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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 16 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 -8
Permanent jobs citing SQL 6 10 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Chester 2.25% 7.58% 5.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.58% 35.71% 15.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile - £36,125 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,813 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.78% +2.20%
75th Percentile £58,750 £52,813 £53,750
90th Percentile - £56,375 £62,383
Cheshire median annual salary £52,500 £37,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +41.89% -26.00% +1.01%

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 19 28 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 7.12% 21.21% 36.20%
Number of salaries quoted 14 14 39
10th Percentile - £43,625 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,188 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,375 £65,000
90th Percentile - £75,700 £80,000
Cheshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -6.98%

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
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 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) MariaDB
1 5 (83.33%) MySQL
2 3 (50.00%) Redis
3 2 (33.33%) Big Data
4 1 (16.67%) Db2
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) PHP Developer
2 3 (50.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Junior
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Laravel
2 3 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) AI
3 3 (50.00%) CRUD
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Investment Management
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) OO
5 1 (16.67%) OOP
5 1 (16.67%) SDLC
5 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) C
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Google
1 5 (83.33%) OpenAI
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Sybase