SQL Server Developer Job Trends in Oxford

SQL Server Developer
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The median SQL Server Developer salary in Oxford is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a SQL Server Developer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxford 0.29% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £75,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £70,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Oxford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oxford. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Oxford with a recognized job title 323 230 550
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 94.26% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 222 127 438
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £29,850
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £54,075
Median % change year-on-year - +10.96% +3.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £96,250 £76,275
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £48,000
% change year-on-year - +14.58% -4.00%

SQL Server Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'SQL Server Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

SQL Server Developer job vacancy trend in Oxford

SQL Server Developer
Salary Trend in Oxford

Salary distribution trend for SQL Server Developer job vacancies in Oxford.

Salary distribution trend for SQL Server Developer job vacancies in Oxford

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford

For the 6 months to 16 March 2026, SQL Server Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Oxford region featuring SQL Server Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Rollbar
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing

SQL Server Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Rollbar