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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 13 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 213 151 159
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 18.04% 14.11% 13.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.41% 33.26% 29.23%
Number of salaries quoted 61 56 135
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £30,808 £42,188 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -28.06% +2.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £79,648 £80,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £93,778 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £44,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.12% -22.61% -4.17%

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 459 454 544
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.87% 42.43% 46.06%
Number of salaries quoted 196 253 435
10th Percentile £28,250 £39,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,890 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,779 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,148
% change year-on-year +4.55% -0.27% -7.35%

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 22 February 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 15 (7.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (3.76%) 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 33 (15.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (5.63%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 47 (22.07%) Oracle ERP
2 24 (11.27%) Oracle Assets
2 24 (11.27%) Oracle Financials
2 24 (11.27%) Oracle General Ledger
2 24 (11.27%) Oracle Payables
2 24 (11.27%) Oracle Receivables
3 12 (5.63%) Hyperion Planning
4 6 (2.82%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.88%) Markit EDM
6 3 (1.41%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.47%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 131 (61.50%) Azure
2 77 (36.15%) Azure DevOps
3 52 (24.41%) Snowflake
4 50 (23.47%) GitHub
4 50 (23.47%) Power Platform
5 35 (16.43%) OCI
6 32 (15.02%) Azure Data Factory
7 29 (13.62%) GitHub Copilot
8 27 (12.68%) dbt
8 27 (12.68%) Entra ID
9 23 (10.80%) AWS
10 19 (8.92%) Azure Key Vault
11 16 (7.51%) SaaS
12 10 (4.69%) Azure AI
13 7 (3.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (3.29%) Power Automate
14 6 (2.82%) PowerApps
15 4 (1.88%) AWS CodePipeline
15 4 (1.88%) AWS Step Functions
15 4 (1.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.76%) Telnet
2 2 (0.94%) DNS
2 2 (0.94%) Firewall
2 2 (0.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (23.47%) Power BI
2 48 (22.54%) Tableau
3 25 (11.74%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (6.57%) Data Mining
5 12 (5.63%) Essbase
5 12 (5.63%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 12 (5.63%) SQL Server
6 11 (5.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 11 (5.16%) Metadata
7 8 (3.76%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.35%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.47%) Big Data
11 1 (0.47%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.47%) GIS
11 1 (0.47%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 57 (26.76%) Oracle Forms
2 33 (15.49%) Jenkins
3 31 (14.55%) JIRA
4 20 (9.39%) Git
5 11 (5.16%) ERwin
6 10 (4.69%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.94%) JUnit
8 1 (0.47%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.47%) ClearQuest
8 1 (0.47%) HP UFT
8 1 (0.47%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.47%) jMock
8 1 (0.47%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 154 (72.30%) Finance
2 58 (27.23%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (18.31%) Social Skills
4 12 (5.63%) Front Office
5 6 (2.82%) Financial Institution
5 6 (2.82%) Manufacturing
6 4 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.88%) Marketing
6 4 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.47%) Banking
8 1 (0.47%) Local Government
8 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 78 (36.62%) Analyst
2 74 (34.74%) Senior
3 53 (24.88%) Applications Engineer
4 35 (16.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 34 (15.96%) Senior Analyst
6 26 (12.21%) Applications Support
6 26 (12.21%) Data Analyst
7 24 (11.27%) Oracle Analyst
7 24 (11.27%) Senior Oracle Analyst
8 21 (9.86%) Azure Engineer
9 20 (9.39%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 15 (7.04%) Junior
10 15 (7.04%) Support Analyst
11 14 (6.57%) Data Engineer
11 14 (6.57%) Trainee
11 14 (6.57%) Trainee Analyst
11 14 (6.57%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 13 (6.10%) Applications Support Analyst
12 13 (6.10%) Applications Support Engineer
12 13 (6.10%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (15.96%) RESTful
2 26 (12.21%) OAuth
3 22 (10.33%) SOAP
4 18 (8.45%) JSON
4 18 (8.45%) XML
5 15 (7.04%) OAuth2
5 15 (7.04%) SAML
6 14 (6.57%) .NET
7 11 (5.16%) GraphQL
7 11 (5.16%) OpenAPI
7 11 (5.16%) Swagger
8 8 (3.76%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (3.76%) YAML
9 5 (2.35%) Web Services
10 4 (1.88%) .NET Core
10 4 (1.88%) .NET Framework
10 4 (1.88%) AngularJS
10 4 (1.88%) Entity Framework
10 4 (1.88%) REST
11 2 (0.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 44 (20.66%) Cloud Native
2 37 (17.37%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.76%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.76%) Equities
4 8 (3.76%) Fixed Income
4 8 (3.76%) Low-Code
5 7 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.88%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.88%) e-Learning
6 4 (1.88%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.47%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.47%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.47%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.47%) Reference Data
8 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
5 2 (0.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (61.03%) Asset Management
1 130 (61.03%) Coaching
2 103 (48.36%) Agile
3 98 (46.01%) DevOps
4 81 (38.03%) CI/CD
5 66 (30.99%) ERP
6 61 (28.64%) Business Intelligence
7 52 (24.41%) Analytics
8 51 (23.94%) Test Automation
9 49 (23.00%) AI
9 49 (23.00%) Mentoring
10 45 (21.13%) Data Governance
11 39 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
12 38 (17.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (17.84%) Data Modelling
12 38 (17.84%) Root Cause Analysis
13 37 (17.37%) API Integration
13 37 (17.37%) Migration
14 36 (16.90%) Data Integration
15 34 (15.96%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 109 (51.17%) Python
2 42 (19.72%) Java
3 39 (18.31%) PL/SQL
4 38 (17.84%) PowerShell
5 37 (17.37%) Shell Script
6 17 (7.98%) C#
7 12 (5.63%) Groovy
8 7 (3.29%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.94%) Bicep
9 2 (0.94%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.47%) Magik
10 1 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (4.69%) Azure Certification
2 6 (2.82%) Degree
3 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.51%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.57%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.47%) QA
System Software
1 31 (14.55%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (27.23%) Terraform
2 33 (15.49%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.88%) Control-M
4 2 (0.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 80 (37.56%) Oracle
2 79 (37.09%) Microsoft
3 18 (8.45%) Okta
4 12 (5.63%) Charles River
4 12 (5.63%) Hyperion
5 9 (4.23%) Databricks
6 6 (2.82%) Concur
6 6 (2.82%) 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%) OpenAI