SQL Jobs in Cheshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 9 4
Rank change year-on-year -11 -5 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 99 190 175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.81% 11.74% 19.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.25% 42.32% 56.82%
Number of salaries quoted 40 144 95
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £52,813 £72,061 £62,250
90th Percentile £61,375 £96,750 £76,250
North West median annual salary £52,000 £52,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +1.94% +4.04%

All Programming Languages
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 240 449 308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 31.05% 27.75% 34.45%
Number of salaries quoted 65 371 197
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,250 £32,650
25th Percentile £35,750 £38,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -8.90% +21.96%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £76,000
90th Percentile £67,000 £85,000 £96,250
North West median annual salary £50,055 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.99% - -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Cheshire

SQL
Salary Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in Cheshire.

Salary trend for SQL in Cheshire

SQL
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Cheshire over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Cheshire

SQL
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 29 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warrington -1 17 £35,000 -30.00% 12
Crewe -3 9 £48,750 +11.43% 3
Macclesfield +1 5 £37,500 -6.25% 1
Knutsford -3 5 £47,500 -40.63% 5
Wilmslow - 5 £40,000 - 4
Chester -5 4 £52,500 +31.85% 13
Widnes -1 3 - - 1
Runcorn -3 3 - - 6
Northwich -4 3 - -
Ellesmere Port - 3 - - 2
Sandbach +5 2 - -
Winsford +1 2 £57,500 +9.52%
Congleton - 2 - -
Middlewich - 2 - -
Neston - 1 - -
SQL
North West

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (21.21%) Confluence
2 2 (2.02%) SAS
3 1 (1.01%) CMS
3 1 (1.01%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (9.09%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 67 (67.68%) Azure
2 59 (59.60%) AWS
3 23 (23.23%) GCP
4 7 (7.07%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.02%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.02%) NuGet
6 2 (2.02%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.02%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.01%) Collibra
7 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.02%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.01%) ADSL
2 1 (1.01%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (62.63%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.05%) Power BI
3 3 (3.03%) Data Lake
3 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.02%) Tableau
5 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.01%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.01%) Power Query
5 1 (1.01%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 55 (55.56%) Bitbucket
1 55 (55.56%) Cucumber
1 55 (55.56%) GitLab
1 55 (55.56%) JIRA
1 55 (55.56%) Maven
1 55 (55.56%) Selenium
1 55 (55.56%) SonarQube
1 55 (55.56%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (2.02%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.01%) Git
3 1 (1.01%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.01%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 58 (58.59%) Finance
2 57 (57.58%) Banking
3 55 (55.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 36 (36.36%) Investment Banking
4 36 (36.36%) Retail
5 34 (34.34%) Corporate Banking
6 21 (21.21%) Social Skills
7 2 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.02%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.01%) Advertising
8 1 (1.01%) Legal
Job Titles
1 57 (57.58%) Software Engineer
2 19 (19.19%) Developer
3 13 (13.13%) .NET Developer
4 11 (11.11%) Support Specialist
5 9 (9.09%) C# Developer
5 9 (9.09%) WinForms Developer
6 4 (4.04%) .NET Software Developer
6 4 (4.04%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (4.04%) C# Software Developer
6 4 (4.04%) Software Developer
7 3 (3.03%) Analyst
7 3 (3.03%) Data Scientist
8 2 (2.02%) Applications Specialist
8 2 (2.02%) Applications Support
8 2 (2.02%) Applications Support Specialist
8 2 (2.02%) Data Modeller
8 2 (2.02%) Finance Modeller
8 2 (2.02%) Lead
8 2 (2.02%) Senior
8 2 (2.02%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (59.60%) HTML
2 58 (58.59%) CSS
3 57 (57.58%) Kafka
4 56 (56.57%) React
5 55 (55.56%) JPA
5 55 (55.56%) Redux
5 55 (55.56%) Spring
5 55 (55.56%) Spring Boot
6 37 (37.37%) RESTful
7 36 (36.36%) REST
8 35 (35.35%) CSS3
8 35 (35.35%) HTML5
8 35 (35.35%) Sass
9 34 (34.34%) Jest
10 21 (21.21%) Hibernate
11 20 (20.20%) .NET
12 9 (9.09%) .NET Framework
12 9 (9.09%) WinForms
13 7 (7.07%) .NET Core
14 5 (5.05%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 55 (55.56%) Enterprise Software
1 55 (55.56%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.02%) Blog
2 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.01%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (66.67%) Agile
2 59 (59.60%) DevOps
3 58 (58.59%) CI/CD
3 58 (58.59%) Containerisation
3 58 (58.59%) Microservices
3 58 (58.59%) Software Engineering
4 56 (56.57%) Performance Optimisation
5 55 (55.56%) Front End Development
5 55 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
5 55 (55.56%) SDLC
5 55 (55.56%) Test Automation
6 35 (35.35%) User Experience
7 34 (34.34%) Mentoring
7 34 (34.34%) Migration
7 34 (34.34%) Responsive Web Design
7 34 (34.34%) Strategic Thinking
8 25 (25.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (22.22%) TDD
11 21 (21.21%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 62 (62.63%) JavaScript
2 59 (59.60%) Java
3 37 (37.37%) TypeScript
4 21 (21.21%) C#
5 7 (7.07%) Python
6 6 (6.06%) R
7 3 (3.03%) MATLAB
8 2 (2.02%) C++
9 1 (1.01%) C
9 1 (1.01%) Dart
9 1 (1.01%) Julia
9 1 (1.01%) PHP
9 1 (1.01%) Ruby
9 1 (1.01%) Rust
9 1 (1.01%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.01%) VB
9 1 (1.01%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.01%) VB6
9 1 (1.01%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (16.16%) Degree
2 11 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (56.57%) QA
2 34 (34.34%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.02%) GDPR
4 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
System Software
1 58 (58.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 57 (57.58%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.02%) Kibana
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.02%) SCCM
Vendors
1 55 (55.56%) Solace
2 9 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.02%) Blue Prism
3 2 (2.02%) Databricks
3 2 (2.02%) Facebook
3 2 (2.02%) Google
3 2 (2.02%) Oracle
3 2 (2.02%) UiPath
4 1 (1.01%) Apple
4 1 (1.01%) Informatica
4 1 (1.01%) SAP