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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 51 65
Rank change year-on-year -6 +14 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 18 15 17
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.69% 2.24% 1.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.53% 14.15% 13.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 16
10th Percentile £374 £505 £291
25th Percentile £378 £554 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £567 £438
Median % change year-on-year -30.34% +29.60% -12.50%
75th Percentile £400 £573 £500
90th Percentile £443 £583 £538
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £567 £450
% change year-on-year -29.45% +26.00% -5.26%

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 133 106 127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 19.85% 15.80% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 63 104
10th Percentile £375 £326 £354
25th Percentile £403 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £634 £567 £639
90th Percentile £699 £648 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.31% +1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £23.25 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +9.10% +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

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
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) AWS
3 7 (38.89%) GCP
4 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
5 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
6 2 (11.11%) PowerApps
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (5.56%) GitHub
7 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.56%) PaaS
7 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (22.22%) Power BI
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (11.11%) Power Query
4 2 (11.11%) Tableau
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Postman
2 1 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Banking
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) NetBackup Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Data Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Power BI Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Veritas Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Manual Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Manual Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) CSS
1 2 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) Blazor
2 1 (5.56%) FHIR
2 1 (5.56%) Playwright
2 1 (5.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) NHS
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Containerisation
2 7 (38.89%) Business Continuity
2 7 (38.89%) Business Strategy
2 7 (38.89%) Data Modelling
2 7 (38.89%) Data Protection
2 7 (38.89%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (38.89%) RBAC
2 7 (38.89%) Security Monitoring
2 7 (38.89%) Task Automation
3 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (22.22%) ETL
3 4 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 3 (16.67%) Data Strategy
4 3 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
4 3 (16.67%) Migration
4 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 3 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Bash
1 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) Bicep
5 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Docker
2 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) NetBackup
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) CyberArk
1 7 (38.89%) Google
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle
1 7 (38.89%) Veritas
1 7 (38.89%) VMware
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco