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

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 16 13
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,502 632 797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.40% 13.69% 13.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.95% 32.00% 30.65%
Number of salaries quoted 332 336 482
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,814 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,625 £46,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +15.71% +10.53%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,715 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,191 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +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 3,760 1,975 2,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 56.07% 42.79% 44.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,151 1,099 1,535
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 £67,500 £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 11 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 11 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 1,215 £54,000 +2.86% 35
Edinburgh -8 150 £65,000 -3.89% 46
Aberdeen +19 42 £42,500 -10.53% 10
Dundee -3 15 £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 +1 8 £37,500 -21.05% 1
Aberdeenshire +14 7 £42,500 -34.62% 7
Stirling +1 6 £47,750 +46.92% 4
Scottish Borders +3 5 - -
Lanarkshire -11 5 £42,500 -39.29% 11
Dumfries and Galloway - 5 £42,500 - 1
South Lanarkshire +4 3 £29,000 -
West Dunbartonshire 0 2 - -
Falkirk - 2 £55,000 - 3
Highlands - 1 £45,500 -
South Ayrshire - 1 £57,500 - 1
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 (28.63%) Apache Spark
2 107 (7.12%) Apache
3 105 (6.99%) FileNet
4 32 (2.13%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (1.40%) GemFire
5 21 (1.40%) IIS
6 16 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (1.00%) SharePoint
8 14 (0.93%) Confluence
9 13 (0.87%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.47%) Captiva
11 6 (0.40%) SAS
12 5 (0.33%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.067%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.067%) WebLogic
Applications
1 36 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (0.73%) Endur
1 11 (0.73%) Unit4 Business World
2 6 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.33%) 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
1 548 (36.48%) AWS
2 167 (11.12%) Azure
3 110 (7.32%) Power Platform
4 102 (6.79%) Amazon S3
5 75 (4.99%) Cloud Computing
6 70 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
7 63 (4.19%) GitHub
8 59 (3.93%) GCP
9 57 (3.79%) Serverless
10 55 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
11 54 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
12 51 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
12 51 (3.40%) Amazon EMR
12 51 (3.40%) Amazon SQS
13 23 (1.53%) SaaS
14 21 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
16 15 (1.00%) BlazeMeter
17 13 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
18 12 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.26%) WAN
2 18 (1.20%) DSL
3 17 (1.13%) Kerberos
4 13 (0.87%) Modbus
4 13 (0.87%) 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
1 691 (46.01%) NoSQL
2 381 (25.37%) Big Data
3 219 (14.58%) Hadoop
4 139 (9.25%) Elasticsearch
5 134 (8.92%) Relational Database
6 119 (7.92%) Apache Cassandra
7 107 (7.12%) MongoDB
7 107 (7.12%) Power BI
8 102 (6.79%) Apache Hive
8 102 (6.79%) HBase
9 100 (6.66%) SQL Server
10 52 (3.46%) Electronic Patient Records
11 42 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
12 38 (2.53%) CockroachDB
12 38 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 38 (2.53%) Tableau
13 30 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
14 29 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
14 29 (1.93%) DB2
14 29 (1.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 164 (10.92%) Jenkins
2 146 (9.72%) Git
3 133 (8.85%) JUnit
4 86 (5.73%) Bitbucket Server
5 55 (3.66%) JIRA
6 47 (3.13%) Mockito
7 46 (3.06%) Jasmine
8 41 (2.73%) Maven
9 32 (2.13%) Cypress.io
10 29 (1.93%) Visual Studio
11 27 (1.80%) Cucumber
12 21 (1.40%) Jaeger
13 18 (1.20%) GitLab
14 16 (1.07%) Oracle Forms
14 16 (1.07%) Selenium
15 13 (0.87%) Bitbucket
16 10 (0.67%) JMeter
17 9 (0.60%) Gradle
18 8 (0.53%) IBM UrbanCode
19 6 (0.40%) MSTest
General
1 1,178 (78.43%) Finance
2 1,098 (73.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,056 (70.31%) Law
4 519 (34.55%) Marketing
5 430 (28.63%) Legal
6 164 (10.92%) Influencing Skills
7 160 (10.65%) Banking
8 149 (9.92%) Financial Institution
9 146 (9.72%) Social Skills
10 111 (7.39%) Investment Banking
11 85 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
12 27 (1.80%) Public Sector
13 22 (1.46%) Prime Brokerage
14 20 (1.33%) Manufacturing
15 19 (1.26%) Publishing
16 12 (0.80%) Retail
17 11 (0.73%) Back Office
18 10 (0.67%) Games
19 8 (0.53%) Telecoms
20 7 (0.47%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 967 (64.38%) Software Engineer
2 471 (31.36%) Java Engineer
3 469 (31.23%) Java Software Engineer
4 325 (21.64%) Lead
5 304 (20.24%) Lead Software Engineer
