SQL Job Trends in the Scottish Borders

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > Scottish Borders

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Scottish Borders requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 - 1
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the Scottish Borders 33.33% - 50.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 100.00% - 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38,269 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,594 - -
75th Percentile £40,919 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £56,909
% change year-on-year -3.33% -20.93% +3.47%

All Programming Languages
Scottish Borders

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 the Scottish Borders.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1 3 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Scottish Borders 33.33% 60.00% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38,269 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,594 - -
75th Percentile £40,919 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Scottish Borders

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

SQL job vacancy trend in the Scottish Borders

SQL
Salary Trend in the Scottish Borders

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Scottish Borders citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Scottish Borders citing SQL

SQL
Job Locations in the Scottish Borders

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Scottish Borders region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Galashiels - 1 £39,594 -
SQL
Scotland

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Scottish Borders 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Police
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy