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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 10 19
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 +10
Contract jobs citing SQL 8 9 9
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 3.74% 9.00% 3.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.53% 45.00% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 5
10th Percentile £409 £256 £375
25th Percentile £413 £331 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £355 £525
Median % change year-on-year +40.85% -32.38% +12.60%
75th Percentile £575 £422 £538
90th Percentile £628 £469 -
South East median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - -

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 34 20 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 15.89% 20.00% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 11 19
10th Percentile £231 £325 £392
25th Percentile £297 £355 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -19.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £631 £500 £563
90th Percentile £650 £538 £600
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £511
% change year-on-year -2.20% +0.05% -2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £25.94 - £53.75
25th Percentile £26.26 £20.85 -
Median hourly rate £27.16 £21.90 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.02% -66.31% +18.18%
75th Percentile £27.70 £22.95 -
90th Percentile £27.81 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.65 £59.00
% change year-on-year -4.59% -2.30% +7.27%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +1 4 £463 +30.28% 9
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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (25.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) dbt
3 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Lucidchart
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (25.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Power BI
2 4 (50.00%) Metadata
3 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (25.00%) Tableau
5 1 (12.50%) Big Data
5 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
5 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
5 1 (12.50%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
5 1 (12.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Data Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Head of IT
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) Matplotlib
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
1 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
1 1 (12.50%) Seaborn
1 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (12.50%) Data Fabric
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Analytics
1 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Data Governance
1 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
2 4 (50.00%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
3 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (37.50%) Data Transformation
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Science
4 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Databricks
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) VMware