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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL 6 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 3.39% 1.03% 3.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.00% 16.67% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £427 - -
25th Percentile £459 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £550 £438 £513
90th Percentile £575 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £460 £475 £504
% change year-on-year -3.16% -5.71% -4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.50
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £42.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 - £36.25
% change year-on-year - - +70.11%

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 6 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 11.30% 6.19% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 2 3
10th Percentile £413 £179 £530
25th Percentile £424 £218 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £290 £700
Median % change year-on-year +63.79% -58.57% +68.67%
75th Percentile £738 £368 £719
90th Percentile - £410 £730
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £49.25 £37.50
Median hourly rate - £49.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +23.75% -
75th Percentile - £49.75 £42.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £49.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -51.52% +23.75% +87.71%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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
Skipton - 3 £475 - 5
York -5 2 £475 +11.76% 16
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Databricks
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) Azure API Management
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (16.67%) BrowserStack
4 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (16.67%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata
2 1 (16.67%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Applitools
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) JMeter
1 1 (16.67%) Newman
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
1 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) IFS Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) IFS Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Architect
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%) Playwright
1 1 (16.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ETL
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Data Lineage
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) API Development
4 1 (16.67%) API Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Digital Customer Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) IFS
3 1 (16.67%) OutSystems