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

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 13 17
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 59 79 97
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 6.67% 10.22% 7.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.28% 32.11% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 47 68
10th Percentile £313 £289 £300
25th Percentile £388 £409 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £563 £567 £625
90th Percentile £644 £680 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -6.31% -3.43% +5.00%
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 306 246 276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 34.62% 31.82% 21.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 180 204
10th Percentile £358 £348 £363
25th Percentile £408 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £573 £567 £625
90th Percentile £675 £648 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
10th Percentile - - £17.38
25th Percentile - £26.25 £19.91
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +40.78% -40.12%
75th Percentile - £39.38 £25.58
90th Percentile - £49.50 £44.39
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £36.25 £21.31
% change year-on-year +36.55% +70.11% -57.38%

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 5 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 5 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 53 £488 - 62
Halifax -7 1 £600 -17.24% 1
Huddersfield - 1 £525 - 4
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 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (6.78%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.08%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.69%) Magento
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (52.54%) Azure
2 20 (33.90%) AWS
3 17 (28.81%) Power Platform
4 11 (18.64%) GCP
5 6 (10.17%) Serverless
6 5 (8.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (8.47%) PaaS
7 4 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.78%) Azure Functions
8 3 (5.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (5.08%) dbt
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.39%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (3.39%) GitHub
9 2 (3.39%) Google Analytics
9 2 (3.39%) Power Automate
9 2 (3.39%) PowerApps
9 2 (3.39%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (28.81%) Power BI
2 11 (18.64%) Tableau
3 10 (16.95%) NoSQL
4 7 (11.86%) SQL Server
5 6 (10.17%) Data Lake
5 6 (10.17%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (10.17%) Relational Database
6 4 (6.78%) BigQuery
6 4 (6.78%) MySQL
6 4 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (6.78%) