SQL Server Contracts in Leeds

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 54 65
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 9 18 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.71% 2.25% 2.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.57% 12.95% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 25
10th Percentile £323 - £378
25th Percentile £368 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £421 £581 £538
90th Percentile £461 £613 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% +11.11%

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 105 139 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 20.00% 17.38% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 103 106
10th Percentile £363 £360 £412
25th Percentile £406 £444 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £549
Median % change year-on-year - -8.88% +9.75%
75th Percentile £575 £572 £650
90th Percentile £600 £625 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 £18.50 -
Median hourly rate £32.96 £19.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +73.47% -10.84% +0.52%
75th Percentile £34.38 £19.50 -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 £25.75 £21.31
% change year-on-year +28.00% +20.84% +0.66%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Leeds

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Leeds

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Leeds

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 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Power Automate
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) PowerApps
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VLAN
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MySQL
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Consultant
1 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) CCTV Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Engineering Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) NetBackup Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) React Developer
2 1 (11.11%) VMS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) CSS
1 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) Laravel
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) React Native
2 1 (11.11%) Vue
2 1 (11.11%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) CCTV
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
1 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Android
2 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
2 1 (11.11%) CentOS
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
2 1 (11.11%) VMS
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (22.22%) Customer Engagement
2 2 (22.22%) ETL
2 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
3 1 (11.11%) Business Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
3 1 (11.11%) Data Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) RBAC
3 1 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (11.11%) Server Management
3 1 (11.11%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) PHP
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) NetBackup
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco
3 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
3 1 (11.11%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) Veritas