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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,491 625 830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.21% 13.68% 14.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.87% 31.89% 31.34%
Number of salaries quoted 322 336 498
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,510 £31,908
25th Percentile £40,833 £46,250 £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 £71,250 £77,715 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.27% +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 3,740 1,960 2,648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 55.70% 42.89% 44.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,131 1,081 1,551
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,875 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +1 1,207 £54,000 +2.86% 33
Edinburgh -6 146 £65,000 -3.89% 43
Aberdeen +19 42 £42,500 -10.53% 11
Dundee -3 14 £50,000 +13.16%
Renfrewshire +5 11 £52,500 +28.51%
Fife +1 11 £37,800 -11.06% 4
North Lanarkshire 0 9 - -
West Lothian 0 8 £37,500 -6.25%
Aberdeenshire +14 7 £42,500 -34.62% 6
Stirling 0 7 £49,500 +52.31% 3
Scottish Borders +3 5 - -
Lanarkshire -11 5 £42,500 -39.29% 10
Dumfries and Galloway - 5 £42,500 - 2
South Lanarkshire +4 3 £29,000 -
Falkirk - 3 £50,000 - 3
West Dunbartonshire 0 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
1 430 (28.84%) Apache Spark
2 106 (7.11%) Apache
3 104 (6.98%) FileNet
4 32 (2.15%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (1.41%) GemFire
6 17 (1.14%) IIS
7 16 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (1.01%) SharePoint
9 13 (0.87%) Confluence
9 13 (0.87%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.40%) Captiva
10 6 (0.40%) SAS
11 5 (0.34%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.067%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 35 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (0.74%) Endur
1 11 (0.74%) Unit4 Business World
2 6 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.27%) Sonata
5 1 (0.067%) Maximo
5 1 (0.067%) Primavera
5 1 (0.067%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.067%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 545 (36.55%) AWS
2 161 (10.80%) Azure
3 110 (7.38%) Power Platform
4 102 (6.84%) Amazon S3
5 72 (4.83%) Cloud Computing
6 70 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
7 62 (4.16%) GitHub
8 58 (3.89%) GCP
9 57 (3.82%) Serverless
10 55 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
11 54 (3.62%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (3.42%) Amazon EC2
12 51 (3.42%) Amazon EMR
12 51 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
13 23 (1.54%) SaaS
14 21 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
16 15 (1.01%) BlazeMeter
17 13 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
18 12 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.21%) DSL
2 17 (1.14%) Kerberos
3 14 (0.94%) WAN
4 12 (0.80%) Modbus
4 12 (0.80%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.67%) Broadband
6 7 (0.47%) HTTP
6 7 (0.47%) MQTT
7 6 (0.40%) Firewall
8 4 (0.27%) Internet
8 4 (0.27%) Wireless
9 2 (0.13%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.067%) MPLS
10 1 (0.067%) SDH
10 1 (0.067%) VLAN
10 1 (0.067%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 686 (46.01%) NoSQL
2 380 (25.49%) Big Data
3 219 (14.69%) Hadoop
4 139 (9.32%) Elasticsearch
5 134 (8.99%) Relational Database
6 119 (7.98%) Apache Cassandra
7 107 (7.18%) MongoDB
7 107 (7.18%) Power BI
8 102 (6.84%) Apache Hive
8 102 (6.84%) HBase
9 95 (6.37%) SQL Server
10 52 (3.49%) Electronic Patient Records
11 41 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
12 38 (2.55%) CockroachDB
12 38 (2.55%) Tableau
13 37 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 30 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
15 29 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
15 29 (1.95%) DB2
15 29 (1.95%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 164 (11.00%) Jenkins
2 146 (9.79%) Git
3 133 (8.92%) JUnit
4 86 (5.77%) Bitbucket Server
5 52 (3.49%) JIRA
6 47 (3.15%) Mockito
7 46 (3.09%) Jasmine
8 41 (2.75%) Maven
9 32 (2.15%) Cypress.io
10 27 (1.81%) Cucumber
10 27 (1.81%) Visual Studio
11 21 (1.41%) Jaeger
12 16 (1.07%) GitLab
12 16 (1.07%) Selenium
13 14 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
14 13 (0.87%) Bitbucket
15 10 (0.67%) JMeter
16 9 (0.60%) Gradle
17 7 (0.47%) IBM UrbanCode
18 6 (0.40%) MSTest
General
1 1,176 (78.87%) Finance
2 1,096 (73.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,056 (70.82%) Law
4 519 (34.81%) Marketing
5 431 (28.91%) Legal
6 164 (11.00%) Influencing Skills
7 159 (10.66%) Banking
8 149 (9.99%) Financial Institution
9 147 (9.86%) Social Skills
10 111 (7.44%) Investment Banking
11 86 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
12 27 (1.81%) Public Sector
13 22 (1.48%) Prime Brokerage
14 20 (1.34%) Manufacturing
15 19 (1.27%) Publishing
16 11 (0.74%) Back Office
16 11 (0.74%) Retail
17 10 (0.67%) Games
18 8 (0.54%) Telecoms
19 7 (0.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 963 (64.59%) Software Engineer
2 471 (31.59%) Java Engineer
3 469 (31.46%) Java Software Engineer
4 325 (21.80%) Lead
