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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 14 15
Rank change year-on-year -27 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 8 10 12
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 2.36% 8.55% 5.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.26% 66.67% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 5
10th Percentile £355 £285 £205
25th Percentile £475 £355 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% - -
75th Percentile £575 £444 £538
90th Percentile £605 £470 £556
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -8.65%

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 78 15 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 23.01% 12.82% 18.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 9 27
10th Percentile £226 £318 £334
25th Percentile £386 £360 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +28.48% -17.50% +8.40%
75th Percentile £650 £450 £525
90th Percentile £825 £515 £581
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.20% -4.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 6
10th Percentile £31.07 - £55.63
25th Percentile £43.81 £20.85 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £21.90 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +139.73% -66.31% +101.24%
75th Percentile £53.75 £22.95 -
90th Percentile £73.00 - £79.38
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £61.80
% change year-on-year +4.55% -11.00% +11.12%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -3 3 £400 +5.26% 5
Bicester - 1 £650 -
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 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) dbt
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Power BI
2 4 (50.00%) Metadata
2 4 (50.00%) Tableau
3 2 (25.00%) Big Data
3 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
4 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Hudson
General
1 7 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Data Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IFS Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Information Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Matplotlib
1 2 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 2 (25.00%) Seaborn
1 2 (25.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (12.50%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (62.50%) Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) Data Governance
3 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 3 (37.50%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (37.50%) Data Science
4 3 (37.50%) Data Transformation
4 3 (37.50%) ETL
4 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) Validation
5 2 (25.00%) A/B Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (25.00%) Deep Learning
5 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) R
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) IFS
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft