SQL Server Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring SQL Server skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 41 65
Rank change year-on-year -12 +24 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 15 24 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.53% 3.33% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.40% 17.78% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 21 18
10th Percentile £333 £450 £363
25th Percentile £372 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £562 £490
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +14.59% +0.51%
75th Percentile £396 £573 £538
90th Percentile £400 £594 £639
West Yorkshire median daily rate £390 £562 £493
% change year-on-year -30.54% +14.01% +7.36%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Leeds

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 121 135 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 20.44% 18.75% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 91 102
10th Percentile £363 £350 £400
25th Percentile £400 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £641
90th Percentile £675 £625 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - -10.84% +35.30%
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £27.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year - +29.05% +15.44%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Leeds

SQL Server
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SQL Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Leeds over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Leeds

SQL Server
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SQL Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) AWS
3 7 (46.67%) GCP
4 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (13.33%) Power Automate
5 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) PaaS
6 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Power BI
2 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (13.33%) Power Query
3 2 (13.33%) Tableau
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (40.00%) Banking
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) NetBackup Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 2 (13.33%) Power BI Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Veritas Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Backup Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) CCTV Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) VMS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) CSS
1 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.67%) Blazor
2 1 (6.67%) Playwright
2 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) CCTV
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) VMS
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Containerisation
2 7 (46.67%) Business Continuity
2 7 (46.67%) Business Strategy
2 7 (46.67%) Data Protection
2 7 (46.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (46.67%) RBAC
2 7 (46.67%) Security Monitoring
2 7 (46.67%) Task Automation
3 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 2 (13.33%) Agile
6 2 (13.33%) Customer Engagement
6 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
6 2 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (13.33%) ETL
6 2 (13.33%) User Experience
6 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
7 1 (6.67%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Bash
1 7 (46.67%) PowerShell
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) C#
4 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) Bicep
5 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
2 7 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) NetBackup
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) CyberArk
1 7 (46.67%) Google
1 7 (46.67%) Oracle
1 7 (46.67%) Veritas
1 7 (46.67%) VMware
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft