SQL Server Jobs in Chester

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Chester requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 13 33
Rank change year-on-year +7 +20 -10
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 7 22 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 17.95% 9.78% 1.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 70.00% 44.00% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3 22 2
10th Percentile £31,750 £35,000 -
25th Percentile £38,125 £36,250 £34,723
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £37,500 £36,765
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +2.00% -7.80%
75th Percentile £58,125 £40,438 £38,808
90th Percentile £59,250 £56,250 -
Cheshire median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -15.79%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Chester

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Chester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 10 50 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 25.64% 22.22% 10.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4 34 3
10th Percentile £33,875 £32,500 -
25th Percentile £43,438 £36,250 £34,723
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £37,500 £36,765
Median % change year-on-year +43.33% +2.00% -18.30%
75th Percentile £58,125 £52,438 £48,154
90th Percentile £59,250 £63,875 £53,762
Cheshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Chester

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Chester

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Chester

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Chester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Chester over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Chester

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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 2 (28.57%) SAS
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket
1 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
1 3 (42.86%) Maven
1 3 (42.86%) Selenium
1 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
1 3 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Retail
4 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) CSS
1 4 (57.14%) HTML
2 3 (42.86%) JPA
2 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 3 (42.86%) React
2 3 (42.86%) Redux
2 3 (42.86%) RESTful
2 3 (42.86%) Spring
2 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) CSS3
3 2 (28.57%) HTML5
3 2 (28.57%) Jest
3 2 (28.57%) REST
3 2 (28.57%) Sass
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
4 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (57.14%) SDLC
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Front End Development
3 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Solace
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft