SQL Job Trends in Chelmsford

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Essex > Chelmsford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Chelmsford requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -11
Permanent jobs citing SQL 7 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Chelmsford 5.98% 2.86% 8.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 63.64% 9.52% 44.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile - £43,850 £37,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,125 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +20.93% -2.27%
75th Percentile £61,250 £79,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £62,750 £87,350 -
Essex median annual salary £40,000 £57,500 £46,250
% change year-on-year -30.43% +24.32% -15.91%

All Programming Languages
Chelmsford

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 Chelmsford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 11 21 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chelmsford 9.40% 30.00% 18.95%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 18
10th Percentile £25,000 £39,525 £42,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% +10.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £80,875 £68,438
90th Percentile £66,000 £94,750 £70,750
Essex median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -21.74% -8.00% +13.64%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Chelmsford

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Chelmsford

SQL
Salary Trend in Chelmsford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chelmsford citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chelmsford citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chelmsford 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Power BI
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
3 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
3 2 (28.57%) PowerPivot
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (28.57%) Tableau
4 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) DBA
2 2 (28.57%) Financial Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) SQL DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) ERP Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) ERP Support
3 1 (14.29%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Reinsurance
1 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) Visualisation
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (28.57%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (28.57%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (28.57%) Data Extraction
4 2 (28.57%) Data Management
4 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (28.57%) Financial Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
5 1 (14.29%) CRM
5 1 (14.29%) ERP
5 1 (14.29%) ETL
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Statistics
5 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) VBA
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Epicor
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow