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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 11 19
Rank change year-on-year -20 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing SQL 57 68 82
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 6.24% 11.93% 6.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.96% 34.17% 29.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 36 58
10th Percentile £120 £263 £294
25th Percentile £394 £393 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £483 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% -1.03% -7.14%
75th Percentile £547 £569 £600
90th Percentile £678 £688 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - £16.14
25th Percentile - £26.25 £17.38
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - +32.82% -
75th Percentile - £31.45 £24.37
90th Percentile - £33.07 £25.82
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £27.50 £20.71
% change year-on-year - +32.82% -

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 272 199 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 29.79% 34.91% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 130 206
10th Percentile £350 £356 £300
25th Percentile £413 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% +2.37% -9.52%
75th Percentile £574 £567 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £663
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 4
10th Percentile - £26.25 £16.56
25th Percentile - £27.56 £18.41
Median hourly rate - £61.61 £23.74
Median % change year-on-year - +159.50% -64.16%
75th Percentile - £100.66 £35.59
90th Percentile - £102.00 £51.43
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £61.61 £26.78
% change year-on-year -19.66% +130.07% -57.15%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -15 55 £475 -5.24% 58
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 3 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.51%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) SAS
2 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Magento
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 30 (52.63%) Azure
2 24 (42.11%) AWS
3 10 (17.54%) Serverless
4 8 (14.04%) Power Platform
5 5 (8.77%) Azure AKS
5 5 (8.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (8.77%) SaaS
6 4 (7.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (7.02%) Azure Functions
6 4 (7.02%) IaaS
6 4 (7.02%) PaaS
7 3 (5.26%) GCP
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Storage
8 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.51%) GitHub
8 2 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.75%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) IPsec
1 4 (7.02%) Kerberos
1 4 (7.02%) SSL
2 1 (1.75%) DNS
2 1 (1.75%) Firewall
2 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) SQL Server
2 9 (15.79%) NoSQL
3 8 (14.04%) Power BI
4 6 (10.53%) Relational Database
5 5 (8.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (7.02%) Data Lake
6 4 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (7.02%) Redis
6 4 (7.02%) Tableau
7 3 (5.26%) MongoDB
7 3 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.51%) Metadata
8 2 (3.51%) Power Query
8 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.75%) Big Data
9 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Git
2 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.02%) Mocha
3 3 (5.26%) JIRA
4 1 (1.75%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.75%) GitLab
4 1 (1.75%) Gradle
4 1 (1.75%) JUnit
4 1 (1.75%) Log4j
4 1 (1.75%) Maven
4 1 (1.75%) Mockito
4 1 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.75%) Subversion
General
1 14 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.28%) Finance
3 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.02%) Banking
5 3 (5.26%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.51%) Marketing
6 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Law
7 1 (1.75%) Military
7 1 (1.75%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 21 (36.84%) Developer
2 13 (22.81%) Senior
3 7 (12.28%) Analyst
3 7 (12.28%) Senior Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Architect
4 6 (10.53%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Java Developer
5 5 (8.77%) Senior Architect
5 5 (8.77%) Software Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 4 (7.02%) DBA
6 4 (7.02%) Lead
6 4 (7.02%) PHP Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (7.02%) Senior Technical Architect
6 4 (7.02%) SQL DBA
6 4 (7.02%) Technical Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) .NET
1 7 (12.28%) CSS
1 7 (12.28%) HTML
1 7 (12.28%) React
2 6 (10.53%) OAuth
2 6 (10.53%) Spring
3 5 (8.77%) Node.js
3 5 (8.77%) OAuth2
3 5 (8.77%) OpenID
3 5 (8.77%) SAML
4 4 (7.02%) Jest
4 4 (7.02%) Spring Boot
4 4 (7.02%) Web Services
4 4 (7.02%) XACML
5 3 (5.26%) Express.js
5 3 (5.26%) FHIR
5 3 (5.26%) Kafka
5 3 (5.26%) REST
5 3 (5.26%) RESTful
5 3 (5.26%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 4 (7.02%) NHS
2 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.26%) Clustering
2 3 (5.26%) Replication
3 2 (3.51%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.51%) Derivative
3 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.75%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.75%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.28%) Linux
2 4 (7.02%) Windows
3 2 (3.51%) Unix
4 1 (1.75%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.32%) Agile
1 15 (26.32%) CI/CD
2 10 (17.54%) Microservices
3 9 (15.79%) DevOps
4 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (14.04%) Roadmaps
5 7 (12.28%) Analytics
5 7 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (12.28%) Data Modelling
5 7 (12.28%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (10.53%) Clean Code
6 6 (10.53%) Data Architecture
6 6 (10.53%) Data Governance
6 6 (10.53%) Open Source
6 6 (10.53%) Visualisation
7 5 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (8.77%) Design Patterns
7 5 (8.77%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (8.77%) Project Delivery
7 5 (8.77%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.54%) JavaScript
1 10 (17.54%) Python
2 8 (14.04%) Java
3 7 (12.28%) PHP
4 6 (10.53%) C#
5 4 (7.02%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (5.26%) Delphi
6 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.51%) Bash
8 1 (1.75%) Go
8 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (14.04%) SC Cleared
1 8 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) WCAG
2 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.75%) GDPR
3 1 (1.75%) HL7
3 1 (1.75%) QA
3 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (14.04%) Docker
2 4 (7.02%) RACF
3 2 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.77%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (8.77%) Terraform
3 3 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (1.75%) Grafana
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 12 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.02%) Databricks
2 4 (7.02%) Oracle
3 3 (5.26%) RedGate
3 3 (5.26%) SolarWinds
4 2 (3.51%) Brio
4 2 (3.51%) Calypso
4 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.51%) Teradata
5 1 (1.75%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.75%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.75%) Pega
5 1 (1.75%) Splunk