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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 18 20
Rank change year-on-year -31 +2 +8
Permanent jobs citing SQL 18 9 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 2.16% 6.77% 11.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.04% 16.07% 23.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 23
10th Percentile - £52,150 £35,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £53,500 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £75,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% +42.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,250 - £87,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £49,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.06% -5.71% -4.55%

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 163 56 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 19.54% 42.11% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 111 33 115
10th Percentile £45,000 £27,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £56,554 £44,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,500 £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £65,000 £52,600 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.57% -4.36% -8.33%

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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

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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 7 August 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 13 (72.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (5.56%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (5.56%) Magento
1 1 (5.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (83.33%) Azure
2 14 (77.78%) Power Platform
3 13 (72.22%) Azure AI
4 2 (11.11%) AWS
5 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (77.78%) Power BI
2 13 (72.22%) Tableau
3 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 14 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Back Office
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Analyst
2 13 (72.22%) Data Analyst
2 13 (72.22%) Junior
2 13 (72.22%) Junior Analyst
2 13 (72.22%) Junior Data Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) SQL BI Developer
4 1 (5.56%) TM1 Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Middleware
1 1 (5.56%) REST
1 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) AI
2 14 (77.78%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (16.67%) Data Management
4 2 (11.11%) Agile
4 2 (11.11%) Business Strategy
4 2 (11.11%) CRM
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Data Integration
4 2 (11.11%) ETL
4 2 (11.11%) Line Management
4 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (5.56%) Architecture Governance
5 1 (5.56%) Planning and Forecasting
5 1 (5.56%) Storytelling
5 1 (5.56%) Task Automation
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (5.56%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (72.22%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) ACCA
2 1 (5.56%) CIMA
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) ConnectWise
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) WooCommerce