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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 38 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 -16 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 34 48 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.85% 5.28% 9.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.18% 12.34% 21.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26 26 38
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £28,725
25th Percentile £33,125 £43,125 £35,640
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £79,688
90th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £82,000
East of England median annual salary £43,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -20.91% +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 187 389 245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 21.18% 42.79% 45.97%
Number of salaries quoted 136 215 154
10th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £37,413
25th Percentile £40,938 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £85,750
90th Percentile £77,250 £85,000 £92,500
East of England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +11 21 £60,000 -29.41% 6
Peterborough -5 11 £32,500 -35.00% 9
St Neots - 1 £40,000 -
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 (2.94%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.94%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (35.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) Power Platform
2 8 (23.53%) AWS
2 8 (23.53%) Azure
3 5 (14.71%) Azure AI
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (2.94%) dbt
5 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.94%) Fivetran
5 1 (2.94%) GCP
5 1 (2.94%) GitHub
5 1 (2.94%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (2.94%) SaaS
5 1 (2.94%) Serverless
5 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (41.18%) Power BI
2 11 (32.35%) Tableau
3 5 (14.71%) Data Mining
3 5 (14.71%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.82%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.88%) Power Query
5 2 (5.88%) Redis
5 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.94%) Big Data
6 1 (2.94%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.94%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.94%) Looker
6 1 (2.94%) Metadata
6 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.94%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.76%) Git
3 3 (8.82%) JMeter
3 3 (8.82%) Postman
3 3 (8.82%) Selenium
4 1 (2.94%) MLflow
General
1 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.65%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.94%) Billing
5 1 (2.94%) Law
5 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.94%) Marketing
5 1 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (61.76%) Analyst
2 12 (35.29%) Data Analyst
3 6 (17.65%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 6 (17.65%) Junior
3 6 (17.65%) Senior
4 5 (14.71%) Junior Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Junior Data Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Support Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Technical Support
4 5 (14.71%) Technical Support Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Trainee
4 5 (14.71%) Trainee Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Senior Test Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) .NET Development Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) REST
2 3 (8.82%) RESTful
3 2 (5.88%) .NET
3 2 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.88%) JSON
3 2 (5.88%) NumPy
3 2 (5.88%) Pandas
3 2 (5.88%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.94%) FHIR
4 1 (2.94%) HTML
4 1 (2.94%) Hugging Face
4 1 (2.94%) Keras
4 1 (2.94%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (2.94%) Metaflow
4 1 (2.94%) PySpark
4 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Wiki
2 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.94%) Life Science
3 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.94%) Omics
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Linux
1 2 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (26.47%) Analytics
3 8 (23.53%) AI
3 8 (23.53%) Data Analysis
3 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (20.59%) Agile
4 7 (20.59%) Project Management
5 5 (14.71%) Business Analysis
5 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
5 5 (14.71%) Data Analytics
6 4 (11.76%) DevOps
6 4 (11.76%) ETL
6 4 (11.76%) Machine Learning
7 3 (8.82%) API Testing
7 3 (8.82%) Code Quality
7 3 (8.82%) Data Modelling
7 3 (8.82%) Exploratory Testing
7 3 (8.82%) SDET
7 3 (8.82%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (8.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (44.12%) Python
2 3 (8.82%) C#
2 3 (8.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (5.88%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.94%) Java
4 1 (2.94%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Azure Certification
2 4 (11.76%) Degree
3 3 (8.82%) ISTQB
4 2 (5.88%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) CDISC
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) DICOM
2 1 (2.94%) GDPR
2 1 (2.94%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.94%) HL7
2 1 (2.94%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (2.94%) Kubeflow
3 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (38.24%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle
2 2 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (2.94%) Alteryx
3 1 (2.94%) Databricks
3 1 (2.94%) Google
3 1 (2.94%) HubSpot
3 1 (2.94%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.94%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.94%) Talend
3 1 (2.94%) Zoho