SQL Server Contracts in West Yorkshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 60 67
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 13 18 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.02% 1.85% 2.04%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.00% 11.18% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 27
10th Percentile £363 - £385
25th Percentile £368 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £474 £581 £538
90th Percentile £538 £613 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -5.00% +11.11%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Yorkshire

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 130 161 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 20.16% 16.58% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 124 127
10th Percentile £363 £400 £390
25th Percentile £412 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £650
90th Percentile £600 £625 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 - £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.66%
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 £11.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +199.64% -48.38% +3.52%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in West Yorkshire

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in West Yorkshire

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in West Yorkshire

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in West Yorkshire

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 July 2025. 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
Leeds -5 9 £400 -15.79% 31
Huddersfield - 2 £525 - 1
Calderdale - 1 £375 -
SQL Server
Yorkshire

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (7.69%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 3 (23.08%) AWS
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Power Automate
4 2 (15.38%) PowerApps
4 2 (15.38%) SaaS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) LAN
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) VLAN
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
2 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
2 3 (23.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (15.38%) MySQL
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.69%) Metadata
4 1 (7.69%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) .NET Developer
2 2 (15.38%) .NET Software Developer
2 2 (15.38%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
2 2 (15.38%) C# Software Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Senior .NET Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior .NET Software Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior C# Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior C# Software Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) CCTV Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) .NET Core
2 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
2 2 (15.38%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.69%) Laravel
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) React Native
3 1 (7.69%) Vue
3 1 (7.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) CCTV
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Android
2 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.69%) CentOS
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Ubuntu
2 1 (7.69%) VMS
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 2 (15.38%) Clean Code
3 2 (15.38%) Code Quality
3 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (15.38%) Customer Engagement
3 2 (15.38%) ETL
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 1 (7.69%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (7.69%) Data Strategy
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Server Management
4 1 (7.69%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) C#
3 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 2 (15.38%) Bash
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) Python
4 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
5 1 (7.69%) PHP
5 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) NetBackup
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Liquidlogic
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (7.69%) Veritas