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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +8
Contract jobs citing SQL 10 11 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 6.99% 6.63% 8.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.45% 30.56% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 3
10th Percentile - £178 £315
25th Percentile £350 £282 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -27.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £513 £575
90th Percentile - £553 -
South East median daily rate £485 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.62% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £32.30
Median hourly rate - - £32.31
75th Percentile - - £32.32
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £13.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +307.41% -71.58% +187.88%

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 22 36 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 15.38% 21.69% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 27 25
10th Percentile £350 £325 £157
25th Percentile £361 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £519 £525
90th Percentile £585 £558 £590
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £81.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate - £87.50 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year - +170.73% -12.05%
75th Percentile - £93.75 -
90th Percentile - - £45.18
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -8.33%

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
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 20 September 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 20 September 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 3 £400 +25.98% 18
Abingdon - 1 - - 1
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 1 (10.00%) CMS
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
1 1 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (10.00%) IP Telephony
1 1 (10.00%) LAN
1 1 (10.00%) MPLS
1 1 (10.00%) NAS
1 1 (10.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (10.00%) SAN
1 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (10.00%) Skype
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
1 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Retail
4 1 (10.00%) Tech for Good
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Accountant
1 4 (40.00%) Systems Accountant
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Ruby Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) React
1 1 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (30.00%) Smart Meter
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Analytics
1 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (40.00%) ERP
2 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
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
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Architectural Design
5 1 (10.00%) Data Development
5 1 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) MCP
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (10.00%) vSphere
1 1 (10.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix
2 1 (10.00%) F5
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) VMware