SQL Contracts in Oxfordshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 13 14 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 9 13 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 8.49% 5.73% 6.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.94% 35.14% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 5
10th Percentile £269 £255 £279
25th Percentile £353 £379 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -27.62% +31.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £428 £538 £466
90th Percentile £469 - £487
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £27.32
25th Percentile - - £29.19
Median hourly rate - - £32.30
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £63.12 £58.91 £32.30
% change year-on-year +7.16% +82.37% +50.23%

All Programming Languages
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 17 37 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 16.04% 16.30% 29.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 23 35
10th Percentile £318 £328 £279
25th Percentile £360 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £550
90th Percentile £515 £588 £588
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £53.75 £28.57
25th Percentile £20.85 - -
Median hourly rate £21.90 £65.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -66.31% +101.24% -
75th Percentile £22.95 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - £54.50
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.42% +9.09% +26.03%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Oxfordshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Oxfordshire

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Oxfordshire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Oxfordshire

SQL
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxford +2 5 £360 -1.37% 79
Abingdon - 1 - - 1
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (11.11%) CATIA
2 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Lucidchart
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
1 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (11.11%) IP Telephony
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) MPLS
1 1 (11.11%) NAS
1 1 (11.11%) NetScaler
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
1 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
1 1 (11.11%) Skype
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (22.22%) Metadata
2 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 2 (22.22%) Tableau
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
General
1 6 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Automotive
3 1 (11.11%) Electronics
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Process Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Process Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Data Fabric
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Data Management
3 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
4 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 3 (33.33%) ETL
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
5 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
5 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Data Security
5 2 (22.22%) Metadata Management
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (22.22%) Project Management
5 2 (22.22%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
3 1 (11.11%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) A+ Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) MBA
2 1 (11.11%) MCP
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 1 (11.11%) PMP
2 1 (11.11%) Six Sigma Black Belt
2 1 (11.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 1 (11.11%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (22.22%) HIPAA
3 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
3 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (11.11%) vSphere
1 1 (11.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Alteryx
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) F5
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Talend
2 1 (11.11%) VMware