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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 14 17
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 63 87 94
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 7.05% 11.25% 7.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.32% 33.98% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 50 66
10th Percentile £320 £249 £300
25th Percentile £400 £407 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £538 £572 £625
90th Percentile £633 £741 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £511 £535
% change year-on-year -7.09% -4.44% +1.90%
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% +0.66%
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% +0.66%

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 310 256 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 34.71% 33.12% 22.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 183 206
10th Percentile £359 £334 £340
25th Percentile £409 £408 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £625
90th Percentile £675 £710 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 6
10th Percentile - - £17.38
25th Percentile - £26.25 £19.91
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +52.51% -40.12%
75th Percentile - £56.25 £25.58
90th Percentile - £80.49 £44.39
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £40.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year +23.75% +87.71% -52.95%

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 19 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 19 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 59 £500 - 72
Huddersfield - 1 £525 - 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 5 (7.94%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.76%) Apache
2 3 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.59%) Magento
1 1 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (50.79%) Azure
2 21 (33.33%) AWS
3 19 (30.16%) Power Platform
4 10 (15.87%) GCP
5 7 (11.11%) Serverless
6 6 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (7.94%) PaaS
8 4 (6.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.35%) Azure Functions
9 3 (4.76%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (4.76%) GitHub
9 3 (4.76%) Power Automate
9 3 (4.76%) PowerApps
10 2 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (3.17%) Entra ID
10 2 (3.17%) Google Analytics
10 2 (3.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (30.16%) Power BI
2 12 (19.05%) NoSQL
3 11 (17.46%) Tableau
4 8 (12.70%) SQL Server
5 7 (11.11%) Data Lake
6 6 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (7.94%) MongoDB
7 5 (7.94%) Relational Database
8 4 (6.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (6.35%) MySQL
8 4 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (6.35%) Power Query
8 4 (6.35%) Redis
9 3 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (4.76%) BigQuery
9 3 (4.76%) DataStage
9 3 (4.76%) Delta Lake
10 2 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (3.17%) RDBMS
10 2 (3.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (14.29%) Git
2 7 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.35%) Mocha
4 3 (4.76%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.76%) GitLab
4 3 (4.76%) JIRA
4 3 (4.76%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (3.17%) Maven
6 1 (1.59%) Gradle
6 1 (1.59%) JUnit
6 1 (1.59%) Log4j
6 1 (1.59%) Mockito
6 1 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.59%) Subversion
6 1 (1.59%) TestRail
6 1 (1.59%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 16 (25.40%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.35%) Finance
5 2 (3.17%) Health Technology
5 2 (3.17%) Legal
5 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Banking
6 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Environmental Health
6 1 (1.59%) Local Government
6 1 (1.59%) Marketing
6 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (31.75%) Developer
2 14 (22.22%) Senior
3 12 (19.05%) Data Engineer
4 11 (17.46%) Analyst
5 7 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 7 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.94%) Architect
7 4 (6.35%) .NET Software Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.35%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (4.76%) Lead
8 3 (4.76%) Power BI Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Front-End Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (4.76%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.17%) .NET Developer
9 2 (3.17%) Calypso Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.70%) Node.js
2 7 (11.11%) .NET
2 7 (11.11%) PySpark
3 6 (9.52%) CSS
3 6 (9.52%) HTML
4 5 (7.94%) React
4 5 (7.94%) Spring
5 4 (6.35%) Jest
5 4 (6.35%) RESTful
6 3 (4.76%) Express.js
6 3 (4.76%) Kafka
6 3 (4.76%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.17%) .NET Core
7 2 (3.17%) ARM Templates
7 2 (3.17%) FHIR
7 2 (3.17%) OAuth
7 2 (3.17%) WCF
8 1 (1.59%) Blazor
8 1 (1.59%) Playwright
8 1 (1.59%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.35%) Cloud Native
1 4 (6.35%) Low-Code
1 4 (6.35%) NHS
1 4 (6.35%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.17%) Derivative
3 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.59%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.59%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.59%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Linux
2 2 (3.17%) Unix
3 1 (1.59%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (28.57%) Agile
2 16 (25.40%) CI/CD
3 14 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (22.22%) Visualisation
4 13 (20.63%) Analytics
4 13 (20.63%) Data Modelling
5 12 (19.05%) ETL
6 11 (17.46%) Data Engineering
7 10 (15.87%) Data Visualisation
8 9 (14.29%) Microservices
8 9 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 8 (12.70%) Data Governance
9 8 (12.70%) DevOps
10 7 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (9.52%) AI
11 6 (9.52%) Data Analytics
11 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
12 5 (7.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.98%) Python
2 10 (15.87%) Java
2 10 (15.87%) JavaScript
3 8 (12.70%) C#
4 4 (6.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (6.35%) Scala
5 3 (4.76%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.59%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (1.59%) Bash
6 1 (1.59%) Bicep
6 1 (1.59%) PHP
6 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.59%) R
6 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.59%) VB
6 1 (1.59%) VB6
Qualifications
1 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 7 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.94%) QA
3 4 (6.35%) WCAG
4 3 (4.76%) Accessibility
5 2 (3.17%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (3.17%) GDPR
6 1 (1.59%) COSHH
6 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (19.05%) Terraform
2 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.17%) Ansible
4 1 (1.59%) Control-M
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Identity Manager
4 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (19.05%) Databricks
1 12 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.52%) Google
3 4 (6.35%) Oracle
4 3 (4.76%) Informatica
4 3 (4.76%) Talend
5 2 (3.17%) Brio
5 2 (3.17%) Calypso
6 1 (1.59%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.59%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.59%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.59%) Okta
6 1 (1.59%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.59%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.59%) Pega
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.59%) SAP
6 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.59%) Splunk
6 1 (1.59%) Workday