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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 26 17
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 -8
Permanent jobs citing SQL 63 103 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 8.85% 7.53% 8.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.62% 27.69% 24.78%
Number of salaries quoted 45 91 64
10th Percentile £33,625 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% +3.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £50,000 £70,406
90th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £80,000
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 182 372 343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 25.56% 27.19% 35.54%
Number of salaries quoted 121 320 276
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £36,385
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,625 £80,625
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.98% +6.36%

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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +5 19 £62,500 +31.58% 37
Carterton - 7 - -
Wallingford -1 4 £50,000 +17.65%
Banbury +18 3 £47,500 - 10
Abingdon +16 1 £52,500 -8.70% 9
Bicester +10 1 - - 1
Kidlington - 1 £41,000 -
Wantage - 1 - -
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 6 (9.52%) CMS
2 2 (3.17%) Confluence
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Q-Pulse
2 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (39.68%) Power Platform
2 18 (28.57%) Azure
3 15 (23.81%) AWS
4 6 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (9.52%) GCP
5 5 (7.94%) Azure Service Bus
5 5 (7.94%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (7.94%) PaaS
6 3 (4.76%) SaaS
7 2 (3.17%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.59%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.59%) dbt
8 1 (1.59%) Fivetran
8 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.59%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.52%) DNS
2 4 (6.35%) Broadband
3 2 (3.17%) Firewall
4 1 (1.59%) DHCP
4 1 (1.59%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.59%) Modbus
4 1 (1.59%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.59%) VLAN
4 1 (1.59%) VPN
4 1 (1.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (33.33%) Power BI
2 18 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.94%) MySQL
3 5 (7.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (6.35%) BigQuery
5 3 (4.76%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.17%) Tableau
7 1 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.59%) Big Data
7 1 (1.59%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.59%) Looker
7 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.59%) Power Query
7 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Git
2 6 (9.52%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.17%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.17%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.17%) GitLab
3 2 (3.17%) JIRA
3 2 (3.17%) Maven
3 2 (3.17%) Selenium
3 2 (3.17%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.59%) CMake
4 1 (1.59%) MLflow
4 1 (1.59%) NUnit
4 1 (1.59%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (28.57%) Finance
2 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
3 11 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (17.46%) Retail
4 8 (12.70%) Marketing
5 7 (11.11%) Aerospace
5 7 (11.11%) Aviation
5 7 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 7 (11.11%) Military
6 6 (9.52%) Tech for Good
7 5 (7.94%) Legal
8 4 (6.35%) Retail Finance
8 4 (6.35%) Telecoms
9 3 (4.76%) Banking
9 3 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (4.76%) Law
10 1 (1.59%) Billing
10 1 (1.59%) Games
10 1 (1.59%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (30.16%) Software Engineer
2 13 (20.63%) Analyst
3 11 (17.46%) Systems Engineer
4 10 (15.87%) Developer
5 7 (11.11%) Senior
6 6 (9.52%) Ruby Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Portal Developer
8 4 (6.35%) Manufacturing Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Pricing Manager
8 4 (6.35%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Software Analyst
8 4 (6.35%) Software Support Analyst
8 4 (6.35%) Support Analyst
9 3 (4.76%) Data Insight Analyst
9 3 (4.76%) DBA
9 3 (4.76%) Help Desk Support
9 3 (4.76%) Insight Data Analyst
9 3 (4.76%) IoT Software Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Research Engineer
9 3 (4.76%) Research Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.22%) .NET
1 14 (22.22%) React
1 14 (22.22%) XML
2 12 (19.05%) .NET Framework
3 7 (11.11%) .NET Core
3 7 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 7 (11.11%) JSON
4 6 (9.52%) Ruby on Rails
5 5 (7.94%) CSS
5 5 (7.94%) HTML
6 4 (6.35%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.76%) REST
8 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (3.17%) CSS3
8 2 (3.17%) HTML5
8 2 (3.17%) JPA
8 2 (3.17%) Kafka
8 2 (3.17%) Redux
8 2 (3.17%) SOAP
8 2 (3.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.11%) e-Learning
1 7 (11.11%) Reference Data
2 5 (7.94%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.94%) SCADA
3 4 (6.35%) Industry 4.0
3 4 (6.35%) IoT
3 4 (6.35%) Learning Management System
3 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.35%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 4 (6.35%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.17%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.59%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.59%) FMCG
6 1 (1.59%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 1 (1.59%) NHS
6 1 (1.59%) Online Games
6 1 (1.59%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Linux
1 5 (7.94%) Windows
1 5 (7.94%) Windows Server
2 3 (4.76%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) Agile
2 21 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 20 (31.75%) Business Intelligence
4 18 (28.57%) DevOps
5 14 (22.22%) Data Analysis
6 13 (20.63%) CRM
7 11 (17.46%) Analytics
8 9 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
8 9 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (14.29%) Workflow
9 8 (12.70%) Architectural Design
9 8 (12.70%) Customer Requirements
9 8 (12.70%) Migration
9 8 (12.70%) TDD
10 7 (11.11%) Data Analytics
10 7 (11.11%) Innovative Thinking
10 7 (11.11%) Project Management
10 7 (11.11%) Regression Testing
10 7 (11.11%) SDLC
11 6 (9.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 30 (47.62%) Python
2 10 (15.87%) JavaScript
3 9 (14.29%) C#
4 7 (11.11%) PL/SQL
5 6 (9.52%) Ruby
6 3 (4.76%) Java
6 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.17%) VBA
8 1 (1.59%) Bicep
8 1 (1.59%) C
8 1 (1.59%) C++
8 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.59%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (17.46%) Degree
2 7 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.35%) MCSE
3 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.76%) MCP
4 3 (4.76%) MCSA
5 2 (3.17%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.59%) PhD
6 1 (1.59%) RHCE
6 1 (1.59%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.94%) QA
3 1 (1.59%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (7.94%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.35%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.17%) Docker
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) PaperCut
2 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.17%) Terraform
3 1 (1.59%) Ansible
3 1 (1.59%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (1.59%) SCCM
3 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (30.16%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) Allen-Bradley
2 5 (7.94%) Siemens
3 3 (4.76%) Databricks
3 3 (4.76%) Rollbar
4 2 (3.17%) Google
4 2 (3.17%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.17%) Solace
5 1 (1.59%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.59%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.59%) Citrix
5 1 (1.59%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.59%) IONA
5 1 (1.59%) Meraki
5 1 (1.59%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.59%) Talend
5 1 (1.59%) VMware
5 1 (1.59%) Zoho