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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 22 14
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 120 90 138
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 10.75% 10.42% 10.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.63% 30.72% 26.39%
Number of salaries quoted 41 49 120
10th Percentile - £25,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -23.08% -3.89%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,000 £88,875
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -8.33%

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 263 293 523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.57% 33.91% 40.32%
Number of salaries quoted 136 189 445
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,250 £44,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,375 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.43% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 23 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 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.50%) Apache
4 2 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.67%) Confluence
5 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.83%) WildFly
Applications
1 29 (24.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.17%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 15 (12.50%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (8.33%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (8.33%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (8.33%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (8.33%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (8.33%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (4.17%) Hyperion Planning
4 4 (3.33%) Markit EDM
4 4 (3.33%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.83%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 69 (57.50%) Azure
2 30 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 22 (18.33%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (18.33%) Snowflake
4 20 (16.67%) Azure AI
5 17 (14.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (14.17%) GitHub
6 15 (12.50%) dbt
7 12 (10.00%) AWS
8 10 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 10 (8.33%) GitHub Copilot
8 10 (8.33%) OCI
9 7 (5.83%) GCP
9 7 (5.83%) SaaS
10 5 (4.17%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.33%) Boomi
11 4 (3.33%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.17%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (29.17%) Tableau
2 30 (25.00%) Power BI
3 11 (9.17%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.67%) Data Mining
4 8 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.83%) Metadata
5 7 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.17%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.17%) Essbase
6 5 (4.17%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 4 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.50%) Big Data
8 3 (2.50%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.83%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.83%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (16.67%) Oracle Forms
2 12 (10.00%) JIRA
3 10 (8.33%) Git
3 10 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.17%) ERwin
5 4 (3.33%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.67%) JUnit
7 1 (0.83%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.83%) ClearQuest
7 1 (0.83%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.83%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.83%) jMock
7 1 (0.83%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 67 (55.83%) Finance
2 28 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (21.67%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.00%) Financial Institution
4 6 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.17%) Front Office
6 4 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 50 (41.67%) Analyst
2 35 (29.17%) Senior
3 28 (23.33%) Data Analyst
4 25 (20.83%) Junior
5 20 (16.67%) Junior Analyst
5 20 (16.67%) Junior Data Analyst
6 17 (14.17%) Senior Analyst
7 15 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
8 12 (10.00%) Data Engineer
9 10 (8.33%) Applications Support
9 10 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (8.33%) Oracle Analyst
9 10 (8.33%) Senior Oracle Analyst
10 9 (7.50%) ERP Analyst
10 9 (7.50%) Support Analyst
11 8 (6.67%) Trainee
11 8 (6.67%) Trainee Analyst
11 8 (6.67%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 6 (5.00%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.50%) .NET
2 11 (9.17%) RESTful
3 10 (8.33%) OAuth
4 9 (7.50%) SOAP
5 6 (5.00%) Web Services
6 5 (4.17%) .NET Core
6 5 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (4.17%) GraphQL
6 5 (4.17%) JSON
6 5 (4.17%) OAuth2
6 5 (4.17%) OpenAPI
6 5 (4.17%) SAML
6 5 (4.17%) Swagger
6 5 (4.17%) XML
6 5 (4.17%) YAML
7 4 (3.33%) .NET Framework
7 4 (3.33%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.33%) Entity Framework
7 4 (3.33%) REST
8 3 (2.50%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.83%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.17%) Equities
3 5 (4.17%) Fixed Income
4 4 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.67%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.83%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.83%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.83%) SCADA
6 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.50%) Windows
2 5 (4.17%) Linux
2 5 (4.17%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (40.00%) Asset Management
1 48 (40.00%) Coaching
2 46 (38.33%) Agile
3 35 (29.17%) CI/CD
4 34 (28.33%) Business Intelligence
4 34 (28.33%) DevOps
5 33 (27.50%) AI
6 29 (24.17%) Data Modelling
7 26 (21.67%) Analytics
8 24 (20.00%) ERP
9 22 (18.33%) Mentoring
10 20 (16.67%) Data Governance
10 20 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
12 17 (14.17%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (14.17%) Test Automation
13 15 (12.50%) API Integration
13 15 (12.50%) Data Integration
14 14 (11.67%) Migration
15 12 (10.00%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 61 (50.83%) Python
2 20 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 18 (15.00%) Java
4 14 (11.67%) Shell Script
5 12 (10.00%) C#
6 10 (8.33%) PL/SQL
7 5 (4.17%) Groovy
8 4 (3.33%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.50%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.83%) R
10 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.83%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.67%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 9 (7.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (19.17%) Terraform
2 10 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (3.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 60 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 32 (26.67%) Oracle
3 6 (5.00%) Databricks
4 5 (4.17%) Charles River
4 5 (4.17%) Google
4 5 (4.17%) Hyperion
4 5 (4.17%) IBM
4 5 (4.17%) Okta
5 4 (3.33%) Ab Initio
5 4 (3.33%) Informatica
6 2 (1.67%) Pega
7 1 (0.83%) FIS
7 1 (0.83%) OpenAI