SQL Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 11 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing SQL 8 9 10
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 4.73% 6.47% 4.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% 31.03% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 3
10th Percentile - £283 £515
25th Percentile £350 £325 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -31.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £438 £575
90th Percentile - £516 -
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -9.52% -3.67% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32.30
25th Percentile - - £32.31
Median hourly rate - - £32.32
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £13.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year +307.41% -72.45% +157.89%

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 24 29 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 14.20% 20.86% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 22
10th Percentile - £364 £129
25th Percentile £350 £416 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £522 £575
90th Percentile £580 £566 £586
South East median daily rate £483 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -5.27% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32.30
25th Percentile - - £32.31
Median hourly rate - - £32.32
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.05%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £64.76 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.07% +17.75% -12.64%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

SQL job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Oxfordshire

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing SQL

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 5 November 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 -7 2 £400 +6.67% 26
SQL
South East

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (12.50%) CMS
Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Retail
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Accountant
1 4 (50.00%) Systems Accountant
2 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (37.50%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Analytics
1 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (50.00%) ERP
2 3 (37.50%) BPMN
2 3 (37.50%) Business Case
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) High Availability
2 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (37.50%) Presales
2 3 (37.50%) Requirements Workshops
2 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 3 (37.50%) System Testing
2 3 (37.50%) UML
2 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
3 1 (12.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Financial Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) Ruby
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) SAP