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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 22 18
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 182 94 157
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 15.26% 9.73% 12.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.17% 25.54% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 55 53 131
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,063 £46,306
25th Percentile £34,375 £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 £60,625 £79,648 £80,000
90th Percentile £70,850 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -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 412 368 568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 34.53% 38.10% 43.43%
Number of salaries quoted 193 255 458
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,768 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.46% -6.15%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £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 24 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 10 (5.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.20%) Confluence
4 3 (1.65%) Apache
5 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.55%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.55%) SAS
5 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.55%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.55%) WildFly
Applications
1 30 (16.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.49%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 32 (17.58%) Oracle ERP
2 20 (10.99%) Oracle Assets
2 20 (10.99%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (10.99%) Oracle General Ledger
2 20 (10.99%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (10.99%) Oracle Receivables
3 10 (5.49%) Hyperion Planning
4 4 (2.20%) Markit EDM
4 4 (2.20%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.55%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 107 (58.79%) Azure
2 54 (29.67%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (21.98%) Snowflake
4 38 (20.88%) Power Platform
5 37 (20.33%) GitHub
6 30 (16.48%) Azure Data Factory
7 26 (14.29%) dbt
8 24 (13.19%) GitHub Copilot
9 22 (12.09%) OCI
10 19 (10.44%) Azure Key Vault
11 18 (9.89%) AWS
11 18 (9.89%) Entra ID
12 15 (8.24%) Azure AI
13 13 (7.14%) SaaS
14 7 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (3.85%) Power Automate
15 6 (3.30%) GCP
16 4 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (2.20%) Boomi
16 4 (2.20%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.40%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (21.98%) Tableau
2 38 (20.88%) Power BI
3 18 (9.89%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.59%) Data Mining
4 12 (6.59%) Metadata
5 11 (6.04%) SQL Server
6 10 (5.49%) Essbase
6 10 (5.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 8 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (4.40%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.20%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.20%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.65%) Big Data
11 2 (1.10%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.55%) IBM InfoSphere
12 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (23.08%) Oracle Forms
2 22 (12.09%) Jenkins
2 22 (12.09%) JIRA
3 15 (8.24%) Git
4 7 (3.85%) ERwin
5 6 (3.30%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.10%) JUnit
7 1 (0.55%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.55%) ClearQuest
7 1 (0.55%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.55%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.55%) jMock
7 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 122 (67.03%) Finance
2 44 (24.18%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (19.23%) Social Skills
4 10 (5.49%) Front Office
5 7 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.30%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.65%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.55%) Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Local Government
9 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (36.26%) Analyst
2 63 (34.62%) Senior
3 39 (21.43%) Applications Engineer
4 29 (15.93%) Data Analyst
4 29 (15.93%) Senior Analyst
5 22 (12.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (10.99%) Junior
6 20 (10.99%) Oracle Analyst
6 20 (10.99%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 19 (10.44%) Azure Engineer
8 17 (9.34%) Applications Support
9 15 (8.24%) Data Engineer
9 15 (8.24%) Junior Analyst
9 15 (8.24%) Junior Data Analyst
10 14 (7.69%) ERP Analyst
11 12 (6.59%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 12 (6.59%) Trainee
11 12 (6.59%) Trainee Analyst
11 12 (6.59%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 10 (5.49%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.64%) RESTful
2 21 (11.54%) OAuth
3 16 (8.79%) SOAP
4 14 (7.69%) .NET
5 12 (6.59%) JSON
5 12 (6.59%) XML
6 11 (6.04%) GraphQL
6 11 (6.04%) OpenAPI
6 11 (6.04%) Swagger
7 10 (5.49%) OAuth2
7 10 (5.49%) SAML
8 8 (4.40%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (4.40%) YAML
9 6 (3.30%) Web Services
10 4 (2.20%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.20%) .NET Framework
10 4 (2.20%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.20%) Entity Framework
10 4 (2.20%) REST
11 2 (1.10%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.13%) Cloud Native
2 25 (13.74%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.40%) Equities
3 8 (4.40%) Fixed Income
3 8 (4.40%) Low-Code
4 7 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.20%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.65%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.55%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.55%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.55%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.55%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.55%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.59%) Windows
2 8 (4.40%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.75%) Linux
4 4 (2.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (54.40%) Asset Management
1 99 (54.40%) Coaching
2 81 (44.51%) Agile
3 75 (41.21%) DevOps
4 66 (36.26%) CI/CD
5 47 (25.82%) Business Intelligence
6 46 (25.27%) ERP
7 44 (24.18%) Analytics
8 43 (23.63%) AI
9 42 (23.08%) Mentoring
10 38 (20.88%) Test Automation
11 37 (20.33%) Data Modelling
12 34 (18.68%) Data Governance
13 33 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
14 32 (17.58%) Data Integration
15 30 (16.48%) Root Cause Analysis
16 27 (14.84%) API Integration
17 26 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
17 26 (14.29%) Migration
18 25 (13.74%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 90 (49.45%) Python
2 34 (18.68%) PowerShell
3 31 (17.03%) Java
4 26 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 22 (12.09%) PL/SQL
6 17 (9.34%) C#
7 10 (5.49%) Groovy
8 7 (3.85%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.10%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.55%) Magik
10 1 (0.55%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (8.24%) Azure Certification
2 5 (2.75%) Degree
3 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.89%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.55%) GDPR
3 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 22 (12.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (25.27%) Terraform
2 22 (12.09%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (2.20%) Control-M
Vendors
1 75 (41.21%) Microsoft
2 58 (31.87%) Oracle
3 12 (6.59%) Okta
4 10 (5.49%) Charles River
4 10 (5.49%) Databricks
4 10 (5.49%) Hyperion
5 5 (2.75%) Google
5 5 (2.75%) IBM
6 4 (2.20%) Ab Initio
6 4 (2.20%) Informatica
7 2 (1.10%) Pega
8 1 (0.55%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.55%) ESRI
8 1 (0.55%) FIS
8 1 (0.55%) OpenAI