SQL Contract Job Trends in Oxford

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring SQL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 8 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing SQL 3 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxford 5.66% 6.45% 7.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.86% 23.53% 36.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £360 £277 £289
25th Percentile £375 £309 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £413
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -9.09% -21.43%
75th Percentile £425 £478 £503
90th Percentile £440 £533 £546
Oxfordshire median daily rate £400 £425 £550
% change year-on-year -5.88% -22.73% +4.76%

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 7 17 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 13.21% 27.42% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 12
10th Percentile £375 £340 £129
25th Percentile £413 £369 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +17.65% -24.44%
75th Percentile £584 £538 £531
90th Percentile £600 £573 £573
Oxfordshire median daily rate £444 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -11.25% +11.11% -10.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing SQL

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing SQL

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Accountant
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Accountant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) SAP