SQL Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 102 86 88
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 8.67% 15.33% 9.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.48% 48.04% 33.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 61 63
10th Percentile £283 £313 £280
25th Percentile £400 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £578
90th Percentile £670 £575 £615
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -4.04% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - £31.50 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.54 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.96 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% - -
75th Percentile £25.00 £34.38 -
90th Percentile - £34.43 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £32.96 -
% change year-on-year -27.18% - -

All Programming Languages
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 314 179 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 26.68% 31.91% 27.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 123 199
10th Percentile £313 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £626 £575 £639
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -2.50% +3.09% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - £31.53 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.62 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% - -
75th Percentile £25.00 £66.51 -
90th Percentile - £85.74 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 £62.50
% change year-on-year -27.51% -47.02% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

SQL job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in West Yorkshire

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

SQL
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 within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 May 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
Leeds -13 77 £450 -5.26% 43
Bradford -2 13 £450 - 5
Huddersfield +1 8 £500 -4.76% 3
Halifax -1 3 - - 1
SQL
Yorkshire

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 5 (4.90%) Confluence
2 3 (2.94%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (2.94%) SAS
3 2 (1.96%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (1.96%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.98%) Apache
4 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (6.86%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.98%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (30.39%) Azure
2 28 (27.45%) AWS
3 10 (9.80%) GCP
3 10 (9.80%) Power Platform
3 10 (9.80%) Serverless
4 9 (8.82%) GitHub
5 7 (6.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (6.86%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (6.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 6 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (4.90%) Cloud Run
7 5 (4.90%) IaaS
7 5 (4.90%) PaaS
7 5 (4.90%) SaaS
8 4 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (3.92%) Azure AKS
8 4 (3.92%) Azure Functions
8 4 (3.92%) Azure Storage
8 4 (3.92%) Kong
8 4 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.88%) SSL
2 5 (4.90%) DNS
2 5 (4.90%) IPsec
2 5 (4.90%) Kerberos
3 4 (3.92%) Firewall
4 2 (1.96%) VPN
5 1 (0.98%) BGP
5 1 (0.98%) HTTP
5 1 (0.98%) Network Security
5 1 (0.98%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (24.51%) SQL Server
2 13 (12.75%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (9.80%) Power BI
3 10 (9.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (8.82%) MongoDB
4 9 (8.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (7.84%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (6.86%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (5.88%) Data Lake
7 6 (5.88%) NoSQL
7 6 (5.88%) Relational Database
8 5 (4.90%) Tableau
9 4 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (3.92%) Hazelcast
9 4 (3.92%) Oracle Database
9 4 (3.92%) Oracle Database 12c
9 4 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (3.92%) RDBMS
9 4 (3.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (16.67%) Git
2 13 (12.75%) Jenkins
3 11 (10.78%) GitLab
4 6 (5.88%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (3.92%) Flyway
5 4 (3.92%) Gradle
5 4 (3.92%) Maven
5 4 (3.92%) Snyk
6 3 (2.94%) ERwin
6 3 (2.94%) JIRA
7 1 (0.98%) CircleCI
General
1 22 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.63%) Public Sector
3 18 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.84%) Finance
5 4 (3.92%) Banking
5 4 (3.92%) Legal
6 3 (2.94%) Marketing
6 3 (2.94%) Social Housing
7 2 (1.96%) Games
7 2 (1.96%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.96%) Retail
8 1 (0.98%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.98%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.98%) Law
8 1 (0.98%) Local Government
8 1 (0.98%) Military
8 1 (0.98%) Social Science
8 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (28.43%) Developer
2 18 (17.65%) Senior
3 15 (14.71%) Analyst
4 11 (10.78%) DBA
4 11 (10.78%) Senior Developer
5 9 (8.82%) Lead
6 8 (7.84%) Architect
7 7 (6.86%) Backend Developer
7 7 (6.86%) Consultant
7 7 (6.86%) Data Engineer
7 7 (6.86%) Oracle Consultant
7 7 (6.86%) Performance Analyst
7 7 (6.86%) Senior Backend Developer
7 7 (6.86%) SQL DBA
8 6 (5.88%) Java Developer
8 6 (5.88%) SQL Developer
9 5 (4.90%) Oracle Technical Consultant
9 5 (4.90%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (4.90%) Senior Technical Architect
9 5 (4.90%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.80%) OAuth
2 9 (8.82%) OAuth2
3 8 (7.84%) Kafka
3 8 (7.84%) Spring
4 7 (6.86%) RESTful
4 7 (6.86%) Web Services
5 6 (5.88%) .NET
5 6 (5.88%) JSON
5 6 (5.88%) OpenID
5 6 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (5.88%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.90%) PySpark
6 5 (4.90%) SAML
6 5 (4.90%) XACML
7 4 (3.92%) Apache Avro
7 4 (3.92%) CSS
7 4 (3.92%) JPA
7 4 (3.92%) Protocol Buffers
7 4 (3.92%) Spring WebFlux
7 4 (3.92%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.76%) NHS
2 7 (6.86%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (4.90%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.92%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.94%) Clustering
6 3 (2.94%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.94%) Replication
7 2 (1.96%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.96%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.98%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.98%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.90%) Linux
2 4 (3.92%) Windows
3 3 (2.94%) Oracle Linux
3 3 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (27.45%) CI/CD
2 25 (24.51%) DevOps
3 23 (22.55%) Agile
4 18 (17.65%) ETL
5 17 (16.67%) Analytics
5 17 (16.67%) Microservices
6 16 (15.69%) Performance Tuning
7 15 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (13.73%) Data Architecture
8 14 (13.73%) Migration
8 14 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (11.76%) Data Modelling
9 12 (11.76%) High Availability
9 12 (11.76%) Roadmaps
10 11 (10.78%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (10.78%) Validation
11 10 (9.80%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (8.82%) Decision-Making
12 9 (8.82%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 24 (23.53%) Python
2 11 (10.78%) Java
3 8 (7.84%) T-SQL
4 7 (6.86%) PL/SQL
5 6 (5.88%) C#
5 6 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.90%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.92%) PHP
7 4 (3.92%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.94%) Bash
9 2 (1.96%) Scala
10 1 (0.98%) ABAP
10 1 (0.98%) Bicep
10 1 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.98%) Delphi
10 1 (0.98%) Go
10 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.98%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.86%) Degree
4 3 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.80%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.92%) QA
3 1 (0.98%) HL7
3 1 (0.98%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (10.78%) Docker
2 5 (4.90%) RACF
3 2 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (10.78%) Terraform
2 9 (8.82%) Kubernetes
3 5 (4.90%) Grafana
3 5 (4.90%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (3.92%) Argo
4 4 (3.92%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (3.92%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.94%) Foglight
6 1 (0.98%) Ansible
6 1 (0.98%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.98%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 21 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.73%) Databricks
3 13 (12.75%) Oracle
4 6 (5.88%) Google
5 5 (4.90%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.92%) Splunk
7 3 (2.94%) Civica
7 3 (2.94%) RedGate
7 3 (2.94%) SAP
7 3 (2.94%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.94%) Teradata
8 2 (1.96%) Adobe
8 2 (1.96%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.96%) Foundry
8 2 (1.96%) Palantir
8 2 (1.96%) SYSPRO