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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 14 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 213 154 157
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 19.35% 13.90% 13.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.33% 32.22% 29.62%
Number of salaries quoted 52 55 141
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £27,188 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -28.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £54,375 £75,410 £80,000
90th Percentile £68,000 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £44,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.12% -22.61% -

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 450 478 530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.87% 43.14% 46.65%
Number of salaries quoted 172 247 426
10th Percentile £28,000 £40,000 £45,625
25th Percentile £34,625 £45,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,431 £76,180 £75,938
90th Percentile £88,625 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,498 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.91% -4.35% -0.70%

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 January 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 (7.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (5.63%) Confluence
3 4 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.47%) SAS
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.47%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.47%) WildFly
Applications
1 28 (13.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (6.57%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 55 (25.82%) Oracle ERP
2 28 (13.15%) Oracle Assets
2 28 (13.15%) Oracle Financials
2 28 (13.15%) Oracle General Ledger
2 28 (13.15%) Oracle Payables
2 28 (13.15%) Oracle Receivables
3 14 (6.57%) Hyperion Planning
4 9 (4.23%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.88%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.47%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.47%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 135 (63.38%) Azure
2 88 (41.31%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (27.23%) Snowflake
4 56 (26.29%) GitHub
5 54 (25.35%) Power Platform
6 41 (19.25%) OCI
7 33 (15.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (14.55%) GitHub Copilot
9 29 (13.62%) Entra ID
10 27 (12.68%) dbt
11 25 (11.74%) AWS
12 19 (8.92%) Azure Key Vault
13 14 (6.57%) SaaS
14 9 (4.23%) PowerApps
15 7 (3.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (3.29%) Power Automate
16 6 (2.82%) Azure AI
17 4 (1.88%) AWS CodePipeline
17 4 (1.88%) AWS Step Functions
17 4 (1.88%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.76%) Telnet
2 4 (1.88%) DNS
2 4 (1.88%) Firewall
2 4 (1.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (25.35%) Power BI
2 45 (21.13%) Tableau
3 28 (13.15%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (6.57%) Essbase
4 14 (6.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 12 (5.63%) SQL Server
6 11 (5.16%) Metadata
7 10 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (4.23%) Data Mining
9 8 (3.76%) Relational Database
10 7 (3.29%) Data Lake
11 6 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.47%) GIS
13 1 (0.47%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 65 (30.52%) Oracle Forms
2 37 (17.37%) Jenkins
2 37 (17.37%) JIRA
3 22 (10.33%) Git
4 13 (6.10%) ERwin
5 12 (5.63%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.94%) JUnit
7 1 (0.47%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.47%) ClearQuest
7 1 (0.47%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.47%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.47%) jMock
7 1 (0.47%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 158 (74.18%) Finance
2 63 (29.58%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (19.25%) Social Skills
4 12 (5.63%) Front Office
5 9 (4.23%) Manufacturing
6 8 (3.76%) Marketing
6 8 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.47%) Banking
9 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.47%) Legal
9 1 (0.47%) Local Government
9 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 77 (36.15%) Senior
2 73 (34.27%) Analyst
3 57 (26.76%) Applications Engineer
4 41 (19.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 34 (15.96%) Senior Analyst
6 28 (13.15%) Oracle Analyst
6 28 (13.15%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 24 (11.27%) Applications Support
7 24 (11.27%) Azure Engineer
7 24 (11.27%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 17 (7.98%) Data Analyst
9 13 (6.10%) Applications Support Engineer
9 13 (6.10%) Data Engineer
9 13 (6.10%) Support Engineer
10 12 (5.63%) Business Analyst
10 12 (5.63%) Data Modeller
11 11 (5.16%) Applications Support Analyst
11 11 (5.16%) Support Analyst
12 10 (4.69%) ERP Analyst
13 9 (4.23%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (17.84%) RESTful
2 28 (13.15%) OAuth
3 24 (11.27%) SOAP
4 20 (9.39%) JSON
4 20 (9.39%) XML
5 17 (7.98%) OAuth2
5 17 (7.98%) SAML
6 11 (5.16%) GraphQL
6 11 (5.16%) OpenAPI
6 11 (5.16%) Swagger
7 8 (3.76%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (3.76%) YAML
8 7 (3.29%) .NET
9 4 (1.88%) REST
10 3 (1.41%) .NET Core
10 3 (1.41%) .NET Framework
10 3 (1.41%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.41%) Entity Framework
11 2 (0.94%) Swing
11 2 (0.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (23.00%) Cloud Native
2 43 (20.19%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (7.51%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.76%) Equities
5 8 (3.76%) Fixed Income
5 8 (3.76%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.76%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.29%) Low-Code
6 7 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.82%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.88%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.47%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.47%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.47%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.63%) Windows
2 8 (3.76%) Windows Server
3 5 (2.35%) Linux
4 4 (1.88%) Unix
4 4 (1.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (68.54%) Asset Management
1 146 (68.54%) Coaching
2 115 (53.99%) Agile
3 108 (50.70%) DevOps
4 87 (40.85%) CI/CD
5 74 (34.74%) ERP
6 68 (31.92%) Business Intelligence
7 58 (27.23%) Test Automation
8 50 (23.47%) AI
8 50 (23.47%) Analytics
9 48 (22.54%) Data Governance
10 46 (21.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 46 (21.60%) Mentoring
11 42 (19.72%) Migration
11 42 (19.72%) Root Cause Analysis
11 42 (19.72%) Translating Business Requirements
12 41 (19.25%) API Integration
13 40 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (18.31%) Data Modelling
15 37 (17.37%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 109 (51.17%) Python
2 46 (21.60%) PL/SQL
3 41 (19.25%) Java
3 41 (19.25%) Shell Script
4 39 (18.31%) PowerShell
5 16 (7.51%) C#
6 14 (6.57%) Groovy
7 7 (3.29%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.88%) Bicep
9 1 (0.47%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.47%) Magik
Qualifications
1 8 (3.76%) Degree
2 6 (2.82%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.39%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 33 (15.49%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 65 (30.52%) Terraform
2 37 (17.37%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (2.35%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.88%) Control-M
Vendors
1 88 (41.31%) Oracle
2 68 (31.92%) Microsoft
3 20 (9.39%) Okta
4 14 (6.57%) Hyperion
5 12 (5.63%) Charles River
6 9 (4.23%) Concur
6 9 (4.23%) Databricks
6 9 (4.23%) SAP
7 5 (2.35%) IBM
8 4 (1.88%) Ab Initio
8 4 (1.88%) Informatica
9 1 (0.47%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.47%) ESRI
9 1 (0.47%) FIS
9 1 (0.47%) Intapp