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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 6 22
Rank change year-on-year -18 +16 -12
Contract jobs citing SQL 69 79 68
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 7.11% 15.37% 6.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.37% 43.65% 26.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 54 44
10th Percentile £208 £278 £275
25th Percentile £409 £405 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £541 £575 £559
90th Percentile £669 - £615
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £521 £450
% change year-on-year -8.87% +15.83% -11.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £26.77 -
25th Percentile - £27.56 £19.44
Median hourly rate - £30.16 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - +45.64% -
75th Percentile - £32.80 £21.97
90th Percentile - £33.61 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £30.16 £20.71
% change year-on-year - +45.64% -

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 272 181 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.04% 35.21% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 121 191
10th Percentile £313 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £588
90th Percentile £625 £725 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £510 £450
% change year-on-year -2.94% +13.33% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £28.34 £23.70
25th Percentile - £31.47 £30.08
Median hourly rate - £90.42 £41.35
Median % change year-on-year - +118.64% -40.93%
75th Percentile - £102.00 £51.99
90th Percentile - - £58.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £90.42 £62.00
% change year-on-year -45.25% +45.83% -0.80%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 63 £450 -14.29% 45
Bradford - 2 £600 - 6
Huddersfield - 1 £500 - 7
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 (5.80%) Apache Spark
1 4 (5.80%) Confluence
2 3 (4.35%) SAS
3 2 (2.90%) Apache
3 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.45%) SAP CRM
1 1 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.13%) Azure
2 24 (34.78%) AWS
3 10 (14.49%) Serverless
4 6 (8.70%) GCP
4 6 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 5 (7.25%) IaaS
5 5 (7.25%) PaaS
5 5 (7.25%) SaaS
6 4 (5.80%) Azure AKS
6 4 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (5.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (5.80%) GitHub
7 3 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.35%) Azure Functions
7 3 (4.35%) Google Analytics
7 3 (4.35%) Google Compute Engine
7 3 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) IPsec
1 5 (7.25%) Kerberos
1 5 (7.25%) SSL
2 4 (5.80%) DNS
3 3 (4.35%) Firewall
4 2 (2.90%) VPN
5 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.84%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.04%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.70%) Power BI
3 6 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (7.25%) Data Lake
4 5 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (5.80%) Metadata
5 4 (5.80%) Redis
6 3 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.90%) DTS
7 2 (2.90%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.90%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.90%) Tableau
8 1 (1.45%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 12 (17.39%) Git
2 8 (11.59%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.80%) Mocha
4 3 (4.35%) GitLab
4 3 (4.35%) JIRA
5 2 (2.90%) Flyway
6 1 (1.45%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle Forms
General
1 18 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.94%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.59%) Finance
5 5 (7.25%) Banking
6 3 (4.35%) Health Technology
6 3 (4.35%) Marketing
7 2 (2.90%) Legal
7 2 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Social Housing
8 1 (1.45%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Law
8 1 (1.45%) Military
8 1 (1.45%) Social Science
8 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (26.09%) Developer
2 12 (17.39%) Senior
3 11 (15.94%) Analyst
4 8 (11.59%) Data Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) DBA
5 7 (10.14%) Architect
6 6 (8.70%) Senior Architect
6 6 (8.70%) SQL DBA
7 5 (7.25%) Lead
7 5 (7.25%) Senior Developer
7 5 (7.25%) Senior Technical Architect
7 5 (7.25%) Technical Architect
8 4 (5.80%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (4.35%) Insight Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) Performance Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) PHP Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) SC Cleared DBA
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.14%) .NET
1 7 (10.14%) CSS
1 7 (10.14%) HTML
1 7 (10.14%) OAuth
2 6 (8.70%) OAuth2
2 6 (8.70%) OpenID
2 6 (8.70%) React
2 6 (8.70%) SAML
3 5 (7.25%) Web Services
3 5 (7.25%) XACML
4 4 (5.80%) Jest
4 4 (5.80%) Node.js
4 4 (5.80%) REST
4 4 (5.80%) Spring
5 3 (4.35%) Express.js
5 3 (4.35%) FHIR
5 3 (4.35%) RESTful
5 3 (4.35%) WebSockets
6 2 (2.90%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.90%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.25%) Cloud Native
1 5 (7.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 5 (7.25%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.80%) NHS
3 3 (4.35%) Clustering
3 3 (4.35%) Credit Risk
3 3 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.35%) Replication
4 2 (2.90%) Derivative
4 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.45%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.45%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.59%) Linux
2 4 (5.80%) Windows
3 2 (2.90%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.45%) Unix
4 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.43%) Agile
1 21 (30.43%) CI/CD
2 14 (20.29%) DevOps
3 12 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (15.94%) Analytics
5 9 (13.04%) Microservices
6 8 (11.59%) High Availability
6 8 (11.59%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (11.59%) Roadmaps
7 7 (10.14%) Data Architecture
7 7 (10.14%) ETL
7 7 (10.14%) Front End Development
8 6 (8.70%) Architectural Patterns
8 6 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (8.70%) Dashboard Development
8 6 (8.70%) Data Modelling
8 6 (8.70%) Decision-Making
8 6 (8.70%) Project Management
8 6 (8.70%) UML
Programming Languages
1 15 (21.74%) Python
2 9 (13.04%) JavaScript
3 6 (8.70%) C#
3 6 (8.70%) PHP
4 5 (7.25%) Java
4 5 (7.25%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.80%) Bash
5 4 (5.80%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.35%) Delphi
7 2 (2.90%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.45%) ABAP
8 1 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.45%) Go
8 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.59%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.25%) Degree
4 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.80%) WCAG
3 3 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.35%) QA
4 1 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.45%) GDPR
4 1 (1.45%) HL7
4 1 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.45%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (13.04%) Docker
2 5 (7.25%) RACF
3 2 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (10.14%) Kubernetes
1 7 (10.14%) Terraform
2 6 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (4.35%) Ansible
4 2 (2.90%) Foglight
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.45%) Grafana
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 11 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.14%) Databricks
3 6 (8.70%) Google
4 5 (7.25%) Oracle
5 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.35%) RedGate
6 3 (4.35%) SolarWinds
6 3 (4.35%) Teradata
7 2 (2.90%) Brio
7 2 (2.90%) Calypso
7 2 (2.90%) Civica
8 1 (1.45%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.45%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.45%) Pega
8 1 (1.45%) SAP
8 1 (1.45%) Splunk