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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +8
Contract jobs citing SQL 73 80 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 15.60% 10.13% 12.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.06% 32.26% 37.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 54 105
10th Percentile £313 £283 £413
25th Percentile £405 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £625
90th Percentile £575 £615 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
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 162 248 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 34.62% 31.39% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 181 302
10th Percentile £321 £300 £413
25th Percentile £405 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £629
90th Percentile £575 £630 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £31.53 - £57.55
25th Percentile £31.62 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £33.11 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +169.23%
75th Percentile £66.51 - -
90th Percentile £85.74 - £74.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £33.11 - £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

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Leeds over the 6 months to 30 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 5 (6.85%) Confluence
3 3 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.74%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.03%) Azure
2 17 (23.29%) AWS
3 14 (19.18%) Power Platform
4 8 (10.96%) GCP
5 4 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.74%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (2.74%) dbt
6 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.74%) PaaS
6 2 (2.74%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.74%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.74%) Serverless
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.37%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.37%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 18 (24.66%) DNS
2 1 (1.37%) Firewall
2 1 (1.37%) HTTP
2 1 (1.37%) LAN
2 1 (1.37%) SSL
2 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.37%) VLAN
2 1 (1.37%) VPN
2 1 (1.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (27.40%) Oracle Database
2 14 (19.18%) Power BI
3 8 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (8.22%) Tableau
5 5 (6.85%) MySQL
5 5 (6.85%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.48%) MongoDB
7 3 (4.11%) BigQuery
7 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.74%) Bigtable
8 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.74%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (2.74%) QlikView
8 2 (2.74%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.74%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (9.59%) Git
2 5 (6.85%) JIRA
3 4 (5.48%) GitLab
3 4 (5.48%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (4.11%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.11%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.11%) Selenium
4 3 (4.11%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.11%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.74%) Postman
6 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.37%) DBeaver
6 1 (1.37%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.37%) JUnit
6 1 (1.37%) Maven
6 1 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.37%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.59%) Finance
4 5 (6.85%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.74%) Banking
7 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Environmental Health
7 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.37%) Retail
7 1 (1.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (20.55%) Analyst
2 10 (13.70%) Developer
2 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 8 (10.96%) Engineering Specialist
5 7 (9.59%) Software Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) IT Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) Data Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Network Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Senior
9 3 (4.11%) Development Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Performance Analyst
9 3 (4.11%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.96%) .NET
2 4 (5.48%) RESTful
3 3 (4.11%) .NET Core
3 3 (4.11%) CSS
3 3 (4.11%) HTML
3 3 (4.11%) Kafka
3 3 (4.11%) Node.js
4 2 (2.74%) Spring
4 2 (2.74%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.37%) Apache CXF
5 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.37%) Dropwizard
5 1 (1.37%) JAX-RS
5 1 (1.37%) Nightwatchjs
5 1 (1.37%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.37%) PySpark
5 1 (1.37%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (1.37%) Spring Batch
5 1 (1.37%) Spring Security
5 1 (1.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.29%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (8.22%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (6.85%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.11%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.74%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.37%) NHS
6 1 (1.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (28.77%) Linux
1 21 (28.77%) Windows
2 19 (26.03%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.74%) Unix
4 1 (1.37%) CentOS
4 1 (1.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (30.14%) Agile
2 20 (27.40%) Microservices
2 20 (27.40%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (26.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 18 (24.66%) Migration
5 17 (23.29%) Security Management
6 16 (21.92%) SOA
7 15 (20.55%) Server Management
8 14 (19.18%) CI/CD
9 13 (17.81%) DevOps
10 12 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (15.07%) ETL
12 10 (13.70%) Data Analysis
13 9 (12.33%) Analytics
13 9 (12.33%) Roadmaps
13 9 (12.33%) Test Automation
13 9 (12.33%) Visualisation
14 6 (8.22%) Data Analytics
14 6 (8.22%) Data Migration
14 6 (8.22%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.14%) Bash
1 22 (30.14%) PL/SQL
2 18 (24.66%) PowerShell
3 16 (21.92%) Perl
3 16 (21.92%) Python
4 8 (10.96%) C#
4 8 (10.96%) Java
5 6 (8.22%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.48%) COBOL
7 3 (4.11%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.74%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (2.74%) Scala
8 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.37%) PHP
9 1 (1.37%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (41.10%) Security Cleared
2 27 (36.99%) SC Cleared
3 19 (26.03%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.74%) Degree
5 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.37%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.96%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.22%) QA
3 4 (5.48%) GDPR
4 1 (1.37%) COSHH
System Software
1 19 (26.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (12.33%) Terraform
2 2 (2.74%) Control-M
3 1 (1.37%) Ansible
3 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (32.88%) Oracle
2 20 (27.40%) Cisco
3 6 (8.22%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.85%) Google
5 3 (4.11%) Databricks
5 3 (4.11%) Perforce
5 3 (4.11%) SAP
6 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.37%) VMware