SQL Server Job Trends in Cheltenham

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - -28
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 7 0 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 4.22% - 2.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 33.33% - 9.47%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 9
10th Percentile £40,750 - £52,500
25th Percentile £41,250 - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 - £58,750
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £51,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.82% - +5.77%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheltenham

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 21 32 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 12.65% 15.31% 25.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16 7 32
10th Percentile £40,625 £44,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £46,875 £48,750 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +25.00% +1.82%
75th Percentile £82,188 £91,875 £62,000
90th Percentile £100,625 £96,500 £67,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +4.76%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Cheltenham

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Infor CloudSuite
1 3 (42.86%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (28.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (28.57%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (28.57%) Magento
2 2 (28.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Crystal Reports
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Back Office
2 1 (14.29%) Military
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Analyst
4 2 (28.57%) Software Analyst
5 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Graduate
5 1 (14.29%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Graduate Software Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Support Analyst
5 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Software Support Analyst
5 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) Web Services
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (28.57%) Blazor
3 2 (28.57%) Middleware
3 2 (28.57%) REST
3 2 (28.57%) SOAP
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) CSS3
4 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) HTML5
4 1 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (14.29%) React
4 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (71.43%) ERP
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Project Management
4 2 (28.57%) API Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Change Management
4 2 (28.57%) CRM
4 2 (28.57%) Data Management
4 2 (28.57%) E-Commerce
4 2 (28.57%) ITSM
4 2 (28.57%) MVC
4 2 (28.57%) Service Management
4 2 (28.57%) User Experience
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) B2B
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) C#
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) T-SQL
4 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Infor
3 2 (28.57%) ConnectWise
3 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 2 (28.57%) WooCommerce