SQL Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring SQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 28 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 43 61 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 6.38% 5.17% 9.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.18% 14.95% 25.29%
Number of salaries quoted 32 38 38
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £40,088
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,625 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £47,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% -15.93% +7.62%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,313 £78,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £79,000 £82,875
East of England median annual salary £43,085 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.83% -9.09% +4.76%

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 203 408 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 30.12% 34.55% 39.18%
Number of salaries quoted 164 238 149
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £39,688 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £68,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.12% +13.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £73,375 £90,000 £86,500
East of England median annual salary £50,250 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.25% +4.35% +4.55%

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 16 September 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 16 September 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 +1 18 £35,000 -47.17% 11
Peterborough +5 17 £40,000 -20.00% 16
Huntingdon -7 1 - - 3
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 (20.93%) IIS
1 9 (20.93%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.65%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (44.19%) Azure
2 12 (27.91%) AWS
3 10 (23.26%) Entra ID
3 10 (23.26%) Power Automate
4 9 (20.93%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (20.93%) Microsoft Copilot
4 9 (20.93%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.98%) GCP
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) GitHub
6 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.65%) OCI
6 2 (4.65%) PaaS
6 2 (4.65%) SaaS
7 1 (2.33%) Azure AI
7 1 (2.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.93%) DMARC
1 9 (20.93%) SSL
2 1 (2.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.33%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) Internet
2 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.33%) VPN
2 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) SQL Server
2 9 (20.93%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (20.93%) Power BI
3 6 (13.95%) Power Query
3 6 (13.95%) Relational Database
4 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.65%) Tableau
6 1 (2.33%) Big Data
6 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.33%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.33%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.33%) Looker
6 1 (2.33%) Metadata
6 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Selenium
2 5 (11.63%) Git
3 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.98%) JMeter
3 3 (6.98%) Postman
4 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.65%) GitLab
4 2 (4.65%) JIRA
4 2 (4.65%) Maven
4 2 (4.65%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.33%) MLflow
5 1 (2.33%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (44.19%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Czech Language
3 9 (20.93%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (13.95%) Finance
5 5 (11.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (11.63%) Retail
6 2 (4.65%) Banking
6 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.33%) Agriculture
7 1 (2.33%) Law
7 1 (2.33%) Marketing
7 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Administrator
1 9 (20.93%) Analyst
1 9 (20.93%) IT Administrator
1 9 (20.93%) IT Support
2 7 (16.28%) Support Engineer
2 7 (16.28%) Technical Engineer
2 7 (16.28%) Technical Support
2 7 (16.28%) Technical Support Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Data Analyst
4 5 (11.63%) Senior
5 3 (6.98%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Test Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Business Intelligence Lead
6 2 (4.65%) Lead
6 2 (4.65%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.23%) REST
2 10 (23.26%) SOAP
3 9 (20.93%) JSON
3 9 (20.93%) XML
4 5 (11.63%) HTML
5 4 (9.30%) RESTful
6 3 (6.98%) CSS
7 2 (4.65%) Hibernate
7 2 (4.65%) JPA
7 2 (4.65%) Kafka
7 2 (4.65%) NumPy
7 2 (4.65%) Pandas
7 2 (4.65%) React
7 2 (4.65%) Redux
7 2 (4.65%) scikit-learn
7 2 (4.65%) Spring
7 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.65%) Web Services
8 1 (2.33%) .NET
8 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.58%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (20.93%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (16.28%) Wiki
4 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.33%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (2.33%) CRISPR
5 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Genomics
5 1 (2.33%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (2.33%) IoT
5 1 (2.33%) Life Science
5 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.33%) NHS
5 1 (2.33%) Omics
5 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.26%) Linux
1 10 (23.26%) Unix
2 9 (20.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (46.51%) Agile
3 11 (25.58%) Project Management
4 10 (23.26%) CI/CD
4 10 (23.26%) CRM
4 10 (23.26%) Data Privacy
4 10 (23.26%) Roadmaps
5 9 (20.93%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (20.93%) Customer Service
5 9 (20.93%) Portfolio Management
5 9 (20.93%) Technology Roadmap
6 6 (13.95%) Analytics
6 6 (13.95%) Data Analysis
6 6 (13.95%) DevOps
6 6 (13.95%) Test Automation
7 5 (11.63%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (11.63%) Data Cleansing
7 5 (11.63%) Data Transformation
7 5 (11.63%) Machine Learning
8 4 (9.30%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.88%) Java
2 14 (32.56%) JavaScript
3 11 (25.58%) Python
4 10 (23.26%) PowerShell
4 10 (23.26%) VBA
5 7 (16.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (9.30%) C#
7 3 (6.98%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.65%) Bicep
8 2 (4.65%) PHP
8 2 (4.65%) R
9 1 (2.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Degree
2 3 (6.98%) ISTQB
3 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.33%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.33%) OCP
4 1 (2.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (11.63%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) CDISC
3 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) DICOM
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.33%) HL7
3 1 (2.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) Active Directory
1 9 (20.93%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (20.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (18.60%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.33%) Kubeflow
4 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (44.19%) Microsoft
2 12 (27.91%) Oracle
3 2 (4.65%) ATG
3 2 (4.65%) Databricks
3 2 (4.65%) Solace
4 1 (2.33%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.33%) DataCore
4 1 (2.33%) Facebook
4 1 (2.33%) Google
4 1 (2.33%) HubSpot
4 1 (2.33%) Meraki
4 1 (2.33%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.33%) Talend
4 1 (2.33%) YouTube
4 1 (2.33%) Zoho