SQL Job Trends in Chesterfield

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Derbyshire > Chesterfield

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Chesterfield requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 3 9
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 3 11 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Chesterfield 5.17% 30.56% 8.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 100.00% 84.62% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 3
10th Percentile £33,525 £37,500 -
25th Percentile £36,938 £37,750 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £42,500 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% +2.41% -7.78%
75th Percentile £48,938 £43,750 £44,375
90th Percentile £51,975 - £45,050
Derbyshire median annual salary £60,000 £42,500 £44,000
% change year-on-year +41.18% -3.41% -2.22%

All Programming Languages
Chesterfield

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 Chesterfield.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3 13 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chesterfield 5.17% 36.11% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2 13 6
10th Percentile £33,525 £32,500 £39,125
25th Percentile £36,938 £37,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £42,500 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% +0.59% +7.64%
75th Percentile £48,938 £43,750 £44,625
90th Percentile £51,975 £45,550 £45,250
Derbyshire median annual salary £54,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.00% +5.26%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Chesterfield

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Chesterfield

SQL
Salary Trend in Chesterfield

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chesterfield citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chesterfield citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Chesterfield

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Chesterfield over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Chesterfield

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chesterfield 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Application Support Team Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
1 1 (33.33%) Data Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Junior
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Junior Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Report Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Team Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Doctrine
1 1 (33.33%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) People Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft
1 1 (33.33%) NEC
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce