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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 13 19
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 57 87 85
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 6.30% 11.31% 6.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.39% 33.98% 32.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 48 59
10th Percentile £350 £246 £296
25th Percentile £400 £396 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £538 £567 £625
90th Percentile £644 £749 £660
Yorkshire median daily rate £458 £501 £513
% change year-on-year -8.59% -2.34% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - - £16.97
25th Percentile - £26.25 £19.44
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +29.05% -
75th Percentile - £31.25 £21.97
90th Percentile - £32.75 £24.86
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £32.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year - +52.51% -

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 310 256 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 34.25% 33.29% 21.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 176 194
10th Percentile £363 £340 £330
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -1.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £573 £567 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 6
10th Percentile - £26.25 £17.38
25th Percentile - £28.75 £19.91
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +146.36% -57.38%
75th Percentile - £99.32 £25.58
90th Percentile - £102.00 £44.39
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -57.38%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 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 -13 55 £488 +0.52% 48
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 4 (7.02%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.26%) Apache
3 2 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.75%) Magento
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (47.37%) Azure
2 21 (36.84%) AWS
3 17 (29.82%) Power Platform
4 9 (15.79%) GCP
5 7 (12.28%) Serverless
6 6 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (8.77%) PaaS
8 4 (7.02%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (7.02%) Azure Functions
9 3 (5.26%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (5.26%) GitHub
9 3 (5.26%) Power Automate
9 3 (5.26%) PowerApps
10 2 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.51%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.82%) Power BI
2 10 (17.54%) SQL Server
2 10 (17.54%) Tableau
3 9 (15.79%) NoSQL
4 7 (12.28%) Data Lake
5 6 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (7.02%) Redis
6 4 (7.02%) Relational Database
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (5.26%) DataStage
7 3 (5.26%) Delta Lake
7 3 (5.26%) Power Query
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (3.51%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (3.51%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Git
2 4 (7.02%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.02%) Mocha
3 2 (3.51%) JIRA
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
4 1 (1.75%) TestRail
4 1 (1.75%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.56%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.02%) Finance
5 2 (3.51%) Health Technology
5 2 (3.51%) Legal
5 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Local Government
6 1 (1.75%) Marketing
6 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (28.07%) Developer
2 13 (22.81%) Senior
3 12 (21.05%) Data Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) Analyst
5 7 (12.28%) Software Engineer
6 6 (10.53%) Senior Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Data Analyst
8 4 (7.02%) .NET Software Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Architect
8 4 (7.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (5.26%) Java Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Lead
9 3 (5.26%) Power BI Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (3.51%) Delphi Software Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 2 (3.51%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.04%) .NET
2 7 (12.28%) PySpark
3 6 (10.53%) CSS
3 6 (10.53%) HTML
4 5 (8.77%) Node.js
4 5 (8.77%) React
5 4 (7.02%) Jest
5 4 (7.02%) Spring
6 3 (5.26%) Express.js
6 3 (5.26%) REST
6 3 (5.26%) WebSockets
7 2 (3.51%) FHIR
7 2 (3.51%) Kafka
7 2 (3.51%) OAuth
7 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.51%) WCF
8 1 (1.75%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.75%) Blazor
8 1 (1.75%) JWT
8 1 (1.75%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.26%) Low-Code
2 3 (5.26%) NHS
3 2 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.51%) Derivative
3 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.75%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.75%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.53%) Linux
2 3 (5.26%) Windows
3 1 (1.75%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.75%) Unix
3 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.07%) Agile
2 13 (22.81%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (21.05%) Analytics
3 12 (21.05%) Data Modelling
3 12 (21.05%) Visualisation
4 11 (19.30%) CI/CD
4 11 (19.30%) Data Engineering
4 11 (19.30%) ETL
5 9 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
6 8 (14.04%) Data Governance
7 7 (12.28%) Data Pipeline
7 7 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (12.28%) Software Engineering
8 6 (10.53%) AI
8 6 (10.53%) Microservices
8 6 (10.53%) Open Source
8 6 (10.53%) Test Automation
9 5 (8.77%) DevOps
9 5 (8.77%) Machine Learning
9 5 (8.77%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.32%) Python
2 10 (17.54%) C#
3 7 (12.28%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.53%) Java
5 4 (7.02%) PHP
6 3 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (5.26%) Delphi
6 3 (5.26%) Scala
6 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.75%) Bash
7 1 (1.75%) Bicep
7 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.75%) R
7 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.75%) VB
7 1 (1.75%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (7.02%) SC Cleared
1 4 (7.02%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.02%) WCAG
3 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.26%) QA
4 2 (3.51%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (3.51%) GDPR
5 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (19.30%) Terraform
2 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.51%) Ansible
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Identity Manager
4 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (21.05%) Databricks
2 10 (17.54%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.53%) Google
4 4 (7.02%) Oracle
5 3 (5.26%) Informatica
5 3 (5.26%) Talend
6 2 (3.51%) Brio
6 2 (3.51%) Calypso
7 1 (1.75%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.75%) Hotjar
7 1 (1.75%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.75%) Okta
7 1 (1.75%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.75%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.75%) Pega
7 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.75%) SAP
7 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.75%) Splunk
7 1 (1.75%) Workday