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

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 31 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 +9
Permanent jobs citing SQL 42 61 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 5.90% 5.52% 9.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.34% 14.25% 22.53%
Number of salaries quoted 31 30 39
10th Percentile £26,250 £40,000 £33,950
25th Percentile £31,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,313 £73,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £83,000 £81,500
East of England median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year -15.00% -6.98% +2.38%

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 188 428 253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 26.40% 38.73% 42.03%
Number of salaries quoted 152 231 152
10th Percentile £31,250 £46,250 £39,550
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,500 £44,043
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +19.15% +2.17%
75th Percentile £63,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £70,000 - £92,250
East of England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%

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 October 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 18 October 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 +2 19 £40,000 -50.00% 12
Peterborough 0 16 £36,250 -27.50% 17
Huntingdon -7 1 - - 3
St Neots - 1 - -
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 9 (21.43%) IIS
1 9 (21.43%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (4.76%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) Azure
2 12 (28.57%) AWS
3 10 (23.81%) Entra ID
3 10 (23.81%) Power Automate
4 9 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Copilot
5 8 (19.05%) Power Platform
6 3 (7.14%) GCP
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.76%) GitHub
7 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.76%) SaaS
8 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.38%) Azure AI
8 1 (2.38%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.38%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.43%) DMARC
1 9 (21.43%) SSL
2 1 (2.38%) DNS
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
2 1 (2.38%) Internet
2 1 (2.38%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.38%) VPN
2 1 (2.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 9 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (19.05%) Power BI
4 5 (11.90%) Power Query
4 5 (11.90%) Relational Database
5 4 (9.52%) Tableau
6 3 (7.14%) Data Mining
6 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database
8 1 (2.38%) Big Data
8 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
8 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.38%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.38%) Looker
8 1 (2.38%) Metadata
8 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.38%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Selenium
2 5 (11.90%) Git
3 3 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.14%) JMeter
3 3 (7.14%) Postman
4 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.76%) GitLab
4 2 (4.76%) JIRA
4 2 (4.76%) Maven
4 2 (4.76%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.38%) MLflow
5 1 (2.38%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (21.43%) Czech Language
3 9 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (16.67%) Finance
5 5 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (9.52%) Retail
7 2 (4.76%) Banking
7 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.38%) Agriculture
8 1 (2.38%) Law
8 1 (2.38%) Marketing
8 1 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Analyst
2 9 (21.43%) Administrator
2 9 (21.43%) IT Administrator
2 9 (21.43%) IT Support
3 7 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Technical Support
3 7 (16.67%) Technical Support Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) Data Analyst
5 5 (11.90%) Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Senior
6 3 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Test Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Test Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Trainee
6 3 (7.14%) Trainee Analyst
6 3 (7.14%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (28.57%) REST
2 9 (21.43%) JSON
2 9 (21.43%) SOAP
2 9 (21.43%) XML
3 5 (11.90%) HTML
4 4 (9.52%) RESTful
5 2 (4.76%) CSS
5 2 (4.76%) Hibernate
5 2 (4.76%) JPA
5 2 (4.76%) Kafka
5 2 (4.76%) NumPy
5 2 (4.76%) Pandas
5 2 (4.76%) React
5 2 (4.76%) Redux
5 2 (4.76%) scikit-learn
5 2 (4.76%) Spring
5 2 (4.76%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.38%) FHIR
6 1 (2.38%) PySpark
6 1 (2.38%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (16.67%) Wiki
4 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.38%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (2.38%) CRISPR
5 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Genomics
5 1 (2.38%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (2.38%) IoT
5 1 (2.38%) Life Science
5 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.38%) Low-Code
5 1 (2.38%) NHS
5 1 (2.38%) Omics
5 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Linux
1 10 (23.81%) Unix
2 9 (21.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Agile
1 19 (45.24%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (30.95%) Project Management
3 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
3 10 (23.81%) CRM
3 10 (23.81%) Data Privacy
3 10 (23.81%) Roadmaps
4 9 (21.43%) Customer Service
4 9 (21.43%) Portfolio Management
4 9 (21.43%) Technology Roadmap
5 8 (19.05%) Analytics
6 7 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (16.67%) Data Analysis
7 6 (14.29%) DevOps
7 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 5 (11.90%) AI
8 5 (11.90%) Machine Learning
9 4 (9.52%) Data Transformation
9 4 (9.52%) ETL
9 4 (9.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) Java
1 14 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 12 (28.57%) Python
3 10 (23.81%) PowerShell
3 10 (23.81%) VBA
4 6 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (7.14%) C#
6 2 (4.76%) Bicep
6 2 (4.76%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.76%) R
7 1 (2.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (7.14%) Degree
1 3 (7.14%) ISTQB
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.38%) OCP
3 1 (2.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (11.90%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) CDISC
3 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.38%) DICOM
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
3 1 (2.38%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.38%) HL7
3 1 (2.38%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) Active Directory
1 9 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (23.81%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (19.05%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.38%) Kubeflow
4 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (45.24%) Microsoft
2 11 (26.19%) Oracle
3 2 (4.76%) ATG
3 2 (4.76%) Databricks
3 2 (4.76%) Solace
4 1 (2.38%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.38%) DataCore
4 1 (2.38%) Facebook
4 1 (2.38%) Google
4 1 (2.38%) HubSpot
4 1 (2.38%) Meraki
4 1 (2.38%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.38%) Talend
4 1 (2.38%) YouTube
4 1 (2.38%) Zoho