUnit
8 1 (0.53%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.53%) ClearQuest
8 1 (0.53%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.53%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.53%) jMock
8 1 (0.53%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 130 (68.42%) Finance
2 46 (24.21%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (18.95%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.79%) Front Office
5 6 (3.16%) Financial Institution
5 6 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.58%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.53%) Banking
8 1 (0.53%) Local Government
8 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (35.79%) Analyst
2 65 (34.21%) Senior
3 43 (22.63%) Applications Engineer
4 30 (15.79%) Senior Analyst
5 28 (14.74%) Data Analyst
6 25 (13.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (10.53%) Oracle Analyst
7 20 (10.53%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 19 (10.00%) Applications Support
8 19 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
9 18 (9.47%) Junior
10 15 (7.89%) Data Engineer
11 14 (7.37%) ERP Analyst
11 14 (7.37%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 13 (6.84%) Junior Analyst
12 13 (6.84%) Junior Data Analyst
12 13 (6.84%) Trainee
12 13 (6.84%) Trainee Analyst
12 13 (6.84%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 11 (5.79%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.68%) RESTful
2 22 (11.58%) OAuth
3 18 (9.47%) SOAP
4 14 (7.37%) .NET
4 14 (7.37%) JSON
4 14 (7.37%) XML
5 11 (5.79%) GraphQL
5 11 (5.79%) OAuth2
5 11 (5.79%) OpenAPI
5 11 (5.79%) SAML
5 11 (5.79%) Swagger
6 8 (4.21%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (4.21%) YAML
7 6 (3.16%) Web Services
8 4 (2.11%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.11%) .NET Framework
8 4 (2.11%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.11%) Entity Framework
8 4 (2.11%) REST
9 2 (1.05%) React
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.95%) Cloud Native
2 29 (15.26%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.21%) Equities
3 8 (4.21%) Fixed Income
3 8 (4.21%) Low-Code
4 7 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.16%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.11%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.11%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.53%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.53%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.53%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.53%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.32%) Windows
2 8 (4.21%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.63%) Linux
4 4 (2.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (55.79%) Asset Management
1 106 (55.79%) Coaching
2 86 (45.26%) Agile
3 81 (42.63%) DevOps
4 70 (36.84%) CI/CD
5 50 (26.32%) ERP
6 48 (25.26%) Business Intelligence
7 46 (24.21%) Analytics
8 45 (23.68%) Mentoring
9 43 (22.63%) AI
10 41 (21.58%) Test Automation
11 38 (20.00%) Data Governance
12 37 (19.47%) Data Modelling
13 34 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (17.37%) Data Integration
15 32 (16.84%) Root Cause Analysis
16 30 (15.79%) API Integration
17 28 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
17 28 (14.74%) Migration
18 27 (14.21%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 94 (49.47%) Python
2 35 (18.42%) PowerShell
3 34 (17.89%) Java
4 29 (15.26%) Shell Script
5 26 (13.68%) PL/SQL
6 17 (8.95%) C#
7 10 (5.26%) Groovy
8 7 (3.68%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.05%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.53%) Magik
10 1 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (6.84%) Azure Certification
2 6 (3.16%) Degree
3 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.95%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.53%) GDPR
3 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 25 (13.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (25.79%) Terraform
2 25 (13.16%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (2.11%) Control-M
Vendors
1 76 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 63 (33.16%) Oracle
3 14 (7.37%) Okta
4 11 (5.79%) Charles River
5 10 (5.26%) Databricks
5 10 (5.26%) Hyperion
6 5 (2.63%) IBM
7 4 (2.11%) Ab Initio
7 4 (2.11%) Google
7 4 (2.11%) Informatica
8 2 (1.05%) Pega
9 1 (0.53%) Concur
9 1 (0.53%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.53%) ESRI
9 1 (0.53%) FIS
9 1 (0.53%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.53%) SAP