SQL Jobs in Cambridgeshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 20 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +9
Permanent jobs citing SQL 42 100 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 8.81% 6.19% 9.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.70% 16.47% 21.77%
Number of salaries quoted 30 72 54
10th Percentile £25,500 £30,500 £35,200
25th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,612 £47,500 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% +4.40% -4.21%
75th Percentile £54,688 £64,813 £59,688
90th Percentile £57,750 £77,500 £75,750
East of England median annual salary £66,100 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +39.16% -9.52% -

All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 185 607 611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 38.78% 37.56% 45.39%
Number of salaries quoted 135 462 252
10th Percentile £29,400 £36,325 £37,575
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £75,750 £79,063
90th Percentile £76,500 £92,375 £90,000
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Cambridgeshire

SQL
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for SQL in Cambridgeshire

SQL
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Cambridgeshire

SQL
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 within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 28 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 +6 15 £27,500 -51.97% 41
Peterborough -2 11 £50,000 - 12
Huntingdon +6 8 £52,500 -9.48% 2
St Neots - 1 - -
SQL
East of England

SQL
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 9 (21.43%) IIS
1 9 (21.43%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.38%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (23.81%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 26 (61.90%) Azure
2 10 (23.81%) Entra ID
2 10 (23.81%) Power Automate
3 9 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Copilot
4 5 (11.90%) Power Platform
5 4 (9.52%) AWS
5 4 (9.52%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (7.14%) GCP
7 2 (4.76%) PaaS
8 1 (2.38%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.38%) Figma
8 1 (2.38%) GitHub
8 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.38%) IaaS
8 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.43%) DMARC
1 9 (21.43%) SSL
2 5 (11.90%) Firewall
3 3 (7.14%) HTTP
3 3 (7.14%) VLAN
4 2 (4.76%) DNS
5 1 (2.38%) Internet
5 1 (2.38%) RTP
5 1 (2.38%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.38%) VPN
5 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (40.48%) SQL Server
2 9 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (11.90%) NoSQL
3 5 (11.90%) Power BI
4 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
4 4 (9.52%) Power Query
4 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.76%) MS Access
5 2 (4.76%) MySQL
5 2 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (4.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Git
2 3 (7.14%) Maven
2 3 (7.14%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.76%) GitLab
3 2 (4.76%) JIRA
3 2 (4.76%) Selenium
3 2 (4.76%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (4.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.38%) NUnit
General
1 18 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.43%) Czech Language
2 9 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
2 9 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
3 7 (16.67%) Finance
4 6 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (9.52%) Retail
6 2 (4.76%) Banking
6 2 (4.76%) Legal
6 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.38%) Automotive
7 1 (2.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Administrator
1 9 (21.43%) Developer
1 9 (21.43%) IT Administrator
1 9 (21.43%) IT Support
2 6 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Data Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) SQL Developer
5 3 (7.14%) .NET Software Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) 1st Line Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) C# Software Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Graduate
6 2 (4.76%) Agile C# Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Graduate C# Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Graduate Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Graduate PHP Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Graduate SQL Developer
6 2 (4.76%) IT Graduate
6 2 (4.76%) PHP Developer
6 2 (4.76%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (26.19%) REST
2 10 (23.81%) SOAP
2 10 (23.81%) XML
3 9 (21.43%) JSON
4 7 (16.67%) .NET
5 6 (14.29%) CSS
5 6 (14.29%) React
6 5 (11.90%) .NET Framework
7 4 (9.52%) .NET Core
7 4 (9.52%) Entity Framework
7 4 (9.52%) GraphQL
7 4 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (7.14%) HTML
8 3 (7.14%) Node.js
8 3 (7.14%) Vue
9 2 (4.76%) ASP.NET
9 2 (4.76%) Hibernate
9 2 (4.76%) Redux
9 2 (4.76%) Spring
9 2 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (26.19%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (9.52%) Data Centre
4 3 (7.14%) Driving Licence
4 3 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.76%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.38%) CRISPR
6 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.38%) Genomics
6 1 (2.38%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (2.38%) IoT
6 1 (2.38%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.38%) NHS
6 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.38%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.95%) Windows
2 12 (28.57%) Linux
3 9 (21.43%) Unix
4 4 (9.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (50.00%) Agile
2 16 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (26.19%) Customer Service
4 10 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (23.81%) CRM
4 10 (23.81%) DevOps
4 10 (23.81%) Project Management
4 10 (23.81%) Roadmaps
5 9 (21.43%) Data Privacy
5 9 (21.43%) Portfolio Management
5 9 (21.43%) Technology Roadmap
6 8 (19.05%) CI/CD
6 8 (19.05%) SDLC
7 7 (16.67%) OO
7 7 (16.67%) Software Engineering
8 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (14.29%) Data Analysis
8 6 (14.29%) OOP
9 5 (11.90%) Containerisation
9 5 (11.90%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 15 (35.71%) Java
1 15 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 14 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 9 (21.43%) VBA
4 7 (16.67%) C#
4 7 (16.67%) Python
5 6 (14.29%) Bash
6 4 (9.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (9.52%) PHP
7 3 (7.14%) PL/SQL
7 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.76%) Bicep
8 2 (4.76%) C++
9 1 (2.38%) R
9 1 (2.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 12 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 9 (21.43%) Docker
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (23.81%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (54.76%) Microsoft
2 12 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (4.76%) Facebook
3 2 (4.76%) Solace
4 1 (2.38%) ATG
4 1 (2.38%) Databricks
4 1 (2.38%) DataCore
4 1 (2.38%) Meraki
4 1 (2.38%) YouTube