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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 29 39
Rank change year-on-year +16 +10 -29
Permanent jobs citing SQL 17 10 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 9.39% 6.58% 8.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.87% 13.33% 17.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 25
10th Percentile £40,125 - £43,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £83,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £87,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -51.43% +52.17% +4.55%
75th Percentile £60,313 £91,250 £66,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - £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 61 75 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 33.70% 49.34% 47.34%
Number of salaries quoted 52 32 105
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,063 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +16.07% +1.82%
75th Percentile £76,563 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £94,375 £81,500 £84,000
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

SQL
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 7 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Cheltenham

SQL
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 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (29.41%) Dynamics NAV
1 5 (29.41%) Magento
1 5 (29.41%) Shopify
2 2 (11.76%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (11.76%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) Power Platform
3 5 (29.41%) Azure AI
3 5 (29.41%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (11.76%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) SQL Server
2 6 (35.29%) Power BI
2 6 (35.29%) Tableau
3 2 (11.76%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Back Office
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Military
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Analyst
2 6 (35.29%) Senior
3 5 (29.41%) Data Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Junior
3 5 (29.41%) Junior Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) Junior Data Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) Software Analyst
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (23.53%) Senior Support Analyst
4 4 (23.53%) Software Support Analyst
4 4 (23.53%) Support Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Graduate
6 1 (5.88%) Graduate Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) REST
2 5 (29.41%) Middleware
2 5 (29.41%) SOAP
3 4 (23.53%) .NET
4 3 (17.65%) Blazor
5 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
5 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (11.76%) Web Services
6 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (5.88%) CSS
6 1 (5.88%) CSS3
6 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
6 1 (5.88%) HTML
6 1 (5.88%) HTML5
6 1 (5.88%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (5.88%) React
6 1 (5.88%) RESTful
6 1 (5.88%) Spring
6 1 (5.88%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) ERP
2 7 (41.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (29.41%) AI
4 5 (29.41%) API Integration
4 5 (29.41%) Change Management
4 5 (29.41%) CRM
4 5 (29.41%) Data Management
4 5 (29.41%) E-Commerce
4 5 (29.41%) ITSM
4 5 (29.41%) Service Management
4 5 (29.41%) User Experience
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) DevOps
7 2 (11.76%) Analytics
7 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (11.76%) Microservices
7 2 (11.76%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
1 6 (35.29%) T-SQL
2 5 (29.41%) C#
2 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) ConnectWise
2 5 (29.41%) ServiceNow
2 5 (29.41%) WooCommerce
3 2 (11.76%) Infor