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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 56 48
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +20
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 26 18 18
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.52% 2.65% 2.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.95% 13.53% 16.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 15
10th Percentile £263 £374 £515
25th Percentile £381 £378 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £395 £567
Median % change year-on-year +20.25% -30.34% +15.13%
75th Percentile £500 £400 £575
90th Percentile £555 £443 £590
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £400 £567
% change year-on-year +12.50% -29.45% +13.40%

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 163 133 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 15.79% 19.59% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 81 68
10th Percentile £389 £375 £321
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £568
90th Percentile £646 £700 £632
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £26.38 - £19.28
25th Percentile - - £20.44
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £23.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.10%
75th Percentile - - £26.44
90th Percentile - - £27.83
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 11 October 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 17 (65.38%) AWS
2 10 (38.46%) Azure
3 7 (26.92%) GitHub
4 5 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (15.38%) Snowflake
6 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (7.69%) GCP
7 2 (7.69%) Serverless
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
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 7 (26.92%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle Database
3 4 (15.38%) MySQL
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
5 2 (7.69%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (7.69%) BigQuery
5 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (7.69%) Db2
5 2 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 2 (7.69%) SAP HANA
5 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.85%) OLAP
6 1 (3.85%) OLTP
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 6 (23.08%) Git
3 5 (19.23%) Gatling
4 4 (15.38%) JIRA
5 3 (11.54%) Artifactory
5 3 (11.54%) Maven
6 2 (7.69%) GitLab
7 1 (3.85%) Flyway
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Banking
4 3 (11.54%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Data Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Senior
2 5 (19.23%) Senior Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Snowflake Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior .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 Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Senior SQL Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Support Manager
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 7 (26.92%) Terraform
2 6 (23.08%) .NET
2 6 (23.08%) React
2 6 (23.08%) REST
3 5 (19.23%) .NET Framework
3 5 (19.23%) Playwright
4 4 (15.38%) .NET Core
4 4 (15.38%) ASP.NET
5 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (11.54%) CSS
5 3 (11.54%) Entity Framework
5 3 (11.54%) HTML
5 3 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (7.69%) AWS CDK
6 2 (7.69%) Django
6 2 (7.69%) Flask
6 2 (7.69%) MediatR
6 2 (7.69%) Vue
7 1 (3.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.69%) Replication
4 1 (3.85%) NHS
4 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) CI/CD
2 12 (46.15%) Agile
3 10 (38.46%) DevOps
4 8 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (26.92%) Data Integration
5 7 (26.92%) ETL
5 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (23.08%) Analytics
6 6 (23.08%) Migration
7 5 (19.23%) Data Engineering
7 5 (19.23%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (19.23%) MVC
7 5 (19.23%) OO
7 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
7 5 (19.23%) Technical Debt
8 4 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (15.38%) Data Security
8 4 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (15.38%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) SQL
3 7 (26.92%) Java
4 6 (23.08%) C#
4 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 6 (23.08%) TypeScript
5 5 (19.23%) Scala
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 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) 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 4 (15.38%) QA
3 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) HAProxy
1 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle
3 2 (7.69%) Google
3 2 (7.69%) IBM
3 2 (7.69%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Informatica
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow