SQL Jobs in Cambridge

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridge requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 31 42
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 15 52 60
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 6.05% 5.17% 6.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.29% 11.02% 12.24%
Number of salaries quoted 12 32 37
10th Percentile £25,125 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £43,046 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £57,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -51.97% +27.22% -
75th Percentile £32,000 £77,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £37,250 £81,250 £73,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -5.26%

All Programming Languages
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 105 472 490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 42.34% 46.97% 53.03%
Number of salaries quoted 77 346 201
10th Percentile £26,250 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +1.63% +11.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £93,125 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Cambridge

SQL
Salary Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in Cambridge.

Salary trend for SQL in Cambridge

SQL
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Cambridge over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Cambridge

SQL
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 (40.00%) IIS
1 6 (40.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (46.67%) Entra ID
2 7 (46.67%) Power Automate
3 6 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (13.33%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure AI
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (6.67%) PaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) DMARC
1 6 (40.00%) SSL
2 2 (13.33%) DNS
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
3 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (6.67%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (13.33%) MySQL
4 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
1 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Czech Language
2 6 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Administrator
1 6 (40.00%) IT Administrator
1 6 (40.00%) IT Support
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Graduate
4 2 (13.33%) Agile C# Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Agile Developer
4 2 (13.33%) C# Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Graduate C# Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Graduate Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Graduate PHP Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 2 (13.33%) IT Graduate
4 2 (13.33%) PHP Developer
4 2 (13.33%) QA Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Junior Backend Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Software QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) JSON
1 6 (40.00%) REST
1 6 (40.00%) SOAP
1 6 (40.00%) XML
2 3 (20.00%) CSS
3 2 (13.33%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (13.33%) jQuery
3 2 (13.33%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) Django
4 1 (6.67%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) Laravel
4 1 (6.67%) React
4 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) CRISPR
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Genomics
2 1 (6.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
1 6 (40.00%) Unix
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (46.67%) Project Management
3 7 (46.67%) Roadmaps
4 6 (40.00%) CRM
4 6 (40.00%) Customer Service
4 6 (40.00%) Data Privacy
4 6 (40.00%) Portfolio Management
4 6 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 4 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (13.33%) DevOps
7 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
7 2 (13.33%) MVC
7 2 (13.33%) OO
7 2 (13.33%) RBAC
7 2 (13.33%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (53.33%) Java
2 8 (53.33%) PowerShell
3 6 (40.00%) Python
3 6 (40.00%) VBA
4 4 (26.67%) PHP
5 3 (20.00%) Bash
6 2 (13.33%) C#
6 2 (13.33%) C++
7 1 (6.67%) Bicep
7 1 (6.67%) R
7 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Docker
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Facebook
2 1 (6.67%) Meraki
2 1 (6.67%) YouTube