SQL Job Trends in Cambridge

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 40 30
Rank change year-on-year +7 -10 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 18 17 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 3.55% 3.66% 7.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.24% 7.26% 15.60%
Number of salaries quoted 13 2 18
10th Percentile - £35,025 £39,200
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,938 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,175 £58,250 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.60% -24.84% +55.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,938 £83,125
90th Percentile £79,500 £82,075 £85,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% - -5.00%

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 136 234 218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 26.82% 50.32% 44.95%
Number of salaries quoted 101 123 135
10th Percentile £38,750 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £90,625
90th Percentile £78,500 £85,000 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

SQL job vacancy trend in Cambridge

SQL
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Cambridge over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Cambridge

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 9 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) Power Platform
3 5 (27.78%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) Azure AI
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (5.56%) dbt
4 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.56%) Fivetran
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) Google Data Studio
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) Tableau
2 7 (38.89%) Power BI
3 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 3 (16.67%) Data Mining
5 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
5 2 (11.11%) Redis
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
6 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.56%) Looker
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) JMeter
3 2 (11.11%) Postman
3 2 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Billing
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (72.22%) Analyst
2 9 (50.00%) Data Analyst
3 6 (33.33%) Junior
4 5 (27.78%) Junior Analyst
4 5 (27.78%) Junior Data Analyst
5 4 (22.22%) Senior
6 3 (16.67%) Applications Support
6 3 (16.67%) Applications Support Analyst
6 3 (16.67%) Support Analyst
6 3 (16.67%) Trainee
6 3 (16.67%) Trainee Analyst
6 3 (16.67%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 2 (11.11%) .NET Development Manager
7 2 (11.11%) Development Manager
7 2 (11.11%) Senior Manager
7 2 (11.11%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (11.11%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (11.11%) Software Development Manager
7 2 (11.11%) Software Manager
7 2 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 2 (11.11%) JSON
2 2 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) Hugging Face
3 1 (5.56%) NumPy
3 1 (5.56%) Pandas
3 1 (5.56%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) AI
1 7 (38.89%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (33.33%) Analytics
3 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Project Management
4 4 (22.22%) Data Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) Data Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) API Testing
6 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Exploratory Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
6 2 (11.11%) Microservices
6 2 (11.11%) SDET
6 2 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 2 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Azure Certification
2 3 (16.67%) DBS Check
2 3 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Alteryx
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) HubSpot
3 1 (5.56%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) Talend
3 1 (5.56%) Zoho