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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 7 20
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 +9
Contract jobs citing SQL 10 9 8
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 5.81% 9.89% 4.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.46% 40.91% 38.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 4
10th Percentile - £229 £404
25th Percentile £350 £291 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £388 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -26.19% -17.97%
75th Percentile £550 £453 £538
90th Percentile £570 £481 -
South East median daily rate £469 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -7.59% -3.33% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £32.32
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £38.62 £51.25
% change year-on-year +42.40% -24.64% +177.03%

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 26 22 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 15.12% 24.18% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 15
10th Percentile - £335 £271
25th Percentile £350 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.75% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 - £563
90th Percentile - £530 £583
South East median daily rate £485 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -3.10% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £32.32
Median % change year-on-year - - -43.79%
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £59.00
% change year-on-year -3.08% -3.82% -1.67%

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 11 January 2026.

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 11 January 2026. 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 3 £425 +22.30% 19
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 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (20.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Lucidchart
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (20.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Accountant
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Systems Accountant
2 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Head of IT
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (30.00%) Smart Meter
2 1 (10.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (10.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Analytics
1 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (40.00%) ERP
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) BPMN
3 3 (30.00%) Business Case
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) High Availability
3 3 (30.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (30.00%) Presales
3 3 (30.00%) Requirements Workshops
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) System Testing
3 3 (30.00%) UML
3 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
5 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
5 1 (10.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft