SQL Job Trends in Cheltenham

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 29 32
Rank change year-on-year +15 +3 -19
Permanent jobs citing SQL 16 5 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 8.33% 3.76% 10.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.40% 7.94% 21.05%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 35
10th Percentile £39,250 - £43,000
25th Percentile £41,250 - £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £43,750 - £61,250
90th Percentile £58,250 - £72,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £42,500 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -34.62% +23.81% -

All Programming Languages
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 63 63 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 32.81% 47.37% 49.64%
Number of salaries quoted 52 26 138
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.73% +3.18%
75th Percentile £76,250 £78,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £94,375 £80,625 £81,800
Gloucestershire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -4.55%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

SQL
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing SQL

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Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 28 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Cheltenham

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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:

Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (37.50%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (37.50%) Magento
1 6 (37.50%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Power Platform
3 6 (37.50%) Azure AI
3 6 (37.50%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (12.50%) AWS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (43.75%) Power BI
2 7 (43.75%) Tableau
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Back Office
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Military
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Analyst
2 6 (37.50%) Data Analyst
2 6 (37.50%) Junior
2 6 (37.50%) Junior Analyst
2 6 (37.50%) Junior Data Analyst
3 5 (31.25%) Software Analyst
3 5 (31.25%) Support Analyst
4 4 (25.00%) Senior
4 4 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (25.00%) Senior Support Analyst
4 4 (25.00%) Software Support Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Developer
6 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Applications Support
6 1 (6.25%) Applications Support Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Graduate
6 1 (6.25%) Graduate Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Graduate Software Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Middleware
1 6 (37.50%) REST
1 6 (37.50%) SOAP
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (12.50%) Blazor
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) CSS3
3 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
3 1 (6.25%) HTML5
3 1 (6.25%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (37.50%) AI
2 6 (37.50%) API Integration
2 6 (37.50%) Change Management
2 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (37.50%) CRM
2 6 (37.50%) Data Management
2 6 (37.50%) E-Commerce
2 6 (37.50%) ERP
2 6 (37.50%) ITSM
2 6 (37.50%) Service Management
2 6 (37.50%) User Experience
3 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (12.50%) Microservices
3 2 (12.50%) MVC
3 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) T-SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) ConnectWise
2 6 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 6 (37.50%) WooCommerce
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