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

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 17 12
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 1,489 601 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 21.91% 13.34% 14.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.83% 31.57% 31.41%
Number of salaries quoted 316 324 502
10th Percentile £31,875 £36,510 £31,587
25th Percentile £39,813 £46,250 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £69,063 £77,715 £64,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £75,000
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 3,738 1,904 2,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 54.99% 42.26% 44.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,131 1,040 1,566
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £69,688
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 26 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 26 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 +2 1,208 £54,000 +2.86% 38
Edinburgh -5 143 £65,000 -3.89% 47
Aberdeen +17 43 £42,500 -10.53% 18
Dundee -6 13 £50,000 +13.16%
Renfrewshire +4 11 £52,500 +28.51%
Fife -1 11 £37,800 -11.06% 6
North Lanarkshire +1 9 - -
Aberdeenshire +13 8 £42,500 -34.62% 5
Stirling +1 8 £49,750 +53.08% 1
West Lothian -4 6 £33,750 -15.63% 1
Lanarkshire -13 5 £42,500 -39.29% 11
Dumfries and Galloway - 5 £42,500 - 2
Scottish Borders +3 4 - -
Falkirk - 4 £50,000 - 1
South Lanarkshire +4 3 £29,000 -
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 (28.88%) Apache Spark
2 105 (7.05%) Apache
3 102 (6.85%) FileNet
4 32 (2.15%) Cloud Foundry
5 21 (1.41%) GemFire
6 18 (1.21%) IIS
7 16 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (1.01%) SharePoint
9 11 (0.74%) Confluence
9 11 (0.74%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.40%) SAS
11 5 (0.34%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.27%) Captiva
13 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
14 1 (0.067%) BizTalk Server
14 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
1 541 (36.33%) AWS
2 155 (10.41%) Azure
3 112 (7.52%) Power Platform
4 102 (6.85%) Amazon S3
5 72 (4.84%) Cloud Computing
6 70 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
7 58 (3.90%) GitHub
8 57 (3.83%) Serverless
9 55 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
9 55 (3.69%) GCP
10 54 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
11 51 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
11 51 (3.43%) Amazon EMR
11 51 (3.43%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (1.48%) SaaS
13 20 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (1.01%) BlazeMeter
16 13 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.87%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.21%) DSL
2 17 (1.14%) Kerberos
3 14 (0.94%) WAN
4 13 (0.87%) TCP/IP
5 12 (0.81%) Modbus
6 10 (0.67%) Broadband
7 7 (0.47%) HTTP
7 7 (0.47%) MQTT
8 6 (0.40%) Firewall
9 3 (0.20%) Internet
9 3 (0.20%) Wireless
10 2 (0.13%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.067%) DHCP
11 1 (0.067%) DNS
11 1 (0.067%) IPsec
11 1 (0.067%) MPLS
11 1 (0.067%) SDH
11 1 (0.067%) VLAN
11 1 (0.067%) VoIP
11 1 (0.067%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 685 (46.00%) NoSQL
2 380 (25.52%) Big Data
3 220 (14.78%) Hadoop
4 139 (9.34%) Elasticsearch
5 134 (9.00%) Relational Database
6 119 (7.99%) Apache Cassandra
7 109 (7.32%) Power BI
8 106 (7.12%) MongoDB
9 102 (6.85%) Apache Hive
9 102 (6.85%) HBase
10 92 (6.18%) SQL Server
11 52 (3.49%) Electronic Patient Records
12 41 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
13 38 (2.55%) CockroachDB
13 38 (2.55%) Tableau
14 37 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 30 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
16 29 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
16 29 (1.95%) Data Lake
16 29 (1.95%) DB2
Development Applications
1 161 (10.81%) Jenkins
2 143 (9.60%) Git
3 132 (8.87%) JUnit
4 86 (5.78%) Bitbucket Server
5 48 (3.22%) JIRA
6 47 (3.16%) Mockito
7 46 (3.09%) Jasmine
8 39 (2.62%) Maven
9 32 (2.15%) Cypress.io
10 26 (1.75%) Cucumber
10 26 (1.75%) Visual Studio
11 21 (1.41%) Jaeger
12 16 (1.07%) Selenium
13 15 (1.01%) GitLab
14 13 (0.87%) Bitbucket
15 11 (0.74%) JMeter
16 10 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
17 9 (0.60%) Gradle
18 6 (0.40%) MSTest
19 5 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 1,176 (78.98%) Finance
2 1,096 (73.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,056 (70.92%) Law
4 519 (34.86%) Marketing
5 435 (29.21%) Legal
6 164 (11.01%) Influencing Skills
7 158 (10.61%) Banking
8 150 (10.07%) Financial Institution
9 143 (9.60%) Social Skills
10 111 (7.45%) Investment Banking
11 88 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
12 27 (1.81%) Public Sector
13 22 (1.48%) Prime Brokerage
14 20 (1.34%) Manufacturing
15 19 (1.28%) 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
1 956 (64.20%) Software Engineer
