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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 37 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 -18 +6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 38 55 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.97% 5.08% 9.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.88% 12.85% 22.75%
Number of salaries quoted 31 24 37
10th Percentile - £40,750 £35,525
25th Percentile £31,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £60,000 £51,875 £78,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £86,000 £83,000
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 182 428 233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 23.79% 39.56% 40.24%
Number of salaries quoted 144 232 149
10th Percentile £31,250 £46,250 £39,300
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,500 £44,558
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £81,938 £83,750
90th Percentile £74,625 £85,000 £92,500
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 18 £60,000 -29.41% 25
Peterborough -2 15 £32,500 -35.00% 11
Huntingdon -9 1 - - 1
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 3 (7.89%) IIS
1 3 (7.89%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.63%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) AWS
2 10 (26.32%) Azure
2 10 (26.32%) Power Platform
3 4 (10.53%) Entra ID
3 4 (10.53%) Power Automate
4 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) GitHub
5 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.26%) SaaS
6 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.63%) dbt
6 1 (2.63%) Fivetran
6 1 (2.63%) Google Data Studio
6 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) DMARC
1 3 (7.89%) SSL
2 1 (2.63%) DNS
2 1 (2.63%) Firewall
2 1 (2.63%) Internet
2 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.63%) VPN
2 1 (2.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) Power BI
2 6 (15.79%) Tableau
3 5 (13.16%) Data Mining
3 5 (13.16%) Power Query
3 5 (13.16%) Relational Database
3 5 (13.16%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.89%) MongoDB
4 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.63%) Big Data
6 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.63%) Looker
6 1 (2.63%) MS Access
6 1 (2.63%) MySQL
6 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.63%) Redis
6 1 (2.63%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Git
2 4 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.53%) Selenium
3 3 (7.89%) JMeter
3 3 (7.89%) Postman
4 1 (2.63%) MLflow
4 1 (2.63%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Finance
4 4 (10.53%) Retail
5 3 (7.89%) Czech Language
5 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.89%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.63%) Agriculture
7 1 (2.63%) Law
7 1 (2.63%) Marketing
7 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Analyst
2 10 (26.32%) Data Analyst
3 7 (18.42%) Support Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Technical Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Technical Support
3 7 (18.42%) Technical Support Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Senior
5 5 (13.16%) Developer
5 5 (13.16%) Trainee
5 5 (13.16%) Trainee Analyst
5 5 (13.16%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Administrator
6 3 (7.89%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) IT Administrator
6 3 (7.89%) IT Support
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Test Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Test Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) REST
2 4 (10.53%) JSON
2 4 (10.53%) RESTful
3 3 (7.89%) HTML
3 3 (7.89%) SOAP
3 3 (7.89%) XML
4 2 (5.26%) NumPy
4 2 (5.26%) Pandas
4 2 (5.26%) scikit-learn
5 1 (2.63%) .NET
5 1 (2.63%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.63%) Django
5 1 (2.63%) Keras
5 1 (2.63%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (2.63%) Laravel
5 1 (2.63%) Node.js
5 1 (2.63%) PySpark
5 1 (2.63%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.63%) Web Services
5 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Wiki
2 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.63%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (2.63%) CRISPR
3 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Genomics
3 1 (2.63%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (2.63%) IoT
3 1 (2.63%) Life Science
3 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.63%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.63%) NHS
3 1 (2.63%) Omics
3 1 (2.63%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.53%) Linux
1 4 (10.53%) Unix
2 3 (7.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (31.58%) Agile
3 10 (26.32%) Analytics
3 10 (26.32%) Data Analysis
3 10 (26.32%) Project Management
4 8 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (21.05%) CI/CD
5 5 (13.16%) AI
5 5 (13.16%) Business Analysis
5 5 (13.16%) Data Analytics
5 5 (13.16%) Data Cleansing
5 5 (13.16%) Data Transformation
5 5 (13.16%) DevOps
5 5 (13.16%) Machine Learning
6 4 (10.53%) CRM
6 4 (10.53%) Data Privacy
6 4 (10.53%) ETL
6 4 (10.53%) Roadmaps
6 4 (10.53%) Test Automation
7 3 (7.89%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) Python
2 6 (15.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 5 (13.16%) Java
4 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.53%) VBA
5 3 (7.89%) C#
6 2 (5.26%) Bicep
6 2 (5.26%) R
7 1 (2.63%) PHP
7 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) Degree
1 3 (7.89%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.63%) DBS Check
2 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.63%) OCP
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (2.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.89%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) CDISC
2 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.63%) DICOM
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.63%) HL7
2 1 (2.63%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.63%) Ansible
4 1 (2.63%) Kubeflow
4 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Oracle
3 2 (5.26%) Databricks
3 2 (5.26%) SAP
4 1 (2.63%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.63%) ATG
4 1 (2.63%) DataCore
4 1 (2.63%) Facebook
4 1 (2.63%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) HubSpot
4 1 (2.63%) Meraki
4 1 (2.63%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.63%) Talend
4 1 (2.63%) YouTube
4 1 (2.63%) Zoho