SQL Job Trends in Chester

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Chester requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 9
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 8 10 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Chester 3.20% 10.42% 9.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 61.54% 38.46% 29.85%
Number of salaries quoted 7 2 11
10th Percentile - £36,125 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,813 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,750 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +9.38% -9.16%
75th Percentile £73,125 £52,813 £60,957
90th Percentile £87,500 £56,375 £71,915
Cheshire median annual salary £52,500 £36,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +43.84% -27.00% +5.26%

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 13 26 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 5.20% 27.08% 33.00%
Number of salaries quoted 11 13 49
10th Percentile - £36,500 £36,850
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +0.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £73,250 £73,532
Cheshire median annual salary £57,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +35.29% -15.00% -9.09%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Chester.

SQL job vacancy trend in Chester

SQL
Salary Trend in Chester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Chester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Chester over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Chester

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Stripe
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) MariaDB
1 5 (62.50%) MySQL
2 3 (37.50%) Redis
3 2 (25.00%) Big Data
3 2 (25.00%) Power BI
4 1 (12.50%) Db2
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) PHP Developer
2 3 (37.50%) PHP Laravel Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Junior
4 1 (12.50%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Laravel
2 3 (37.50%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (37.50%) Vue
3 2 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) AI
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) CRUD
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Optimisation
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Observability
5 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PHP
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (12.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Google
1 5 (62.50%) OpenAI
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Sybase