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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 13 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 186 166 143
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 19.40% 12.91% 14.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.45% 31.68% 29.92%
Number of salaries quoted 48 62 123
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,105 £41,000
25th Percentile £26,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -25.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £48,750 £71,250 £79,044
90th Percentile £62,250 £79,648 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £56,318
% change year-on-year -3.33% -20.10% +2.40%

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 392 524 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.88% 40.75% 46.86%
Number of salaries quoted 152 274 382
10th Percentile £26,000 £40,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £32,639 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,786 £77,715
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,253 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% 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 6 December 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 15 (8.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (6.45%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.54%) SAS
3 1 (0.54%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.54%) WildFly
Applications
1 25 (13.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (6.45%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 49 (26.34%) Oracle ERP
2 24 (12.90%) Oracle Assets
2 24 (12.90%) Oracle Financials
2 24 (12.90%) Oracle General Ledger
2 24 (12.90%) Oracle Payables
2 24 (12.90%) Oracle Receivables
3 12 (6.45%) Hyperion Planning
4 11 (5.91%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (1.08%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.54%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 114 (61.29%) Azure
2 82 (44.09%) Azure DevOps
3 50 (26.88%) Power Platform
4 49 (26.34%) GitHub
4 49 (26.34%) Snowflake
5 37 (19.89%) OCI
6 27 (14.52%) Entra ID
6 27 (14.52%) GitHub Copilot
7 25 (13.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (11.29%) dbt
9 19 (10.22%) AWS
10 15 (8.06%) Azure Key Vault
11 11 (5.91%) PowerApps
12 10 (5.38%) SaaS
13 7 (3.76%) Power Automate
14 5 (2.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (2.15%) Azure AI
15 4 (2.15%) Azure App Service
16 2 (1.08%) Azure AKS
17 1 (0.54%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.23%) Telnet
2 4 (2.15%) DNS
2 4 (2.15%) Firewall
2 4 (2.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (26.88%) Power BI
2 37 (19.89%) Tableau
3 26 (13.98%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.45%) Essbase
4 12 (6.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 12 (6.45%) Relational Database
5 11 (5.91%) SQL Server
6 9 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (4.84%) Metadata
7 6 (3.23%) Data Mining
8 5 (2.69%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.15%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.08%) Oracle ODI
11 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.54%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.54%) GIS
11 1 (0.54%) MS Access
11 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 57 (30.65%) Oracle Forms
2 33 (17.74%) Jenkins
2 33 (17.74%) JIRA
3 16 (8.60%) Git
4 10 (5.38%) ER Studio
4 10 (5.38%) ERwin
5 1 (0.54%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.54%) jMock
5 1 (0.54%) JUnit
General
1 139 (74.73%) Finance
2 51 (27.42%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (24.19%) Social Skills
4 11 (5.91%) Manufacturing
4 11 (5.91%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (5.38%) Front Office
6 8 (4.30%) Marketing
7 3 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.08%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.54%) Banking
9 1 (0.54%) Legal
9 1 (0.54%) Local Government
9 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (35.48%) Analyst
1 66 (35.48%) Senior
2 51 (27.42%) Applications Engineer
3 37 (19.89%) Cloud Engineer
4 29 (15.59%) Senior Analyst
5 24 (12.90%) Applications Support
5 24 (12.90%) Oracle Analyst
5 24 (12.90%) Senior Oracle Analyst
6 22 (11.83%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 21 (11.29%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (6.99%) Applications Support Analyst
8 13 (6.99%) Support Analyst
9 12 (6.45%) Business Analyst
9 12 (6.45%) Data Analyst
10 11 (5.91%) Applications Support Engineer
10 11 (5.91%) Support Engineer
11 10 (5.38%) Consultant
11 10 (5.38%) Data Modeller
11 10 (5.38%) Database Consultant
11 10 (5.38%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (18.28%) RESTful
2 24 (12.90%) OAuth
3 18 (9.68%) JSON
3 18 (9.68%) SOAP
3 18 (9.68%) XML
4 15 (8.06%) OAuth2
4 15 (8.06%) SAML
5 9 (4.84%) GraphQL
5 9 (4.84%) OpenAPI
5 9 (4.84%) Swagger
6 6 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (3.23%) YAML
7 4 (2.15%) .NET
8 1 (0.54%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.54%) ADO
8 1 (0.54%) ASP.NET
8 1 (0.54%) Java SE
8 1 (0.54%) Swing
8 1 (0.54%) Web Services
8 1 (0.54%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 43 (23.12%) Enterprise Software
2 42 (22.58%) Cloud Native
3 16 (8.60%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.38%) e-Learning
5 8 (4.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (4.30%) Management Information System
5 8 (4.30%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.76%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.23%) Equities
7 6 (3.23%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.15%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.54%) Freedom of Information
10 1 (0.54%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.30%) Windows
2 6 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.15%) VMS
4 1 (0.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (67.74%) Asset Management
1 126 (67.74%) Coaching
2 102 (54.84%) Agile
3 98 (52.69%) DevOps
4 73 (39.25%) CI/CD
5 68 (36.56%) ERP
6 65 (34.95%) Business Intelligence
7 51 (27.42%) Test Automation
8 43 (23.12%) AI
9 42 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (22.04%) Analytics
10 41 (22.04%) Mentoring
11 38 (20.43%) Migration
11 38 (20.43%) Translating Business Requirements
12 37 (19.89%) Data Governance
13 34 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
14 33 (17.74%) API Integration
15 32 (17.20%) Root Cause Analysis
16 29 (15.59%) Data Integration
16 29 (15.59%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 92 (49.46%) Python
2 44 (23.66%) PL/SQL
3 35 (18.82%) Java
4 33 (17.74%) Shell Script
5 31 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 13 (6.99%) C#
7 12 (6.45%) Groovy
8 5 (2.69%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.15%) Bicep
10 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.54%) Magik
10 1 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (8.06%) Degree
2 4 (2.15%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.68%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 29 (15.59%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (31.18%) Terraform
2 33 (17.74%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 81 (43.55%) Oracle
2 53 (28.49%) Microsoft
3 18 (9.68%) Okta
4 12 (6.45%) Hyperion
5 11 (5.91%) Concur
5 11 (5.91%) SAP
6 10 (5.38%) Charles River
7 7 (3.76%) Databricks
8 2 (1.08%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.08%) IBM
9 1 (0.54%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.54%) ESRI
9 1 (0.54%) Intapp