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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 15 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 154 161 140
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 17.52% 11.98% 13.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.64% 29.93% 30.37%
Number of salaries quoted 46 56 117
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,105 £40,000
25th Percentile £26,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £53,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% -23.21% +21.74%
75th Percentile £48,750 £73,784 £77,542
90th Percentile £65,625 £82,324 £86,500
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £56,318
% change year-on-year - -20.10% +2.40%

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 345 538 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.25% 40.03% 45.73%
Number of salaries quoted 148 282 368
10th Percentile £25,925 £40,125 £42,874
25th Percentile £30,168 £46,713 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,585
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -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 22 November 2025.

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 13 (8.44%) Confluence
2 12 (7.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.65%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.65%) SAS
3 1 (0.65%) Smallworld
Applications
1 22 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.84%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 40 (25.97%) Oracle ERP
2 18 (11.69%) Oracle Assets
2 18 (11.69%) Oracle Financials
2 18 (11.69%) Oracle General Ledger
2 18 (11.69%) Oracle Payables
2 18 (11.69%) Oracle Receivables
3 11 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (5.84%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.65%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 93 (60.39%) Azure
2 69 (44.81%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 40 (25.97%) GitHub
5 38 (24.68%) Snowflake
6 31 (20.13%) OCI
7 24 (15.58%) Entra ID
8 21 (13.64%) GitHub Copilot
9 18 (11.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 17 (11.04%) AWS
11 13 (8.44%) dbt
12 11 (7.14%) PowerApps
13 10 (6.49%) SaaS
14 9 (5.84%) Azure Key Vault
15 6 (3.90%) Power Automate
16 4 (2.60%) Azure App Service
16 4 (2.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 2 (1.30%) Azure AKS
18 1 (0.65%) Azure AI
18 1 (0.65%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.60%) DNS
1 4 (2.60%) Firewall
1 4 (2.60%) VPN
2 3 (1.95%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (28.57%) Power BI
2 31 (20.13%) Tableau
3 21 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (7.79%) Relational Database
5 11 (7.14%) SQL Server
6 9 (5.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (5.84%) Essbase
6 9 (5.84%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 7 (4.55%) Metadata
8 6 (3.90%) Data Mining
9 4 (2.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.95%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.95%) Oracle ODI
11 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.65%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.65%) GIS
11 1 (0.65%) MS Access
11 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.65%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (29.22%) Oracle Forms
2 28 (18.18%) JIRA
3 27 (17.53%) Jenkins
4 12 (7.79%) Git
5 8 (5.19%) ER Studio
5 8 (5.19%) ERwin
General
1 113 (73.38%) Finance
2 43 (27.92%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (26.62%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 11 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (5.19%) Marketing
6 7 (4.55%) Front Office
7 3 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.30%) Banking
8 2 (1.30%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.30%) Retail
9 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.65%) Legal
9 1 (0.65%) Local Government
9 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 57 (37.01%) Analyst
2 52 (33.77%) Senior
3 42 (27.27%) Applications Engineer
4 31 (20.13%) Cloud Engineer
5 23 (14.94%) Senior Analyst
6 22 (14.29%) Applications Support
7 19 (12.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 18 (11.69%) Oracle Analyst
8 18 (11.69%) Senior Oracle Analyst
9 15 (9.74%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (8.44%) Applications Support Analyst
10 13 (8.44%) Business Analyst
10 13 (8.44%) Support Analyst
11 10 (6.49%) Consultant
11 10 (6.49%) Database Consultant
11 10 (6.49%) Graduate
11 10 (6.49%) Graduate Consultant
11 10 (6.49%) Graduate Database Consultant
11 10 (6.49%) Graduate Support Consultant
11 10 (6.49%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (17.53%) RESTful
2 18 (11.69%) OAuth
3 15 (9.74%) JSON
3 15 (9.74%) SOAP
3 15 (9.74%) XML
4 12 (7.79%) OAuth2
4 12 (7.79%) SAML
5 6 (3.90%) GraphQL
5 6 (3.90%) OpenAPI
5 6 (3.90%) Swagger
6 3 (1.95%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.95%) YAML
7 1 (0.65%) .NET
7 1 (0.65%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.65%) ADO
7 1 (0.65%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.65%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.65%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (0.65%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.65%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 37 (24.03%) Enterprise Software
2 32 (20.78%) Cloud Native
3 16 (10.39%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.49%) e-Learning
5 8 (5.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (5.19%) Management Information System
5 8 (5.19%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.90%) Low-Code
6 6 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.60%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.95%) Equities
8 3 (1.95%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.65%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.65%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.65%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.60%) VMS
2 3 (1.95%) Windows
2 3 (1.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (63.64%) Asset Management
1 98 (63.64%) Coaching
2 81 (52.60%) Agile
2 81 (52.60%) DevOps
3 57 (37.01%) CI/CD
4 56 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
4 56 (36.36%) ERP
5 43 (27.92%) Test Automation
6 36 (23.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (22.73%) Analytics
8 34 (22.08%) AI
9 32 (20.78%) Mentoring
9 32 (20.78%) Migration
9 32 (20.78%) Translating Business Requirements
10 30 (19.48%) Data Governance
11 28 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (17.53%) API Integration
13 24 (15.58%) Root Cause Analysis
14 23 (14.94%) Data Integration
14 23 (14.94%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (49.35%) Python
2 38 (24.68%) PL/SQL
3 28 (18.18%) Java
4 27 (17.53%) Shell Script
5 20 (12.99%) PowerShell
6 9 (5.84%) Groovy
7 7 (4.55%) C#
8 4 (2.60%) Bicep
9 3 (1.95%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.65%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.65%) Magik
10 1 (0.65%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (9.74%) Degree
2 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.74%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 24 (15.58%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (29.87%) Terraform
2 27 (17.53%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (3.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 70 (45.45%) Oracle
2 37 (24.03%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.74%) Okta
4 11 (7.14%) Concur
4 11 (7.14%) SAP
5 9 (5.84%) Hyperion
6 7 (4.55%) Charles River
7 5 (3.25%) Databricks
8 1 (0.65%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.65%) ESRI
8 1 (0.65%) Intapp