SQL Jobs in Edinburgh

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 17 13
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 87 143 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.99% 9.51% 16.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.21% 25.18% 36.69%
Number of salaries quoted 47 116 192
10th Percentile £25,000 £40,000 £39,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £50,557 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £67,634
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -3.89% +28.83%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,500 £85,649 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +14.29%

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 288 568 853
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 33.07% 37.79% 43.63%
Number of salaries quoted 184 443 534
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £39,225
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £82,563 £74,500 £78,108
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £95,000
Scotland median annual salary £58,033 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.51% -8.33% +9.09%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Edinburgh

SQL
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for SQL in Edinburgh

SQL
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Edinburgh

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.05%) SAS
2 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.30%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.15%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (25.29%) AWS
2 20 (22.99%) Azure
3 10 (11.49%) SaaS
4 9 (10.34%) Snowflake
5 8 (9.20%) GCP
5 8 (9.20%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.75%) GitHub
7 3 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.30%) Apigee
8 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.30%) dbt
8 2 (2.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.69%) Tableau
2 13 (14.94%) SQL Server
3 12 (13.79%) Big Data
4 9 (10.34%) NoSQL
5 8 (9.20%) Power BI
6 7 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (5.75%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.45%) DB2
9 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.30%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.30%) Looker
9 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.30%) OLAP
9 2 (2.30%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.15%) Data Mining
10 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.15%) MS Access
10 1 (1.15%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (10.34%) Git
2 6 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.60%) JUnit
4 3 (3.45%) GitLab
4 3 (3.45%) Postman
4 3 (3.45%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.30%) Fiddler
5 2 (2.30%) JIRA
5 2 (2.30%) Maven
5 2 (2.30%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (2.30%) Selenium
5 2 (2.30%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.30%) TestNG
5 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.15%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.15%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.15%) SoapUI
General
1 44 (50.57%) Finance
2 35 (40.23%) Banking
3 23 (26.44%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (24.14%) Social Skills
5 8 (9.20%) Retail
6 6 (6.90%) Wholesale Banking
7 5 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.75%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (4.60%) Law
8 4 (4.60%) Legal
8 4 (4.60%) Marketing
9 2 (2.30%) Agriculture
9 2 (2.30%) Automotive
9 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.30%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.15%) Front Office
10 1 (1.15%) Games
10 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.15%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.15%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 31 (35.63%) Analyst
2 20 (22.99%) Data Analyst
3 19 (21.84%) Senior
4 17 (19.54%) Software Engineer
5 7 (8.05%) Lead
5 7 (8.05%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Consultant
6 5 (5.75%) Data Scientist
6 5 (5.75%) DBA
6 5 (5.75%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (5.75%) SQL DBA
6 5 (5.75%) SQL Server DBA
7 4 (4.60%) Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Risk Analyst
7 4 (4.60%) Senior Risk Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Database Team Leader
8 3 (3.45%) Development Team Leader
8 3 (3.45%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) JSON
1 6 (6.90%) React
1 6 (6.90%) RESTful
2 5 (5.75%) .NET
2 5 (5.75%) .NET Core
2 5 (5.75%) Spring
2 5 (5.75%) Spring Boot
3 4 (4.60%) HTML
3 4 (4.60%) Web Services
4 3 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (3.45%) CSS
5 2 (2.30%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (2.30%) Bootstrap
5 2 (2.30%) CSS3
5 2 (2.30%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.30%) HTML5
5 2 (2.30%) jQuery
5 2 (2.30%) Kafka
5 2 (2.30%) PySpark
5 2 (2.30%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.05%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.75%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.60%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.45%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.30%) AS400
5 2 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.30%) iSeries
5 2 (2.30%) Learning Management System
5 2 (2.30%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.30%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.30%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.30%) Wiki
6 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.15%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.64%) Linux
2 6 (6.90%) Unix
3 1 (1.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (40.23%) Analytics
2 27 (31.03%) Agile
3 24 (27.59%) Visualisation
4 22 (25.29%) Data Extraction
5 20 (22.99%) Mathematics
5 20 (22.99%) Software Engineering
5 20 (22.99%) Statistical Modelling
6 19 (21.84%) Data Analytics
7 16 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (17.24%) Data Science
8 15 (17.24%) Statistics
9 14 (16.09%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (14.94%) Data Analysis
10 13 (14.94%) Test Automation
11 12 (13.79%) CI/CD
11 12 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
11 12 (13.79%) Decision-Making
11 12 (13.79%) DevOps
12 11 (12.64%) Migration
13 10 (11.49%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 35 (40.23%) Python
2 13 (14.94%) Java
3 12 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.75%) C#
4 5 (5.75%) R
4 5 (5.75%) T-SQL
4 5 (5.75%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.30%) Go
5 2 (2.30%) JCL
5 2 (2.30%) RPG
5 2 (2.30%) RPG IV
6 1 (1.15%) Bash
6 1 (1.15%) COBOL
6 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.15%) REXX
6 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (29.89%) Degree
2 3 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.30%) CISM
3 2 (2.30%) CISSP
3 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.30%) PhD
4 1 (1.15%) ACCA
4 1 (1.15%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.05%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.75%) QA
3 3 (3.45%) ISO 9001
4 2 (2.30%) NIST
5 1 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 6 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (9.20%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.30%) Istio
2 2 (2.30%) Terraform
3 1 (1.15%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 10 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.20%) Oracle
3 3 (3.45%) Genesys
3 3 (3.45%) Verint
4 2 (2.30%) IBM