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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 58 45
Rank change year-on-year -1 -13 +22
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 29 13 24
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.70% 2.18% 3.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.59% 10.83% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 7 21
10th Percentile £400 £323 £450
25th Percentile £426 £369 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £385 £562
Median % change year-on-year +23.38% -31.43% +13.15%
75th Percentile £500 £398 £573
90th Percentile £506 £400 £594
West Yorkshire median daily rate £473 £395 £562
% change year-on-year +19.62% -29.65% +12.30%

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 186 120 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 17.30% 20.17% 18.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 75 93
10th Percentile £400 £363 £330
25th Percentile £424 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £643
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -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 £27.50
% change year-on-year +5.71% +20.40% +29.05%

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 13 September 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 3 (10.34%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (62.07%) AWS
2 13 (44.83%) Azure
3 10 (34.48%) GitHub
4 8 (27.59%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (13.79%) Snowflake
6 3 (10.34%) Google Analytics
7 2 (6.90%) Serverless
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.45%) dbt
8 1 (3.45%) Matillion
8 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.90%) MySQL
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.45%) DocumentDB
4 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.45%) OLAP
4 1 (3.45%) OLTP
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (3.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (37.93%) Jenkins
2 7 (24.14%) Gatling
3 5 (17.24%) Maven
4 4 (13.79%) Artifactory
4 4 (13.79%) JIRA
5 3 (10.34%) Git
6 2 (6.90%) GitLab
7 1 (3.45%) Flyway
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.34%) Legal
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Data Engineer
1 8 (27.59%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Snowflake Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Java Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior
4 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) DBA
5 2 (6.90%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Python Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Senior SQL Developer
5 2 (6.90%) SQL DBA
5 2 (6.90%) SQL Developer
5 2 (6.90%) SQL Server DBA
5 2 (6.90%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) Terraform
2 7 (24.14%) Playwright
3 4 (13.79%) .NET
4 3 (10.34%) CSS
4 3 (10.34%) HTML
4 3 (10.34%) React
4 3 (10.34%) REST
5 2 (6.90%) .NET Framework
5 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET
5 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (6.90%) AWS CDK
5 2 (6.90%) Django
5 2 (6.90%) Flask
5 2 (6.90%) MediatR
5 2 (6.90%) Vue
6 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.45%) CSS3
6 1 (3.45%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (3.45%) PySpark
6 1 (3.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.34%) NHS
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) CI/CD
2 11 (37.93%) Agile
3 10 (34.48%) DevOps
4 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (27.59%) Roadmaps
4 8 (27.59%) Technical Debt
5 7 (24.14%) Analytics
5 7 (24.14%) Data Integration
5 7 (24.14%) ETL
5 7 (24.14%) Product Roadmap
6 6 (20.69%) Migration
6 6 (20.69%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (20.69%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (17.24%) Data Engineering
7 5 (17.24%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
8 4 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (13.79%) Data Security
8 4 (13.79%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Python
2 11 (37.93%) Java
3 7 (24.14%) Scala
3 7 (24.14%) SQL
4 4 (13.79%) C#
5 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.90%) T-SQL
6 2 (6.90%) VB.NET
6 2 (6.90%) VBA
7 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (51.72%) Security Cleared
2 14 (48.28%) SC Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.45%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 12 (41.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) HAProxy
1 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (55.17%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Google
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Databricks
3 1 (3.45%) Informatica
3 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow