SQL Server Jobs in Oxfordshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 34 62
Rank change year-on-year -4 +28 -22
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 33 98 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 4.83% 5.54% 3.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 39.29% 41.53% 31.28%
Number of salaries quoted 30 98 47
10th Percentile - £37,500 £37,450
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +5.56% -18.92%
75th Percentile £57,188 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,250 £62,500 £77,750
South East median annual salary £50,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.18% - +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Oxfordshire

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 84 236 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 12.30% 13.33% 12.05%
Number of salaries quoted 69 188 102
10th Percentile - £36,250 £32,850
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £48,625
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +7.97% -22.20%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £64,688
90th Percentile £84,500 £63,250 £76,250
South East median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% -4.35% +4.55%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Oxfordshire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Oxfordshire

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Oxfordshire

SQL Server
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oxford +2 8 £65,000 +23.81% 13
Banbury +18 1 - -
Bicester +14 1 - -
Witney 0 1 £50,000 +19.05% 1
SQL Server
South East

SQL Server
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 5 (15.15%) IIS
2 2 (6.06%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 5 (15.15%) Cloudflare
4 3 (9.09%) Azure
5 2 (6.06%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (54.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 8 (24.24%) MySQL
3 6 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (18.18%) Power BI
4 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (54.55%) Visual Studio
2 7 (21.21%) Git
3 5 (15.15%) Jasmine
3 5 (15.15%) NUnit
3 5 (15.15%) TeamCity
4 3 (9.09%) JIRA
5 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
5 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.06%) GitLab
5 2 (6.06%) Maven
5 2 (6.06%) Selenium
5 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
5 2 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (12.12%) Finance
2 3 (9.09%) Games
3 2 (6.06%) Banking
3 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (78.79%) Developer
2 18 (54.55%) Portal Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Senior
4 5 (15.15%) C# Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Senior Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior C# Developer
6 3 (9.09%) DBA
6 3 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Administrator
7 2 (6.06%) Senior DBA
8 1 (3.03%) Analyst
8 1 (3.03%) CMS Developer
8 1 (3.03%) Mid Level C# Developer
8 1 (3.03%) MySQL DBA
8 1 (3.03%) Software Analyst
8 1 (3.03%) Software Support Analyst
8 1 (3.03%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (75.76%) .NET
1 25 (75.76%) React
2 19 (57.58%) .NET Core
3 18 (54.55%) .NET Framework
3 18 (54.55%) JSON
3 18 (54.55%) XML
4 12 (36.36%) ASP.NET
5 7 (21.21%) CSS
5 7 (21.21%) HTML
6 6 (18.18%) RESTful
7 5 (15.15%) AngularJS
7 5 (15.15%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (15.15%) CSS3
7 5 (15.15%) HTML5
7 5 (15.15%) Jest
7 5 (15.15%) Vue
8 2 (6.06%) JPA
8 2 (6.06%) Kafka
8 2 (6.06%) Redux
8 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.06%) 3D Graphics
2 2 (6.06%) Clustering
2 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.06%) Online Games
2 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (66.67%) Agile
2 18 (54.55%) Business Development
2 18 (54.55%) Customer-Centricity
2 18 (54.55%) Project Management
2 18 (54.55%) Workflow
3 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
3 7 (21.21%) DevOps
3 7 (21.21%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (18.18%) MVC
5 5 (15.15%) Mobile First
6 4 (12.12%) Mobile Application Development
6 4 (12.12%) Translating Business Requirements
7 3 (9.09%) Clean Code
7 3 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (9.09%) Front End Development
7 3 (9.09%) High Availability
7 3 (9.09%) Software Engineering
8 2 (6.06%) TDD
8 2 (6.06%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (72.73%) SQL
2 8 (24.24%) C#
3 7 (21.21%) JavaScript
4 5 (15.15%) TypeScript
5 3 (9.09%) Python
6 2 (6.06%) Bash
6 2 (6.06%) Java
7 1 (3.03%) C++
7 1 (3.03%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (6.06%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Terraform
2 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) Rollbar
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle
3 2 (6.06%) Solace
4 1 (3.03%) Sage