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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 20 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +3
Contract jobs citing SQL 120 61 95
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 8.74% 7.83% 11.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.26% 23.19% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 36 63
10th Percentile £402 £331 £330
25th Percentile £413 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £567
90th Percentile £626 £575 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £458 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.68% -5.05% -4.71%
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 372 263 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 27.09% 33.76% 32.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 155 211
10th Percentile £348 £365 £355
25th Percentile £413 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £615 £675 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
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 £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 28 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 28 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 -5 76 £488 +2.63% 95
Bradford - 27 £450 - 19
Huddersfield 0 8 £500 -4.76% 2
Halifax 0 6 - - 2
Wakefield - 1 £275 - 9
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 (5.83%) Palantir Foundry
2 4 (3.33%) SAS
3 3 (2.50%) Confluence
3 3 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.67%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (25.00%) AWS
2 21 (17.50%) Power Platform
3 18 (15.00%) Azure
4 12 (10.00%) Serverless
5 10 (8.33%) GCP
5 10 (8.33%) GitHub
5 10 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (7.50%) Cloud Run
6 9 (7.50%) OpenShift
7 5 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (4.17%) Apigee
7 5 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (4.17%) Kong
8 4 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.50%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.33%) BGP
1 4 (3.33%) DNS
1 4 (3.33%) HTTP
1 4 (3.33%) Network Security
1 4 (3.33%) Reverse Proxy
1 4 (3.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (25.83%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (21.67%) SQL Server
3 21 (17.50%) Power BI
4 10 (8.33%) Tableau
5 9 (7.50%) Relational Database
6 8 (6.67%) Metadata
7 6 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 6 (5.00%) MongoDB
7 6 (5.00%) NoSQL
8 5 (4.17%) Hazelcast
8 5 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (4.17%) RDBMS
8 5 (4.17%) Redis
9 4 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (3.33%) Data Lake
9 4 (3.33%) Delta Lake
9 4 (3.33%) OLAP
9 4 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 15 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 13 (10.83%) Git
3 10 (8.33%) Gradle
4 8 (6.67%) GitLab
5 6 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (4.17%) JIRA
6 5 (4.17%) Maven
7 4 (3.33%) Snyk
8 3 (2.50%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.83%) Flyway
General
1 28 (23.33%) Public Sector
2 26 (21.67%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (10.83%) Finance
5 7 (5.83%) Banking
6 4 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.50%) Games
7 3 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.50%) Marketing
7 3 (2.50%) Retail
8 2 (1.67%) Law
9 1 (0.83%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Local Government
9 1 (0.83%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 54 (45.00%) Developer
2 29 (24.17%) Senior
3 22 (18.33%) Data Engineer
4 18 (15.00%) Lead
4 18 (15.00%) Senior Developer
5 16 (13.33%) SQL Developer
6 14 (11.67%) Analyst
7 10 (8.33%) Backend Developer
7 10 (8.33%) Python Developer
7 10 (8.33%) Senior Backend Developer
8 8 (6.67%) Data Warehouse Developer
8 8 (6.67%) Java Developer
8 8 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) Software Developer
9 7 (5.83%) Data Analyst
9 7 (5.83%) Palantir Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) DBA
11 5 (4.17%) Lead Developer
11 5 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
12 4 (3.33%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.83%) Kafka
2 16 (13.33%) Terraform
3 15 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 14 (11.67%) Spring
5 12 (10.00%) React
6 10 (8.33%) CSS
6 10 (8.33%) Hibernate
7 9 (7.50%) Redux
8 8 (6.67%) OAuth
8 8 (6.67%) PySpark
8 8 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (5.83%) Flask
9 7 (5.83%) OAuth2
9 7 (5.83%) REST
9 7 (5.83%) Vue
10 6 (5.00%) HTML
10 6 (5.00%) JPA
10 6 (5.00%) RESTful
11 5 (4.17%) JSON
11 5 (4.17%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.00%) Data Structures
2 15 (12.50%) NHS
3 9 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.00%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (2.50%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.50%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.83%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.67%) Windows
1 2 (1.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.83%) Linux
2 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (28.33%) Data Pipeline
2 33 (27.50%) ETL
3 32 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 31 (25.83%) Analytics
5 30 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 27 (22.50%) Data Modelling
7 24 (20.00%) Agile
8 21 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (17.50%) Validation
9 20 (16.67%) Migration
10 19 (15.83%) Data Governance
11 18 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
12 17 (14.17%) Data Engineering
13 15 (12.50%) Data Integration
14 14 (11.67%) Data Analysis
14 14 (11.67%) DevOps
14 14 (11.67%) Microservices
15 13 (10.83%) ERP
16 12 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (30.83%) Python
2 19 (15.83%) Java
3 14 (11.67%) PL/SQL
4 8 (6.67%) T-SQL
5 7 (5.83%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.33%) Scala
8 3 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.67%) C#
9 2 (1.67%) PHP
9 2 (1.67%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.83%) Bicep
10 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (24.17%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.50%) GDPR
2 3 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 18 (15.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (8.33%) Control-M
1 10 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (4.17%) Argo
3 5 (4.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 20 (16.67%) Oracle
2 18 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.00%) SAP
4 10 (8.33%) Databricks
5 8 (6.67%) Alteryx
5 8 (6.67%) Palantir
6 7 (5.83%) Foundry
7 4 (3.33%) Cerner
7 4 (3.33%) Splunk
8 3 (2.50%) SYSPRO
8 3 (2.50%) Teradata
9 2 (1.67%) Adobe
9 2 (1.67%) Google
9 2 (1.67%) Informatica
9 2 (1.67%) Remedy
10 1 (0.83%) Civica
10 1 (0.83%) OneLogin
10 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow