SQL Jobs in Oxfordshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 15 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 19 31
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 -20
Permanent jobs citing SQL 64 144 101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 9.25% 7.27% 7.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.62% 25.76% 19.02%
Number of salaries quoted 46 128 81
10th Percentile - £35,800 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £44,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -12.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £67,500 £55,313 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £76,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 209 559 531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 30.20% 28.22% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 141 510 293
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,225 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -5.22% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £70,250 £80,000
South East median annual salary £56,250 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% -8.33% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for SQL in Oxfordshire

SQL
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 15 June 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Oxfordshire

SQL
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 within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 15 June 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 +7 16 £70,000 +40.00% 30
Carterton - 7 - -
Wallingford +2 3 - - 2
Banbury +16 2 - - 11
Bicester +11 1 - -
Witney 0 1 £42,598 +1.42%
Wantage - 1 - -
Kidlington - 1 £41,000 -
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 7 (10.94%) CMS
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Q-Pulse
Cloud Services
1 18 (28.13%) Power Platform
2 16 (25.00%) Azure
3 13 (20.31%) AWS
4 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (6.25%) PaaS
5 3 (4.69%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (4.69%) GCP
6 2 (3.13%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.56%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.56%) IaaS
7 1 (1.56%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) DNS
2 3 (4.69%) Broadband
3 1 (1.56%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.56%) Firewall
3 1 (1.56%) Modbus
3 1 (1.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.56%) VPN
3 1 (1.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (39.06%) SQL Server
2 15 (23.44%) Power BI
2 15 (23.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (9.38%) MySQL
4 3 (4.69%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.13%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.56%) Big Data
6 1 (1.56%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.56%) Power Query
6 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (23.44%) Visual Studio
2 6 (9.38%) Git
3 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.13%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.13%) GitLab
3 2 (3.13%) JIRA
3 2 (3.13%) Maven
3 2 (3.13%) Selenium
3 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.56%) CMake
4 1 (1.56%) MLflow
4 1 (1.56%) NUnit
4 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (25.00%) Finance
2 12 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.50%) Retail
5 7 (10.94%) Aerospace
5 7 (10.94%) Aviation
5 7 (10.94%) Military
5 7 (10.94%) Tech for Good
6 5 (7.81%) Marketing
7 4 (6.25%) Legal
8 3 (4.69%) Banking
8 3 (4.69%) Games
8 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (4.69%) Retail Finance
8 3 (4.69%) Telecoms
9 2 (3.13%) Law
9 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.56%) Billing
10 1 (1.56%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 20 (31.25%) Developer
1 20 (31.25%) Software Engineer
2 15 (23.44%) Portal Developer
3 9 (14.06%) Analyst
4 7 (10.94%) Ruby Engineer
4 7 (10.94%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Senior
6 4 (6.25%) DBA
7 3 (4.69%) Help Desk Support
7 3 (4.69%) IoT Software Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Lead
7 3 (4.69%) Lead Software Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Pricing Manager
7 3 (4.69%) Research Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Research Software Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Software Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Software Support Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Support Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Insight Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (39.06%) React
2 23 (35.94%) XML
3 22 (34.38%) .NET
4 20 (31.25%) .NET Framework
5 16 (25.00%) .NET Core
5 16 (25.00%) JSON
6 7 (10.94%) Ruby on Rails
7 6 (9.38%) ASP.NET
8 5 (7.81%) CSS
8 5 (7.81%) HTML
9 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.69%) REST
10 2 (3.13%) CSS3
10 2 (3.13%) Hibernate
10 2 (3.13%) HTML5
10 2 (3.13%) JPA
10 2 (3.13%) Kafka
10 2 (3.13%) Redux
10 2 (3.13%) Spring
10 2 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.44%) Mobile App
2 7 (10.94%) e-Learning
2 7 (10.94%) Reference Data
3 4 (6.25%) IoT
3 4 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.69%) Learning Management System
4 3 (4.69%) Online Games
4 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.13%) Clustering
5 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.13%) Replication
6 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.56%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.56%) FMCG
6 1 (1.56%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.56%) NHS
6 1 (1.56%) Robotics
6 1 (1.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.38%) Linux
2 3 (4.69%) Mac OS
2 3 (4.69%) Windows
2 3 (4.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (50.00%) Agile
2 22 (34.38%) Software Engineering
3 19 (29.69%) Workflow
4 18 (28.13%) Customer-Centricity
5 17 (26.56%) Project Management
6 16 (25.00%) DevOps
7 15 (23.44%) Business Development
8 14 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (20.31%) Data Analysis
10 11 (17.19%) CRM
11 9 (14.06%) Architectural Design
11 9 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (14.06%) TDD
12 8 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
12 8 (12.50%) Migration
13 7 (10.94%) Innovative Thinking
13 7 (10.94%) Regression Testing
14 6 (9.38%) CI/CD
14 6 (9.38%) SDLC
15 5 (7.81%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.63%) Python
2 9 (14.06%) JavaScript
3 7 (10.94%) C#
3 7 (10.94%) PL/SQL
3 7 (10.94%) Ruby
4 3 (4.69%) Java
5 2 (3.13%) Bash
5 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.13%) VBA
6 1 (1.56%) Bicep
6 1 (1.56%) C
6 1 (1.56%) C++
6 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) Degree
2 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.69%) DBS Check
3 3 (4.69%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.69%) MCP
3 3 (4.69%) MCSA
3 3 (4.69%) MCSE
3 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.25%) QA
3 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.69%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.13%) Docker
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) PaperCut
2 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.69%) Databricks
2 3 (4.69%) Rollbar
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle
3 2 (3.13%) Solace
4 1 (1.56%) Allen-Bradley
4 1 (1.56%) Automation Anywhere
4 1 (1.56%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.56%) Meraki
4 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.56%) Siemens
4 1 (1.56%) UiPath