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SQL jobs in Chicago
5,511 open SQL jobs in Chicago. Median salary $84k, 10.2% remote, 133 posted this week.
Open roles
5,511
133 new this week
Median salary
$84k
4.5% disclose pay
Remote share
10.2%
of all openings
Median age of posting
77d
47.5% older than 60d
Freshness
How old these postings are
just posted77d median90d+
| Age of posting | Share |
|---|---|
| Posted in the last 7 days | 12.3% |
| Median age | 77 days |
| Older than 60 days | 47.5% |
Age counts days since the employer published the posting. Around a third of sources publish only a coarse date such as “30+ days ago”, so the older end of this distribution is less precise than the recent end. It is the most-cited signal that a role may not be actively filled — a signal, not a verdict.
Pay
Salary distribution
$38k$145k
Based on 248 postings that disclose pay
— 4.5% of this slice.
Fewer than one posting in six publishes a range here, and the ones that do are not a random sample. Treat these figures as indicative of the disclosing minority, not of the market.
| Percentile | Salary |
|---|---|
| 25th | $66,500 |
| Median | $84,000 |
| 75th | $104,000 |
| 90th | $127,500 |
Demand
Who is hiring and what they ask for
Top companies
Top technologies
Most-asked skills
Composition
How the market splits
Work arrangement
Top locations
Employers
1,708
hiring in this slice
Posted last 7d
12.3%
of the cohort
Salary disclosed
4.5%
of postings publish pay
Live openings
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FAQ
Questions people ask
Is SQL in demand in Chicago?
The openings count and the thirty-day change above answer that directly.
What does SQL pay in Chicago?
See the percentile table — it uses local advertised salaries, not converted figures.
Figures cover 5,511 postings collected from public company career pages and applicant
tracking systems, last recomputed 2026-09-02.
“Posted N days ago” counts from the date the employer published the listing, not from when we
first saw it. A posting that has been up for months is a common sign it is not being actively
filled — though a long-lived listing is a signal, not a verdict.
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