SQL Contracts in West Yorkshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 15 11
Rank change year-on-year +10 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL 84 83 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 15.33% 8.31% 11.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.16% 31.56% 38.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 58 122
10th Percentile £313 £275 £378
25th Percentile £405 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £511
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -9.54% +7.63%
75th Percentile £566 £583 £600
90th Percentile £575 £618 £673
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 - -
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 - -

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 186 263 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 33.94% 26.33% 28.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 196 335
10th Percentile £325 £300 £403
25th Percentile £405 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £31.62 - £57.55
25th Percentile £44.87 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £91.05 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +169.23%
75th Percentile £101.14 - -
90th Percentile £102.00 - £74.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.05 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +45.68% - +126.98%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in West Yorkshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in West Yorkshire

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in West Yorkshire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in West Yorkshire

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 1 May 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 73 £475 -5.00% 99
Bradford +11 2 £450 +20.00% 13
Calderdale - 2 £375 - 1
SQL
Yorkshire

SQL
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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (19.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (13.10%) Confluence
3 2 (2.38%) Tuxedo
4 1 (1.19%) Apache
4 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.38%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.43%) Azure
2 17 (20.24%) Power Platform
3 16 (19.05%) AWS
4 7 (8.33%) GCP
4 7 (8.33%) Slack
5 6 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.38%) PaaS
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.19%) Google Analytics
8 1 (1.19%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (1.19%) Miro
8 1 (1.19%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (21.43%) DNS
2 5 (5.95%) HTTP
3 1 (1.19%) Firewall
3 1 (1.19%) LAN
3 1 (1.19%) SSL
3 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.19%) VLAN
3 1 (1.19%) VPN
3 1 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (23.81%) Oracle Database
2 17 (20.24%) Power BI
3 15 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (13.10%) MySQL
5 10 (11.90%) Apache Cassandra
5 10 (11.90%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.95%) SQL Server
6 5 (5.95%) Tableau
7 4 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.57%) Metadata
8 3 (3.57%) QlikView
9 2 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.38%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.38%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.38%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (2.38%) Star Schema
10 1 (1.19%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 10 (11.90%) JIRA
2 8 (9.52%) Cucumber
2 8 (9.52%) Git
2 8 (9.52%) Jasmine
2 8 (9.52%) JUnit
3 4 (4.76%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (3.57%) Selenium
5 2 (2.38%) Postman
6 1 (1.19%) DBeaver
6 1 (1.19%) ERwin
6 1 (1.19%) GitLab
6 1 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 23 (27.38%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.10%) Finance
3 9 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.57%) Banking
5 3 (3.57%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (21.43%) Developer
2 15 (17.86%) Analyst
3 14 (16.67%) Senior
4 10 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (10.71%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 9 (10.71%) Java Developer
6 8 (9.52%) Engineering Specialist
6 8 (9.52%) Senior Developer
6 8 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (8.33%) Software Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 6 (7.14%) IT Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) SQL Developer
10 4 (4.76%) Business Analyst
10 4 (4.76%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.10%) Spring Boot
2 10 (11.90%) Spring
3 9 (10.71%) Spring Security
4 8 (9.52%) RESTful
4 8 (9.52%) Spring Batch
5 7 (8.33%) Swagger
6 6 (7.14%) OpenAPI
7 5 (5.95%) .NET
8 3 (3.57%) .NET Core
8 3 (3.57%) XML
9 2 (2.38%) JSON
10 1 (1.19%) CSS
10 1 (1.19%) FIX Protocol
10 1 (1.19%) FpML
10 1 (1.19%) HTML
10 1 (1.19%) Kafka
10 1 (1.19%) Nightwatchjs
10 1 (1.19%) Pandas
10 1 (1.19%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.24%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (5.95%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.95%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.19%) FMCG
6 1 (1.19%) NHS
6 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.19%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.19%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (36.90%) Linux
2 21 (25.00%) Windows
3 19 (22.62%) Windows Server
4 11 (13.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.19%) CentOS
5 1 (1.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.76%) Microservices
2 21 (25.00%) Migration
3 20 (23.81%) Agile
4 19 (22.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 19 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (20.24%) Business Intelligence
5 17 (20.24%) Security Management
6 16 (19.05%) SOA
7 15 (17.86%) Server Management
8 13 (15.48%) CI/CD
8 13 (15.48%) Software Engineering
9 11 (13.10%) Analytics
9 11 (13.10%) Data Analysis
9 11 (13.10%) ETL
9 11 (13.10%) TDD
9 11 (13.10%) Test Automation
10 10 (11.90%) BDD
10 10 (11.90%) Containerisation
10 10 (11.90%) Data Migration
10 10 (11.90%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 31 (36.90%) Bash
2 26 (30.95%) PL/SQL
3 18 (21.43%) PowerShell
4 16 (19.05%) Perl
5 14 (16.67%) Python
6 13 (15.48%) Java
7 5 (5.95%) C#
7 5 (5.95%) T-SQL
8 4 (4.76%) COBOL
9 1 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.19%) PHP
9 1 (1.19%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 29 (34.52%) SC Cleared
3 19 (22.62%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.57%) Degree
5 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.19%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.90%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.76%) GDPR
2 4 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 19 (22.62%) Active Directory
2 9 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.52%) Terraform
3 1 (1.19%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (28.57%) Oracle
2 20 (23.81%) Cisco
3 9 (10.71%) SAP
4 6 (7.14%) Google
5 5 (5.95%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.76%) Databricks
7 3 (3.57%) Perforce
8 2 (2.38%) Liquidlogic
9 1 (1.19%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.19%) Sparx
9 1 (1.19%) VMware