SQL Job Trends in Wiltshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 24 18
Rank change year-on-year -20 -6 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 26 58 74
As % of all permanent jobs in Wiltshire 4.38% 7.80% 9.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.33% 29.29% 31.49%
Number of salaries quoted 24 21 60
10th Percentile - £37,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £33,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,227 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,469 £61,250 £55,250
90th Percentile £81,000 £78,750 £65,000
South West median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 60 198 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wiltshire 10.12% 26.61% 29.45%
Number of salaries quoted 51 122 198
10th Percentile £30,750 - £34,625
25th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -0.51% +3.16%
75th Percentile £63,125 £68,438 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

SQL
Salary Trend in Wiltshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Wiltshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Wiltshire

SQL
Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 23 January 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
Swindon +6 11 £56,250 +32.35% 42
Trowbridge +3 4 £55,000 +4.76%
Chippenham -8 3 £80,000 +64.10% 1
Salisbury +6 1 £42,500 +6.25% 3
SQL
South West

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Power Platform
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 3 (11.54%) AWS
4 2 (7.69%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub
4 2 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) Network Security
1 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
1 2 (7.69%) VLAN
1 2 (7.69%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Power BI
2 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.54%) MySQL
2 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.69%) DB2
3 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.69%) OLAP
3 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (7.69%) Tableau
4 1 (3.85%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 2 (7.69%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Postman
2 1 (3.85%) Selenium
General
1 9 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Retail
4 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.69%) Marketing
5 1 (3.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Analyst
1 5 (19.23%) Developer
1 5 (19.23%) Lead
2 4 (15.38%) Support Assistant
3 3 (11.54%) Support Specialist
4 2 (7.69%) Analytics Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Data Analytics Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Data Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Lead Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Process Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Process Improvement Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) RPG Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) .NET
1 2 (7.69%) .NET Core
1 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
1 2 (7.69%) Blazor
1 2 (7.69%) Node.js
1 2 (7.69%) React
1 2 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (7.69%) AS400
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.69%) Industry 4.0
3 2 (7.69%) IoT
3 2 (7.69%) iSeries
3 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.69%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (26.92%) Analytics
3 7 (26.92%) Data Analysis
4 6 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (23.08%) ETL
4 6 (23.08%) Performance Monitoring
5 5 (19.23%) Agile
5 5 (19.23%) Data Integration
6 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
6 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (11.54%) Data Mapping
7 3 (11.54%) Data Migration
7 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
7 3 (11.54%) DevOps
7 3 (11.54%) Migration
7 3 (11.54%) Process Improvement
7 3 (11.54%) Project Management
7 3 (11.54%) Task Automation
7 3 (11.54%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Python
2 7 (26.92%) C#
3 2 (7.69%) COBOL
3 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.69%) RPG
3 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
3 2 (7.69%) VBA
4 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 2 (7.69%) PMI Certification
2 2 (7.69%) PMP
3 1 (3.85%) ACCA
3 1 (3.85%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
1 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
1 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) SonicWALL
2 2 (7.69%) VMware
3 1 (3.85%) Alteryx
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) Teradata