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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +8
Permanent jobs citing SQL 120 152 168
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 15.75% 12.22% 15.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 48.00% 32.00% 35.15%
Number of salaries quoted 43 50 136
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £26,000 £40,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,309 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% -23.02% +24.48%
75th Percentile £48,750 £66,875 £72,875
90th Percentile £63,000 £73,997 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £44,000 £56,909
% change year-on-year +2.27% -22.68% +8.40%

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 250 475 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 32.81% 38.18% 44.55%
Number of salaries quoted 104 241 388
10th Percentile £25,750 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,563 £72,500 £75,313
90th Percentile £93,500 £80,000 £89,125
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +0.52%

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 17 October 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 (10.83%) Confluence
2 9 (7.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.67%) SAS
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.83%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.83%) Smallworld
Applications
1 18 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.33%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 29 (24.17%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (9.17%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (6.67%) Oracle Assets
3 8 (6.67%) Oracle Financials
3 8 (6.67%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (6.67%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (6.67%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (3.33%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.83%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 68 (56.67%) Azure
2 48 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (28.33%) Power Platform
4 30 (25.00%) Snowflake
5 25 (20.83%) GitHub
5 25 (20.83%) OCI
6 22 (18.33%) AWS
7 18 (15.00%) Entra ID
8 11 (9.17%) PowerApps
9 10 (8.33%) SaaS
10 9 (7.50%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (3.33%) Azure App Service
12 4 (3.33%) dbt
13 2 (1.67%) Amazon S3
13 2 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (1.67%) Azure AKS
13 2 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (1.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.33%) DNS
1 4 (3.33%) Firewall
1 4 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (28.33%) Power BI
2 30 (25.00%) Tableau
3 18 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (9.17%) SQL Server
5 10 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.33%) Essbase
7 4 (3.33%) Metadata
7 4 (3.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (3.33%) Oracle ODI
8 3 (2.50%) Data Mining
8 3 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.67%) Big Data
9 2 (1.67%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.83%) GIS
10 1 (0.83%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 29 (24.17%) Oracle Forms
2 22 (18.33%) JIRA
3 21 (17.50%) Jenkins
4 9 (7.50%) Git
5 8 (6.67%) ER Studio
5 8 (6.67%) ERwin
6 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.83%) Postman
6 1 (0.83%) SoapUI
General
1 80 (66.67%) Finance
2 36 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (29.17%) Social Skills
4 11 (9.17%) Manufacturing
4 11 (9.17%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (6.67%) Marketing
6 5 (4.17%) Banking
7 4 (3.33%) Front Office
7 4 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.33%) Retail
8 2 (1.67%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.67%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.83%) Games
9 1 (0.83%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Local Government
9 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.83%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 45 (37.50%) Analyst
2 31 (25.83%) Senior
3 27 (22.50%) Applications Engineer
4 25 (20.83%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (15.83%) Applications Support
6 16 (13.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 13 (10.83%) Applications Support Analyst
7 13 (10.83%) Business Analyst
7 13 (10.83%) Senior Analyst
7 13 (10.83%) Support Analyst
8 10 (8.33%) Consultant
9 8 (6.67%) Data Modeller
9 8 (6.67%) Database Consultant
9 8 (6.67%) Graduate
9 8 (6.67%) Graduate Consultant
9 8 (6.67%) Oracle Analyst
9 8 (6.67%) Senior Oracle Analyst
9 8 (6.67%) Support Consultant
9 8 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
9 8 (6.67%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.50%) RESTful
2 14 (11.67%) JSON
3 12 (10.00%) SOAP
3 12 (10.00%) XML
4 9 (7.50%) OAuth
4 9 (7.50%) OAuth2
4 9 (7.50%) SAML
5 3 (2.50%) React
6 2 (1.67%) .NET
6 2 (1.67%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.67%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.67%) Kafka
7 1 (0.83%) ADO
7 1 (0.83%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.83%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.83%) HTML
7 1 (0.83%) LangChain
7 1 (0.83%) Playwright
7 1 (0.83%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (0.83%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 29 (24.17%) Enterprise Software
2 23 (19.17%) Cloud Native
3 16 (13.33%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (6.67%) e-Learning
4 8 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 8 (6.67%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.67%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.67%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.67%) Replication
6 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (51.67%) Agile
2 61 (50.83%) Asset Management
2 61 (50.83%) Coaching
3 54 (45.00%) DevOps
4 42 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
5 40 (33.33%) ERP
6 34 (28.33%) CI/CD
7 30 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 28 (23.33%) Analytics
9 25 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (20.83%) Migration
10 24 (20.00%) Data Governance
10 24 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
11 23 (19.17%) AI
12 21 (17.50%) API Integration
13 19 (15.83%) Mentoring
13 19 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (14.17%) ITIL
14 17 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
15 16 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (51.67%) Python
2 32 (26.67%) PL/SQL
3 23 (19.17%) Java
4 21 (17.50%) Shell Script
5 8 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.33%) Bicep
6 4 (3.33%) Groovy
6 4 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.67%) C#
7 2 (1.67%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.83%) Magik
8 1 (0.83%) R
8 1 (0.83%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (1.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.33%) QA
3 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 18 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (25.83%) Terraform
2 21 (17.50%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 54 (45.00%) Oracle
2 22 (18.33%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.00%) Okta
4 11 (9.17%) Concur
4 11 (9.17%) SAP
5 4 (3.33%) Charles River
5 4 (3.33%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.83%) ESRI
6 1 (0.83%) Genesys
6 1 (0.83%) Intapp
6 1 (0.83%) Verint