6 291 (19.37%) Big Data Engineer
6 291 (19.37%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 213 (14.18%) AWS Engineer
7 213 (14.18%) AWS Software Engineer
8 209 (13.91%) Scala Engineer
8 209 (13.91%) Scala Software Engineer
9 208 (13.85%) Full Stack Engineer
10 207 (13.78%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 202 (13.45%) Senior
12 191 (12.72%) Lead Java Engineer
13 144 (9.59%) Developer
14 130 (8.66%) Data Engineer
15 126 (8.39%) Engineering Manager
16 119 (7.92%) Java Scala Software Engineer
17 118 (7.86%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 411 (27.36%) Spring
2 272 (18.11%) Kafka
3 255 (16.98%) React
4 227 (15.11%) AngularJS
5 199 (13.25%) Spring Boot
6 186 (12.38%) J2EE
7 169 (11.25%) CSS
7 169 (11.25%) HTML
8 139 (9.25%) Hibernate
9 127 (8.46%) GraphQL
10 120 (7.99%) REST
11 111 (7.39%) JMS
12 98 (6.52%) Spring Integration
13 93 (6.19%) JSON
14 81 (5.39%) Node.js
15 76 (5.06%) jQuery
16 74 (4.93%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 68 (4.53%) Pandas
18 64 (4.26%) .NET
19 63 (4.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 395 (26.30%) Algorithms
2 382 (25.43%) Cloud Native
3 88 (5.86%) Public Cloud
4 85 (5.66%) Onboarding
5 68 (4.53%) Market Risk
6 54 (3.60%) Reference Data
7 43 (2.86%) Legacy Code
8 40 (2.66%) Management Information System
8 40 (2.66%) Product Ownership
9 33 (2.20%) Data Structures
10 30 (2.00%) Private Cloud
11 24 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 21 (1.40%) Replication
13 20 (1.33%) IoT
14 19 (1.26%) Clustering
14 19 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
15 15 (1.00%) Distributed Applications
16 13 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
17 11 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
18 7 (0.47%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 156 (10.39%) Unix
2 142 (9.45%) Linux
3 48 (3.20%) Windows
4 23 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.73%) VMS
6 5 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.27%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,148 (76.43%) Agile
2 1,142 (76.03%) Software Engineering
3 1,003 (66.78%) SDLC
4 952 (63.38%) CI/CD
5 760 (50.60%) Operational Stability
6 614 (40.88%) Machine Learning
7 608 (40.48%) Artificial Intelligence
8 486 (32.36%) Community of Practice
9 458 (30.49%) Risk Management
10 440 (29.29%) Visualisation
11 429 (28.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 323 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
13 294 (19.57%) Microservices
14 282 (18.77%) Continuous Delivery
15 274 (18.24%) Performance Tuning
16 251 (16.71%) Full Stack Development
17 233 (15.51%) Decision-Making
18 171 (11.38%) Test Automation
19 167 (11.12%) Computer Science
20 164 (10.92%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 999 (66.51%) Java
2 495 (32.96%) Python
3 282 (18.77%) Scala
4 185 (12.32%) JavaScript
5 183 (12.18%) PL/SQL
6 105 (6.99%) TypeScript
7 85 (5.66%) C#
8 71 (4.73%) T-SQL
9 43 (2.86%) Groovy
10 27 (1.80%) C++
11 16 (1.07%) PowerShell
12 13 (0.87%) Bash
12 13 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.67%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.53%) VBA
15 6 (0.40%) Go
15 6 (0.40%) R
16 4 (0.27%) C
16 4 (0.27%) PHP
17 3 (0.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 102 (6.79%) Degree
2 56 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (2.20%) Master's Degree
4 30 (2.00%) Security Cleared
5 17 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (0.93%) SC Cleared
7 12 (0.80%) DBS Check
8 11 (0.73%) CISA
9 4 (0.27%) ISEB
9 4 (0.27%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.20%) HND
10 3 (0.20%) PhD
11 2 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.13%) MCSE
11 2 (0.13%) OCP
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.067%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.067%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (2.06%) PMO
2 28 (1.86%) QA
3 22 (1.46%) SLA
4 15 (1.00%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.73%) ITGC
6 8 (0.53%) GDPR
7 1 (0.067%) CRD IV
System Software
1 102 (6.79%) HDFS
2 44 (2.93%) Docker
3 19 (1.26%) VMware NSX
4 14 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.67%) Active Directory
6 9 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 268 (17.84%) Kubernetes
2 137 (9.12%) Terraform
3 54 (3.60%) Grafana
4 26 (1.73%) ITRS Geneos
5 25 (1.66%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.40%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.40%) Kibana
6 21 (1.40%) Zipkin
7 13 (0.87%) Ansible
8 7 (0.47%) Graphite
9 5 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.13%) Istio
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.13%) Puppet
10 2 (0.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 394 (26.23%) Oracle
2 192 (12.78%) Databricks
3 104 (6.92%) Microsoft
4 87 (5.79%) Informatica
5 72 (4.79%) Cloudera
6 53 (3.53%) Splunk
7 47 (3.13%) Google
8 45 (3.00%) Dynatrace
9 26 (1.73%) SAP
10 25 (1.66%) VMware
11 23 (1.53%) Sybase
12 21 (1.40%) Atlassian
13 19 (1.26%) IBM
14 18 (1.20%) Alteryx
14 18 (1.20%) Cognos
15 12 (0.80%) Sage
16 11 (0.73%) OpenLink
17 9 (0.60%) TOWER Software
18 7 (0.47%) Kofax
18 7 (0.47%) ServiceNow