SQL Jobs in Oxford

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxford requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 29 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 -17 -8
Permanent jobs citing SQL 12 41 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 5.85% 6.16% 8.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.37% 17.45% 34.21%
Number of salaries quoted 11 33 32
10th Percentile £56,250 - £36,750
25th Percentile £56,875 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% - -20.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £57,500 £68,438
90th Percentile £97,500 £62,250 £79,625
Oxfordshire median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -26.53%

All Programming Languages
Oxford

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Oxford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 97 235 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 47.32% 35.29% 25.45%
Number of salaries quoted 61 216 97
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £36,262
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,313 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,750 £85,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Oxford

SQL
Salary Trend in Oxford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in Oxford.

Salary trend for SQL in Oxford

SQL
Salary Histogram in Oxford

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Oxford over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Oxford

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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 5 (41.67%) CMS
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure AI
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (8.33%) IaaS
2 1 (8.33%) PaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) MySQL
2 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (16.67%) Power BI
5 1 (8.33%) Big Data
5 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) MLflow
General
1 5 (41.67%) Tech for Good
2 2 (16.67%) Games
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Health Technology
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Ruby Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) DBA
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Administrator
4 2 (16.67%) MySQL DBA
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior DBA
5 1 (8.33%) Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) React
1 5 (41.67%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
2 1 (8.33%) pydantic
2 1 (8.33%) pytest
2 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Clustering
1 2 (16.67%) Online Games
1 2 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Architectural Design
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) CRM
3 5 (41.67%) Software Engineering
3 5 (41.67%) TDD
4 3 (25.00%) Data Security
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) ETL
5 2 (16.67%) High Availability
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (8.33%) API Management
6 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
6 1 (8.33%) Microservices
6 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Ruby
3 2 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Bicep
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Databricks
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
1 2 (16.67%) Rollbar
2 1 (8.33%) Meraki