SQL Jobs in Scotland

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 18 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,445 537 854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 21.13% 12.34% 14.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.29% 30.10% 31.20%
Number of salaries quoted 314 323 502
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,510 £31,569
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £68,114 £77,715 £63,938
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,678 1,784 2,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 53.79% 41.00% 45.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,144 1,012 1,581
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +5.11% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,450 £83,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

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 1 June 2024.

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 1 June 2024. 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
Glasgow +3 1,165 £54,000 +2.86% 32
Edinburgh -6 138 £65,000 -5.17% 51
Aberdeen +20 44 £42,500 -10.53% 9
Dundee -6 13 £50,000 +13.16% 2
Renfrewshire +5 11 £52,500 +28.51% 1
Fife 0 11 £37,800 -11.06% 5
Aberdeenshire +13 10 £42,500 -34.62% 2
North Lanarkshire +3 9 - -
Stirling +1 9 £50,000 +53.85% 1
West Lothian 0 6 £33,750 -15.63% 1
Lanarkshire -10 5 £42,500 -35.85% 10
Falkirk - 5 £50,000 - 1
Dumfries and Galloway - 5 £42,500 - 1
Scottish Borders +2 4 - -
South Lanarkshire - 3 £29,000 - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Highlands - 1 £45,500 -
South Ayrshire - 1 £57,500 -
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
1 412 (28.51%) Apache Spark
2 102 (7.06%) FileNet
3 101 (6.99%) Apache
4 32 (2.21%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (1.45%) GemFire
6 17 (1.18%) IIS
7 15 (1.04%) SharePoint
8 14 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
9 11 (0.76%) Confluence
9 11 (0.76%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.35%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.28%) Captiva
11 4 (0.28%) SAS
12 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.069%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.069%) WildFly
Applications
1 36 (2.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.069%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (0.76%) Endur
1 11 (0.76%) Unit4 Business World
2 6 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.28%) Sonata
5 1 (0.069%) Maximo
5 1 (0.069%) Primavera
5 1 (0.069%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.069%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 515 (35.64%) AWS
2 154 (10.66%) Azure
3 112 (7.75%) Power Platform
4 103 (7.13%) Amazon S3
5 69 (4.78%) Cloud Computing
6 66 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
7 59 (4.08%) GitHub
8 56 (3.88%) Serverless
9 54 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
10 52 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
11 50 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
11 50 (3.46%) GCP
12 49 (3.39%) Amazon EMR
12 49 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
13 22 (1.52%) SaaS
14 19 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (0.90%) BlazeMeter
16 12 (0.83%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.18%) Kerberos
2 16 (1.11%) DSL
3 14 (0.97%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.90%) WAN
5 12 (0.83%) Modbus
6 10 (0.69%) Broadband
7 7 (0.48%) HTTP
7 7 (0.48%) MQTT
8 6 (0.42%) Firewall
9 2 (0.14%) DHCP
9 2 (0.14%) DNS
9 2 (0.14%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.14%) Internet
9 2 (0.14%) IPsec
9 2 (0.14%) Network Security
9 2 (0.14%) VoIP
9 2 (0.14%) Wireless
10 1 (0.069%) MPLS
10 1 (0.069%) VLAN
10 1 (0.069%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 663 (45.88%) NoSQL
2 360 (24.91%) Big Data
3 211 (14.60%) Hadoop
4 136 (9.41%) Elasticsearch
5 126 (8.72%) Relational Database
6 119 (8.24%) Apache Cassandra
7 109 (7.54%) Power BI
8 99 (6.85%) MongoDB
9 98 (6.78%) Apache Hive
9 98 (6.78%) HBase
10 90 (6.23%) SQL Server
11 50 (3.46%) Electronic Patient Records
12 40 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
13 38 (2.63%) CockroachDB
13 38 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 36 (2.49%) Tableau
15 30 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
16 29 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
16 29 (2.01%) Oracle Database
17 27 (1.87%) DB2
Development Applications
1 158 (10.93%) Jenkins
2 141 (9.76%) Git
3 130 (9.00%) JUnit
4 84 (5.81%) Bitbucket Server
5 49 (3.39%) JIRA
6 47 (3.25%) Mockito
7 46 (3.18%) Jasmine
8 38 (2.63%) Maven
9 32 (2.21%) Cypress.io
10 26 (1.80%) Cucumber
10 26 (1.80%) Visual Studio
11 21 (1.45%) Jaeger
12 16 (1.11%) Selenium
13 15 (1.04%) GitLab
14 13 (0.90%) Bitbucket
15 11 (0.76%) JMeter
16 10 (0.69%) Oracle Forms
17 9 (0.62%) Gradle
18 6 (0.42%) MSTest
19 4 (0.28%) WebDriver
General
1 1,125 (77.85%) Finance
2 1,054 (72.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,011 (69.97%) Law
4 487 (33.70%) Marketing
5 424 (29.34%) Legal
6 158 (10.93%) Influencing Skills
7 146 (10.10%) Banking
8 143 (9.90%) Social Skills
9 140 (9.69%) Financial Institution
10 107 (7.40%) Investment Banking
11 86 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
12 27 (1.87%) Public Sector
13 22 (1.52%) Prime Brokerage
14 21 (1.45%) Manufacturing
15 19 (1.31%) Publishing
16 11 (0.76%) Back Office
17 10 (0.69%) Games
18 8 (0.55%) Retail
