SQL Server Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 15 72
Rank change year-on-year -28 +57 -23
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 11 106 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.71% 15.04% 3.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.37% 60.92% 17.05%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 25
10th Percentile - - £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,500 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +5.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile - £59,500 £61,500
South West median annual salary £42,750 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -25.65% +9.52% +5.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Gloucestershire

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 54 174 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.41% 24.68% 20.30%
Number of salaries quoted 35 33 85
10th Percentile - £39,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 - £61,123
90th Percentile £99,500 £92,500 £70,460
South West median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Gloucestershire

SQL Server
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 16 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheltenham - 8 £47,500 - 2
SQL Server
South West

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Infor CloudSuite
1 4 (36.36%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 3 (27.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (27.27%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (27.27%) Magento
2 3 (27.27%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Crystal Reports
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (18.18%) Power BI
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 3 (27.27%) Back Office
2 2 (18.18%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Software Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Support Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Software Support Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Systems Developer
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) ERP Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Graduate
5 1 (9.09%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Graduate Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) .NET
2 4 (36.36%) Web Services
3 3 (27.27%) Middleware
3 3 (27.27%) REST
3 3 (27.27%) SOAP
4 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
4 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (18.18%) Blazor
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
5 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (9.09%) CSS
5 1 (9.09%) CSS3
5 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
5 1 (9.09%) HTML
5 1 (9.09%) HTML5
5 1 (9.09%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (9.09%) React
5 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) ERP
2 7 (63.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) Project Management
5 3 (27.27%) API Integration
5 3 (27.27%) Change Management
5 3 (27.27%) CRM
5 3 (27.27%) Data Management
5 3 (27.27%) E-Commerce
5 3 (27.27%) ITSM
5 3 (27.27%) Service Management
5 3 (27.27%) User Experience
6 2 (18.18%) B2C
6 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (18.18%) Data Mapping
6 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (18.18%) MVC
7 1 (9.09%) Agile
7 1 (9.09%) B2B
7 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) C#
2 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 4 (36.36%) T-SQL
4 2 (18.18%) VBA
5 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Infor
3 3 (27.27%) ConnectWise
3 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
3 3 (27.27%) WooCommerce