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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 23 11
Rank change year-on-year +5 -12 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL 128 61 99
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 9.26% 8.01% 11.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.42% 23.83% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 35 66
10th Percentile £405 £328 £338
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £568
90th Percentile £638 £575 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £460 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £19.33 - £26.75
25th Percentile £21.69 - £27.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £30.00
75th Percentile £25.06 - £32.50
90th Percentile £25.18 - £33.25
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 - £36.25
% change year-on-year - - +70.11%

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 383 256 286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 27.71% 33.60% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 152 219
10th Percentile £348 £363 £356
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £648
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £493 £510
% change year-on-year +1.42% -3.33% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £19.85 - £27.25
25th Percentile £23.00 - £28.75
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +52.51%
75th Percentile £25.25 - £45.00
90th Percentile £26.90 - £51.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +66.35%

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 September 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 September 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 0 85 £500 +8.11% 90
Bradford - 28 £450 - 15
Huddersfield +2 8 £500 -4.76% 1
Halifax 0 6 - - 4
Wakefield - 1 £275 - 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 7 (5.47%) Palantir Foundry
2 4 (3.13%) SAS
3 3 (2.34%) Confluence
3 3 (2.34%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.56%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (4.69%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (24.22%) AWS
2 24 (18.75%) Power Platform
3 20 (15.63%) Azure
4 12 (9.38%) Serverless
5 10 (7.81%) GCP
5 10 (7.81%) GitHub
5 10 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (7.03%) Cloud Run
6 9 (7.03%) OpenShift
7 5 (3.91%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (3.91%) Apigee
7 5 (3.91%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (3.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (3.91%) Kong
8 4 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.34%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.13%) BGP
1 4 (3.13%) DNS
1 4 (3.13%) HTTP
1 4 (3.13%) Network Security
1 4 (3.13%) Reverse Proxy
1 4 (3.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (26.56%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (19.53%) SQL Server
3 24 (18.75%) Power BI
4 11 (8.59%) Tableau
5 9 (7.03%) Relational Database
6 8 (6.25%) Metadata
7 7 (5.47%) MongoDB
7 7 (5.47%) NoSQL
8 6 (4.69%) Data Lake
8 6 (4.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 6 (4.69%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (3.91%) Hazelcast
9 5 (3.91%) Oracle Database
9 5 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.91%) RDBMS
9 5 (3.91%) Redis
10 4 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (3.13%) OLAP
10 4 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (11.72%) Jenkins
2 13 (10.16%) Git
3 10 (7.81%) Gradle
4 8 (6.25%) GitLab
5 6 (4.69%) Oracle Forms
5 6 (4.69%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (3.91%) JIRA
6 5 (3.91%) Maven
7 4 (3.13%) Snyk
8 1 (0.78%) ERwin
8 1 (0.78%) Flyway
General
1 29 (22.66%) Public Sector
2 27 (21.09%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.16%) Finance
5 7 (5.47%) Banking
6 4 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.34%) Games
7 3 (2.34%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.34%) Marketing
7 3 (2.34%) Retail
8 1 (0.78%) Legal
8 1 (0.78%) Local Government
8 1 (0.78%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 56 (43.75%) Developer
2 29 (22.66%) Senior
3 22 (17.19%) Data Engineer
4 18 (14.06%) Senior Developer
5 17 (13.28%) SQL Developer
6 16 (12.50%) Lead
7 14 (10.94%) Analyst
8 11 (8.59%) Python Developer
9 10 (7.81%) Backend Developer
9 10 (7.81%) Senior Backend Developer
10 8 (6.25%) Data Warehouse Developer
10 8 (6.25%) DBA
10 8 (6.25%) Java Developer
10 8 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (6.25%) Software Developer
11 7 (5.47%) Data Analyst
11 7 (5.47%) Palantir Engineer
12 6 (4.69%) Consultant
12 6 (4.69%) Oracle Consultant
13 5 (3.91%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.84%) Kafka
2 16 (12.50%) Terraform
3 15 (11.72%) Spring Boot
4 14 (10.94%) Spring
5 12 (9.38%) React
6 10 (7.81%) CSS
6 10 (7.81%) Hibernate
7 9 (7.03%) Redux
8 8 (6.25%) OAuth
8 8 (6.25%) PySpark
8 8 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (5.47%) Flask
9 7 (5.47%) OAuth2
9 7 (5.47%) RESTful
9 7 (5.47%) Vue
10 6 (4.69%) HTML
10 6 (4.69%) JPA
11 5 (3.91%) Apache Avro
11 5 (3.91%) Protocol Buffers
11 5 (3.91%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.84%) Data Structures
2 16 (12.50%) NHS
3 9 (7.03%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.47%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.34%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.34%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.34%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.56%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.78%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.56%) Linux
1 2 (1.56%) Windows
1 2 (1.56%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (28.91%) Data Pipeline
2 34 (26.56%) Business Intelligence
2 34 (26.56%) ETL
3 33 (25.78%) Analytics
3 33 (25.78%) CI/CD
4 30 (23.44%) Data Modelling
5 25 (19.53%) Agile
6 22 (17.19%) Performance Tuning
7 21 (16.41%) Migration
7 21 (16.41%) Validation
8 20 (15.63%) Data Governance
8 20 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (14.06%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (13.28%) Data Engineering
11 16 (12.50%) Microservices
12 15 (11.72%) Data Integration
12 15 (11.72%) DevOps
13 14 (10.94%) Data Analysis
13 14 (10.94%) ERP
14 13 (10.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (30.47%) Python
2 19 (14.84%) Java
3 17 (13.28%) PL/SQL
4 8 (6.25%) T-SQL
5 6 (4.69%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.13%) Scala
6 4 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.56%) C#
9 1 (0.78%) Bicep
9 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.34%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (23.44%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.13%) QA
3 3 (2.34%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (14.06%) Docker
2 2 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (7.81%) Control-M
1 10 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.69%) Prometheus
3 5 (3.91%) Argo
3 5 (3.91%) Grafana
4 2 (1.56%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.78%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 25 (19.53%) Oracle
2 19 (14.84%) Microsoft
3 13 (10.16%) SAP
4 11 (8.59%) Databricks
5 8 (6.25%) Alteryx
5 8 (6.25%) Palantir
6 7 (5.47%) Foundry
7 4 (3.13%) Cerner
7 4 (3.13%) Splunk
8 3 (2.34%) SYSPRO
8 3 (2.34%) Teradata
9 2 (1.56%) Adobe
9 2 (1.56%) Google
9 2 (1.56%) Informatica
9 2 (1.56%) Remedy
10 1 (0.78%) Civica
10 1 (0.78%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow