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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 53 45
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 +21
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 26 15 24
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.41% 2.48% 3.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.05% 12.40% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 21
10th Percentile £385 £370 £450
25th Percentile £424 £376 £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 £539 £400 £594
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £395 £562
% change year-on-year +13.92% -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 185 121 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 17.15% 20.00% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 73 90
10th Percentile £400 £365 £395
25th Percentile £421 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% - -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £582
90th Percentile £675 £698 £627
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £26.38 - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.84%
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 - £27.50
% change year-on-year - - +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 20 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 (11.54%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) AWS
2 12 (46.15%) Azure
3 7 (26.92%) GitHub
4 5 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (15.38%) Snowflake
6 3 (11.54%) Google Analytics
7 2 (7.69%) Serverless
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.85%) dbt
8 1 (3.85%) Matillion
8 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle Database
3 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.69%) MySQL
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.85%) DocumentDB
4 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.85%) OLAP
4 1 (3.85%) OLTP
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 5 (19.23%) Gatling
3 4 (15.38%) Git
3 4 (15.38%) JIRA
4 3 (11.54%) Artifactory
4 3 (11.54%) Maven
5 2 (7.69%) GitLab
6 1 (3.85%) Flyway
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Legal
4 2 (7.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Developer
2 8 (30.77%) Data Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Snowflake Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) .NET Developer
5 2 (7.69%) DBA
5 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Senior SQL Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) SQL DBA
5 2 (7.69%) SQL Developer
5 2 (7.69%) SQL Server DBA
5 2 (7.69%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) .NET
2 5 (19.23%) Playwright
3 4 (15.38%) React
3 4 (15.38%) REST
4 3 (11.54%) .NET Framework
4 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET
4 3 (11.54%) CSS
4 3 (11.54%) HTML
5 2 (7.69%) .NET Core
5 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (7.69%) AWS CDK
5 2 (7.69%) Django
5 2 (7.69%) Flask
5 2 (7.69%) MediatR
5 2 (7.69%) Vue
6 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (3.85%) PySpark
6 1 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.54%) NHS
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 11 (42.31%) Agile
3 8 (30.77%) DevOps
4 7 (26.92%) Analytics
4 7 (26.92%) Data Integration
4 7 (26.92%) ETL
4 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (23.08%) Migration
5 6 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (19.23%) Data Engineering
6 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
6 5 (19.23%) Technical Debt
7 4 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (15.38%) Data Security
7 4 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (15.38%) Product Roadmap
8 3 (11.54%) MVC
8 3 (11.54%) OO
8 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Python
2 7 (26.92%) Java
3 6 (23.08%) SQL
4 5 (19.23%) C#
4 5 (19.23%) Scala
5 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
6 2 (7.69%) VB.NET
6 2 (7.69%) VBA
7 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) Data Quality
2 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
3 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) HAProxy
1 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Google
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) Informatica
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow