SQL Contract Job Trends in North Yorkshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North Yorkshire requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 15 25
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 -12
Contract jobs citing SQL 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 3.42% 4.11% 2.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% 75.00% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £323 - £381
25th Percentile £356 £375 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £506 £425 £581
90th Percentile £548 - £593
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -4.65% +2.25% -4.76%

All Programming Languages
North Yorkshire

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 North Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 12 4 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 10.26% 5.48% 21.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 34
10th Percentile £212 - £305
25th Percentile £300 £375 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% -8.11%
75th Percentile £469 £425 £449
90th Percentile £533 - £573
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £470
% change year-on-year - +6.38% -10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £49.25 - -
Median hourly rate £49.50 - -
75th Percentile £49.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £61.61 £26.78
% change year-on-year -19.66% +130.07% -57.15%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire.

SQL job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in North Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in North Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in North Yorkshire

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing SQL

SQL
Contract Job Locations in North Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the North Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
York - 4 £425 - 9
SQL
Yorkshire

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) MS Access
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Military
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Information Management
2 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks