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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
21 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - 58
Rank change year-on-year - - -35
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 7 0 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 3.72% - 3.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.33% - 14.43%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 14
10th Percentile £40,750 - £43,750
25th Percentile £41,250 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £43,750 - £58,750
90th Percentile £47,750 - £60,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% -11.63%

All Database & 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 30 25 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 15.96% 17.73% 23.54%
Number of salaries quoted 21 6 40
10th Percentile - £43,125 £42,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +11.61% +1.82%
75th Percentile £76,250 £88,125 £61,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £77,520
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% -4.55%

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
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 5 (71.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (71.43%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (71.43%) Magento
1 5 (71.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) 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
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 5 (71.43%) Back Office
2 1 (14.29%) Military
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
1 5 (71.43%) Software Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Support Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Software Support Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Support Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Graduate
4 1 (14.29%) Graduate Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Graduate Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Middleware
1 5 (71.43%) REST
1 5 (71.43%) SOAP
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (28.57%) Blazor
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) CSS3
3 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) API Integration
1 5 (71.43%) Change Management
1 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (71.43%) CRM
1 5 (71.43%) Data Management
1 5 (71.43%) E-Commerce
1 5 (71.43%) ERP
1 5 (71.43%) ITSM
1 5 (71.43%) Service Management
1 5 (71.43%) User Experience
2 2 (28.57%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) B2B
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) T-SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) ConnectWise
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
1 5 (71.43%) ServiceNow
1 5 (71.43%) WooCommerce
SQL Server jobs