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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 25 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -16
Permanent jobs citing SQL 10 28 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 7.09% 9.36% 11.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.86% 19.86% 28.97%
Number of salaries quoted 6 14 16
10th Percentile £51,250 £38,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,813 £43,750 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - +27.66%
75th Percentile £80,000 - £72,000
90th Percentile - £87,500 -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £42,266 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -29.56% +9.09% +15.79%

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 56 141 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 39.72% 47.16% 39.94%
Number of salaries quoted 37 84 74
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £73,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,200 £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £59,556
% change year-on-year -8.70% -3.45% +19.11%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Job vacancy trend for SQL 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 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Cheltenham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Infor CloudSuite
1 5 (50.00%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) 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 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) ERP Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
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%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) Web Services
3 2 (20.00%) Blazor
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
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 8 (80.00%) ERP
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (50.00%) Project Management
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) B2B
5 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) MVC
5 1 (10.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C#
1 5 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Infor
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) IFS