SQL Jobs in Scotland

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 22 13
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,037 424 854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.20% 11.18% 14.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.11% 29.75% 31.05%
Number of salaries quoted 239 314 502
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,733 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £43,000 £38,158
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £64,750 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,908 £80,000 £77,715
UK median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +6.19% +7.62%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,721 1,425 2,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 47.75% 37.56% 45.16%
Number of salaries quoted 927 928 1,682
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,874 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £68,114 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Scotland

SQL
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for SQL in Scotland

SQL
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in Scotland

SQL
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +3 802 £54,000 +2.86% 23
Edinburgh -2 103 £61,750 -5.00% 16
Aberdeen +16 43 £42,500 -19.05% 2
Aberdeenshire +4 11 £36,250 - 4
Stirling 0 11 £49,500 +52.31%
Renfrewshire +4 10 £48,468 +18.64%
Dundee +2 10 £32,500 -33.17% 1
North Lanarkshire - 9 - -
Fife -2 8 £36,500 -11.52% 1
West Lothian -9 6 £33,750 -25.00%
Lanarkshire -11 5 £42,500 -35.85% 11
Falkirk - 5 £50,000 -
South Lanarkshire +2 4 £32,000 -31.91% 2
Scottish Borders +2 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Highlands - 1 £45,500 - 1
South Ayrshire - 1 £57,500 -
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 £57,500 -
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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
1 234 (22.57%) Apache Spark
2 98 (9.45%) FileNet
3 59 (5.69%) Apache
4 32 (3.09%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (2.03%) GemFire
6 18 (1.74%) SAS
7 17 (1.64%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.87%) Confluence
9 8 (0.77%) IIS
10 7 (0.68%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.48%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.39%) WildFly
13 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
14 1 (0.096%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 28 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.096%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (0.87%) Unit4 Business World
2 6 (0.58%) Endur
2 6 (0.58%) Sage 200
2 6 (0.58%) Sage 50
3 5 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.39%) Sonata
5 2 (0.19%) Maximo
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.096%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 314 (30.28%) AWS
2 103 (9.93%) Azure
3 100 (9.64%) Amazon S3
4 89 (8.58%) Power Platform
5 59 (5.69%) GitHub
6 38 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
6 38 (3.66%) GCP
7 34 (3.28%) Serverless
8 32 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
8 32 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
9 31 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
10 30 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
11 29 (2.80%) Amazon EMR
11 29 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (2.12%) SaaS
13 15 (1.45%) Entra ID
14 14 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
15 11 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (0.87%) BlazeMeter
17 8 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.64%) Kerberos
2 6 (0.58%) Broadband
3 5 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.39%) Firewall
5 3 (0.29%) DHCP
5 3 (0.29%) DNS
5 3 (0.29%) IPsec
5 3 (0.29%) VoIP
6 2 (0.19%) Modbus
6 2 (0.19%) Network Security
6 2 (0.19%) WAN
7 1 (0.096%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.096%) HTTP
7 1 (0.096%) MQTT
7 1 (0.096%) VLAN
7 1 (0.096%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 456 (43.97%) NoSQL
2 204 (19.67%) Big Data
3 120 (11.57%) Elasticsearch
4 119 (11.48%) Apache Cassandra
5 110 (10.61%) Hadoop
6 87 (8.39%) Power BI
7 76 (7.33%) Relational Database
8 70 (6.75%) SQL Server
9 60 (5.79%) Apache Hive
9 60 (5.79%) HBase
10 50 (4.82%) MongoDB
11 38 (3.66%) CockroachDB
12 31 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
12 31 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 29 (2.80%) Electronic Patient Records
14 25 (2.41%) MySQL
15 23 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
16 21 (2.03%) Hazelcast
17 20 (1.93%) Oracle Database
18 19 (1.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 129 (12.44%) Jenkins
2 124 (11.96%) JUnit
3 98 (9.45%) Git
4 60 (5.79%) Bitbucket Server
5 46 (4.44%) Jasmine
6 45 (4.34%) Mockito
7 34 (3.28%) JIRA
8 32 (3.09%) Maven
9 30 (2.89%) Cypress.io
10 24 (2.31%) Cucumber
11 21 (2.03%) Jaeger
12 18 (1.74%) Visual Studio
13 14 (1.35%) Selenium
14 12 (1.16%) Bitbucket
14 12 (1.16%) JMeter
15 9 (0.87%) Gradle
16 6 (0.58%) MSTest
17 4 (0.39%) GitLab
17 4 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
18 3 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
General
1 756 (72.90%) Finance
2 717 (69.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 661 (63.74%) Law
4 318 (30.67%) Legal
5 252 (24.30%) Marketing
6 130 (12.54%) Social Skills
7 95 (9.16%) Influencing Skills
8 94 (9.06%) Banking
9 80 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
