SQL Jobs in Chester

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 5 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 -12
Permanent jobs citing SQL 5 33 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 7.04% 13.25% 11.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.71% 41.25% 55.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2 24 12
10th Percentile £36,125 £36,475 £32,699
25th Percentile £37,813 £37,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £47,500 £43,916
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +8.16% -10.07%
75th Percentile £52,813 £57,500 £45,191
90th Percentile £56,375 £69,840 £56,657
Cheshire median annual salary £36,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -27.00% +5.26% +5.56%

All Programming Languages
Chester

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 Chester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 14 80 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 19.72% 32.13% 21.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6 63 26
10th Percentile £29,250 £35,250 £25,250
25th Percentile £37,813 £38,750 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £50,000 £44,033
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +13.55% -11.94%
75th Percentile £59,688 £65,000 £63,233
90th Percentile £66,875 £71,915 £82,548
Cheshire median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +15.79%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Chester

SQL
Salary Trend in Chester

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

Salary trend for SQL in Chester

SQL
Salary Histogram in Chester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Chester over the 6 months to 14 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Chester

SQL
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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (20.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) Maven
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
1 3 (60.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (60.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (40.00%) Corporate Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Legal
3 2 (40.00%) Retail
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) HTML
1 3 (60.00%) JPA
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
1 3 (60.00%) React
1 3 (60.00%) Redux
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) CSS3
2 2 (40.00%) HTML5
2 2 (40.00%) Jest
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Sass
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) NumPy
3 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (20.00%) Regular Expression
3 1 (20.00%) SpaCy
3 1 (20.00%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
3 1 (20.00%) Blog
3 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (20.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Dimensionality Reduction
4 1 (20.00%) Due Diligence
4 1 (20.00%) Post-Merger Integration
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) Julia
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CBAP
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Solace