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

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -20 +1 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 227 1,490 625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.52% 22.22% 13.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.40% 39.91% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 110 319 335
10th Percentile £26,156 £32,250 £36,510
25th Percentile £34,063 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,625 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,548 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% +7.27%

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 970 3,733 1,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 32.13% 55.66% 42.66%
Number of salaries quoted 707 1,123 1,080
10th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,683 £42,500 £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 £61,250 £65,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,350 £80,000 £87,500
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 21 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 21 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 -5 92 £52,500 -19.23% 77
Glasgow -10 31 £48,500 -10.19% 106
Lanarkshire +3 27 £80,000 +88.24% 9
Dundee +10 16 £32,500 -35.00% 6
Fife -8 14 £45,000 +19.05% 4
Aberdeen +3 7 £40,000 -5.88% 13
West Lothian +6 6 £40,000 +18.52% 1
North Lanarkshire -5 4 - -
Renfrewshire -22 4 - - 43
South Lanarkshire -2 3 £50,000 +72.41%
Stirling -6 3 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire -3 2 - -
East Ayrshire - 2 £40,101 -
Moray - 2 £40,101 -
Falkirk -2 1 - -
South Ayrshire -31 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 49 (21.59%) Confluence
2 16 (7.05%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.96%) SAS
4 6 (2.64%) Apache
5 5 (2.20%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.88%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.44%) CICS
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 15 (6.61%) Sage 200
1 15 (6.61%) Sage 50
2 2 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 87 (38.33%) Azure
2 82 (36.12%) AWS
3 63 (27.75%) GCP
4 26 (11.45%) Power Platform
5 24 (10.57%) GitHub
6 15 (6.61%) SaaS
7 13 (5.73%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.76%) dbt
9 3 (1.32%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.88%) Apigee
10 2 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (0.88%) OCI
10 2 (0.88%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.32%) SSH
1 3 (1.32%) SSL
2 2 (0.88%) FTP
3 1 (0.44%) Multicast
3 1 (0.44%) RTP
3 1 (0.44%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (31.28%) SQL Server
2 26 (11.45%) Power BI
3 23 (10.13%) Tableau
4 15 (6.61%) Big Data
5 14 (6.17%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (4.85%) Relational Database
7 10 (4.41%) MS Access
8 8 (3.52%) MongoDB
9 7 (3.08%) DB2
9 7 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.76%) Looker
10 4 (1.76%) MySQL
10 4 (1.76%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.32%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.32%) NonStop SQL
11 3 (1.32%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 56 (24.67%) GitLab
2 55 (24.23%) Maven
3 52 (22.91%) JIRA
3 52 (22.91%) Selenium
4 51 (22.47%) SonarQube
4 51 (22.47%) Sonatype Nexus
5 49 (21.59%) Bitbucket
5 49 (21.59%) Cucumber
6 27 (11.89%) Jenkins
6 27 (11.89%) Visual Studio
7 17 (7.49%) Git
8 8 (3.52%) JUnit
9 5 (2.20%) Eclipse
9 5 (2.20%) Eclipse RCP
10 4 (1.76%) Gradle
10 4 (1.76%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (1.32%) Postman
11 3 (1.32%) TestNG
12 2 (0.88%) Oracle APEX
General
1 126 (55.51%) Finance
2 90 (39.65%) Banking
3 65 (28.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (19.38%) Social Skills
5 38 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (7.93%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.96%) Legal
8 8 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.64%) Marketing
9 6 (2.64%) Retail
10 5 (2.20%) Law
10 5 (2.20%) Wholesale Banking
11 3 (1.32%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.32%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.88%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.88%) Automotive
12 2 (0.88%) Electronics
12 2 (0.88%) Front Office
12 2 (0.88%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.88%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 78 (34.36%) Software Engineer
2 43 (18.94%) Developer
3 40 (17.62%) Senior
4 39 (17.18%) Analyst