18 8 (0.55%) Telecoms
19 7 (0.48%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 921 (63.74%) Software Engineer
2 453 (31.35%) Java Engineer
3 451 (31.21%) Java Software Engineer
4 315 (21.80%) Lead
5 293 (20.28%) Lead Software Engineer
6 279 (19.31%) Big Data Engineer
6 279 (19.31%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 205 (14.19%) AWS Engineer
7 205 (14.19%) AWS Software Engineer
8 201 (13.91%) Scala Engineer
8 201 (13.91%) Scala Software Engineer
9 198 (13.70%) Senior
10 197 (13.63%) Full Stack Engineer
11 196 (13.56%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 187 (12.94%) Lead Java Engineer
13 144 (9.97%) Developer
14 124 (8.58%) Data Engineer
15 120 (8.30%) Engineering Manager
16 119 (8.24%) Java Scala Software Engineer
17 112 (7.75%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 392 (27.13%) Spring
2 263 (18.20%) Kafka
3 246 (17.02%) React
4 217 (15.02%) AngularJS
5 185 (12.80%) Spring Boot
6 181 (12.53%) J2EE
7 162 (11.21%) CSS
7 162 (11.21%) HTML
8 136 (9.41%) Hibernate
9 125 (8.65%) GraphQL
10 110 (7.61%) JMS
11 109 (7.54%) REST
12 98 (6.78%) Spring Integration
13 90 (6.23%) JSON
14 81 (5.61%) Node.js
15 76 (5.26%) jQuery
16 74 (5.12%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 65 (4.50%) Pandas
18 62 (4.29%) .NET
19 59 (4.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 382 (26.44%) Algorithms
2 367 (25.40%) Cloud Native
3 82 (5.67%) Onboarding
4 77 (5.33%) Public Cloud
5 66 (4.57%) Market Risk
6 50 (3.46%) Reference Data
7 41 (2.84%) Legacy Code
7 41 (2.84%) Management Information System
8 35 (2.42%) Product Ownership
9 33 (2.28%) Data Structures
10 26 (1.80%) Private Cloud
11 22 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 21 (1.45%) IoT
12 21 (1.45%) Replication
13 15 (1.04%) Distributed Applications
13 15 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (0.90%) Clustering
15 10 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
17 7 (0.48%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 151 (10.45%) Unix
2 131 (9.07%) Linux
3 43 (2.98%) Windows
4 21 (1.45%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.76%) VMS
6 2 (0.14%) CentOS
6 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,090 (75.43%) Software Engineering
2 1,089 (75.36%) Agile
3 963 (66.64%) SDLC
4 911 (63.04%) CI/CD
5 726 (50.24%) Operational Stability
6 591 (40.90%) Machine Learning
7 585 (40.48%) Artificial Intelligence
8 468 (32.39%) Community of Practice
9 445 (30.80%) Risk Management
10 426 (29.48%) Visualisation
11 414 (28.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 311 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
13 275 (19.03%) Microservices
14 265 (18.34%) Performance Tuning
15 262 (18.13%) Continuous Delivery
16 241 (16.68%) Full Stack Development
17 220 (15.22%) Decision-Making
18 170 (11.76%) Computer Science
19 164 (11.35%) Test Automation
20 152 (10.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 942 (65.19%) Java
2 470 (32.53%) Python
3 270 (18.69%) Scala
4 182 (12.60%) JavaScript
5 176 (12.18%) PL/SQL
6 103 (7.13%) TypeScript
7 83 (5.74%) C#
8 70 (4.84%) T-SQL
9 42 (2.91%) Groovy
10 21 (1.45%) C++
11 20 (1.38%) PowerShell
12 15 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.76%) Bash
14 8 (0.55%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.48%) VBA
16 6 (0.42%) Go
16 6 (0.42%) R
17 4 (0.28%) PHP
17 4 (0.28%) Ruby
18 3 (0.21%) C
Qualifications
1 101 (6.99%) Degree
2 60 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (2.28%) Master's Degree
4 23 (1.59%) Security Cleared
5 17 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (0.83%) DBS Check
7 11 (0.76%) CISA
7 11 (0.76%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.28%) ISEB
8 4 (0.28%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.21%) HND
9 3 (0.21%) PhD
10 2 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.14%) MCSE
10 2 (0.14%) OCP
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.069%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.069%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (2.01%) PMO
1 29 (2.01%) QA
2 20 (1.38%) SLA
3 15 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 13 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 11 (0.76%) ITGC
6 5 (0.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 98 (6.78%) HDFS
2 39 (2.70%) Docker
3 13 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.90%) VMware NSX
4 12 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.48%) Firmware
5 7 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.35%) RACF
7 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 258 (17.85%) Kubernetes
2 132 (9.13%) Terraform
3 52 (3.60%) Grafana
4 26 (1.80%) ITRS Geneos
5 25 (1.73%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.45%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.45%) Kibana
6 21 (1.45%) Zipkin
7 10 (0.69%) Ansible
8 7 (0.48%) Graphite
9 4 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.14%) Istio
11 2 (0.14%) Puppet
11 2 (0.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 378 (26.16%) Oracle
2 184 (12.73%) Databricks
3 102 (7.06%) Microsoft
4 85 (5.88%) Informatica
5 68 (4.71%) Cloudera
6 53 (3.67%) Splunk
7 43 (2.98%) Dynatrace
8 41 (2.84%) Google
9 23 (1.59%) SAP
10 22 (1.52%) Sybase
11 19 (1.31%) Atlassian
11 19 (1.31%) VMware
12 16 (1.11%) Alteryx
12 16 (1.11%) Cognos
13 12 (0.83%) Sage
14 11 (0.76%) OpenLink
15 10 (0.69%) IBM
16 9 (0.62%) TOWER Software
17 7 (0.48%) NVIDIA
18 5 (0.35%) CyberArk