5 304 (20.39%) Lead Software Engineer
6 291 (19.52%) Big Data Engineer
6 291 (19.52%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 213 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
7 213 (14.29%) AWS Software Engineer
8 209 (14.02%) Scala Engineer
8 209 (14.02%) Scala Software Engineer
9 208 (13.95%) Full Stack Engineer
10 207 (13.88%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 199 (13.35%) Senior
12 191 (12.81%) Lead Java Engineer
13 144 (9.66%) Developer
14 129 (8.65%) Data Engineer
15 126 (8.45%) Engineering Manager
16 119 (7.98%) Java Scala Software Engineer
17 118 (7.91%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (27.57%) Spring
2 272 (18.24%) Kafka
3 255 (17.10%) React
4 227 (15.22%) AngularJS
5 199 (13.35%) Spring Boot
6 186 (12.47%) J2EE
7 166 (11.13%) CSS
7 166 (11.13%) HTML
8 139 (9.32%) Hibernate
9 127 (8.52%) GraphQL
10 118 (7.91%) REST
11 111 (7.44%) JMS
12 98 (6.57%) Spring Integration
13 93 (6.24%) JSON
14 81 (5.43%) Node.js
15 76 (5.10%) jQuery
16 74 (4.96%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 68 (4.56%) Pandas
18 63 (4.23%) Web Services
19 62 (4.16%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 395 (26.49%) Algorithms
2 382 (25.62%) Cloud Native
3 85 (5.70%) Onboarding
3 85 (5.70%) Public Cloud
4 68 (4.56%) Market Risk
5 54 (3.62%) Reference Data
6 43 (2.88%) Legacy Code
7 41 (2.75%) Management Information System
8 40 (2.68%) Product Ownership
9 33 (2.21%) Data Structures
10 29 (1.95%) Private Cloud
11 23 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 21 (1.41%) Replication
13 20 (1.34%) IoT
14 16 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
15 15 (1.01%) Distributed Applications
16 14 (0.94%) Clustering
17 13 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
18 11 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
19 7 (0.47%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 155 (10.40%) Unix
2 139 (9.32%) Linux
3 47 (3.15%) Windows
4 23 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.74%) VMS
6 4 (0.27%) CentOS
6 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,145 (76.79%) Agile
2 1,137 (76.26%) Software Engineering
3 1,004 (67.34%) SDLC
4 949 (63.65%) CI/CD
5 760 (50.97%) Operational Stability
6 614 (41.18%) Machine Learning
7 608 (40.78%) Artificial Intelligence
8 486 (32.60%) Community of Practice
9 458 (30.72%) Risk Management
10 440 (29.51%) Visualisation
11 429 (28.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 319 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
13 292 (19.58%) Microservices
14 279 (18.71%) Continuous Delivery
15 274 (18.38%) Performance Tuning
16 251 (16.83%) Full Stack Development
17 233 (15.63%) Decision-Making
18 170 (11.40%) Test Automation
19 168 (11.27%) Computer Science
20 161 (10.80%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 989 (66.33%) Java
2 491 (32.93%) Python
3 282 (18.91%) Scala
4 184 (12.34%) JavaScript
4 184 (12.34%) PL/SQL
5 105 (7.04%) TypeScript
6 83 (5.57%) C#
7 71 (4.76%) T-SQL
8 43 (2.88%) Groovy
9 23 (1.54%) C++
10 17 (1.14%) PowerShell
11 13 (0.87%) Bash
11 13 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.47%) VBA
14 6 (0.40%) Go
14 6 (0.40%) R
15 4 (0.27%) PHP
16 3 (0.20%) C
16 3 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 103 (6.91%) Degree
2 56 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (2.21%) Master's Degree
4 25 (1.68%) Security Cleared
5 17 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (0.80%) DBS Check
6 12 (0.80%) SC Cleared
7 11 (0.74%) CISA
8 4 (0.27%) ISEB
8 4 (0.27%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.20%) HND
9 3 (0.20%) PhD
10 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.13%) MCSE
10 2 (0.13%) OCP
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.067%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.067%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (2.08%) PMO
2 28 (1.88%) QA
3 22 (1.48%) SLA
4 15 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.01%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.74%) ITGC
6 7 (0.47%) GDPR
7 1 (0.067%) CRD IV
System Software
1 102 (6.84%) HDFS
2 44 (2.95%) Docker
3 14 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (0.94%) VMware NSX
4 11 (0.74%) Active Directory
5 7 (0.47%) Firmware
5 7 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.067%) RACF
Systems Management
1 268 (17.97%) Kubernetes
2 137 (9.19%) Terraform
3 54 (3.62%) Grafana
4 26 (1.74%) ITRS Geneos
5 25 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.41%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.41%) Kibana
6 21 (1.41%) Zipkin
7 13 (0.87%) Ansible
8 7 (0.47%) Graphite
9 5 (0.34%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.13%) Istio
11 2 (0.13%) Puppet
11 2 (0.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 393 (26.36%) Oracle
2 192 (12.88%) Databricks
3 100 (6.71%) Microsoft
4 87 (5.84%) Informatica
5 72 (4.83%) Cloudera
6 53 (3.55%) Splunk
7 47 (3.15%) Google
8 45 (3.02%) Dynatrace
9 25 (1.68%) SAP
10 23 (1.54%) Sybase
11 21 (1.41%) Atlassian
12 20 (1.34%) VMware
13 18 (1.21%) Alteryx
13 18 (1.21%) Cognos
14 17 (1.14%) IBM
15 12 (0.80%) Sage
16 11 (0.74%) OpenLink
17 9 (0.60%) TOWER Software
18 7 (0.47%) NVIDIA
19 6 (0.40%) ServiceNow