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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 22 20
Rank change year-on-year +14 -2 -9
Permanent jobs citing SQL 150 103 139
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 12.55% 11.33% 10.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.38% 28.69% 24.78%
Number of salaries quoted 44 66 119
10th Percentile £33,575 £25,313 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £55,000 £66,367
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -17.13% -4.44%
75th Percentile £61,250 £78,887 £76,250
90th Percentile £77,675 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £48,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% -13.64% -12.00%

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 338 359 561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 28.28% 39.49% 41.46%
Number of salaries quoted 163 255 465
10th Percentile £29,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £47,365 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £69,375 £80,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 1 May 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 8 (5.33%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (5.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.00%) Apache
3 2 (1.33%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.33%) Confluence
4 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.67%) WildFly
Applications
1 32 (21.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.33%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 24 (16.00%) Oracle ERP
2 16 (10.67%) Oracle Assets
2 16 (10.67%) Oracle Financials
2 16 (10.67%) Oracle General Ledger
2 16 (10.67%) Oracle Payables
2 16 (10.67%) Oracle Receivables
3 8 (5.33%) Hyperion Planning
4 4 (2.67%) Markit EDM
4 4 (2.67%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.67%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 87 (58.00%) Azure
2 37 (24.67%) Azure DevOps
2 37 (24.67%) Power Platform
3 29 (19.33%) Snowflake
4 27 (18.00%) GitHub
5 24 (16.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (14.00%) Azure AI
6 21 (14.00%) dbt
7 17 (11.33%) GitHub Copilot
8 16 (10.67%) Azure Key Vault
8 16 (10.67%) OCI
9 15 (10.00%) AWS
10 10 (6.67%) Entra ID
11 9 (6.00%) SaaS
12 7 (4.67%) GCP
13 5 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (2.67%) AWS CodePipeline
14 4 (2.67%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (2.67%) Power Automate
14 4 (2.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.33%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (27.33%) Tableau
2 37 (24.67%) Power BI
3 14 (9.33%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (6.67%) Data Mining
5 8 (5.33%) Essbase
5 8 (5.33%) Metadata
5 8 (5.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 8 (5.33%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (4.00%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.67%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.00%) Big Data
10 1 (0.67%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.67%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (21.33%) Oracle Forms
2 18 (12.00%) JIRA
3 16 (10.67%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.67%) Git
5 5 (3.33%) ERwin
6 4 (2.67%) ER Studio
7 2 (1.33%) JUnit
8 1 (0.67%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.67%) ClearQuest
8 1 (0.67%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.67%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.67%) jMock
8 1 (0.67%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 94 (62.67%) Finance
2 36 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (5.33%) Front Office
5 7 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 60 (40.00%) Analyst
2 50 (33.33%) Senior
3 32 (21.33%) Data Analyst
4 26 (17.33%) Applications Engineer
4 26 (17.33%) Junior
5 23 (15.33%) Senior Analyst
6 21 (14.00%) Junior Analyst
6 21 (14.00%) Junior Data Analyst
7 16 (10.67%) Azure Engineer
7 16 (10.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (10.67%) Oracle Analyst
7 16 (10.67%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 12 (8.00%) Applications Support
8 12 (8.00%) Data Engineer
8 12 (8.00%) ERP Analyst
9 10 (6.67%) Trainee
9 10 (6.67%) Trainee Analyst
9 10 (6.67%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 9 (6.00%) Support Analyst
11 8 (5.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.33%) RESTful
2 16 (10.67%) OAuth
3 14 (9.33%) .NET
4 12 (8.00%) SOAP
5 8 (5.33%) FIX Protocol
5 8 (5.33%) GraphQL
5 8 (5.33%) JSON
5 8 (5.33%) OAuth2
5 8 (5.33%) OpenAPI
5 8 (5.33%) SAML
5 8 (5.33%) Swagger
5 8 (5.33%) XML
5 8 (5.33%) YAML
6 6 (4.00%) Web Services
7 4 (2.67%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.67%) .NET Framework
7 4 (2.67%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.67%) Entity Framework
7 4 (2.67%) REST
8 2 (1.33%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.33%) Cloud Native
2 16 (10.67%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (5.33%) Equities
3 8 (5.33%) Fixed Income
4 5 (3.33%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.33%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.67%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.67%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.00%) Windows
2 8 (5.33%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.33%) Linux
4 4 (2.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (48.67%) Asset Management
1 73 (48.67%) Coaching
2 61 (40.67%) Agile
3 52 (34.67%) DevOps
4 51 (34.00%) CI/CD
5 44 (29.33%) Business Intelligence
6 41 (27.33%) AI
7 36 (24.00%) ERP
8 35 (23.33%) Analytics
9 33 (22.00%) Data Modelling
10 31 (20.67%) Mentoring
11 27 (18.00%) Test Automation
12 26 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (16.00%) Data Governance
13 24 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
14 22 (14.67%) Data Integration
15 21 (14.00%) API Integration
15 21 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
16 20 (13.33%) Migration
17 17 (11.33%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (51.33%) Python
2 29 (19.33%) PowerShell
3 24 (16.00%) Java
4 20 (13.33%) Shell Script
5 16 (10.67%) PL/SQL
6 14 (9.33%) C#
7 8 (5.33%) Groovy
8 5 (3.33%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.33%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.67%) R
10 1 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (14.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.67%) GDPR
3 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 14 (9.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (23.33%) Terraform
2 16 (10.67%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (2.67%) Control-M
Vendors
1 71 (47.33%) Microsoft
2 44 (29.33%) Oracle
3 8 (5.33%) Charles River
3 8 (5.33%) Databricks
3 8 (5.33%) Hyperion
3 8 (5.33%) Okta
4 5 (3.33%) Google
4 5 (3.33%) IBM
5 4 (2.67%) Ab Initio
5 4 (2.67%) Informatica
6 2 (1.33%) Pega
7 1 (0.67%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.67%) FIS
7 1 (0.67%) OpenAI