5 23 (10.13%) Data Analyst
6 17 (7.49%) .NET Developer
7 16 (7.05%) .NET Software Developer
8 13 (5.73%) Architect
9 9 (3.96%) Senior Architect
9 9 (3.96%) Senior Software Architect
9 9 (3.96%) Senior Systems Architect
9 9 (3.96%) Software Architect
9 9 (3.96%) Systems Architect
10 8 (3.52%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.52%) Lead
10 8 (3.52%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
11 7 (3.08%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.64%) DBA
12 6 (2.64%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (38.33%) HTML
2 86 (37.89%) CSS
3 63 (27.75%) Spring
4 61 (26.87%) Spring Boot
5 58 (25.55%) React
6 56 (24.67%) Hibernate
7 54 (23.79%) Kafka
8 53 (23.35%) JPA
9 49 (21.59%) Redux
10 39 (17.18%) .NET
11 27 (11.89%) .NET Framework
12 20 (8.81%) .NET Core
13 18 (7.93%) jQuery
14 17 (7.49%) HTML5
15 16 (7.05%) React Native
16 10 (4.41%) RESTful
17 8 (3.52%) JSON
18 6 (2.64%) ASP.NET
18 6 (2.64%) Entity Framework
19 5 (2.20%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 52 (22.91%) Product Ownership
2 50 (22.03%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.85%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.20%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.20%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.76%) Credit Risk
5 4 (1.76%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.32%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.32%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.32%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.32%) Tandem
7 2 (0.88%) AS400
7 2 (0.88%) iSeries
7 2 (0.88%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (0.88%) SCADA
7 2 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (0.88%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.57%) Linux
2 9 (3.96%) Unix
2 9 (3.96%) Windows
3 2 (0.88%) VMS
4 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.44%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (45.81%) Agile
2 97 (42.73%) Software Engineering
3 72 (31.72%) CI/CD
3 72 (31.72%) Microservices
4 70 (30.84%) DevOps
5 67 (29.52%) SDLC
6 66 (29.07%) Test Automation
7 57 (25.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 57 (25.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 56 (24.67%) Containerisation
8 56 (24.67%) TDD
9 55 (24.23%) Front End Development
10 54 (23.79%) Clean Code
11 51 (22.47%) Performance Optimisation
12 44 (19.38%) Analytics
13 38 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
14 35 (15.42%) Business Intelligence
15 29 (12.78%) Mentoring
16 28 (12.33%) Visualisation
17 25 (11.01%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 97 (42.73%) Java
2 86 (37.89%) JavaScript
3 49 (21.59%) C#
3 49 (21.59%) Python
4 13 (5.73%) C++
5 12 (5.29%) C
6 7 (3.08%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.64%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.20%) Ada
8 5 (2.20%) R
8 5 (2.20%) Rust
9 4 (1.76%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.32%) Bash
10 3 (1.32%) JCL
11 2 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.88%) Go
11 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.88%) RPG
11 2 (0.88%) RPG IV
11 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (17.62%) Degree
2 5 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (2.20%) Master's Degree
3 4 (1.76%) PhD
4 3 (1.32%) ACCA
4 3 (1.32%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.88%) CISM
5 2 (0.88%) CISSP
6 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.44%) CFA
6 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.44%) HND
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (25.99%) QA
2 10 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.32%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.88%) NIST
5 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 61 (26.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.44%) HDFS
2 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (29.96%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.76%) Terraform
3 2 (0.88%) CA Endevor
3 2 (0.88%) Istio
4 1 (0.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 49 (21.59%) Solace
2 18 (7.93%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.61%) Sage
4 12 (5.29%) Oracle
5 4 (1.76%) Databricks
5 4 (1.76%) Sybase
6 3 (1.32%) Genesys
6 3 (1.32%) IBM
6 3 (1.32%) Verint
7 2 (0.88%) Epicor
7 2 (0.88%) Ping Identity
7 2 (0.88%) Rockwell
7 2 (0.88%) Siemens
7 2 (0.88%) Wonderware
8 1 (0.44%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.44%) Red Hat