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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 28 14
Rank change year-on-year +8 -14 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 62 72 123
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 5.88% 8.53% 8.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.63% 29.51% 23.43%
Number of salaries quoted 36 40 94
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,281 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,169 £37,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% -11.54% -0.54%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,250 £74,000
90th Percentile £83,625 £83,225 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% -9.28%

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 174 244 525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 16.49% 28.91% 37.39%
Number of salaries quoted 122 154 433
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,625 £43,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,118 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% +2.08% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £89,375 £74,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £100,000 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.23% +5.51% -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 27 June 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 8 (12.90%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.84%) Apache
3 2 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.23%) Confluence
4 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (35.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (1.61%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 32 (51.61%) Azure
2 20 (32.26%) Power Platform
3 16 (25.81%) Azure AI
4 7 (11.29%) AWS
4 7 (11.29%) GCP
5 5 (8.06%) SaaS
6 4 (6.45%) Boomi
6 4 (6.45%) iPaaS
6 4 (6.45%) Workato
7 3 (4.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (4.84%) Cloud Composer
7 3 (4.84%) Dataform
8 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.23%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (38.71%) Tableau
2 20 (32.26%) Power BI
3 7 (11.29%) SQL Server
4 5 (8.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (8.06%) Data Mining
5 4 (6.45%) Big Data
5 4 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.84%) BigQuery
6 3 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.84%) Metadata
6 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.23%) Data Vault
7 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.61%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.61%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Git
2 3 (4.84%) JIRA
3 2 (3.23%) ERwin
4 1 (1.61%) ClearCase
4 1 (1.61%) ClearQuest
4 1 (1.61%) HP UFT
4 1 (1.61%) JUnit
4 1 (1.61%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.61%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 21 (33.87%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.42%) Finance
3 11 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.68%) Financial Institution
5 5 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 33 (53.23%) Analyst
2 21 (33.87%) Data Analyst
3 20 (32.26%) Junior
4 16 (25.81%) Junior Analyst
4 16 (25.81%) Junior Data Analyst
5 11 (17.74%) Data Engineer
5 11 (17.74%) Senior
6 9 (14.52%) Support Analyst
7 7 (11.29%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (9.68%) Applications Support
8 6 (9.68%) Applications Support Analyst
8 6 (9.68%) Senior Applications Support
8 6 (9.68%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
8 6 (9.68%) Senior Support Analyst
9 5 (8.06%) Trainee
9 5 (8.06%) Trainee Analyst
9 5 (8.06%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 4 (6.45%) 3rd Line Support
10 4 (6.45%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
10 4 (6.45%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.97%) .NET
2 6 (9.68%) React
3 5 (8.06%) .NET Core
3 5 (8.06%) ASP.NET
3 5 (8.06%) Web Services
4 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (4.84%) Blazor
4 3 (4.84%) LINQ
5 2 (3.23%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.23%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (3.23%) Entity Framework
5 2 (3.23%) Great Expectations
5 2 (3.23%) REST
5 2 (3.23%) SOAP
5 2 (3.23%) Vue
6 1 (1.61%) CSS
6 1 (1.61%) HTML
6 1 (1.61%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (1.61%) AI Agents
2 1 (1.61%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.61%) Low-Code
2 1 (1.61%) SCADA
2 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.61%) Sports Betting
2 1 (1.61%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.23%) Linux
1 2 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.65%) AI
1 19 (30.65%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (19.35%) Agile
3 11 (17.74%) Analytics
4 10 (16.13%) Data Modelling
4 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (12.90%) Mentoring
6 7 (11.29%) Business Analysis
6 7 (11.29%) Data Analysis
6 7 (11.29%) Data Analytics
6 7 (11.29%) Requirements Gathering
6 7 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (11.29%) Workflow
7 6 (9.68%) Collateral Management
7 6 (9.68%) Data Governance
7 6 (9.68%) DevOps
7 6 (9.68%) Microservices
8 5 (8.06%) Data Engineering
8 5 (8.06%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 32 (51.61%) Python
2 7 (11.29%) Java
3 5 (8.06%) C#
3 5 (8.06%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.61%) R
5 1 (1.61%) Scala
5 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (25.81%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.23%) Degree
3 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.61%) MCT
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Terraform
2 2 (3.23%) Control-M
Vendors
1 33 (53.23%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.13%) Oracle
3 5 (8.06%) Google
4 3 (4.84%) Databricks
5 2 (3.23%) Informatica
5 2 (3.23%) Pega
6 1 (1.61%) FIS
6 1 (1.61%) IBM
6 1 (1.61%) OpenAI