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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 20 20
Rank change year-on-year -18 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 33 83 97
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 3.07% 10.51% 7.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.74% 37.90% 21.41%
Number of salaries quoted 18 42 60
10th Percentile £41,250 £25,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,125 £44,063 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £71,375
90th Percentile £107,000 £76,406 £75,125
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,557
% change year-on-year - +5.14% -13.53%

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 139 219 453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.92% 27.72% 34.74%
Number of salaries quoted 95 125 332
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,840 £73,886
90th Percentile £89,000 £98,474 £88,750
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 21 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 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (9.09%) Apache
3 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 21 (63.64%) Azure
2 16 (48.48%) Power Platform
3 11 (33.33%) Azure AI
4 7 (21.21%) GCP
5 5 (15.15%) AWS
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (9.09%) Cloud Composer
6 3 (9.09%) Dataform
7 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.06%) dbt
7 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.03%) Boomi
8 1 (3.03%) Dagster
8 1 (3.03%) GitHub
8 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.03%) iPaaS
8 1 (3.03%) Prefect
8 1 (3.03%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (48.48%) Power BI
2 13 (39.39%) Tableau
3 6 (18.18%) Metadata
4 5 (15.15%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (9.09%) Big Data
5 3 (9.09%) BigQuery
6 2 (6.06%) Data Vault
6 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
7 1 (3.03%) Delta Lake
7 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.03%) Redis
7 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) Git
3 1 (3.03%) ERwin
3 1 (3.03%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Finance
5 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.06%) Law
6 2 (6.06%) Marketing
6 2 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Games
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Analyst
2 11 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 11 (33.33%) Junior
2 11 (33.33%) Junior Analyst
2 11 (33.33%) Junior Data Analyst
3 7 (21.21%) Data Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Senior
4 4 (12.12%) Developer
5 3 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Data Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Big Data Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Fraud Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Big Data Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Strategy Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Strategy Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) .NET
1 4 (12.12%) React
2 3 (9.09%) .NET Core
2 3 (9.09%) ASP.NET
2 3 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
2 3 (9.09%) Blazor
2 3 (9.09%) LINQ
2 3 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) Great Expectations
4 1 (3.03%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.03%) Kafka
4 1 (3.03%) PySpark
4 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (3.03%) Sports Betting
1 1 (3.03%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (36.36%) AI
3 10 (30.30%) Analytics
4 9 (27.27%) Agile
5 8 (24.24%) Data Modelling
5 8 (24.24%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (21.21%) ETL
6 7 (21.21%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (15.15%) Data Architecture
7 5 (15.15%) Data Governance
7 5 (15.15%) DevOps
7 5 (15.15%) Metadata Management
7 5 (15.15%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 4 (12.12%) Decision-Making
8 4 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (9.09%) Customer Insight
9 3 (9.09%) Data Transformation
9 3 (9.09%) Kanban
9 3 (9.09%) Scrum
9 3 (9.09%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) Python
2 4 (12.12%) C#
3 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.03%) Scala
4 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 3 (9.09%) Degree
3 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.03%) MCT
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.06%) GDPR
Vendors
1 18 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.15%) Google
3 3 (9.09%) Databricks
4 2 (6.06%) Pega