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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 43 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 -21 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 28 41 63
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.15% 4.68% 8.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.09% 11.61% 19.63%
Number of salaries quoted 20 18 47
10th Percentile £34,750 £25,500 £26,350
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,375 £35,640
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,088 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £64,625 £57,500 £82,550
East of England median annual salary £43,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -20.91% +10.00% -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 174 353 321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 19.57% 40.25% 42.02%
Number of salaries quoted 127 173 218
10th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £83,438
90th Percentile £78,600 £80,000 £92,500
East of England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

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 January 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 18 January 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 -1 19 £42,175 +33.89% 20
Peterborough -10 7 £40,000 -20.00% 32
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 (3.57%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) Power Platform
2 10 (35.71%) Azure
3 6 (21.43%) Azure AI
4 5 (17.86%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.57%) dbt
5 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.57%) Fivetran
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.57%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (46.43%) Power BI
1 13 (46.43%) Tableau
2 6 (21.43%) Data Mining
2 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.14%) Redis
3 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.57%) Looker
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.71%) Git
3 2 (7.14%) JMeter
3 2 (7.14%) Postman
3 2 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 10 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Billing
3 1 (3.57%) Marketing
3 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (78.57%) Analyst
2 14 (50.00%) Data Analyst
3 7 (25.00%) Junior
4 6 (21.43%) Junior Analyst
4 6 (21.43%) Junior Data Analyst
4 6 (21.43%) Trainee
4 6 (21.43%) Trainee Analyst
4 6 (21.43%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) Senior
6 3 (10.71%) Applications Support
6 3 (10.71%) Applications Support Analyst
6 3 (10.71%) Support Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Development Manager
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Manager
7 2 (7.14%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (7.14%) Software Development Manager
7 2 (7.14%) Software Manager
7 2 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) REST
2 2 (7.14%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
2 2 (7.14%) JSON
2 2 (7.14%) RESTful
3 1 (3.57%) Hugging Face
3 1 (3.57%) NumPy
3 1 (3.57%) Pandas
3 1 (3.57%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (32.14%) Analytics
2 9 (32.14%) Data Analysis
3 8 (28.57%) AI
3 8 (28.57%) Project Management
4 6 (21.43%) Business Analysis
4 6 (21.43%) Data Analytics
5 5 (17.86%) Agile
6 3 (10.71%) DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) ITIL
6 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.14%) API Testing
7 2 (7.14%) Change Management
7 2 (7.14%) Exploratory Testing
7 2 (7.14%) Machine Learning
7 2 (7.14%) Microservices
7 2 (7.14%) SDET
7 2 (7.14%) Software Engineering
7 2 (7.14%) Sprint Planning
7 2 (7.14%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) Python
2 3 (10.71%) T-SQL
3 2 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Azure Certification
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
3 3 (10.71%) DBS Check
4 2 (7.14%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Ansible
1 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) SAP
4 1 (3.57%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) HubSpot
4 1 (3.57%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) Talend
4 1 (3.57%) Zoho