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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 20 23
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 31 4 46
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 6.34% 4.35% 11.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.83% 10.26% 24.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 40
10th Percentile - - £39,500
25th Percentile £41,250 - £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.64%
75th Percentile £43,750 - £66,750
90th Percentile £49,250 - £87,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% -4.76%

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 120 39 188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 24.54% 42.39% 45.85%
Number of salaries quoted 72 22 161
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,175 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,497 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.51% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,000 £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -6.25%

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 29 April 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 21 (67.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (29.03%) Dynamics NAV
1 9 (29.03%) Magento
1 9 (29.03%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (70.97%) Azure
2 21 (67.74%) Azure AI
2 21 (67.74%) Power Platform
3 9 (29.03%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.23%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (67.74%) Power BI
1 21 (67.74%) Tableau
2 9 (29.03%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) JIRA
General
1 21 (67.74%) Social Skills
2 9 (29.03%) Back Office
3 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 30 (96.77%) Analyst
2 21 (67.74%) Data Analyst
2 21 (67.74%) Junior
2 21 (67.74%) Junior Analyst
2 21 (67.74%) Junior Data Analyst
3 8 (25.81%) Support Analyst
4 5 (16.13%) Software Analyst
5 4 (12.90%) Applications Support
5 4 (12.90%) Applications Support Analyst
5 4 (12.90%) Senior
5 4 (12.90%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (12.90%) Senior Support Analyst
5 4 (12.90%) Software Support Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) Middleware
1 9 (29.03%) REST
1 9 (29.03%) SOAP
2 1 (3.23%) Spring
2 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) AI
1 21 (67.74%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (29.03%) API Integration
2 9 (29.03%) Change Management
2 9 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (29.03%) CRM
2 9 (29.03%) Data Management
2 9 (29.03%) E-Commerce
2 9 (29.03%) ERP
2 9 (29.03%) ITSM
2 9 (29.03%) Service Management
2 9 (29.03%) User Experience
3 1 (3.23%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (3.23%) Collaborative Engineering
3 1 (3.23%) DevOps
3 1 (3.23%) Event-Driven
3 1 (3.23%) Event-Driven Programming
3 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (3.23%) Microservices
3 1 (3.23%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 21 (67.74%) Python
2 9 (29.03%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (67.74%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (96.77%) Microsoft
2 9 (29.03%) ConnectWise
2 9 (29.03%) ServiceNow
2 9 (29.03%) WooCommerce