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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 14 15
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 197 138 161
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 16.64% 13.29% 13.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.87% 31.51% 28.65%
Number of salaries quoted 58 56 137
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £46,283
25th Percentile £29,452 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -24.46% +2.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £79,648 £80,000
90th Percentile £69,800 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -21.74% -8.00%

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 439 438 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.08% 42.20% 45.69%
Number of salaries quoted 195 263 449
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,031 £79,569 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £98,474 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 7 March 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 13 (6.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.03%) Confluence
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.51%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.51%) SAS
4 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.51%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.51%) WildFly
Applications
1 30 (15.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.08%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 39 (19.80%) Oracle ERP
2 20 (10.15%) Oracle Assets
2 20 (10.15%) Oracle Financials
2 20 (10.15%) Oracle General Ledger
2 20 (10.15%) Oracle Payables
2 20 (10.15%) Oracle Receivables
3 10 (5.08%) Hyperion Planning
4 4 (2.03%) Markit EDM
4 4 (2.03%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.51%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 122 (61.93%) Azure
2 67 (34.01%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (23.35%) Snowflake
4 44 (22.34%) GitHub
5 43 (21.83%) Power Platform
6 30 (15.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 29 (14.72%) OCI
8 28 (14.21%) dbt
9 27 (13.71%) GitHub Copilot
10 25 (12.69%) Entra ID
11 22 (11.17%) AWS
12 19 (9.64%) Azure Key Vault
13 16 (8.12%) SaaS
14 12 (6.09%) Azure AI
15 7 (3.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (3.55%) Power Automate
16 4 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (2.03%) AWS Step Functions
16 4 (2.03%) Boomi
16 4 (2.03%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.06%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (21.83%) Power BI
1 43 (21.83%) Tableau
2 22 (11.17%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (6.60%) Data Mining
4 12 (6.09%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.58%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (5.58%) Metadata
6 10 (5.08%) Essbase
6 10 (5.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 8 (4.06%) Data Lake
8 6 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.54%) Relational Database
10 4 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.51%) Big Data
11 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.51%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 49 (24.87%) Oracle Forms
2 29 (14.72%) Jenkins
3 25 (12.69%) JIRA
4 18 (9.14%) Git
5 9 (4.57%) ERwin
6 8 (4.06%) ER Studio
7 2 (1.02%) JUnit
8 1 (0.51%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.51%) ClearQuest
8 1 (0.51%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.51%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.51%) jMock
8 1 (0.51%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 138 (70.05%) Finance
2 47 (23.86%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (18.78%) Social Skills
4 12 (6.09%) Front Office
5 6 (3.05%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.51%) Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Local Government
9 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (35.03%) Analyst
2 66 (33.50%) Senior
3 49 (24.87%) Applications Engineer
4 30 (15.23%) Senior Analyst
5 29 (14.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (13.71%) Data Analyst
7 23 (11.68%) Applications Support
8 20 (10.15%) Oracle Analyst
8 20 (10.15%) Senior Oracle Analyst
9 19 (9.64%) Azure Engineer
10 17 (8.63%) Junior
11 16 (8.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 15 (7.61%) Data Engineer
13 14 (7.11%) ERP Analyst
14 13 (6.60%) Applications Support Engineer
14 13 (6.60%) Support Analyst
14 13 (6.60%) Support Engineer
14 13 (6.60%) Trainee
14 13 (6.60%) Trainee Analyst
14 13 (6.60%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (15.23%) RESTful
2 24 (12.18%) OAuth
3 20 (10.15%) SOAP
4 16 (8.12%) JSON
4 16 (8.12%) XML
5 14 (7.11%) .NET
6 13 (6.60%) OAuth2
6 13 (6.60%) SAML
7 11 (5.58%) GraphQL
7 11 (5.58%) OpenAPI
7 11 (5.58%) Swagger
8 8 (4.06%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (4.06%) YAML
9 6 (3.05%) Web Services
10 4 (2.03%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.03%) .NET Framework
10 4 (2.03%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.03%) Entity Framework
10 4 (2.03%) REST
11 2 (1.02%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 40 (20.30%) Cloud Native
2 33 (16.75%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.06%) Equities
3 8 (4.06%) Fixed Income
3 8 (4.06%) Low-Code
3 8 (4.06%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.03%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.03%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.51%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.51%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.51%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.51%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.09%) Windows
2 8 (4.06%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.54%) Linux
4 4 (2.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (57.87%) Asset Management
1 114 (57.87%) Coaching
2 89 (45.18%) Agile
3 88 (44.67%) DevOps
4 75 (38.07%) CI/CD
5 56 (28.43%) ERP
6 52 (26.40%) Business Intelligence
7 48 (24.37%) Analytics
8 47 (23.86%) Mentoring
9 45 (22.84%) AI
9 45 (22.84%) Test Automation
10 41 (20.81%) Data Governance
11 36 (18.27%) Data Modelling
12 35 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (17.26%) Data Integration
13 34 (17.26%) Root Cause Analysis
14 33 (16.75%) API Integration
15 30 (15.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (15.23%) Migration
16 26 (13.20%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 99 (50.25%) Python
2 38 (19.29%) Java
3 36 (18.27%) PowerShell
4 33 (16.75%) Shell Script
5 32 (16.24%) PL/SQL
6 17 (8.63%) C#
7 10 (5.08%) Groovy
8 7 (3.55%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.02%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.51%) Magik
10 1 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (6.09%) Azure Certification
2 6 (3.05%) Degree
3 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.61%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 29 (14.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 52 (26.40%) Terraform
2 29 (14.72%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (2.03%) Control-M
Vendors
1 78 (39.59%) Microsoft
2 69 (35.03%) Oracle
3 16 (8.12%) Okta
4 12 (6.09%) Charles River
5 10 (5.08%) Databricks
5 10 (5.08%) Hyperion
6 5 (2.54%) IBM
7 4 (2.03%) Ab Initio
7 4 (2.03%) Informatica
8 3 (1.52%) Concur
8 3 (1.52%) SAP
9 1 (0.51%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.51%) ESRI
9 1 (0.51%) FIS
9 1 (0.51%) OpenAI