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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 6 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 3.35% - 3.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.00% - 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £375 - £444
25th Percentile £488 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.89%
75th Percentile £575 - £544
90th Percentile - - £578
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.50
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £42.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year -27.18% -17.60% +87.71%

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 20 2 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 11.17% 2.56% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 10
10th Percentile £416 - £300
25th Percentile £425 £256 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £263 £513
Median % change year-on-year +109.52% -48.78% +28.13%
75th Percentile £738 £269 £675
90th Percentile - - £704
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.50
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £42.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.25 £33.11 £57.50
% change year-on-year -26.76% -42.42% +17.07%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 - 3 £550 - 6
Selby - 1 - -
Harrogate - 1 £550 - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) Data Vault
3 1 (16.67%) Metadata
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) ER Studio
1 1 (16.67%) ERwin
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modeller
2 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) IFS Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) IFS Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Modeller
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) NumPy
1 1 (16.67%) Pandas
1 1 (16.67%) Plotly
1 1 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (16.67%) scikit-learn
1 1 (16.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
1 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Electronic Design Automation
3 1 (16.67%) ERP
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
3 1 (16.67%) MLOps
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Statistical Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Statistics
3 1 (16.67%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) IFS