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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 11 6
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 7 10 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Chester 4.90% 6.58% 22.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.92% 19.23% 52.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 15
10th Percentile £36,125 - £38,591
25th Percentile £37,813 £37,500 £41,437
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £45,000 £44,033
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.20% -2.15%
75th Percentile £52,813 £52,813 £66,924
90th Percentile £56,375 £60,450 £70,288
Cheshire median annual salary £37,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +11.11%

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 26 52 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 18.18% 34.21% 42.99%
Number of salaries quoted 15 34 32
10th Percentile £44,000 £37,500 £40,287
25th Percentile £50,375 £40,000 £43,568
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 £65,208
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -21.41% +44.91%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £75,600 £75,500 £82,548
Cheshire median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.79% +28.89%

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 12 November 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) Neo4j
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 1 (14.29%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Bitbucket
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
1 5 (71.43%) SonarQube
1 5 (71.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Legal
4 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
1 5 (71.43%) Software Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Backend Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Hugging Face
2 1 (14.29%) Keras
2 1 (14.29%) NLTK
2 1 (14.29%) NumPy
2 1 (14.29%) OpenCV
2 1 (14.29%) Pandas
2 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 1 (14.29%) Regular Expression
2 1 (14.29%) scikit-learn
2 1 (14.29%) Seaborn
2 1 (14.29%) SpaCy
2 1 (14.29%) SQLAlchemy
2 1 (14.29%) Streamlit
2 1 (14.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) AI Agents
1 1 (14.29%) Blog
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (14.29%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (85.71%) Unit Testing
3 5 (71.43%) Business Strategy
3 5 (71.43%) Code Quality
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (71.43%) Decision-Making
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Secure Coding
3 5 (71.43%) Strategic Thinking
4 4 (57.14%) API Development
5 1 (14.29%) Case Management
5 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
5 1 (14.29%) Deep Learning
5 1 (14.29%) Exploratory Data Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 1 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
5 1 (14.29%) OCR
5 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Julia
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CBAP
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker