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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 21 67
Rank change year-on-year -27 +46 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 9 109 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.68% 11.57% 3.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.47% 56.77% 16.19%
Number of salaries quoted 9 4 27
10th Percentile £46,000 - £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £66,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,500 £77,500 £62,500
South West median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -21.74% +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 34 192 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 6.36% 20.38% 23.86%
Number of salaries quoted 20 38 104
10th Percentile £41,125 £27,850 £31,400
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,313 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £80,625 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £74,230
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 5 November 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 5 November 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 +25 5 £75,000 -6.25%
Lydney -1 2 £50,000 -
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 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Infor CloudSuite
1 4 (44.44%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
2 1 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Crystal Reports
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Military
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) ERP Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Graduate
4 1 (11.11%) Graduate Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Graduate Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) .NET
2 4 (44.44%) Web Services
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (22.22%) Blazor
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
4 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (11.11%) CSS
4 1 (11.11%) CSS3
4 1 (11.11%) Entity Framework
4 1 (11.11%) HTML
4 1 (11.11%) HTML5
4 1 (11.11%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (11.11%) React
4 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
1 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) ERP
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (44.44%) Project Management
4 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (22.22%) CRM
5 2 (22.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (22.22%) MVC
5 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
5 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (11.11%) DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (11.11%) Microservices
6 1 (11.11%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) C#
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Infor
3 2 (22.22%) Salesforce