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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 111 91 95
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 9.10% 15.48% 9.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.27% 46.91% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 62 66
10th Percentile £283 £314 £288
25th Percentile £400 £405 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £569
90th Percentile £664 £575 £620
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £19.33 £31.50 -
25th Percentile £21.69 £31.54 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.96 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% - -
75th Percentile £25.06 £34.38 -
90th Percentile £25.18 £34.43 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £32.96 -
% change year-on-year -27.18% - -

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 344 194 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.20% 32.99% 28.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 128 211
10th Percentile £313 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -2.06% -7.62%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £575 £638
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £19.85 £31.53 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.62 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% - -
75th Percentile £25.25 £66.51 -
90th Percentile £26.90 £85.74 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 £62.50
% change year-on-year -27.51% -47.02% +15.74%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -13 80 £447 -5.89% 34
Bradford +6 15 £475 +5.56% 11
Huddersfield +1 9 £500 -4.76% 2
Halifax -1 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 (4.50%) Confluence
2 3 (2.70%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (2.70%) SAS
2 3 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.80%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.90%) Apache
4 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (6.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.90%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (27.03%) Azure
2 27 (24.32%) AWS
3 12 (10.81%) GCP
3 12 (10.81%) Power Platform
3 12 (10.81%) Serverless
4 9 (8.11%) GitHub
5 7 (6.31%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (6.31%) Cloud Run
5 7 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (6.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 6 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (4.50%) IaaS
7 5 (4.50%) PaaS
7 5 (4.50%) SaaS
8 4 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (3.60%) Azure AKS
8 4 (3.60%) Azure Functions
8 4 (3.60%) Azure Storage
8 4 (3.60%) Kong
8 4 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.11%) SSL
2 8 (7.21%) DNS
3 5 (4.50%) IPsec
3 5 (4.50%) Kerberos
4 4 (3.60%) BGP
4 4 (3.60%) Firewall
4 4 (3.60%) HTTP
4 4 (3.60%) Network Security
4 4 (3.60%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.80%) VPN
6 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (22.52%) SQL Server
2 14 (12.61%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (10.81%) Power BI
4 10 (9.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (8.11%) MongoDB
5 9 (8.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (7.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (6.31%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (5.41%) NoSQL
8 6 (5.41%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.50%) Data Lake
9 5 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (4.50%) Tableau
10 4 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (3.60%) Hazelcast
10 4 (3.60%) Oracle Database
10 4 (3.60%) Oracle Database 12c
10 4 (3.60%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (17.12%) Git
2 16 (14.41%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.91%) GitLab
4 6 (5.41%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (3.60%) Flyway
5 4 (3.60%) Gradle
5 4 (3.60%) Maven
5 4 (3.60%) Snyk
6 3 (2.70%) ERwin
6 3 (2.70%) JIRA
7 1 (0.90%) CircleCI
General
1 22 (19.82%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.02%) Public Sector
3 18 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.91%) Finance
5 4 (3.60%) Banking
5 4 (3.60%) Legal
6 3 (2.70%) Marketing
6 3 (2.70%) Social Housing
7 2 (1.80%) Games
7 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.80%) Retail
8 1 (0.90%) Law
8 1 (0.90%) Local Government
8 1 (0.90%) Military
8 1 (0.90%) Social Science
8 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (31.53%) Developer
2 20 (18.02%) Senior
3 16 (14.41%) Analyst
4 13 (11.71%) Senior Developer
5 11 (9.91%) DBA
6 9 (8.11%) Backend Developer
6 9 (8.11%) Lead
6 9 (8.11%) Senior Backend Developer
7 8 (7.21%) Architect
8 7 (6.31%) Consultant
8 7 (6.31%) Oracle Consultant
8 7 (6.31%) Performance Analyst
8 7 (6.31%) SQL DBA
9 6 (5.41%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Java Developer
9 6 (5.41%) SQL Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Oracle Technical Consultant
10 5 (4.50%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Senior Technical Architect
10 5 (4.50%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.91%) Kafka
2 10 (9.01%) OAuth
3 9 (8.11%) OAuth2
3 9 (8.11%) RESTful
3 9 (8.11%) Spring Boot
4 8 (7.21%) Spring
5 7 (6.31%) CSS
5 7 (6.31%) Web Services
6 6 (5.41%) JSON
6 6 (5.41%) OpenID
6 6 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (5.41%) React
7 5 (4.50%) PySpark
7 5 (4.50%) Redux
7 5 (4.50%) SAML
7 5 (4.50%) XACML
8 4 (3.60%) .NET
8 4 (3.60%) Apache Avro
8 4 (3.60%) Protocol Buffers
8 4 (3.60%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.91%) NHS
2 9 (8.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 7 (6.31%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.50%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.60%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.70%) Clustering
6 3 (2.70%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.70%) Replication
6 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.80%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.80%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.90%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.60%) Linux
2 3 (2.70%) Oracle Linux
2 3 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.70%) Windows
3 2 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (27.03%) CI/CD
2 25 (22.52%) Agile
2 25 (22.52%) DevOps
3 19 (17.12%) Microservices
4 18 (16.22%) Analytics
4 18 (16.22%) ETL
5 17 (15.32%) Business Intelligence
5 17 (15.32%) Performance Tuning
6 14 (12.61%) Data Architecture
6 14 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (11.71%) Migration
7 13 (11.71%) Roadmaps
7 13 (11.71%) Validation
8 12 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (10.81%) High Availability
9 11 (9.91%) Data Modelling
9 11 (9.91%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (9.01%) Architectural Patterns
10 10 (9.01%) Decision-Making
10 10 (9.01%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.42%) Python
2 14 (12.61%) Java
3 10 (9.01%) PL/SQL
4 9 (8.11%) T-SQL
5 6 (5.41%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.50%) C#
6 5 (4.50%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.60%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.70%) Bash
8 3 (2.70%) PHP
9 2 (1.80%) Scala
10 1 (0.90%) ABAP
10 1 (0.90%) Bicep
10 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.90%) Go
10 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (12.61%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.31%) Degree
4 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.91%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.60%) QA
3 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (10.81%) Docker
2 5 (4.50%) RACF
3 2 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (9.91%) Kubernetes
1 11 (9.91%) Terraform
2 5 (4.50%) Grafana
2 5 (4.50%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (3.60%) Argo
3 4 (3.60%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (3.60%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.70%) Control-M
4 3 (2.70%) Foglight
5 1 (0.90%) Ansible
5 1 (0.90%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.90%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 19 (17.12%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.41%) Oracle
3 14 (12.61%) Databricks
4 6 (5.41%) Google
5 5 (4.50%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.60%) Splunk
7 3 (2.70%) Civica
7 3 (2.70%) RedGate
7 3 (2.70%) SAP
7 3 (2.70%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.70%) SYSPRO
7 3 (2.70%) Teradata
8 2 (1.80%) Adobe
8 2 (1.80%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.80%) Foundry
8 2 (1.80%) Palantir