SQL Contracts in Leeds

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL 73 71 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 15.70% 8.89% 12.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.69% 30.08% 39.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 46 112
10th Percentile £313 £275 £401
25th Percentile £405 £416 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £600
90th Percentile - £625 £673
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £463 £511
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.54% +7.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 - -
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 - -

All Programming Languages
Leeds

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 171 236 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 36.77% 29.54% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 173 305
10th Percentile £325 £300 £412
25th Percentile £405 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £570 £588 £600
90th Percentile £703 £648 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £31.62 - £57.55
25th Percentile £44.87 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £91.05 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +169.23%
75th Percentile £101.14 - -
90th Percentile £102.00 - £74.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.05 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +169.23%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Leeds

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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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (21.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (15.07%) Confluence
3 2 (2.74%) Tuxedo
4 1 (1.37%) Apache
4 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.92%) AWS
2 14 (19.18%) Azure
3 10 (13.70%) Power Platform
4 7 (9.59%) GCP
4 7 (9.59%) Slack
5 6 (8.22%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.74%) PaaS
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.37%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.37%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.37%) Miro
7 1 (1.37%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (24.66%) DNS
2 5 (6.85%) HTTP
3 1 (1.37%) Firewall
3 1 (1.37%) LAN
3 1 (1.37%) SSL
3 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.37%) VLAN
3 1 (1.37%) VPN
3 1 (1.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (27.40%) Oracle Database
2 15 (20.55%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (15.07%) MySQL
4 10 (13.70%) Apache Cassandra
4 10 (13.70%) MongoDB
4 10 (13.70%) Power BI
5 4 (5.48%) Tableau
6 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.74%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (2.74%) QlikView
6 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.74%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.37%) Big Data
7 1 (1.37%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.37%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.37%) Looker
7 1 (1.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (13.70%) JIRA
2 8 (10.96%) Cucumber
2 8 (10.96%) Git
2 8 (10.96%) Jasmine
2 8 (10.96%) JUnit
3 4 (5.48%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (4.11%) Selenium
5 2 (2.74%) Postman
6 1 (1.37%) DBeaver
6 1 (1.37%) ERwin
6 1 (1.37%) GitLab
6 1 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 21 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.33%) Finance
2 9 (12.33%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.11%) Banking
4 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (21.92%) Developer
2 13 (17.81%) Analyst
2 13 (17.81%) Senior
3 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 9 (12.33%) Java Developer
5 8 (10.96%) Engineering Specialist
5 8 (10.96%) Senior Developer
5 8 (10.96%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (9.59%) Software Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) IT Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 5 (6.85%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Network Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.48%) SQL Developer
10 3 (4.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) Spring Boot
2 10 (13.70%) Spring
3 9 (12.33%) Spring Security
4 8 (10.96%) RESTful
4 8 (10.96%) Spring Batch
5 7 (9.59%) Swagger
6 6 (8.22%) OpenAPI
7 5 (6.85%) .NET
8 3 (4.11%) .NET Core
9 1 (1.37%) CSS
9 1 (1.37%) FIX Protocol
9 1 (1.37%) FpML
9 1 (1.37%) HTML
9 1 (1.37%) JSON
9 1 (1.37%) Kafka
9 1 (1.37%) Nightwatchjs
9 1 (1.37%) Pandas
9 1 (1.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.29%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (8.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (5.48%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.48%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.37%) NHS
5 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.37%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (42.47%) Linux
2 21 (28.77%) Windows
3 19 (26.03%) Windows Server
4 11 (15.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.37%) CentOS
5 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (34.25%) Microservices
2 19 (26.03%) Agile
2 19 (26.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (24.66%) Migration
4 17 (23.29%) Security Management
5 16 (21.92%) SOA
6 15 (20.55%) Server Management
7 13 (17.81%) CI/CD
7 13 (17.81%) Software Engineering
8 11 (15.07%) TDD
8 11 (15.07%) Test Automation
9 10 (13.70%) BDD
9 10 (13.70%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (13.70%) Containerisation
9 10 (13.70%) Data Analysis
9 10 (13.70%) DevOps
10 9 (12.33%) Analytics
10 9 (12.33%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (10.96%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 31 (42.47%) Bash
2 22 (30.14%) PL/SQL
3 18 (24.66%) PowerShell
4 16 (21.92%) Perl
5 13 (17.81%) Java
5 13 (17.81%) Python
6 5 (6.85%) C#
7 4 (5.48%) COBOL
8 2 (2.74%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.37%) PHP
9 1 (1.37%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (43.84%) Security Cleared
2 29 (39.73%) SC Cleared
3 19 (26.03%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.74%) Degree
5 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.37%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.96%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.48%) GDPR
2 4 (5.48%) QA
System Software
1 19 (26.03%) Active Directory
2 9 (12.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (13.70%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.96%) Terraform
3 1 (1.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (32.88%) Oracle
2 20 (27.40%) Cisco
3 6 (8.22%) Google
4 4 (5.48%) SAP
5 3 (4.11%) Databricks
5 3 (4.11%) Perforce
6 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.37%) Sparx
7 1 (1.37%) VMware