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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 16 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL 133 83 96
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 9.66% 10.88% 11.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.67% 32.42% 34.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 52 63
10th Percentile £400 £314 £304
25th Percentile £416 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -6.86%
75th Percentile £584 £538 £559
90th Percentile £638 £575 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £19.33 - -
25th Percentile £21.69 £31.76 £31.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% +1.88% +52.51%
75th Percentile £25.06 £34.46 £33.75
90th Percentile £25.18 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year -27.51% -17.23% +87.71%

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 395 256 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.69% 33.55% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 162 209
10th Percentile £350 £351 £325
25th Percentile £415 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £568 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £505
% change year-on-year +2.56% -3.47% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £19.85 £37.07 £33.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £45.03 £35.63
Median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.54% +46.82% +99.44%
75th Percentile £25.25 £82.53 £50.63
90th Percentile £26.90 £92.15 £54.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £46.25
% change year-on-year -61.54% +34.92% +117.03%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 87 £500 +5.26% 36
Bradford +12 31 £450 - 10
Huddersfield +2 9 £500 -4.76% 1
Halifax -1 6 - - 1
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 4 (3.01%) Palantir Foundry
1 4 (3.01%) SAS
2 3 (2.26%) Confluence
2 3 (2.26%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.75%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (22.56%) AWS
2 22 (16.54%) Power Platform
3 21 (15.79%) Azure
4 11 (8.27%) Serverless
5 10 (7.52%) GCP
6 9 (6.77%) Cloud Run
6 9 (6.77%) OpenShift
7 8 (6.02%) GitHub
7 8 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (4.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (3.76%) Apigee
9 5 (3.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (3.76%) Kong
10 4 (3.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.26%) Snowflake
12 2 (1.50%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.01%) BGP
1 4 (3.01%) DNS
1 4 (3.01%) HTTP
1 4 (3.01%) Network Security
1 4 (3.01%) Reverse Proxy
1 4 (3.01%) SSL
2 1 (0.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (24.06%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (23.31%) SQL Server
3 22 (16.54%) Power BI
4 12 (9.02%) Tableau
5 9 (6.77%) MongoDB
5 9 (6.77%) Relational Database
6 8 (6.02%) Metadata
6 8 (6.02%) NoSQL
6 8 (6.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (5.26%) Oracle Database
7 7 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (4.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (4.51%) Data Lake
8 6 (4.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 6 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (4.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (3.76%) Hazelcast
9 5 (3.76%) Oracle Database 12c
9 5 (3.76%) RDBMS
9 5 (3.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (13.53%) Jenkins
2 12 (9.02%) Git
3 10 (7.52%) GitLab
3 10 (7.52%) Gradle
4 6 (4.51%) Oracle Forms
4 6 (4.51%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (3.76%) Maven
6 4 (3.01%) Snyk
7 3 (2.26%) ERwin
7 3 (2.26%) Flyway
8 2 (1.50%) JIRA
General
1 28 (21.05%) Public Sector
2 26 (19.55%) Social Skills
3 21 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.27%) Finance
5 5 (3.76%) Banking
6 4 (3.01%) Games
6 4 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.01%) Retail
7 3 (2.26%) Legal
7 3 (2.26%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.26%) Marketing
7 3 (2.26%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.75%) Local Government
8 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (43.61%) Developer
2 24 (18.05%) Senior
3 16 (12.03%) Senior Developer
3 16 (12.03%) SQL Developer
4 15 (11.28%) Lead
5 14 (10.53%) Analyst
5 14 (10.53%) Data Engineer
6 11 (8.27%) Backend Developer
6 11 (8.27%) DBA
6 11 (8.27%) Senior Backend Developer
7 10 (7.52%) Python Developer
7 10 (7.52%) Software Developer
8 8 (6.02%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.26%) Consultant
9 7 (5.26%) Data Warehouse Developer
9 7 (5.26%) Oracle Consultant
10 6 (4.51%) Data Analyst
10 6 (4.51%) Performance Analyst
11 5 (3.76%) Oracle Technical Consultant
11 5 (3.76%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (15.04%) Kafka
2 15 (11.28%) Spring
2 15 (11.28%) Spring Boot
2 15 (11.28%) Terraform
3 12 (9.02%) React
4 10 (7.52%) CSS
4 10 (7.52%) Hibernate
5 9 (6.77%) RabbitMQ
5 9 (6.77%) Redux
5 9 (6.77%) RESTful
6 8 (6.02%) OAuth
7 7 (5.26%) Flask
7 7 (5.26%) OAuth2
7 7 (5.26%) Vue
8 6 (4.51%) HTML
8 6 (4.51%) JPA
8 6 (4.51%) JSON
8 6 (4.51%) PySpark
8 6 (4.51%) REST
9 5 (3.76%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.78%) Data Structures
2 15 (11.28%) NHS
3 9 (6.77%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (3.01%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.01%) Sports Betting
6 3 (2.26%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.50%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.75%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.01%) Linux
2 3 (2.26%) Oracle Linux
2 3 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.50%) Windows
3 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
2 34 (25.56%) Analytics
3 31 (23.31%) CI/CD
4 30 (22.56%) Agile
4 30 (22.56%) Data Pipeline
4 30 (22.56%) ETL
5 27 (20.30%) Data Modelling
6 21 (15.79%) Data Governance
6 21 (15.79%) Migration
6 21 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
6 21 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (14.29%) Microservices
7 19 (14.29%) Validation
8 18 (13.53%) DevOps
9 16 (12.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (11.28%) Data Engineering
11 14 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (9.77%) Data Analysis
12 13 (9.77%) Data Architecture
12 13 (9.77%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.82%) Python
2 21 (15.79%) Java
3 18 (13.53%) PL/SQL
4 9 (6.77%) T-SQL
5 7 (5.26%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.51%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.76%) C#
7 5 (3.76%) Scala
8 3 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.75%) ABAP
9 1 (0.75%) Bicep
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.28%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.76%) Degree
4 3 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (23.31%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.26%) GDPR
2 3 (2.26%) QA
System Software
1 20 (15.04%) Docker
2 2 (1.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (7.52%) Control-M
1 10 (7.52%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.51%) Prometheus
3 5 (3.76%) Argo
3 5 (3.76%) Grafana
4 4 (3.01%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (1.50%) Foglight
6 1 (0.75%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.75%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 27 (20.30%) Oracle
2 22 (16.54%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.77%) SAP
4 12 (9.02%) Databricks
5 8 (6.02%) Alteryx
6 4 (3.01%) Foundry
6 4 (3.01%) Palantir
7 3 (2.26%) Cerner
7 3 (2.26%) Civica
7 3 (2.26%) Google
7 3 (2.26%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.26%) Splunk
7 3 (2.26%) SYSPRO
7 3 (2.26%) Teradata
8 2 (1.50%) Adobe
8 2 (1.50%) Informatica
8 2 (1.50%) Remedy
9 1 (0.75%) OneLogin