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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 30 13
Rank change year-on-year +8 -17 -9
Permanent jobs citing SQL 13 40 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 6.34% 5.92% 8.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.27% 16.95% 33.64%
Number of salaries quoted 12 32 31
10th Percentile - - £36,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £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 £80,625 £57,500 £69,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £62,375 £80,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £42,549 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +0.12% -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 98 236 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 47.80% 34.91% 25.06%
Number of salaries quoted 62 217 94
10th Percentile £44,075 £40,000 £37,014
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% -5.60%
75th Percentile £74,375 £66,250 £77,188
90th Percentile £89,375 £77,750 £85,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £54,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -2.68% -2.61%

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 31 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 (38.46%) CMS
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) Azure AI
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (7.69%) Cloudflare
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) IaaS
2 1 (7.69%) PaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
1 1 (7.69%) VPN
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) MySQL
2 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
3 3 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
4 2 (15.38%) Power BI
5 1 (7.69%) Big Data
5 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
5 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
5 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) MLflow
2 1 (7.69%) NUnit
2 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (38.46%) Tech for Good
2 3 (23.08%) Games
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Health Technology
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Ruby Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Software Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) DBA
3 3 (23.08%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Lead Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Administrator
4 2 (15.38%) MySQL DBA
4 2 (15.38%) Senior DBA
5 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Report Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) React
2 5 (38.46%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
3 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (7.69%) CSS
3 1 (7.69%) CSS3
3 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) HTML5
3 1 (7.69%) pydantic
3 1 (7.69%) pytest
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Online Games
2 2 (15.38%) Clustering
2 2 (15.38%) Replication
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
1 7 (53.85%) Architectural Design
2 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) CRM
3 5 (38.46%) TDD
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Data Security
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
5 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (15.38%) ETL
5 2 (15.38%) Front End Development
5 2 (15.38%) High Availability
5 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis
6 1 (7.69%) Data Integration
6 1 (7.69%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) Ruby
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) Bicep
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Rollbar
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Meraki
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft