SQL Jobs in Edinburgh

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 143 307 345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.48% 15.78% 13.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.04% 36.20% 25.46%
Number of salaries quoted 116 189 260
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,950 £32,838
25th Percentile £50,557 £48,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,634 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +28.83% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,649 £85,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +10.53%

All Programming Languages
Edinburgh

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 571 848 1,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.84% 43.60% 53.54%
Number of salaries quoted 447 532 881
10th Percentile £43,750 £39,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,091 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £74,500 £78,108 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% +14.58%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Edinburgh

SQL
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for SQL in Edinburgh

SQL
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL in Edinburgh

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (2.80%) Captiva
1 4 (2.80%) FileNet
1 4 (2.80%) SAS
1 4 (2.80%) WebSphere
2 3 (2.10%) Confluence
3 1 (0.70%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.70%) IIS
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (8.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (7.69%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 50 (34.97%) Azure
2 31 (21.68%) GCP
3 28 (19.58%) Power Platform
4 19 (13.29%) AWS
5 13 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (6.99%) GitHub
7 8 (5.59%) SaaS
8 6 (4.20%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (4.20%) Serverless
9 5 (3.50%) OpenShift
10 4 (2.80%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.40%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.40%) IBM Cloud
11 2 (1.40%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.40%) Vertex AI
12 1 (0.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.10%) Firewall
2 2 (1.40%) Broadband
2 2 (1.40%) Internet
2 2 (1.40%) Network Security
2 2 (1.40%) Wireless
3 1 (0.70%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (18.88%) Power BI
2 18 (12.59%) NoSQL
3 14 (9.79%) Tableau
4 13 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 12 (8.39%) Oracle Database
6 11 (7.69%) DB2
7 9 (6.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (6.29%) MongoDB
8 8 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (4.20%) Oracle Database 11g
10 5 (3.50%) Big Data
10 5 (3.50%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.80%) DynamoDB
12 2 (1.40%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.70%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (11.19%) Git
2 15 (10.49%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.39%) Selenium
4 10 (6.99%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (6.29%) JIRA
6 8 (5.59%) Maven
7 5 (3.50%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (1.40%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.40%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.40%) JMeter
8 2 (1.40%) JUnit
8 2 (1.40%) Mockito
8 2 (1.40%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.70%) Postman
9 1 (0.70%) Vite
9 1 (0.70%) webpack
General
1 76 (53.15%) Finance
2 42 (29.37%) Social Skills
3 34 (23.78%) Banking
4 12 (8.39%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.90%) Retail Banking
7 6 (4.20%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.10%) Retail
9 2 (1.40%) Law
10 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.70%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.70%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 57 (39.86%) Senior
2 25 (17.48%) Software Engineer
3 22 (15.38%) Developer
4 17 (11.89%) Analyst
5 16 (11.19%) Data Analyst
6 14 (9.79%) Senior Analyst
7 13 (9.09%) Senior Developer
8 11 (7.69%) Lead
9 9 (6.29%) Audit Manager
9 9 (6.29%) Data Scientist
9 9 (6.29%) IT Manager
10 8 (5.59%) Data Manager
10 8 (5.59%) Data Science Manager
10 8 (5.59%) Java Developer
10 8 (5.59%) Senior Data Analyst
10 8 (5.59%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) Architect
11 7 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) IT Audit Manager
11 7 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.29%) .NET
2 16 (11.19%) Spring
2 16 (11.19%) Spring Boot
3 14 (9.79%) CSS
3 14 (9.79%) HTML
4 13 (9.09%) JSON
4 13 (9.09%) React
4 13 (9.09%) REST
5 12 (8.39%) AngularJS
6 10 (6.99%) Kafka
7 9 (6.29%) Playwright
8 8 (5.59%) Pandas
8 8 (5.59%) Web Services
9 7 (4.90%) .NET Core
10 6 (4.20%) ASP.NET
10 6 (4.20%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (4.20%) XML
11 5 (3.50%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (3.50%) OAuth
11 5 (3.50%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.39%) Private Cloud
2 8 (5.59%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.90%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (4.90%) Public Cloud
4 6 (4.20%) IoT
5 5 (3.50%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.80%) DataPower
7 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.70%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 30 (20.98%) Linux
2 21 (14.69%) Windows
3 17 (11.89%) Unix
3 17 (11.89%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.10%) VMS
5 2 (1.40%) CentOS
5 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (36.36%) Agile
2 44 (30.77%) Analytics
3 40 (27.97%) DevOps
4 38 (26.57%) Software Engineering
5 25 (17.48%) Data Analytics
5 25 (17.48%) Data Science
6 24 (16.78%) Machine Learning
7 23 (16.08%) Mentoring
8 21 (14.69%) Test Automation
9 20 (13.99%) Microservices
10 18 (12.59%) CI/CD
11 16 (11.19%) Artificial Intelligence
11 16 (11.19%) Coaching
11 16 (11.19%) Visualisation
12 14 (9.79%) Natural Language Processing
12 14 (9.79%) Project Management
13 12 (8.39%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (8.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (8.39%) Migration
13 12 (8.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 53 (37.06%) Python
2 35 (24.48%) Java
3 20 (13.99%) JavaScript
4 19 (13.29%) C#
5 10 (6.99%) PL/SQL
6 9 (6.29%) PowerShell
7 7 (4.90%) Bash
7 7 (4.90%) Groovy
8 5 (3.50%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.10%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.40%) R
10 2 (1.40%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.40%) VBA
11 1 (0.70%) Bicep
11 1 (0.70%) Delphi
11 1 (0.70%) Elixir
11 1 (0.70%) Perl
11 1 (0.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (13.29%) Degree
2 11 (7.69%) CISA
3 3 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.69%) ITGC
1 11 (7.69%) PMO
2 9 (6.29%) QA
3 4 (2.80%) GDPR
4 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.70%) CRD IV
System Software
1 15 (10.49%) Docker
2 4 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (16.08%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.89%) Terraform
3 11 (7.69%) Ansible
4 4 (2.80%) Grafana
4 4 (2.80%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.10%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.40%) Istio
6 2 (1.40%) Rancher
Vendors
1 28 (19.58%) Oracle
2 23 (16.08%) Google
3 19 (13.29%) Microsoft
4 15 (10.49%) SAP
5 11 (7.69%) IBM
5 11 (7.69%) Sage
6 4 (2.80%) Databricks
6 4 (2.80%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.80%) ForgeRock
6 4 (2.80%) Kofax
6 4 (2.80%) Pega
6 4 (2.80%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.40%) Splunk
8 1 (0.70%) Vermilion
8 1 (0.70%) VMware