2 469 (31.50%) Java Engineer
3 467 (31.36%) Java Software Engineer
4 327 (21.96%) Lead
5 305 (20.48%) Lead Software Engineer
6 291 (19.54%) Big Data Engineer
6 291 (19.54%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 213 (14.30%) AWS Engineer
7 213 (14.30%) AWS Software Engineer
8 209 (14.04%) Scala Engineer
8 209 (14.04%) Scala Software Engineer
9 208 (13.97%) Full Stack Engineer
10 207 (13.90%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 202 (13.57%) Senior
12 191 (12.83%) Lead Java Engineer
13 144 (9.67%) Developer
14 129 (8.66%) Data Engineer
15 126 (8.46%) Engineering Manager
16 119 (7.99%) Java Scala Software Engineer
17 118 (7.92%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 407 (27.33%) Spring
2 269 (18.07%) Kafka
3 255 (17.13%) React
4 225 (15.11%) AngularJS
5 196 (13.16%) Spring Boot
6 185 (12.42%) J2EE
7 165 (11.08%) CSS
7 165 (11.08%) HTML
8 138 (9.27%) Hibernate
9 127 (8.53%) GraphQL
10 115 (7.72%) REST
11 111 (7.45%) JMS
12 98 (6.58%) Spring Integration
13 91 (6.11%) JSON
14 81 (5.44%) Node.js
15 76 (5.10%) jQuery
16 74 (4.97%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 67 (4.50%) Pandas
18 62 (4.16%) Web Services
19 60 (4.03%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 394 (26.46%) Algorithms
2 382 (25.65%) Cloud Native
3 85 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 85 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 68 (4.57%) Market Risk
5 54 (3.63%) Reference Data
6 45 (3.02%) Management Information System
7 43 (2.89%) Legacy Code
8 40 (2.69%) Product Ownership
9 33 (2.22%) Data Structures
10 27 (1.81%) Private Cloud
11 22 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 21 (1.41%) IoT
12 21 (1.41%) Replication
13 16 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
14 15 (1.01%) Distributed Applications
15 14 (0.94%) Clustering
16 13 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
17 10 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
18 7 (0.47%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 154 (10.34%) Unix
2 135 (9.07%) Linux
3 45 (3.02%) Windows
4 22 (1.48%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.74%) VMS
6 3 (0.20%) CentOS
7 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,138 (76.43%) Agile
2 1,132 (76.02%) Software Engineering
3 1,005 (67.49%) SDLC
4 950 (63.80%) CI/CD
5 760 (51.04%) Operational Stability
6 613 (41.17%) Machine Learning
7 607 (40.77%) Artificial Intelligence
8 486 (32.64%) Community of Practice
9 458 (30.76%) Risk Management
10 440 (29.55%) Visualisation
11 429 (28.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 317 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
13 287 (19.27%) Microservices
14 279 (18.74%) Continuous Delivery
15 274 (18.40%) Performance Tuning
16 251 (16.86%) Full Stack Development
17 233 (15.65%) Decision-Making
18 170 (11.42%) Computer Science
19 169 (11.35%) Test Automation
20 158 (10.61%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 980 (65.82%) Java
2 489 (32.84%) Python
3 282 (18.94%) Scala
4 184 (12.36%) JavaScript
5 183 (12.29%) PL/SQL
6 105 (7.05%) TypeScript
7 81 (5.44%) C#
8 69 (4.63%) T-SQL
9 43 (2.89%) Groovy
10 21 (1.41%) PowerShell
11 20 (1.34%) C++
12 15 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 12 (0.81%) Bash
14 10 (0.67%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.47%) VBA
16 6 (0.40%) Go
16 6 (0.40%) R
17 4 (0.27%) PHP
17 4 (0.27%) Ruby
18 2 (0.13%) C
Qualifications
1 98 (6.58%) Degree
2 58 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (2.15%) Master's Degree
4 24 (1.61%) Security Cleared
5 17 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (0.81%) DBS Check
7 11 (0.74%) CISA
7 11 (0.74%) SC Cleared
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 29 (1.95%) QA
3 22 (1.48%) SLA
4 15 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.01%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.74%) ITGC
6 5 (0.34%) GDPR
7 1 (0.067%) CRD IV
System Software
1 102 (6.85%) HDFS
2 41 (2.75%) Docker
3 14 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.94%) VMware NSX
4 13 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.47%) Firmware
5 7 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.34%) RACF
7 1 (0.067%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 266 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 136 (9.13%) Terraform
3 54 (3.63%) Grafana
4 26 (1.75%) ITRS Geneos
5 25 (1.68%) Prometheus
6 21 (1.41%) HAProxy
6 21 (1.41%) Kibana
6 21 (1.41%) Zipkin
7 12 (0.81%) 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
1 389 (26.12%) Oracle
2 192 (12.89%) Databricks
3 103 (6.92%) Microsoft
4 87 (5.84%) Informatica
5 72 (4.84%) Cloudera
6 54 (3.63%) Splunk
7 45 (3.02%) Dynatrace
7 45 (3.02%) Google
8 23 (1.54%) SAP
8 23 (1.54%) Sybase
9 21 (1.41%) Atlassian
10 20 (1.34%) VMware
11 18 (1.21%) Alteryx
11 18 (1.21%) Cognos
12 12 (0.81%) Sage
13 11 (0.74%) IBM
13 11 (0.74%) OpenLink
14 9 (0.60%) TOWER Software
15 7 (0.47%) NVIDIA
16 5 (0.34%) CyberArk