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 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 30 26
Rank change year-on-year +14 -4 -17
Permanent jobs citing SQL 9 20 49
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 7.56% 7.25% 12.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.15% 15.63% 24.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 22
10th Percentile £43,750 £50,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 - £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £80,000 - £71,500
90th Percentile - £72,500 £72,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +10.00%

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 47 128 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 39.50% 46.38% 50.76%
Number of salaries quoted 37 68 87
10th Percentile £30,500 £33,750 £40,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £44,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,563 £72,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £81,800 £80,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +15.00%

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 24 October 2025.

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:

Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Infor CloudSuite
1 3 (33.33%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Power BI
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Power Query
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) ERP Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Lead
3 2 (22.22%) Lead Developer
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (22.22%) Blazor
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
4 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (11.11%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (11.11%) React
4 1 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) WinForms
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) ERP
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
5 1 (11.11%) B2B
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 1 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 1 (11.11%) ITIL
5 1 (11.11%) Microservices
5 1 (11.11%) MVC
5 1 (11.11%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C#
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) PL/SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Infor
3 2 (22.22%) IFS