SQL Job Trends in Chatham

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Kent > Chatham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Chatham requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 3 3
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 9 13 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Chatham 25.00% 38.24% 26.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 90.00% 92.86% 87.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4 9 13
10th Percentile - £42,700 £52,600
25th Percentile £122,500 £46,250 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £47,500 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +163.16% -30.15% +36.00%
75th Percentile £129,375 £54,000 £71,000
90th Percentile £132,750 £88,750 £86,950
Kent median annual salary £42,500 £46,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.11% -15.91% -

All Programming Languages
Chatham

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Chatham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10 14 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chatham 27.78% 41.18% 30.19%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 14
10th Percentile £78,250 £42,725 £53,275
25th Percentile £122,500 £46,250 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £49,750 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +151.26% -26.84% +45.45%
75th Percentile £127,500 £79,125 £71,000
90th Percentile £132,000 £88,750 £85,925
Kent median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% -4.55% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Chatham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Chatham.

SQL job vacancy trend in Chatham

SQL
Salary Trend in Chatham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chatham citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chatham citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chatham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) Azure AI
2 5 (55.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Power BI
1 5 (55.56%) Tableau
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Banking
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Data Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Junior
1 5 (55.56%) Junior Analyst
1 5 (55.56%) Junior Data Analyst
2 4 (44.44%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 3 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) AI
1 5 (55.56%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (44.44%) Data Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) ETL
2 4 (44.44%) Migration
3 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (33.33%) Data Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Data Transformation
4 1 (11.11%) ETL Development
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks