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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -8
Permanent jobs citing SQL 138 282 343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.03% 15.23% 13.46%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.21% 36.25% 25.20%
Number of salaries quoted 111 184 256
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £32,625
25th Percentile £50,686 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,540 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +30.55% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £65,313
90th Percentile £82,548 £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 570 778 1,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.28% 42.01% 53.39%
Number of salaries quoted 446 507 877
10th Percentile £43,750 £39,450 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,750 £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 £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £95,000 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £57,810 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% +5.11% +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 2 June 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 (2.90%) Captiva
1 4 (2.90%) FileNet
1 4 (2.90%) WebSphere
2 3 (2.17%) Confluence
3 2 (1.45%) SAS
4 1 (0.72%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.72%) IIS
4 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.72%) WildFly
Applications
1 12 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (7.97%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 50 (36.23%) Azure
2 27 (19.57%) Power Platform
3 26 (18.84%) GCP
4 19 (13.77%) AWS
5 13 (9.42%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (7.25%) GitHub
7 8 (5.80%) SaaS
8 6 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (4.35%) Serverless
9 4 (2.90%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.90%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (1.45%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.45%) IBM Cloud
10 2 (1.45%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.72%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.17%) Firewall
2 2 (1.45%) Broadband
2 2 (1.45%) Internet
2 2 (1.45%) Network Security
2 2 (1.45%) Wireless
3 1 (0.72%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.84%) Power BI
2 17 (12.32%) NoSQL
3 14 (10.14%) Tableau
4 13 (9.42%) SQL Server
5 12 (8.70%) Oracle Database
6 11 (7.97%) DB2
7 9 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (6.52%) MongoDB
8 8 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (4.35%) Oracle Database 11g
10 5 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.62%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.90%) Big Data
11 4 (2.90%) DynamoDB
12 2 (1.45%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.72%) BigQuery
13 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (11.59%) Git
2 14 (10.14%) Jenkins
3 12 (8.70%) Selenium
4 10 (7.25%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (6.52%) JIRA
6 7 (5.07%) Maven
7 4 (2.90%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (1.45%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.45%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.45%) JMeter
8 2 (1.45%) JUnit
8 2 (1.45%) Mockito
8 2 (1.45%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.72%) Postman
9 1 (0.72%) Vite
9 1 (0.72%) webpack
General
1 70 (50.72%) Finance
2 40 (28.99%) Social Skills
3 28 (20.29%) Banking
4 12 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.07%) Retail Banking
7 6 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.45%) Law
10 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.72%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.72%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.72%) Retail
10 1 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 54 (39.13%) Senior
2 25 (18.12%) Software Engineer
3 22 (15.94%) Developer
4 15 (10.87%) Analyst
4 15 (10.87%) Data Analyst
5 13 (9.42%) Senior Developer
6 12 (8.70%) Senior Analyst
7 11 (7.97%) Lead
8 9 (6.52%) Audit Manager
8 9 (6.52%) Data Scientist
8 9 (6.52%) IT Manager
9 8 (5.80%) Data Manager
9 8 (5.80%) Data Science Manager
9 8 (5.80%) Java Developer
9 8 (5.80%) Senior Data Analyst
9 8 (5.80%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (5.07%) IT Audit Manager
10 7 (5.07%) Java Engineer
11 6 (4.35%) Database Developer
11 6 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.77%) .NET
2 15 (10.87%) Spring
2 15 (10.87%) Spring Boot
3 14 (10.14%) CSS
3 14 (10.14%) HTML
4 13 (9.42%) AngularJS
4 13 (9.42%) React
4 13 (9.42%) REST
5 12 (8.70%) JSON
6 9 (6.52%) Kafka
6 9 (6.52%) Playwright
7 8 (5.80%) Pandas
7 8 (5.80%) Web Services
8 7 (5.07%) .NET Core
9 6 (4.35%) ASP.NET
9 6 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (3.62%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (3.62%) OAuth
10 5 (3.62%) RESTful
10 5 (3.62%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.97%) Private Cloud
2 8 (5.80%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.07%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (4.35%) IoT
4 6 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.90%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.90%) DataPower
6 2 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 30 (21.74%) Linux
2 20 (14.49%) Windows
3 18 (13.04%) Unix
4 17 (12.32%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.17%) VMS
6 2 (1.45%) CentOS
6 2 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (34.06%) Agile
2 40 (28.99%) Analytics
3 39 (28.26%) DevOps
4 38 (27.54%) Software Engineering
5 24 (17.39%) Data Analytics
5 24 (17.39%) Data Science
6 22 (15.94%) Machine Learning
7 21 (15.22%) Mentoring
8 20 (14.49%) Test Automation
9 18 (13.04%) CI/CD
9 18 (13.04%) Microservices
10 15 (10.87%) Coaching
10 15 (10.87%) Visualisation
11 14 (10.14%) Artificial Intelligence
11 14 (10.14%) Project Management
12 13 (9.42%) Natural Language Processing
12 13 (9.42%) SDLC
13 12 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (8.70%) Migration
13 12 (8.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 49 (35.51%) Python
2 34 (24.64%) Java
3 19 (13.77%) C#
3 19 (13.77%) JavaScript
4 10 (7.25%) PL/SQL
5 9 (6.52%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.07%) Bash
7 6 (4.35%) Groovy
8 5 (3.62%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.17%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.45%) R
10 2 (1.45%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.45%) VBA
11 1 (0.72%) Bicep
11 1 (0.72%) Delphi
11 1 (0.72%) Elixir
11 1 (0.72%) Perl
11 1 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (13.04%) Degree
2 11 (7.97%) CISA
3 3 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.72%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.97%) ITGC
1 11 (7.97%) PMO
2 9 (6.52%) QA
3 4 (2.90%) GDPR
4 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (10.14%) Docker
2 4 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (15.94%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.59%) Terraform
3 10 (7.25%) Ansible
4 4 (2.90%) Grafana
4 4 (2.90%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.45%) Istio
5 2 (1.45%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 28 (20.29%) Oracle
2 19 (13.77%) Google
2 19 (13.77%) Microsoft
3 15 (10.87%) SAP
4 11 (7.97%) Sage
5 10 (7.25%) IBM
6 4 (2.90%) Databricks
6 4 (2.90%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.90%) ForgeRock
6 4 (2.90%) Kofax
6 4 (2.90%) Pega
6 4 (2.90%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.45%) Splunk
8 1 (0.72%) Sybase
8 1 (0.72%) Vermilion
8 1 (0.72%) VMware