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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 218 150 164
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 19.02% 13.91% 13.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.08% 32.40% 28.82%
Number of salaries quoted 53 53 143
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,063 £46,306
25th Percentile £28,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -21.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £60,000 £79,648 £80,000
90th Percentile £71,550 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £44,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.12% -22.61% -3.79%

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 463 463 569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.40% 42.95% 46.34%
Number of salaries quoted 179 245 461
10th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,790 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,733
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.31% -6.37%

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 9 February 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 17 (7.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (5.50%) Confluence
3 4 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.46%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.46%) SAS
4 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.46%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.46%) WildFly
Applications
1 32 (14.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.42%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 55 (25.23%) Oracle ERP
2 28 (12.84%) Oracle Assets
2 28 (12.84%) Oracle Financials
2 28 (12.84%) Oracle General Ledger
2 28 (12.84%) Oracle Payables
2 28 (12.84%) Oracle Receivables
3 14 (6.42%) Hyperion Planning
4 6 (2.75%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.83%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.46%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 138 (63.30%) Azure
2 87 (39.91%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (26.61%) Snowflake
4 56 (25.69%) GitHub
5 54 (24.77%) Power Platform
6 41 (18.81%) OCI
7 34 (15.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (14.22%) GitHub Copilot
9 29 (13.30%) Entra ID
10 27 (12.39%) dbt
11 25 (11.47%) AWS
12 19 (8.72%) Azure Key Vault
13 15 (6.88%) SaaS
14 8 (3.67%) Azure AI
15 7 (3.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (3.21%) Power Automate
16 6 (2.75%) PowerApps
17 4 (1.83%) AWS CodePipeline
17 4 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
17 4 (1.83%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.67%) Telnet
2 4 (1.83%) DNS
2 4 (1.83%) Firewall
2 4 (1.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (24.77%) Power BI
2 49 (22.48%) Tableau
3 28 (12.84%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (6.42%) Essbase
4 14 (6.42%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 11 (5.05%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (5.05%) Data Mining
5 11 (5.05%) Metadata
5 11 (5.05%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.21%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.29%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.46%) Big Data
10 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.46%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 65 (29.82%) Oracle Forms
2 37 (16.97%) Jenkins
2 37 (16.97%) JIRA
3 22 (10.09%) Git
4 13 (5.96%) ERwin
5 12 (5.50%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.92%) JUnit
7 1 (0.46%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.46%) ClearQuest
7 1 (0.46%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.46%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.46%) jMock
7 1 (0.46%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 163 (74.77%) Finance
2 65 (29.82%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (18.81%) Social Skills
4 12 (5.50%) Front Office
5 8 (3.67%) Marketing
5 8 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.75%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.83%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.46%) Banking
9 1 (0.46%) Local Government
9 1 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 79 (36.24%) Senior
2 77 (35.32%) Analyst
3 57 (26.15%) Applications Engineer
4 41 (18.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 36 (16.51%) Senior Analyst
6 28 (12.84%) Oracle Analyst
6 28 (12.84%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 24 (11.01%) Applications Support
7 24 (11.01%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 23 (10.55%) Azure Engineer
9 21 (9.63%) Data Analyst
10 13 (5.96%) Applications Support Engineer
10 13 (5.96%) Data Engineer
10 13 (5.96%) Junior
10 13 (5.96%) Support Engineer
11 12 (5.50%) Business Analyst
11 12 (5.50%) Data Modeller
12 11 (5.05%) Applications Support Analyst
12 11 (5.05%) Trainee
12 11 (5.05%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (17.43%) RESTful
2 28 (12.84%) OAuth
3 24 (11.01%) SOAP
4 20 (9.17%) JSON
4 20 (9.17%) XML
5 17 (7.80%) OAuth2
5 17 (7.80%) SAML
6 11 (5.05%) .NET
6 11 (5.05%) GraphQL
6 11 (5.05%) OpenAPI
6 11 (5.05%) Swagger
7 8 (3.67%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (3.67%) YAML
8 4 (1.83%) REST
9 3 (1.38%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.38%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.38%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.38%) Entity Framework
9 3 (1.38%) Web Services
10 2 (0.92%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 48 (22.02%) Cloud Native
2 41 (18.81%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (7.34%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.67%) Equities
5 8 (3.67%) Fixed Income
5 8 (3.67%) Low-Code
5 8 (3.67%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.67%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.83%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.83%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.46%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.46%) Autonomous Agent
9 1 (0.46%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.46%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.46%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.50%) Windows
2 8 (3.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.29%) Linux
4 4 (1.83%) Unix
4 4 (1.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (66.97%) Asset Management
1 146 (66.97%) Coaching
2 116 (53.21%) Agile
3 108 (49.54%) DevOps
4 87 (39.91%) CI/CD
5 72 (33.03%) ERP
6 67 (30.73%) Business Intelligence
7 57 (26.15%) Test Automation
8 53 (24.31%) AI
8 53 (24.31%) Analytics
9 49 (22.48%) Data Governance
9 49 (22.48%) Mentoring
10 46 (21.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (19.72%) Migration
11 43 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (19.27%) Root Cause Analysis
12 42 (19.27%) Translating Business Requirements
13 41 (18.81%) API Integration
14 39 (17.89%) Data Modelling
15 38 (17.43%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 115 (52.75%) Python
2 44 (20.18%) Java
3 43 (19.72%) PL/SQL
4 41 (18.81%) Shell Script
5 40 (18.35%) PowerShell
6 17 (7.80%) C#
7 14 (6.42%) Groovy
8 7 (3.21%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.83%) Bicep
10 1 (0.46%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.46%) Magik
Qualifications
1 8 (3.67%) Azure Certification
2 6 (2.75%) Degree
3 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.17%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.42%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.46%) QA
System Software
1 33 (15.14%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 64 (29.36%) Terraform
2 37 (16.97%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.83%) Control-M
3 4 (1.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 86 (39.45%) Oracle
2 74 (33.94%) Microsoft
3 20 (9.17%) Okta
4 14 (6.42%) Hyperion
5 12 (5.50%) Charles River
6 9 (4.13%) Databricks
7 6 (2.75%) Concur
7 6 (2.75%) SAP
8 5 (2.29%) IBM
9 4 (1.83%) Ab Initio
9 4 (1.83%) Informatica
10 1 (0.46%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.46%) ESRI
10 1 (0.46%) FIS
10 1 (0.46%) OpenAI