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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 55 49
Rank change year-on-year -2 -6 +11
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 31 8 18
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.95% 1.40% 2.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.71% 7.34% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 6 14
10th Percentile - £313 -
25th Percentile £400 £365 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £395 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.25% -24.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £500 £421 £582
90th Percentile £555 £470 £616
West Yorkshire median daily rate £473 £413 £525
% change year-on-year +14.48% -21.38% +5.00%

All Database & BI 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 175 109 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 16.65% 19.12% 18.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 69 95
10th Percentile £400 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £576
90th Percentile £675 £600 £625
West Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -4.71% +0.75% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £26.38 - -
25th Percentile - £31.76 £18.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.11 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +74.26% -10.84%
75th Percentile - £34.46 £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £33.11 £25.75
% change year-on-year +5.71% +28.58% +20.84%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

SQL Server job vacancy trend 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 2 August 2026.

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 & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (12.90%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (70.97%) AWS
2 13 (41.94%) Azure
3 11 (35.48%) GitHub
4 8 (25.81%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (12.90%) Snowflake
6 3 (9.68%) Google Analytics
6 3 (9.68%) Serverless
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.23%) dbt
7 1 (3.23%) Matillion
7 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (19.35%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (9.68%) DTS
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle Database
3 3 (9.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (9.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.45%) MySQL
5 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.23%) DocumentDB
5 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.23%) OLAP
5 1 (3.23%) OLTP
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (45.16%) Jenkins
2 7 (22.58%) Gatling
3 6 (19.35%) Git
4 5 (16.13%) GitLab
4 5 (16.13%) Maven
5 4 (12.90%) Artifactory
5 4 (12.90%) Flyway
6 2 (6.45%) JIRA
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (19.35%) Legal
4 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Data Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Developer
3 5 (16.13%) DBA
3 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) SQL DBA
4 4 (12.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Snowflake Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Java Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Python Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) SQL Server DBA
7 1 (3.23%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (3.23%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Playwright
2 5 (16.13%) AWS CDK
3 4 (12.90%) .NET
3 4 (12.90%) CSS
3 4 (12.90%) HTML
3 4 (12.90%) React
4 3 (9.68%) Django
4 3 (9.68%) Flask
4 3 (9.68%) REST
4 3 (9.68%) Vue
5 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
5 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET
5 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (6.45%) MediatR
6 1 (3.23%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.23%) CSS3
6 1 (3.23%) HTML5
6 1 (3.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (3.23%) PySpark
6 1 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.68%) Data Structures
2 3 (9.68%) NHS
3 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Agile
2 14 (45.16%) CI/CD
3 10 (32.26%) DevOps
4 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (29.03%) Migration
5 8 (25.81%) ETL
5 8 (25.81%) Roadmaps
5 8 (25.81%) Technical Debt
6 7 (22.58%) Analytics
6 7 (22.58%) Product Roadmap
7 6 (19.35%) Data Protection
7 6 (19.35%) Database Migration
7 6 (19.35%) Front End Development
7 6 (19.35%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (16.13%) Data Engineering
8 5 (16.13%) Data Integration
8 5 (16.13%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (16.13%) Kanban
8 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (41.94%) Python
2 11 (35.48%) Java
3 8 (25.81%) SQL
4 7 (22.58%) Scala
5 6 (19.35%) TypeScript
6 4 (12.90%) C#
6 4 (12.90%) JavaScript
7 2 (6.45%) VB.NET
7 2 (6.45%) VBA
8 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (48.39%) Security Cleared
2 14 (45.16%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (12.90%) Degree
4 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.68%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 13 (41.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) Terraform
2 8 (25.81%) HAProxy
2 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.68%) Foglight
Vendors
1 16 (51.61%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Databricks
2 4 (12.90%) ServiceNow
3 3 (9.68%) Google
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Informatica