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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 -10
Permanent jobs citing SQL 21 21 90
As % of all permanent jobs in Wiltshire 3.05% 6.40% 7.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.18% 20.59% 27.52%
Number of salaries quoted 19 18 77
10th Percentile £41,993 £30,125 £26,050
25th Percentile £50,188 £31,250 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% +14.94% -3.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £59,688 £55,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £61,750
South West median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +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 51 102 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wiltshire 7.41% 31.10% 27.71%
Number of salaries quoted 43 91 276
10th Percentile £41,993 £31,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £35,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £69,751 £64,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £70,750
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 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 11 April 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 11 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
Swindon +3 14 £56,250 +32.35% 9
Trowbridge -7 3 £55,000 +6.59%
Chippenham -16 2 £80,000 +33.33%
Corsham - 2 £80,000 - 6
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:

Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) GCP
2 4 (19.05%) Power Platform
3 3 (14.29%) AWS
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (9.52%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Network Security
1 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
1 2 (9.52%) VLAN
1 2 (9.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (19.05%) Power BI
3 3 (14.29%) DB2
3 3 (14.29%) Metadata
3 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
4 2 (9.52%) OLAP
4 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (4.76%) Data Mining
5 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.52%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.76%) Postman
2 1 (4.76%) Selenium
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Retail
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Lead
2 5 (23.81%) Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Lead Developer
4 3 (14.29%) RPG Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Process Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Process Improvement Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Analytics Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Data Analytics Manager
6 1 (4.76%) QA Leader
6 1 (4.76%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) .NET
1 2 (9.52%) .NET Core
1 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
1 2 (9.52%) Blazor
1 2 (9.52%) Node.js
1 2 (9.52%) React
1 2 (9.52%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) AS400
2 3 (14.29%) iSeries
2 3 (14.29%) Reference Data
3 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.52%) Industry 4.0
3 2 (9.52%) IoT
3 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (9.52%) SCADA
3 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Analytics
1 6 (28.57%) Data Integration
2 5 (23.81%) Process Improvement
2 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (19.05%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (19.05%) Data Analysis
3 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
3 4 (19.05%) ETL
3 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (14.29%) AI
4 3 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (14.29%) Data Governance
4 3 (14.29%) Data Management
4 3 (14.29%) Data Stewardship
4 3 (14.29%) Metadata Management
4 3 (14.29%) Project Management
4 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) C#
3 3 (14.29%) COBOL
3 3 (14.29%) RPG
4 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
4 2 (9.52%) VBA
5 1 (4.76%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
1 2 (9.52%) Master's Degree
1 2 (9.52%) PMI Certification
1 2 (9.52%) PMP
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) JSP 440
2 2 (9.52%) NIST
3 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
1 2 (9.52%) Hyper-V
1 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Talend
3 2 (9.52%) Databricks
3 2 (9.52%) Google
3 2 (9.52%) SonicWALL
3 2 (9.52%) VMware