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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 13 19
Rank change year-on-year -22 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing SQL 48 67 79
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 5.45% 10.89% 6.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.18% 31.60% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 36 56
10th Percentile £374 £294 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +1.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £525 £574 £615
90th Percentile £599 £778 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £472 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -6.63% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 - £28.75 £24.37
90th Percentile - - £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 264 212 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 30.00% 34.47% 21.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 146 195
10th Percentile £368 £359 £350
25th Percentile £425 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -1.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £573 £567 £614
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - - £16.56
25th Percentile - £26.25 £18.41
Median hourly rate - £90.42 £23.74
Median % change year-on-year - +280.81% -66.08%
75th Percentile - £102.00 £35.59
90th Percentile - - £51.43
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £90.42 £26.78
% change year-on-year -45.25% +237.62% -59.58%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -21 46 £488 -7.14% 60
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 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.17%) Apache
2 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Magento
1 1 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 28 (58.33%) Azure
2 23 (47.92%) AWS
3 10 (20.83%) Power Platform
4 6 (12.50%) Serverless
5 5 (10.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (10.42%) GCP
6 4 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (6.25%) PaaS
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Functions
8 2 (4.17%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.17%) GitHub
8 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.17%) SaaS
9 1 (2.08%) Azure AI
9 1 (2.08%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.08%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) DNS
1 1 (2.08%) Firewall
1 1 (2.08%) IPsec
1 1 (2.08%) Kerberos
1 1 (2.08%) SSL
1 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.83%) Power BI
2 8 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 7 (14.58%) NoSQL
4 6 (12.50%) Tableau
5 5 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (8.33%) Data Lake
6 4 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (8.33%) Redis
6 4 (8.33%) Relational Database
7 3 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (6.25%) MongoDB
7 3 (6.25%) Power Query
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (2.08%) MySQL
9 1 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (2.08%) QlikView
9 1 (2.08%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Git
1 4 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 4 (8.33%) Mocha
2 2 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (2.08%) CircleCI
3 1 (2.08%) GitLab
3 1 (2.08%) Gradle
3 1 (2.08%) JUnit
3 1 (2.08%) Log4j
3 1 (2.08%) Maven
3 1 (2.08%) Mockito
3 1 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.08%) Subversion
General
1 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.42%) Finance
5 3 (6.25%) Health Technology
6 2 (4.17%) Banking
6 2 (4.17%) Legal
6 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Law
7 1 (2.08%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 19 (39.58%) Developer
2 10 (20.83%) Senior
3 9 (18.75%) Data Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Analyst
4 6 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 5 (10.42%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Lead
6 4 (8.33%) PHP Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Data Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (6.25%) Java Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Power BI Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Front-End Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (4.17%) .NET Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Delphi Software Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Performance Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.58%) .NET
1 7 (14.58%) CSS
1 7 (14.58%) HTML
2 5 (10.42%) Node.js
2 5 (10.42%) React
3 4 (8.33%) Jest
3 4 (8.33%) Spring
4 3 (6.25%) Express.js
4 3 (6.25%) FHIR
4 3 (6.25%) Kafka
4 3 (6.25%) OAuth
4 3 (6.25%) PySpark
4 3 (6.25%) REST
4 3 (6.25%) WebSockets
5 2 (4.17%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.17%) OpenID
5 2 (4.17%) SAML
5 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.17%) WCF
6 1 (2.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) NHS
2 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.17%) Derivative
3 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.08%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.08%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.58%) Linux
2 4 (8.33%) Windows
3 2 (4.17%) Unix
4 1 (2.08%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.92%) Agile
2 10 (20.83%) CI/CD
3 9 (18.75%) Analytics
3 9 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 8 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 7 (14.58%) Data Governance
5 7 (14.58%) Data Visualisation
5 7 (14.58%) Microservices
5 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (12.50%) Clean Code
6 6 (12.50%) Data Engineering
6 6 (12.50%) Open Source
6 6 (12.50%) Roadmaps
7 5 (10.42%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (10.42%) DevOps
7 5 (10.42%) ETL
7 5 (10.42%) Front End Development
7 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (10.42%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.08%) Python
2 8 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 7 (14.58%) PHP
4 6 (12.50%) C#
4 6 (12.50%) Java
5 3 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (6.25%) Delphi
5 3 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.17%) Bash
7 1 (2.08%) Go
7 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.08%) R
7 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.33%) WCAG
3 3 (6.25%) Accessibility
4 2 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (4.17%) QA
5 1 (2.08%) GDPR
5 1 (2.08%) HL7
5 1 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.08%) RACF
Systems Management
1 8 (16.67%) Terraform
2 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.25%) Ansible
4 2 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.08%) Grafana
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.67%) Databricks
3 4 (8.33%) Oracle
4 2 (4.17%) Brio
4 2 (4.17%) Calypso
4 2 (4.17%) Google
4 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.17%) Splunk
5 1 (2.08%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.08%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.08%) Pega