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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 15 11
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL 7 13 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 5.34% 5.26% 9.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 58.33% 27.08% 30.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 6
10th Percentile £354 £178 £331
25th Percentile £360 £282 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £388 £479
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -19.06% +14.33%
75th Percentile £438 £503 £556
90th Percentile £445 £553 £575
South East median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £27.95
25th Percentile - - £30.75
Median hourly rate - - £32.30
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £47.00 £41.67 £45.00
% change year-on-year +12.80% -7.41% +136.84%

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 12 48 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 9.16% 19.43% 29.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 32 35
10th Percentile £356 £327 £303
25th Percentile £377 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +7.53% +3.33%
75th Percentile £444 £525 £569
90th Percentile £500 £574 £588
South East median daily rate £501 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.34% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 6
10th Percentile - £55.63 £29.19
25th Percentile £20.85 - -
Median hourly rate £21.90 £65.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -66.31% +101.24% +139.26%
75th Percentile £22.95 - £48.39
90th Percentile - £79.38 £54.38
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £62.50 £55.62
% change year-on-year -12.10% +12.37% +23.59%

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
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 30 June 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 -4 4 £380 +1.33% 67
Abingdon - 1 - - 4
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 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) CMS
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (14.29%) CATIA
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
1 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (14.29%) IP Telephony
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) MPLS
1 1 (14.29%) NAS
1 1 (14.29%) NetScaler
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
1 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 1 (14.29%) Skype
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) Unified Communications
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Automotive
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Tech for Good
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) CAD Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Quality Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support
3 1 (14.29%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Data Management
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (28.57%) Product Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) RBAC
4 2 (28.57%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) R
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) A+ Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) MCP
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
2 2 (28.57%) HIPAA
3 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
3 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) vSphere
1 1 (14.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Talend
2 1 (14.29%) VMware