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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 13 15
Rank change year-on-year -13 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 243 1,506 640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.45% 22.46% 13.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.32% 40.03% 31.79%
Number of salaries quoted 127 335 340
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,726
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,833 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -10.57% +17.14%
75th Percentile £76,545 £71,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,548 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,191
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.08% +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 999 3,762 2,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 34.72% 56.11% 42.97%
Number of salaries quoted 744 1,148 1,130
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,033 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £64,878 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,200
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 8 May 2025.

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 8 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh -1 105 £55,000 -15.38% 71
Glasgow -2 32 £49,250 -8.80% 76
Lanarkshire +5 27 £80,000 +88.24% 10
Dundee +8 17 £32,500 -35.00% 5
Fife -3 14 £45,000 +19.05% 2
Aberdeen +4 8 £40,000 -5.88% 17
West Lothian +9 6 £40,000 +6.67%
North Lanarkshire -4 4 - - 1
Renfrewshire -20 4 - - 31
South Lanarkshire -1 3 £50,000 +72.41%
Stirling -5 3 - -
West Dunbartonshire -3 2 - -
East Ayrshire - 2 £40,101 -
Moray - 2 £40,101 -
Falkirk -1 1 - -
South Ayrshire -32 1 £40,101 -30.26%
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
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 51 (20.99%) Confluence
2 17 (7.00%) SharePoint
3 14 (5.76%) SAS
4 6 (2.47%) Apache
5 4 (1.65%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.82%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.41%) CICS
7 1 (0.41%) Mule
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 13 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 16 (6.58%) Sage 200
1 16 (6.58%) Sage 50
2 2 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 93 (38.27%) Azure
2 81 (33.33%) AWS
3 67 (27.57%) GCP
4 30 (12.35%) GitHub
5 26 (10.70%) Power Platform
6 13 (5.35%) SaaS
7 11 (4.53%) Snowflake
8 5 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.65%) dbt
10 3 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.82%) Apigee
11 2 (0.82%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.82%) OCI
11 2 (0.82%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.82%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.82%) FTP
2 1 (0.41%) Multicast
2 1 (0.41%) RTP
2 1 (0.41%) RTSP
2 1 (0.41%) SSH
2 1 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (29.63%) SQL Server
2 26 (10.70%) Power BI
3 21 (8.64%) Tableau
4 16 (6.58%) NoSQL
5 13 (5.35%) Big Data
5 13 (5.35%) MS Access
5 13 (5.35%) Relational Database
6 11 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (3.29%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.88%) DB2
9 7 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.65%) Looker
11 4 (1.65%) MySQL
11 4 (1.65%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.23%) SQLite
13 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 57 (23.46%) GitLab
2 54 (22.22%) JIRA
2 54 (22.22%) Maven
2 54 (22.22%) Selenium
3 51 (20.99%) SonarQube
3 51 (20.99%) Sonatype Nexus
4 49 (20.16%) Bitbucket
4 49 (20.16%) Cucumber
5 33 (13.58%) Jenkins
6 28 (11.52%) Visual Studio
7 20 (8.23%) Git
8 8 (3.29%) JUnit
9 5 (2.06%) Eclipse
9 5 (2.06%) Eclipse RCP
9 5 (2.06%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (1.65%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.23%) Gradle
11 3 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (1.23%) Postman
11 3 (1.23%) TestNG
General
1 140 (57.61%) Finance
2 105 (43.21%) Banking
3 65 (26.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 56 (23.05%) Social Skills
5 49 (20.16%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (7.82%) Manufacturing
7 16 (6.58%) Legal
8 10 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.06%) Marketing
10 4 (1.65%) Law
10 4 (1.65%) Retail
10 4 (1.65%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.65%) Wholesale Banking
11 3 (1.23%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.23%) Social Science
11 3 (1.23%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.82%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.82%) Automotive
