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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 4 17
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 -13
Permanent jobs citing SQL 4 42 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 9.76% 17.14% 10.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.77% 48.28% 56.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1 33 10
10th Percentile - £35,000 £31,569
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £40,000 £43,800
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -8.68% +18.38%
75th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £57,931
90th Percentile - £64,250 £67,500
Cheshire median annual salary £38,750 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -22.50% +5.26% +18.75%

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 87 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 31.71% 35.51% 17.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5 70 20
10th Percentile £32,600 £32,500 £25,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £31,569
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £43,800
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +8.45% -2.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £57,931
90th Percentile £68,250 £65,691 £65,250
Cheshire median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £54,941
% change year-on-year -5.00% -8.99% +22.09%

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
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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
1 3 (75.00%) Maven
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
1 3 (75.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) JPA
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) Redux
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
1 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) Jest
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Sass
3 1 (25.00%) NLTK
3 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (25.00%) Seaborn
3 1 (25.00%) SpaCy
3 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (25.00%) Blog
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) SDLC
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) Ontologies
4 1 (25.00%) Statistics
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Julia
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Solace