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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 25 32
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -8
Permanent jobs citing SQL 50 98 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 8.56% 5.81% 7.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.04% 15.68% 17.50%
Number of salaries quoted 37 72 52
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year - -11.63% +7.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 £68,000 £62,813
90th Percentile £63,500 £77,500 £83,625
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +26.32% -13.64% +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 217 625 503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 37.16% 37.03% 43.47%
Number of salaries quoted 162 487 226
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £78,125 £78,438
90th Percentile £71,250 £90,500 £87,500
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 2 July 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 2 July 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 20 £30,000 -47.83% 107
Peterborough +3 16 £50,000 - 36
Huntingdon +1 5 £57,500 +21.05% 4
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 (18.00%) IIS
1 9 (18.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 26 (52.00%) Azure
2 10 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 10 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 9 (18.00%) AWS
3 9 (18.00%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 7 (14.00%) Power Platform
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (6.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.00%) GCP
7 2 (4.00%) GitHub
7 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.00%) OCI
7 2 (4.00%) PaaS
8 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.00%) Azure AI
8 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.00%) DMARC
1 9 (18.00%) SSL
2 2 (4.00%) DNS
2 2 (4.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.00%) Internet
3 1 (2.00%) RTP
3 1 (2.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.00%) VPN
3 1 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (18.00%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (14.00%) Power BI
4 6 (12.00%) Power Query
5 5 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 5 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 5 (10.00%) Relational Database
6 3 (6.00%) MS Access
7 2 (4.00%) MySQL
7 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database
7 2 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
8 1 (2.00%) Metadata
8 1 (2.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (2.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Git
2 4 (8.00%) Selenium
3 3 (6.00%) Maven
3 3 (6.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (4.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.00%) GitLab
4 2 (4.00%) JIRA
4 2 (4.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.00%) JMeter
5 1 (2.00%) MLflow
5 1 (2.00%) NUnit
5 1 (2.00%) Postman
5 1 (2.00%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.00%) Czech Language
2 9 (18.00%) Organisational Skills
2 9 (18.00%) Presentation Skills
3 8 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.00%) Finance
4 6 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (8.00%) Retail
6 3 (6.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.00%) Banking
7 2 (4.00%) Legal
8 1 (2.00%) Agriculture
8 1 (2.00%) Automotive
8 1 (2.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Developer
2 9 (18.00%) Administrator
2 9 (18.00%) IT Administrator
2 9 (18.00%) IT Support
3 7 (14.00%) Analyst
4 6 (12.00%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Data Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Lead
5 4 (8.00%) Support Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Technical Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Technical Support
5 4 (8.00%) Technical Support Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) .NET Software Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) C# Software Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Graduate
6 3 (6.00%) Senior
7 2 (4.00%) Graduate C# Developer
7 2 (4.00%) PHP Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Python Developer
7 2 (4.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.00%) REST
2 10 (20.00%) SOAP
2 10 (20.00%) XML
3 9 (18.00%) JSON
4 7 (14.00%) .NET
5 6 (12.00%) CSS
5 6 (12.00%) React
6 5 (10.00%) .NET Framework
6 5 (10.00%) HTML
7 4 (8.00%) .NET Core
7 4 (8.00%) Entity Framework
7 4 (8.00%) GraphQL
7 4 (8.00%) Node.js
7 4 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (6.00%) Vue
9 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
9 2 (4.00%) Kafka
9 2 (4.00%) Laravel
9 2 (4.00%) RESTful
9 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (18.00%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (8.00%) Wiki
4 3 (6.00%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.00%) CRISPR
6 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.00%) Genomics
6 1 (2.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (2.00%) IoT
6 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.00%) NHS
6 1 (2.00%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.00%) Linux
1 10 (20.00%) Unix
1 10 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.00%) Agile
2 21 (42.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (24.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (22.00%) Customer Service
5 10 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (20.00%) CRM
5 10 (20.00%) DevOps
5 10 (20.00%) Project Management
5 10 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 9 (18.00%) Data Privacy
6 9 (18.00%) Portfolio Management
6 9 (18.00%) Technology Roadmap
7 8 (16.00%) OO
7 8 (16.00%) SDLC
7 8 (16.00%) Software Engineering
8 7 (14.00%) OOP
9 6 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (12.00%) Data Analysis
9 6 (12.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.00%) JavaScript
2 17 (34.00%) Java
3 11 (22.00%) PowerShell
3 11 (22.00%) Python
4 10 (20.00%) VBA
5 8 (16.00%) C#
6 6 (12.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (10.00%) PHP
8 4 (8.00%) PL/SQL
9 3 (6.00%) Bash
9 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
10 2 (4.00%) Bicep
10 2 (4.00%) C++
11 1 (2.00%) R
11 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) Degree
2 3 (6.00%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.00%) OCP
4 1 (2.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (16.00%) QA
System Software
1 12 (24.00%) Docker
2 9 (18.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (18.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.00%) Terraform
4 1 (2.00%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 22 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (26.00%) Oracle
3 2 (4.00%) ATG
3 2 (4.00%) Databricks
3 2 (4.00%) Facebook
3 2 (4.00%) Solace
4 1 (2.00%) DataCore
4 1 (2.00%) Meraki
4 1 (2.00%) YouTube