12 2 (0.82%) Electronics
12 2 (0.82%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 81 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 44 (18.11%) Senior
3 43 (17.70%) Developer
4 39 (16.05%) Analyst
5 23 (9.47%) Data Analyst
6 18 (7.41%) .NET Developer
7 17 (7.00%) .NET Software Developer
8 13 (5.35%) Architect
9 10 (4.12%) Senior Architect
9 10 (4.12%) Senior Software Architect
9 10 (4.12%) Senior Systems Architect
9 10 (4.12%) Software Architect
9 10 (4.12%) Systems Architect
10 9 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (3.29%) Graduate
11 8 (3.29%) Lead
11 8 (3.29%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (2.88%) Data Science Graduate
12 7 (2.88%) DBA
12 7 (2.88%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (37.86%) HTML
2 91 (37.45%) CSS
3 66 (27.16%) Spring
4 65 (26.75%) Spring Boot
5 57 (23.46%) React
6 56 (23.05%) Hibernate
7 54 (22.22%) Kafka
8 52 (21.40%) JPA
9 49 (20.16%) Redux
10 43 (17.70%) .NET
11 31 (12.76%) .NET Framework
12 20 (8.23%) .NET Core
13 19 (7.82%) jQuery
14 18 (7.41%) HTML5
15 17 (7.00%) React Native
16 10 (4.12%) JSON
16 10 (4.12%) RESTful
17 7 (2.88%) Entity Framework
17 7 (2.88%) PySpark
18 6 (2.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 52 (21.40%) Product Ownership
2 50 (20.58%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (5.76%) Algorithms
4 12 (4.94%) Credit Risk
5 10 (4.12%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.88%) Learning Management System
7 6 (2.47%) Mainframe
8 5 (2.06%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.65%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.23%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.23%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.82%) AS400
11 2 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.82%) iSeries
11 2 (0.82%) Mobile Banking
11 2 (0.82%) SCADA
11 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 2 (0.82%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.70%) Linux
2 11 (4.53%) Unix
3 8 (3.29%) Windows
4 2 (0.82%) VMS
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (46.09%) Agile
2 103 (42.39%) Software Engineering
3 76 (31.28%) Microservices
4 75 (30.86%) DevOps
5 74 (30.45%) CI/CD
6 71 (29.22%) SDLC
7 67 (27.57%) Test Automation
8 57 (23.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 57 (23.46%) Full-Stack Development
9 56 (23.05%) Containerisation
9 56 (23.05%) TDD
10 55 (22.63%) Front End Development
11 52 (21.40%) Clean Code
11 52 (21.40%) Performance Optimisation
12 49 (20.16%) Analytics
13 43 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (16.05%) Mentoring
15 37 (15.23%) Business Intelligence
16 31 (12.76%) Visualisation
17 24 (9.88%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 102 (41.98%) Java
2 90 (37.04%) JavaScript
3 53 (21.81%) C#
3 53 (21.81%) Python
4 14 (5.76%) C++
5 12 (4.94%) C
6 7 (2.88%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.47%) Bash
7 6 (2.47%) JCL
7 6 (2.47%) PowerShell
7 6 (2.47%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.06%) Ada
8 5 (2.06%) Rust
8 5 (2.06%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.65%) Go
9 4 (1.65%) R
10 3 (1.23%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.82%) RPG
11 2 (0.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 46 (18.93%) Degree
2 9 (3.70%) Master's Degree
3 8 (3.29%) PhD
4 5 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.23%) ACCA
5 3 (1.23%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.82%) CISM
6 2 (0.82%) CISSP
7 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.41%) CFA
7 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.41%) HND
7 1 (0.41%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (24.28%) QA
2 9 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.65%) CRD IV
3 4 (1.65%) IFRS
3 4 (1.65%) IFRS 9
4 3 (1.23%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.82%) NIST
6 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 63 (25.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (28.81%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.06%) CA Endevor
3 4 (1.65%) Terraform
4 2 (0.82%) Istio
5 1 (0.41%) Ansible
5 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 49 (20.16%) Solace
2 16 (6.58%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.58%) Sage
3 11 (4.53%) Oracle
4 4 (1.65%) Sybase
5 3 (1.23%) Databricks
5 3 (1.23%) IBM
6 2 (0.82%) Epicor
6 2 (0.82%) Genesys
6 2 (0.82%) Ping Identity
6 2 (0.82%) Rockwell
6 2 (0.82%) Siemens
6 2 (0.82%) Verint
6 2 (0.82%) Wonderware
7 1 (0.41%) Red Hat