SQL Server Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 47 77
Rank change year-on-year +9 +30 -16
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 22 57 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 4.37% 3.63% 2.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.95% 29.38% 20.73%
Number of salaries quoted 16 45 23
10th Percentile £25,000 £33,516 -
25th Percentile £25,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £47,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -42.11% -24.00% +31.58%
75th Percentile £42,500 £68,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £61,875 £73,750 £69,250
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year - -12.04% +13.68%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 76 194 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 15.08% 12.35% 13.51%
Number of salaries quoted 56 153 98
10th Percentile £25,875 £27,800 £36,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £59,438 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,375 £91,750 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £53,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.00% -13.04% +9.52%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Cambridgeshire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Cambridgeshire

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Cambridgeshire

SQL Server
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Cambridge +24 10 £27,500 -42.11% 21
Huntingdon +2 3 £26,000 -43.78% 2
Peterborough 0 3 £45,000 -10.00% 8
St Neots - 1 - - 1
SQL Server
East of England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 7 (31.82%) IIS
1 7 (31.82%) Tomcat
2 2 (9.09%) Confluence
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) Entra ID
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Copilot
3 7 (31.82%) Power Automate
4 3 (13.64%) AWS
5 2 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) DMARC
1 7 (31.82%) SSL
2 4 (18.18%) VLAN
3 3 (13.64%) Firewall
3 3 (13.64%) HTTP
4 1 (4.55%) RTP
4 1 (4.55%) SNMP
4 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.55%) Unified Communications
4 1 (4.55%) VoIP
4 1 (4.55%) VPN
4 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
1 3 (13.64%) Maven
2 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 2 (9.09%) Cucumber
2 2 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) GitLab
2 2 (9.09%) Selenium
2 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
2 2 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.55%) Balsamiq
3 1 (4.55%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Presentation Skills
3 7 (31.82%) Czech Language
3 7 (31.82%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (27.27%) Finance
5 2 (9.09%) Banking
5 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Administrator
1 7 (31.82%) IT Administrator
1 7 (31.82%) IT Support
2 6 (27.27%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) 1st Line Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Graduate
3 3 (13.64%) Graduate Developer
3 3 (13.64%) IT Graduate
4 2 (9.09%) Agile C# Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Agile Developer
4 2 (9.09%) C# Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Graduate C# Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Graduate PHP Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 2 (9.09%) PHP Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) SQL Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) XML
2 8 (36.36%) JSON
3 7 (31.82%) REST
3 7 (31.82%) SOAP
4 6 (27.27%) .NET
4 6 (27.27%) CSS
5 4 (18.18%) ASP.NET
6 3 (13.64%) HTML
6 3 (13.64%) jQuery
6 3 (13.64%) React
7 2 (9.09%) Hibernate
7 2 (9.09%) JPA
7 2 (9.09%) Kafka
7 2 (9.09%) Redux
7 2 (9.09%) Spring
7 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
7 2 (9.09%) Web Services
8 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
8 1 (4.55%) Drools
8 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (40.91%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
3 3 (13.64%) Driving Licence
4 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
5 1 (4.55%) CCTV
5 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.55%) NHS
5 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (59.09%) Windows
2 12 (54.55%) Linux
3 7 (31.82%) Unix
4 6 (27.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Agile
2 10 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (36.36%) Project Management
4 7 (31.82%) CRM
4 7 (31.82%) Customer Service
4 7 (31.82%) Data Privacy
4 7 (31.82%) Portfolio Management
4 7 (31.82%) Roadmaps
4 7 (31.82%) Technology Roadmap
5 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
5 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (18.18%) Clean Code
6 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (18.18%) MVC
6 4 (18.18%) OO
7 3 (13.64%) CAD
7 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
7 3 (13.64%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (13.64%) DevOps
7 3 (13.64%) Hardware Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) SQL
2 13 (59.09%) Java
3 11 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 7 (31.82%) VBA
5 5 (22.73%) C#
6 3 (13.64%) Bash
6 3 (13.64%) C++
6 3 (13.64%) PHP
7 2 (9.09%) Python
7 2 (9.09%) T-SQL
7 2 (9.09%) VB.NET
8 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (4.55%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) Docker
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Microsoft Intune
1 7 (31.82%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) SCCM
3 1 (4.55%) WMI
3 1 (4.55%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) Microsoft
2 8 (36.36%) Oracle
3 2 (9.09%) Solace
4 1 (4.55%) DevExpress
4 1 (4.55%) Telerik