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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 10 15
Rank change year-on-year -16 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL 7 14 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 4.43% 7.37% 7.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.18% 30.43% 35.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 4
10th Percentile - £193 £304
25th Percentile £350 £309 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% -15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £390 £488 £575
90th Percentile £425 £550 -
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
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 £31.50 £58.91 £49.00
% change year-on-year -46.52% +20.23% +196.94%

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 17 46 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 10.76% 24.21% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 32 26
10th Percentile £350 £329 £166
25th Percentile £358 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +14.29% -1.69%
75th Percentile £547 £525 £516
90th Percentile £598 £567 £594
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.15% -2.67% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - - £28.57
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 - -
90th Percentile - £82.25 £45.17
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% +4.76%

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 6 August 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 -8 5 £360 -4.00% 16
Abingdon - 1 - - 6
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 (14.29%) CMS
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
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 3 (42.86%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Tech for Good
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Accountant
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Snowflake Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Accountant
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Ruby Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 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
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Mac OS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Security
3 2 (28.57%) ERP
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Product Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) RBAC
3 2 (28.57%) Requirements Management
4 1 (14.29%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) A+ Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) MCP
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) HIPAA
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 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%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) VMware