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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 20 23
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 53 41 101
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.72% 8.20% 6.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.03% 20.40% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 28 30 74
10th Percentile £31,150 £25,500 £28,400
25th Percentile £39,438 £26,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,050 £44,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% -6.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile £71,875 £53,438 £63,125
90th Percentile £92,988 £57,750 £77,500
East of England median annual salary £53,712 £66,100 £47,500
% change year-on-year -18.74% +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 252 201 616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 17.71% 40.20% 38.91%
Number of salaries quoted 171 153 469
10th Percentile £39,438 £31,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £63,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,250 £92,500
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

SQL job vacancy trend 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 18 May 2026.

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 18 May 2026. 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 +7 40 £45,050 +63.82% 12
Peterborough -7 10 £40,000 -20.00% 6
Huntingdon -3 2 £67,500 +28.57% 3
SQL
East of England

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.89%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (47.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 34 (64.15%) Power Platform
2 30 (56.60%) Azure
3 20 (37.74%) Azure AI
4 6 (11.32%) Dataform
4 6 (11.32%) dbt
5 4 (7.55%) AWS
5 4 (7.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (7.55%) SaaS
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.77%) GitHub
6 2 (3.77%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (64.15%) Power BI
2 28 (52.83%) Tableau
3 8 (15.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (13.21%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (11.32%) Looker
5 6 (11.32%) Metabase
6 5 (9.43%) SQL Server
7 4 (7.55%) Data Lake
8 3 (5.66%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (3.77%) MongoDB
9 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (1.89%) Data Mining
10 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.89%) MySQL
10 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.89%) Toad
General
1 26 (49.06%) Social Skills
2 15 (28.30%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (13.21%) Finance
4 1 (1.89%) Billing
4 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 31 (58.49%) Analyst
2 23 (43.40%) Data Analyst
3 21 (39.62%) Junior
4 20 (37.74%) Junior Analyst
4 20 (37.74%) Junior Data Analyst
5 10 (18.87%) Developer
6 6 (11.32%) Data Engineer
6 6 (11.32%) Data Scientist
6 6 (11.32%) Principal Data Scientist
6 6 (11.32%) Senior Data Scientist
7 4 (7.55%) .NET Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Applications Support
8 3 (5.66%) Applications Support Analyst
8 3 (5.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 3 (5.66%) Graduate
8 3 (5.66%) Senior
8 3 (5.66%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.66%) Support Analyst
9 2 (3.77%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) .NET
1 4 (7.55%) .NET Core
1 4 (7.55%) AngularJS
1 4 (7.55%) ASP.NET
1 4 (7.55%) ASP.NET Core
1 4 (7.55%) Vue
2 2 (3.77%) .NET Framework
2 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (3.77%) Entity Framework
2 2 (3.77%) Node.js
2 2 (3.77%) RESTful
3 1 (1.89%) CSS
3 1 (1.89%) jQuery
3 1 (1.89%) Spring
3 1 (1.89%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Linux
1 3 (5.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (64.15%) Business Intelligence
2 27 (50.94%) AI
3 11 (20.75%) Agile
4 9 (16.98%) Mentoring
4 9 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (15.09%) Analytics
5 8 (15.09%) Data Modelling
6 7 (13.21%) CI/CD
6 7 (13.21%) Data Transformation
6 7 (13.21%) Machine Learning
6 7 (13.21%) Visualisation
7 6 (11.32%) A/B Testing
7 6 (11.32%) Data Engineering
7 6 (11.32%) Data Science
7 6 (11.32%) Data Strategy
7 6 (11.32%) DataOps
7 6 (11.32%) Kimball Methodology
7 6 (11.32%) Observability
7 6 (11.32%) Statistical Analysis
8 5 (9.43%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 29 (54.72%) Python
2 6 (11.32%) C#
2 6 (11.32%) Julia
2 6 (11.32%) R
3 4 (7.55%) PL/SQL
3 4 (7.55%) T-SQL
3 4 (7.55%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.77%) Java
4 2 (3.77%) PHP
5 1 (1.89%) C++
5 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (37.74%) Azure Certification
2 12 (22.64%) DBS Check
3 8 (15.09%) Degree
4 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (49.06%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.21%) Oracle
3 4 (7.55%) Databricks
4 3 (5.66%) Informatica
5 2 (3.77%) SAP