SQL Job Trends in Swindon

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 24 8
Rank change year-on-year +3 -16 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 8 12 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Swindon 4.52% 5.80% 11.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% 22.22% 41.94%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 25
10th Percentile £39,895 £37,750 £29,550
25th Percentile £41,993 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +37.65% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £70,938 £59,688 £51,716
90th Percentile £79,000 £88,375 £67,750
Wiltshire median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -19.05% +5.00% +11.11%

All Programming Languages
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 16 54 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swindon 9.04% 26.09% 27.31%
Number of salaries quoted 14 36 54
10th Percentile £30,750 £40,000 £36,625
25th Percentile £36,748 £41,250 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £52,108
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% +5.55% +9.70%
75th Percentile £67,813 £72,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,875 - £76,000
Wiltshire median annual salary £43,953 £48,750 £49,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% -0.51% +3.16%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Swindon

SQL
Salary Trend in Swindon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing SQL

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Salary Histogram in Swindon

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Swindon over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Swindon

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) OLAP
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (25.00%) Tableau
3 1 (12.50%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Accountant
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Business Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Accountant
3 1 (12.50%) Trainee
3 1 (12.50%) Trainee Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (25.00%) Blazor
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
1 2 (25.00%) React
1 2 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) API Development
4 2 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Data Security
4 2 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) ETL
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ACCA
1 1 (12.50%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Alteryx
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Teradata