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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 12 12
Rank change year-on-year -39 0 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 24 115 138
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 2.06% 15.48% 11.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.32% 48.32% 29.24%
Number of salaries quoted 12 47 52
10th Percentile - £25,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £47,500 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -5.58% -22.60%
75th Percentile £96,875 £59,875 £67,531
90th Percentile £116,000 £71,250 £73,886
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -18.18%

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 131 238 472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.23% 32.03% 38.10%
Number of salaries quoted 88 109 269
10th Percentile - £28,200 £38,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £47,482
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,451 £51,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.41% -15.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,250 £87,500 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 23 September 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 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) Azure
2 12 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (25.00%) Azure AI
4 4 (16.67%) AWS
5 3 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.33%) GCP
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.17%) Dagster
7 1 (4.17%) dbt
7 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.17%) GitHub
7 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
7 1 (4.17%) Prefect
7 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) Power BI
2 8 (33.33%) Tableau
3 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (12.50%) Metadata
5 2 (8.33%) Data Vault
5 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (4.17%) Big Data
6 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.17%) Data Mining
6 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
6 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
6 1 (4.17%) Redis
6 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) ERwin
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.33%) Law
4 2 (8.33%) Marketing
4 2 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Junior
2 6 (25.00%) Junior Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Junior Data Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior
5 3 (12.50%) .NET Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Data Manager
5 3 (12.50%) Fraud Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Strategy Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Strategy Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Architect
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Qualitative Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Research Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) .NET
2 4 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 4 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 4 (16.67%) React
3 3 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 3 (12.50%) Blazor
3 3 (12.50%) LINQ
4 1 (4.17%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.17%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (4.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.17%) Clustering
1 1 (4.17%) Cybercrime
1 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (4.17%) Sports Betting
1 1 (4.17%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (41.67%) Analytics
3 8 (33.33%) AI
4 6 (25.00%) ETL
5 5 (20.83%) Data Modelling
5 5 (20.83%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (20.83%) Lakehouse
6 4 (16.67%) Agile
6 4 (16.67%) Data Architecture
6 4 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 4 (16.67%) Data Science
6 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 4 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (16.67%) Statistics
7 3 (12.50%) Customer Insight
7 3 (12.50%) Data Analytics
7 3 (12.50%) Data Lineage
7 3 (12.50%) Data Transformation
7 3 (12.50%) Metadata Management
7 3 (12.50%) Risk Analytics
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) C#
3 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (4.17%) R
4 1 (4.17%) Scala
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) MCT
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) YouTube