9 80 (7.71%) Investment Banking
10 69 (6.65%) Financial Institution
11 22 (2.12%) Prime Brokerage
12 19 (1.83%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.83%) Publishing
13 18 (1.74%) Public Sector
14 9 (0.87%) Games
15 6 (0.58%) Back Office
15 6 (0.58%) German Language
15 6 (0.58%) Retail
16 5 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 620 (59.79%) Software Engineer
2 306 (29.51%) Java Engineer
3 304 (29.32%) Java Software Engineer
4 217 (20.93%) Lead
5 201 (19.38%) Lead Software Engineer
6 167 (16.10%) Big Data Engineer
6 167 (16.10%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 147 (14.18%) Full Stack Engineer
7 147 (14.18%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 142 (13.69%) AWS Engineer
8 142 (13.69%) AWS Software Engineer
9 139 (13.40%) Lead Java Engineer
10 132 (12.73%) Senior
11 116 (11.19%) Scala Engineer
11 116 (11.19%) Scala Software Engineer
12 113 (10.90%) Developer
13 84 (8.10%) Data Engineer
14 78 (7.52%) Senior Software Engineer
15 73 (7.04%) Engineering Manager
16 66 (6.36%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (30.09%) Spring
2 229 (22.08%) Kafka
3 188 (18.13%) React
4 164 (15.81%) AngularJS
5 158 (15.24%) J2EE
6 135 (13.02%) Spring Boot
7 133 (12.83%) Hibernate
8 117 (11.28%) GraphQL
9 111 (10.70%) CSS
10 110 (10.61%) HTML
11 102 (9.84%) JMS
12 98 (9.45%) Spring Integration
13 80 (7.71%) jQuery
13 80 (7.71%) Node.js
14 78 (7.52%) JSON
15 74 (7.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 65 (6.27%) .NET
17 58 (5.59%) REST
18 49 (4.73%) Web Services
19 40 (3.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 276 (26.62%) Cloud Native
2 269 (25.94%) Algorithms
3 60 (5.79%) Onboarding
4 43 (4.15%) Market Risk
5 30 (2.89%) Reference Data
6 25 (2.41%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.22%) Public Cloud
8 22 (2.12%) Replication
9 21 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (2.03%) Legacy Code
10 20 (1.93%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.45%) Distributed Applications
11 15 (1.45%) IoT
11 15 (1.45%) Private Cloud
12 9 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
15 6 (0.58%) Driving Licence
15 6 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
16 5 (0.48%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 108 (10.41%) Unix
2 80 (7.71%) Linux
3 25 (2.41%) Windows
4 17 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 725 (69.91%) Software Engineering
2 723 (69.72%) Agile
3 646 (62.30%) SDLC
4 606 (58.44%) CI/CD
5 467 (45.03%) Operational Stability
6 397 (38.28%) Machine Learning
7 389 (37.51%) Artificial Intelligence
8 329 (31.73%) Risk Management
9 327 (31.53%) Community of Practice
10 313 (30.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 305 (29.41%) Visualisation
12 232 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
13 185 (17.84%) Microservices
14 184 (17.74%) Full Stack Development
15 152 (14.66%) Performance Tuning
16 145 (13.98%) Continuous Delivery
17 143 (13.79%) Decision-Making
18 142 (13.69%) Computer Science
19 120 (11.57%) Test Automation
20 98 (9.45%) AOP
Programming Languages
1 621 (59.88%) Java
2 290 (27.97%) Python
3 150 (14.46%) Scala
4 148 (14.27%) JavaScript
5 117 (11.28%) PL/SQL
6 83 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 73 (7.04%) C#
8 61 (5.88%) T-SQL
9 37 (3.57%) Groovy
10 18 (1.74%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (1.06%) C++
13 10 (0.96%) Bash
14 9 (0.87%) VBA
15 8 (0.77%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.48%) Go
16 5 (0.48%) R
17 4 (0.39%) JCL
17 4 (0.39%) REXX
18 3 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 98 (9.45%) Degree
2 56 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (3.09%) Master's Degree
4 12 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (0.96%) Security Cleared
6 9 (0.87%) CISA
7 6 (0.58%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.39%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.29%) HND
9 3 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.29%) OCP
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.19%) MCSE
10 2 (0.19%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.19%) PhD
11 1 (0.096%) ISEB
11 1 (0.096%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (2.99%) QA
2 11 (1.06%) Data Quality
3 9 (0.87%) ITGC
3 9 (0.87%) PMO
4 4 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.096%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.096%) GDPR
5 1 (0.096%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (5.79%) HDFS
2 25 (2.41%) Docker
3 16 (1.54%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.48%) RACF
6 3 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.096%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 190 (18.32%) Kubernetes
2 94 (9.06%) Terraform
3 33 (3.18%) Grafana
4 26 (2.51%) ITRS Geneos
5 21 (2.03%) HAProxy
5 21 (2.03%) Kibana
5 21 (2.03%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.03%) Zipkin
6 7 (0.68%) Graphite
7 4 (0.39%) CA Endevor
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.19%) Istio
Vendors
1 284 (27.39%) Oracle
2 115 (11.09%) Databricks
3 79 (7.62%) Microsoft
4 60 (5.79%) Informatica
5 40 (3.86%) Splunk
6 34 (3.28%) Google
7 30 (2.89%) Cloudera
8 28 (2.70%) Dynatrace
9 15 (1.45%) Sage
10 11 (1.06%) SAP
11 9 (0.87%) CA
11 9 (0.87%) Sybase
11 9 (0.87%) TOWER Software
12 8 (0.77%) VMware
13 6 (0.58%) OpenLink
14 5 (0.48%) AppDynamics
14 5 (0.48%) CyberArk
14 5 (0.48%) IBM
15 3 (0.29%) Veeam
16 2 (0.19%) Zoho