SQL Contracts in Oxford

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxford requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 12 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +8
Contract jobs citing SQL 5 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxford 10.42% 3.85% 7.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% 18.18% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £253 £152 £304
25th Percentile £350 £229 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £365 £429
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% -14.87% +22.50%
75th Percentile £400 £386 £475
90th Percentile £460 £395 £490
Oxfordshire median daily rate £380 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -27.62% +31.25% +6.67%

All Programming Languages
Oxford

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10 22 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 20.83% 21.15% 26.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 21
10th Percentile £285 £331 £400
25th Percentile £355 £360 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £540
90th Percentile £530 £600 £575
Oxfordshire median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.85 - -
Median hourly rate £21.90 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -66.31% - -
75th Percentile £22.95 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £21.90 £65.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -66.31% +101.24% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Oxford

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in Oxford.

Daily rate trend for SQL in Oxford

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Oxford over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Oxford

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in Oxford.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Oxford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (20.00%) Lucidchart
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Electronics
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Process Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Process Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Management
3 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Security
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Product Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) RBAC
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (20.00%) MBA
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
1 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma Black Belt
1 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
1 1 (20.00%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (20.00%) SAP