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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 27 14
Rank change year-on-year -11 -13 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 30 66 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Wiltshire 5.42% 7.11% 11.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.88% 32.20% 36.07%
Number of salaries quoted 28 26 55
10th Percentile - £37,500 £35,950
25th Percentile £34,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,750 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.89% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £56,750
90th Percentile £69,875 £78,750 £61,250
South West median annual salary £42,750 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -22.27% +1.85% +8.00%

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 64 205 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wiltshire 11.55% 22.09% 30.91%
Number of salaries quoted 58 125 154
10th Percentile £30,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £36,250 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,792 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,438 £68,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £66,125 £76,250 £72,500
South West median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +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 10 December 2025.

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 10 December 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
Swindon 0 10 £41,977 -1.23% 25
Trowbridge +1 4 £55,000 +38.36%
Salisbury +15 3 £42,500 +6.25% 3
Chippenham -4 3 £80,000 +64.10%
Melksham +8 1 £70,000 +21.74%
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 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) GCP
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.33%) AWS
4 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Network Security
1 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (6.67%) VLAN
1 2 (6.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) Power BI
2 6 (20.00%) Tableau
3 4 (13.33%) BigQuery
3 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (13.33%) MySQL
3 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (10.00%) OLAP
4 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (6.67%) Data Mining
5 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.33%) GIS
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Postman
2 1 (3.33%) Selenium
General
1 15 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 7 (23.33%) Retail
4 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.67%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Analyst
2 6 (20.00%) Senior
3 5 (16.67%) Support Assistant
4 4 (13.33%) Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Information Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Senior Information Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Support Specialist
5 2 (6.67%) Analytics Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Data Analytics Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Data Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Process Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Process Improvement Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (13.33%) Freedom of Information
3 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.67%) Industry 4.0
4 2 (6.67%) IoT
4 2 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 2 (6.67%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (36.67%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 9 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (26.67%) Data Analysis
5 8 (26.67%) ETL
6 7 (23.33%) Analytics
6 7 (23.33%) Performance Monitoring
7 4 (13.33%) Data Integration
7 4 (13.33%) Data Management
7 4 (13.33%) Data Mapping
7 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
7 4 (13.33%) Data Protection
7 4 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (13.33%) Migration
7 4 (13.33%) Process Improvement
7 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (13.33%) Task Automation
7 4 (13.33%) Validation
7 4 (13.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) C#
3 4 (13.33%) R
4 2 (6.67%) VBA
5 1 (3.33%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.67%) PMI Certification
2 2 (6.67%) PMP
3 1 (3.33%) ACCA
3 1 (3.33%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Alteryx
2 4 (13.33%) Google
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) SonicWALL
3 2 (6.67%) VMware
4 1 (3.33%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (3.33%) Teradata