SQL Server Job Trends in Cambridge

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring SQL Server skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 52 49
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +30
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 9 10 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 2.59% 1.59% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.04% 24.39% 14.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 6
10th Percentile £26,000 £48,275 £31,625
25th Percentile £26,250 £53,563 £38,488
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £63,250 £50,450
Median % change year-on-year -56.52% +25.37% -12.26%
75th Percentile £28,750 £72,063 £70,625
90th Percentile £57,000 £76,825 £83,125
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% -13.64% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cambridge

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 69 41 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 19.88% 6.51% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 63 19 49
10th Percentile - - £42,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £57,500 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -52.17% -19.58% +19.17%
75th Percentile £31,000 £78,750 £85,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £80,000 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £32,000 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -32.63% -20.83% +9.09%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Cambridge

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Cambridge over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Cambridge

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (66.67%) IIS
1 6 (66.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 6 (66.67%) Power Automate
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (11.11%) dbt
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (11.11%) Fivetran
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Google Data Studio
3 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) DMARC
1 6 (66.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Looker
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (66.67%) Czech Language
2 6 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Marketing
4 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Administrator
1 6 (66.67%) IT Administrator
1 6 (66.67%) IT Support
2 1 (11.11%) Agile C# Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Agile Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Graduate
2 1 (11.11%) Graduate C# Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Graduate Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Graduate PHP Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Graduate SQL Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Head of Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Head of Data Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) IT Graduate
2 1 (11.11%) PHP Developer
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) JSON
1 6 (66.67%) REST
1 6 (66.67%) SOAP
1 6 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) Hugging Face
2 1 (11.11%) jQuery
2 1 (11.11%) NumPy
2 1 (11.11%) Pandas
2 1 (11.11%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
1 6 (66.67%) Unix
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) CRM
3 6 (66.67%) Customer Service
3 6 (66.67%) Data Privacy
3 6 (66.67%) Portfolio Management
3 6 (66.67%) Project Management
3 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 6 (66.67%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) ETL
5 1 (11.11%) MVC
5 1 (11.11%) OO
5 1 (11.11%) OOP
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 7 (77.78%) Java
3 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 6 (66.67%) VBA
4 3 (33.33%) Python
5 1 (11.11%) C#
5 1 (11.11%) C++
5 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 6 (66.67%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Alteryx
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) HubSpot
3 1 (11.11%) OpenAI
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 1 (11.11%) Talend
3 1 (11.11%) Zoho