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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 16 22
Rank change year-on-year -32 +6 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 17 10 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 1.95% 7.41% 11.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.77% 18.87% 22.64%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 22
10th Percentile £32,000 £51,250 £35,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £51,813 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £66,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.35% +32.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £65,625 £80,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £66,250 - £87,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -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 174 53 159
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 20.00% 39.26% 49.38%
Number of salaries quoted 122 32 111
10th Percentile £45,194 £27,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £43,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.92% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £94,250 £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £68,750 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.95% -4.55% -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 21 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 12 (70.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 14 (82.35%) Power Platform
2 13 (76.47%) Azure
3 11 (64.71%) Azure AI
4 2 (11.76%) AWS
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (82.35%) Power BI
2 11 (64.71%) Tableau
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
General
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Analyst
2 12 (70.59%) Junior
2 12 (70.59%) Junior Analyst
3 11 (64.71%) Data Analyst
3 11 (64.71%) Junior Data Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Power BI Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Systems Developer
6 1 (5.88%) SQL Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) SQL BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) AI
1 14 (82.35%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
3 2 (11.76%) Agile
3 2 (11.76%) Analytics
3 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (11.76%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (11.76%) Data Engineering
3 2 (11.76%) Data Extraction
3 2 (11.76%) Data Integration
3 2 (11.76%) Data Management
3 2 (11.76%) ETL
3 2 (11.76%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (11.76%) Line Management
3 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
3 2 (11.76%) Migration
3 2 (11.76%) Planning and Forecasting
3 2 (11.76%) Storytelling
3 2 (11.76%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (11.76%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.76%) ACCA
2 2 (11.76%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud