SQL Job Trends in Gloucestershire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 34 31
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -11
Permanent jobs citing SQL 55 32 131
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 4.56% 7.77% 7.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.63% 21.92% 18.19%
Number of salaries quoted 33 24 110
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,250 £32,425
25th Percentile £41,250 £30,750 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £60,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +17.07% -2.38%
75th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £61,813
90th Percentile £79,750 £95,000 £68,875
South West median annual salary £47,500 £51,800 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.30% +3.60% -

All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 243 146 720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 20.15% 35.44% 43.30%
Number of salaries quoted 141 74 588
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,900 £31,500
25th Percentile £43,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +11.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,500 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

SQL
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Gloucestershire

SQL
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 within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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 -2 32 £42,500 - 12
Gloucester -14 13 £55,000 -15.38% 6
Tewkesbury -7 1 £34,500 -13.75%
Moreton-in-Marsh - 1 £40,000 - 1
SQL
South West

SQL
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (10.91%) Apache
2 3 (5.45%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.64%) Confluence
3 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 23 (41.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (16.36%) Dynamics NAV
2 9 (16.36%) Magento
2 9 (16.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 27 (49.09%) Azure
2 26 (47.27%) Power Platform
3 20 (36.36%) Azure AI
4 10 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (5.45%) AWS
5 3 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.64%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.82%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.82%) GCP
7 1 (1.82%) GitHub
7 1 (1.82%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.82%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) DNS
1 2 (3.64%) Firewall
1 2 (3.64%) LAN
1 2 (3.64%) WAN
1 2 (3.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (47.27%) Power BI
2 22 (40.00%) Tableau
3 11 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 8 (14.55%) MongoDB
4 8 (14.55%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.45%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.82%) MySQL
7 1 (1.82%) Power Query
7 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (16.36%) JIRA
2 2 (3.64%) Git
3 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.82%) GitLab
General
1 24 (43.64%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.36%) Back Office
3 8 (14.55%) Finance
4 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.82%) Games
5 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.82%) Military
5 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (72.73%) Analyst
2 21 (38.18%) Data Analyst
3 20 (36.36%) Junior
3 20 (36.36%) Junior Analyst
3 20 (36.36%) Junior Data Analyst
4 13 (23.64%) Support Analyst
5 6 (10.91%) Data Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Software Analyst
7 4 (7.27%) Applications Support
7 4 (7.27%) Applications Support Analyst
7 4 (7.27%) Senior
7 4 (7.27%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (7.27%) Senior Support Analyst
7 4 (7.27%) Software Support Analyst
8 3 (5.45%) Business Analyst
8 3 (5.45%) Developer
8 3 (5.45%) ERP Analyst
8 3 (5.45%) ERP Support
8 3 (5.45%) Lead
8 3 (5.45%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.36%) Middleware
1 9 (16.36%) REST
1 9 (16.36%) SOAP
2 4 (7.27%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (7.27%) Kafka
3 2 (3.64%) .NET
3 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.82%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.82%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.82%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.82%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.82%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.82%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (1.82%) Blazor
4 1 (1.82%) CSS
4 1 (1.82%) HTML
4 1 (1.82%) RESTful
4 1 (1.82%) Spring
4 1 (1.82%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.64%) Replication
3 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.82%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Linux
2 3 (5.45%) Windows
3 2 (3.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.91%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (41.82%) AI
3 15 (27.27%) Service Management
4 13 (23.64%) ERP
4 13 (23.64%) ITSM
5 11 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (18.18%) CRM
7 9 (16.36%) API Integration
7 9 (16.36%) Change Management
7 9 (16.36%) Data Management
7 9 (16.36%) E-Commerce
7 9 (16.36%) User Experience
8 8 (14.55%) Analytics
9 7 (12.73%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (12.73%) ETL
9 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (10.91%) ITIL
11 5 (9.09%) Agile
11 5 (9.09%) Data Integration
11 5 (9.09%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 26 (47.27%) Python
2 9 (16.36%) T-SQL
3 6 (10.91%) Java
4 4 (7.27%) Groovy
5 3 (5.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (3.64%) C#
7 1 (1.82%) Go
7 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.82%) VB
7 1 (1.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (36.36%) Azure Certification
2 10 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 8 (14.55%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.64%) GDPR
2 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.64%) Docker
2 2 (3.64%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.64%) FortiGate
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) Rancher
3 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 12 (21.82%) ServiceNow
3 9 (16.36%) ConnectWise
3 9 (16.36%) WooCommerce
4 3 (5.45%) VMware
5 2 (3.64%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.64%) Oracle
5 2 (3.64%) Veeam
6 1 (1.82%) Google
6 1 (1.82%) Red Hat