SQL Jobs in Edinburgh

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 150 352 328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.86% 16.52% 13.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.92% 37.17% 25.95%
Number of salaries quoted 122 210 240
10th Percentile £43,875 £39,000 £34,500
25th Percentile £51,139 £50,235 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +32.28% +10.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £85,000 £73,750
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +19.05% +10.53%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 602 947 1,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.58% 44.44% 53.70%
Number of salaries quoted 464 610 829
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,821 £38,745
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +17.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%

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 3 May 2024.

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 (4.67%) Captiva
1 7 (4.67%) FileNet
1 7 (4.67%) WebSphere
2 4 (2.67%) SAS
3 3 (2.00%) Confluence
4 2 (1.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.67%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (8.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (8.00%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 56 (37.33%) Azure
2 34 (22.67%) GCP
3 28 (18.67%) Power Platform
4 21 (14.00%) AWS
5 14 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (9.33%) GitHub
6 9 (6.00%) SaaS
7 6 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (4.00%) Serverless
8 5 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.33%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.67%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.67%) IBM Cloud
10 3 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.00%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.33%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.33%) Vertex AI
12 1 (0.67%) Azure App Service
12 1 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.67%) Firewall
2 3 (2.00%) Internet
2 3 (2.00%) Wireless
3 2 (1.33%) Broadband
4 1 (0.67%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (18.00%) Power BI
2 20 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 16 (10.67%) Oracle Database
4 15 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 14 (9.33%) Tableau
6 12 (8.00%) DB2
7 9 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (6.00%) MongoDB
7 9 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (4.67%) Oracle Database 11g
9 6 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.33%) Big Data
11 4 (2.67%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.67%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.67%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (12.67%) Git
2 17 (11.33%) Jenkins
3 16 (10.67%) Oracle Forms
4 12 (8.00%) JIRA
5 10 (6.67%) Maven
5 10 (6.67%) Selenium
6 9 (6.00%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (1.33%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.33%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.33%) JUnit
7 2 (1.33%) Mockito
7 2 (1.33%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.67%) JMeter
8 1 (0.67%) Postman
8 1 (0.67%) Vite
8 1 (0.67%) webpack
General
1 85 (56.67%) Finance
2 43 (28.67%) Social Skills
3 42 (28.00%) Banking
4 12 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.67%) Retail Banking
7 6 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.00%) Retail
9 2 (1.33%) Law
10 1 (0.67%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.67%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 59 (39.33%) Senior
2 29 (19.33%) Software Engineer
3 25 (16.67%) Developer
4 18 (12.00%) Analyst
5 16 (10.67%) Data Analyst
6 15 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 14 (9.33%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (7.33%) IT Manager
9 10 (6.67%) Audit Manager
9 10 (6.67%) Java Developer
9 10 (6.67%) Lead
10 9 (6.00%) Data Scientist
11 8 (5.33%) Data Manager
11 8 (5.33%) Data Science Manager
11 8 (5.33%) IT Audit Manager
11 8 (5.33%) Java Engineer
11 8 (5.33%) Senior Data Analyst
11 8 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) FileNet Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.33%) .NET
1 17 (11.33%) Spring
1 17 (11.33%) Spring Boot
2 15 (10.00%) JSON
2 15 (10.00%) REST
3 13 (8.67%) CSS
3 13 (8.67%) HTML
3 13 (8.67%) React
4 12 (8.00%) AngularJS
4 12 (8.00%) Kafka
5 9 (6.00%) Web Services
6 8 (5.33%) Pandas
7 7 (4.67%) .NET Core
7 7 (4.67%) ASP.NET
7 7 (4.67%) ASP.NET Web API
7 7 (4.67%) RESTful
8 6 (4.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 6 (4.00%) Playwright
8 6 (4.00%) Vue
8 6 (4.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.00%) Private Cloud
2 8 (5.33%) Data Structures
2 8 (5.33%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (4.67%) DataPower
4 6 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 5 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.67%) IoT
7 2 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.67%) CCTV
8 1 (0.67%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (25.33%) Linux
2 23 (15.33%) Windows
3 20 (13.33%) Unix
4 19 (12.67%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.00%) CentOS
6 3 (2.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (42.00%) Agile
2 50 (33.33%) DevOps
3 43 (28.67%) Analytics
4 40 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 30 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 26 (17.33%) Data Analytics
7 25 (16.67%) Data Science
8 24 (16.00%) Machine Learning
9 22 (14.67%) Microservices
10 21 (14.00%) Coaching
11 20 (13.33%) Test Automation
12 17 (11.33%) Artificial Intelligence
12 17 (11.33%) CI/CD
13 16 (10.67%) Migration
13 16 (10.67%) Project Management
14 14 (9.33%) Natural Language Processing
14 14 (9.33%) Visualisation
15 13 (8.67%) Change Management
15 13 (8.67%) Technical Analysis
16 12 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 55 (36.67%) Python
2 42 (28.00%) Java
3 20 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 16 (10.67%) C#
5 10 (6.67%) PL/SQL
6 9 (6.00%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.33%) Bash
8 7 (4.67%) Groovy
9 5 (3.33%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.67%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.00%) VBA
12 2 (1.33%) C++
12 2 (1.33%) R
12 2 (1.33%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.67%) Bicep
13 1 (0.67%) Delphi
13 1 (0.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (14.00%) Degree
2 12 (8.00%) CISA
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.00%) ITGC
1 12 (8.00%) PMO
2 7 (4.67%) GDPR
3 6 (4.00%) QA
4 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.67%) CRD IV
System Software
1 16 (10.67%) Docker
2 5 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 18 (12.00%) Terraform
3 12 (8.00%) Ansible
4 4 (2.67%) Grafana
4 4 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.00%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.33%) Istio
6 2 (1.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 36 (24.00%) Oracle
2 24 (16.00%) Google
3 20 (13.33%) IBM
3 20 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 19 (12.67%) SAP
5 12 (8.00%) Sage
6 7 (4.67%) Kofax
6 7 (4.67%) Pega
6 7 (4.67%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.67%) Databricks
7 4 (2.67%) ForgeRock
8 3 (2.00%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.67%) Vermilion
9 1 (0.67%) VMware