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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 31 19
Rank change year-on-year -1 -12 +7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 46 34 99
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.17% 6.26% 7.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.01% 14.17% 16.89%
Number of salaries quoted 25 25 70
10th Percentile £33,500 £25,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £32,942
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £92,988 £57,500 £81,250
East of England median annual salary £48,250 £66,206 £47,500
% change year-on-year -27.12% +39.38% -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 209 240 586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 18.93% 44.20% 42.34%
Number of salaries quoted 141 173 446
10th Percentile £39,438 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £92,500
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +12 33 £56,500 +79.37% 13
Peterborough -9 10 £40,000 -20.00% 8
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 (2.17%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (52.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 30 (65.22%) Power Platform
2 24 (52.17%) Azure
3 16 (34.78%) Azure AI
4 5 (10.87%) Dataform
4 5 (10.87%) dbt
5 4 (8.70%) AWS
5 4 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.17%) GitHub
6 1 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (65.22%) Power BI
2 26 (56.52%) Tableau
3 7 (15.22%) SQL Server
4 6 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (10.87%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (10.87%) Looker
5 5 (10.87%) Metabase
6 4 (8.70%) Data Lake
6 4 (8.70%) Data Mining
7 2 (4.35%) Redis
7 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.17%) MySQL
8 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.17%) Toad
General
1 20 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 14 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (19.57%) Finance
4 1 (2.17%) Billing
Job Titles
1 31 (67.39%) Analyst
2 23 (50.00%) Data Analyst
3 17 (36.96%) Junior
4 16 (34.78%) Junior Analyst
4 16 (34.78%) Junior Data Analyst
5 6 (13.04%) Data Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Data Scientist
6 5 (10.87%) Principal Data Scientist
6 5 (10.87%) Senior Data Scientist
7 4 (8.70%) Trainee
7 4 (8.70%) Trainee Analyst
7 4 (8.70%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 3 (6.52%) Applications Support
8 3 (6.52%) Applications Support Analyst
8 3 (6.52%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 3 (6.52%) Support Analyst
9 2 (4.35%) Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Development Manager
9 2 (4.35%) Graduate
9 2 (4.35%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) .NET
1 3 (6.52%) .NET Framework
2 2 (4.35%) JSON
2 2 (4.35%) REST
3 1 (2.17%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (2.17%) CSS
3 1 (2.17%) jQuery
3 1 (2.17%) Node.js
3 1 (2.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Linux
1 3 (6.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (63.04%) Business Intelligence
2 22 (47.83%) AI
3 10 (21.74%) Analytics
4 7 (15.22%) Data Analysis
4 7 (15.22%) Data Modelling
5 6 (13.04%) Agile
5 6 (13.04%) Data Transformation
5 6 (13.04%) Machine Learning
5 6 (13.04%) Project Management
5 6 (13.04%) Visualisation
6 5 (10.87%) A/B Testing
6 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
6 5 (10.87%) Data Engineering
6 5 (10.87%) Data Science
6 5 (10.87%) Data Strategy
6 5 (10.87%) DataOps
6 5 (10.87%) Kimball Methodology
6 5 (10.87%) Mentoring
6 5 (10.87%) Observability
6 5 (10.87%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 27 (58.70%) Python
2 5 (10.87%) Julia
2 5 (10.87%) R
3 4 (8.70%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (2.17%) C++
5 1 (2.17%) Java
5 1 (2.17%) PHP
5 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (34.78%) Azure Certification
2 8 (17.39%) DBS Check
3 4 (8.70%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.70%) Databricks
2 4 (8.70%) Oracle
3 3 (6.52%) SAP