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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 30 28
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 -17
Permanent jobs citing SQL 10 19 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 7.35% 7.14% 12.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.23% 16.38% 23.86%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 22
10th Percentile £37,750 £50,500 £42,625
25th Percentile £48,438 - £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +4.35% +21.05%
75th Percentile £80,000 - £70,000
90th Percentile - £72,500 £72,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +20.37% +8.00%

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 52 116 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 38.24% 43.61% 51.17%
Number of salaries quoted 40 60 89
10th Percentile £32,000 £33,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,438 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,313 £72,000
90th Percentile £89,375 £82,750 £80,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% +9.52%

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 8 November 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 (30.00%) Infor CloudSuite
1 3 (30.00%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) Power BI
3 3 (30.00%) Crystal Reports
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) Power Query
4 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) ERP Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Graduate
4 1 (10.00%) Graduate Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Graduate Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) Blazor
2 3 (30.00%) Web Services
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) CSS3
4 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (10.00%) HTML
4 1 (10.00%) HTML5
4 1 (10.00%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (10.00%) React
4 1 (10.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) WinForms
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) ERP
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) MVC
4 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (10.00%) B2B
5 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) Statistics
5 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) C#
1 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Infor
3 2 (20.00%) IFS