SQL Job Trends in Livingston

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Lothian > Livingston

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Livingston requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 8 23
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 -18
Permanent jobs citing SQL 4 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Livingston 5.33% 3.33% 1.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.77% 33.33% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £82,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - -
75th Percentile £87,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Lothian median annual salary £85,000 - £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +22.22%

All Programming Languages
Livingston

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 Livingston.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 13 3 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Livingston 17.33% 10.00% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 17
10th Percentile £53,500 - -
25th Percentile £64,375 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £71,250
90th Percentile - - -
West Lothian median annual salary £67,500 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +28.57% -19.23% +44.44%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Livingston

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Livingston.

SQL job vacancy trend in Livingston

SQL
Salary Trend in Livingston

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Livingston citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Livingston citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Livingston 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) IAM Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) LDAP
1 3 (75.00%) OAuth
1 3 (75.00%) OpenID
1 3 (75.00%) REST
1 3 (75.00%) SAML
1 3 (75.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (75.00%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Anomaly Detection
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (75.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google