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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 25 12
Rank change year-on-year +6 -13 +2
Contract jobs citing SQL 114 64 87
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 8.61% 7.67% 10.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.75% 22.61% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 37 56
10th Percentile £406 £335 £294
25th Percentile £425 £400 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £567
90th Percentile £638 £618 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £507
% change year-on-year - -6.31% -5.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £19.33 - -
25th Percentile £21.69 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £27.50
75th Percentile £25.06 - £31.25
90th Percentile £25.18 - £32.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 - £32.50
% 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 359 283 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 27.11% 33.93% 32.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 166 200
10th Percentile £349 £366 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £604 £675 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £19.85 - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +40.78%
75th Percentile £25.25 - £39.38
90th Percentile £26.90 - £49.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £49.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -51.52% +23.75% +87.71%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -1 80 £488 +2.63% 96
Bradford - 20 £454 - 9
Huddersfield -1 7 £536 +2.14% 3
Halifax -2 4 - - 3
Wakefield - 1 £275 - 6
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 (6.14%) Palantir Foundry
2 4 (3.51%) SAS
3 3 (2.63%) Confluence
3 3 (2.63%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.75%) Apache
4 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 31 (27.19%) AWS
2 19 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 17 (14.91%) Azure
4 13 (11.40%) GitHub
4 13 (11.40%) Serverless
5 12 (10.53%) GCP
5 12 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (7.89%) Cloud Run
6 9 (7.89%) OpenShift
7 5 (4.39%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (4.39%) Apigee
7 5 (4.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (4.39%) Kong
8 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.63%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.63%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.51%) BGP
1 4 (3.51%) DNS
1 4 (3.51%) HTTP
1 4 (3.51%) Network Security
1 4 (3.51%) Reverse Proxy
1 4 (3.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (17.54%) SQL Server
3 19 (16.67%) Power BI
4 9 (7.89%) Relational Database
5 8 (7.02%) Metadata
5 8 (7.02%) MongoDB
5 8 (7.02%) NoSQL
5 8 (7.02%) Tableau
6 7 (6.14%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (5.26%) Delta Lake
7 6 (5.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 5 (4.39%) Hazelcast
8 5 (4.39%) Oracle Database
8 5 (4.39%) RDBMS
8 5 (4.39%) Redis
9 4 (3.51%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.63%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.63%) PowerCenter
10 3 (2.63%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 15 (13.16%) Git
1 15 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 10 (8.77%) Gradle
3 8 (7.02%) GitLab
4 6 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (4.39%) JIRA
5 5 (4.39%) Maven
6 4 (3.51%) Snyk
7 1 (0.88%) Flyway
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
General
1 25 (21.93%) Public Sector
2 23 (20.18%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.53%) Finance
4 8 (7.02%) Banking
5 4 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.63%) Games
6 3 (2.63%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.63%) Marketing
6 3 (2.63%) Retail
7 2 (1.75%) Law
8 1 (0.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 50 (43.86%) Developer
2 30 (26.32%) Senior
3 24 (21.05%) Data Engineer
4 20 (17.54%) Senior Developer
5 19 (16.67%) Lead
6 13 (11.40%) SQL Developer
7 12 (10.53%) Python Developer
8 11 (9.65%) Analyst
9 10 (8.77%) Backend Developer
9 10 (8.77%) Senior Backend Developer
10 8 (7.02%) Java Developer
10 8 (7.02%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (7.02%) Software Developer
11 7 (6.14%) Palantir Engineer
12 6 (5.26%) Data Analyst
12 6 (5.26%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 6 (5.26%) Databricks Engineer
12 6 (5.26%) DBA
12 6 (5.26%) Senior Python Developer
13 5 (4.39%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.67%) Kafka
2 16 (14.04%) Terraform
3 15 (13.16%) Spring Boot
4 14 (12.28%) Spring
5 12 (10.53%) React
6 10 (8.77%) CSS
6 10 (8.77%) Hibernate
6 10 (8.77%) PySpark
7 9 (7.89%) Redux
8 8 (7.02%) OAuth
8 8 (7.02%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (7.02%) REST
9 7 (6.14%) Flask
9 7 (6.14%) OAuth2
9 7 (6.14%) Vue
10 6 (5.26%) HTML
10 6 (5.26%) JPA
10 6 (5.26%) RESTful
11 5 (4.39%) JSON
11 5 (4.39%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.16%) Data Structures
2 9 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (7.02%) NHS
4 6 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.63%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.63%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.75%) Replication
8 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.75%) Windows
1 2 (1.75%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.88%) Linux
2 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (32.46%) CI/CD
2 36 (31.58%) Data Pipeline
3 32 (28.07%) ETL
4 28 (24.56%) Analytics
5 27 (23.68%) Business Intelligence
6 25 (21.93%) Data Modelling
7 24 (21.05%) Agile
8 22 (19.30%) Validation
9 20 (17.54%) Data Engineering
9 20 (17.54%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (17.54%) Performance Tuning
10 19 (16.67%) Data Governance
10 19 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (14.91%) Migration
12 15 (13.16%) Data Integration
13 14 (12.28%) Data Analysis
13 14 (12.28%) Microservices
14 13 (11.40%) DevOps
14 13 (11.40%) Observability
15 12 (10.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (35.09%) Python
2 19 (16.67%) Java
3 12 (10.53%) PL/SQL
4 8 (7.02%) JavaScript
5 7 (6.14%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.39%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.51%) Scala
8 3 (2.63%) C#
8 3 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.75%) PHP
9 2 (1.75%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.88%) Bicep
10 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (14.91%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.28%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (21.93%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.63%) GDPR
2 3 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 18 (15.79%) Docker
2 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (8.77%) Control-M
1 10 (8.77%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.26%) Prometheus
3 5 (4.39%) Argo
3 5 (4.39%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (19.30%) Oracle
2 18 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 14 (12.28%) SAP
4 11 (9.65%) Databricks
5 8 (7.02%) Palantir
6 7 (6.14%) Foundry
7 6 (5.26%) Alteryx
8 4 (3.51%) Cerner
8 4 (3.51%) Google
8 4 (3.51%) Informatica
9 3 (2.63%) SYSPRO
9 3 (2.63%) Teradata
10 2 (1.75%) IBM
10 2 (1.75%) Remedy
11 1 (0.88%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.88%) Splunk