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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 19 24
Rank change year-on-year -30 +5 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 18 9 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 1.97% 6.43% 9.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.06% 16.36% 19.86%
Number of salaries quoted 9 6 14
10th Percentile £36,800 £51,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £51,813 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £66,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 -
90th Percentile £66,250 - £87,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £42,266 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.13% -29.56% +9.09%

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 179 55 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 19.56% 39.29% 47.00%
Number of salaries quoted 135 37 84
10th Percentile £49,750 £27,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £47,500 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £91,250 £82,200
Gloucestershire median annual salary £70,000 £53,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year +30.23% -6.52% -3.45%

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 19 September 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (27.78%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Power Platform
2 10 (55.56%) Azure
3 7 (38.89%) Azure AI
4 3 (16.67%) AWS
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DHCP
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (5.56%) MPLS
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (77.78%) Power BI
2 7 (38.89%) Tableau
3 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) Data Analyst
2 8 (44.44%) Junior
2 8 (44.44%) Junior Analyst
3 7 (38.89%) Junior Data Analyst
3 7 (38.89%) Systems Analyst
4 5 (27.78%) Analyst Developer
4 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 5 (27.78%) Developer
4 5 (27.78%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 5 (27.78%) Financial Analyst
4 5 (27.78%) Power BI Analyst
4 5 (27.78%) Power BI Developer
4 5 (27.78%) Systems Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Business Systems Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (61.11%) AI
3 5 (27.78%) Analytics
3 5 (27.78%) Dashboard Development
3 5 (27.78%) Data Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Data Extraction
3 5 (27.78%) Kalman Filter
3 5 (27.78%) Planning and Forecasting
3 5 (27.78%) Storytelling
3 5 (27.78%) Task Automation
4 4 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Data Integration
6 2 (11.11%) Data Management
6 2 (11.11%) ERP
6 2 (11.11%) ETL
6 2 (11.11%) Line Management
6 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
6 2 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Azure Certification
2 5 (27.78%) ACCA
2 5 (27.78%) CIMA
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.56%) vSphere
1 1 (5.56%) XenApp
1 1 (5.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) IBM
3 2 (11.11%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix
4 1 (5.56%) Dell
4 1 (5.56%) NetApp
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) VMware