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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 111 137 169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.64% 10.86% 14.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 49.12% 28.19% 34.00%
Number of salaries quoted 47 55 139
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,000 £37,879
25th Percentile £37,000 £41,875 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,309 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% -22.60% +23.81%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,563 £72,500
90th Percentile £74,236 £73,886 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +4.76%

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 226 486 497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 29.82% 38.54% 43.33%
Number of salaries quoted 106 292 400
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,454
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,914 £60,000 £61,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.48% -2.83% +2.92%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,886 £76,284
90th Percentile £91,250 £88,750 £88,860
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.77%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Edinburgh

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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 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (9.01%) Confluence
2 6 (5.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.80%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.80%) SAS
4 1 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 13 (11.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.60%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 20 (18.02%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (9.01%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (7.21%) Oracle Assets
3 8 (7.21%) Oracle Financials
3 8 (7.21%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (7.21%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (7.21%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (3.60%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.90%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 49 (44.14%) Azure
2 32 (28.83%) Power Platform
3 30 (27.03%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (20.72%) Snowflake
5 21 (18.92%) AWS
6 16 (14.41%) GitHub
6 16 (14.41%) OCI
7 12 (10.81%) SaaS
8 10 (9.01%) PowerApps
9 8 (7.21%) Entra ID
10 6 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (5.41%) GitHub Copilot
11 4 (3.60%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (3.60%) Azure App Service
11 4 (3.60%) GCP
12 2 (1.80%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.80%) Apigee
12 2 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.80%) Azure AKS
12 2 (1.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) DNS
1 4 (3.60%) Firewall
1 4 (3.60%) VPN
2 2 (1.80%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (28.83%) Power BI
2 26 (23.42%) Tableau
3 16 (14.41%) SQL Server
4 14 (12.61%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (7.21%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.50%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.60%) Essbase
8 4 (3.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 4 (3.60%) Oracle ODI
9 2 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.80%) Big Data
9 2 (1.80%) DB2
9 2 (1.80%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.80%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.90%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.90%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.90%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.90%) MS Access
10 1 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (18.02%) Oracle Forms
2 16 (14.41%) JIRA
3 14 (12.61%) Jenkins
4 8 (7.21%) Git
5 5 (4.50%) ER Studio
5 5 (4.50%) ERwin
6 2 (1.80%) JUnit
6 2 (1.80%) Maven
6 2 (1.80%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.90%) Postman
7 1 (0.90%) SoapUI
General
1 66 (59.46%) Finance
2 36 (32.43%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (26.13%) Social Skills
4 11 (9.91%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (9.01%) Banking
5 10 (9.01%) Manufacturing
5 10 (9.01%) Marketing
6 5 (4.50%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.60%) Retail
8 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.70%) Law
9 2 (1.80%) Automotive
9 2 (1.80%) Front Office
9 2 (1.80%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.80%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Games
10 1 (0.90%) Legal
10 1 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.90%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 41 (36.94%) Analyst
2 28 (25.23%) Senior
3 16 (14.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (12.61%) Applications Engineer
5 13 (11.71%) Applications Support
6 11 (9.91%) Applications Support Analyst
6 11 (9.91%) Support Analyst
7 10 (9.01%) Consultant
7 10 (9.01%) Senior Analyst
7 10 (9.01%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 9 (8.11%) Lead
9 8 (7.21%) Oracle Analyst
9 8 (7.21%) Senior Oracle Analyst
10 7 (6.31%) Business Analyst
10 7 (6.31%) Data Analyst
10 7 (6.31%) Software Engineer
11 6 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (5.41%) Database Consultant
11 6 (5.41%) Graduate
11 6 (5.41%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.61%) RESTful
2 9 (8.11%) JSON
3 6 (5.41%) OAuth
3 6 (5.41%) OAuth2
3 6 (5.41%) SAML
3 6 (5.41%) SOAP
3 6 (5.41%) XML
4 3 (2.70%) React
5 2 (1.80%) .NET
5 2 (1.80%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.80%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.80%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.80%) Kafka
5 2 (1.80%) Spring
5 2 (1.80%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.90%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.90%) ADO
6 1 (0.90%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.90%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.90%) CherryPy
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.22%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (12.61%) Cloud Native
3 12 (10.81%) Product Ownership
4 10 (9.01%) Onboarding
5 8 (7.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (7.21%) Management Information System
6 6 (5.41%) e-Learning
7 5 (4.50%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.70%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.80%) AS400
9 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.80%) iSeries
9 2 (1.80%) Replication
10 1 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.90%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.90%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.41%) Linux
2 4 (3.60%) VMS
3 3 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (45.95%) Agile
2 43 (38.74%) Coaching
3 40 (36.04%) Asset Management
3 40 (36.04%) Business Intelligence
4 35 (31.53%) DevOps
5 30 (27.03%) ERP
6 27 (24.32%) Analytics
7 26 (23.42%) CI/CD
8 25 (22.52%) Test Automation
9 24 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (20.72%) Migration
11 21 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (18.02%) Translating Business Requirements
13 19 (17.12%) Artificial Intelligence
14 16 (14.41%) Stakeholder Management
15 15 (13.51%) Data Management
15 15 (13.51%) Mentoring
16 14 (12.61%) Data Governance
16 14 (12.61%) ETL
17 13 (11.71%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 50 (45.05%) Python
2 22 (19.82%) PL/SQL
3 16 (14.41%) Java
4 12 (10.81%) Shell Script
5 7 (6.31%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.50%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.50%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.60%) Bicep
7 4 (3.60%) C#
7 4 (3.60%) Groovy
8 3 (2.70%) R
9 2 (1.80%) Go
9 2 (1.80%) RPG
9 2 (1.80%) RPG IV
9 2 (1.80%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.90%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (12.61%) Degree
2 2 (1.80%) CISM
2 2 (1.80%) CISSP
2 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.90%) ACCA
3 1 (0.90%) CFA
3 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.11%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.60%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.60%) QA
3 3 (2.70%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.80%) NIST
5 1 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 9 (8.11%) Docker
2 8 (7.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (18.92%) Terraform
2 12 (10.81%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (8.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.80%) Istio
Vendors
1 43 (38.74%) Oracle
2 17 (15.32%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.01%) Concur
3 10 (9.01%) SAP
4 6 (5.41%) Okta
5 4 (3.60%) Hyperion
6 3 (2.70%) Genesys
6 3 (2.70%) Verint
7 2 (1.80%) IBM
8 1 (0.90%) Charles River
8 1 (0.90%) Intapp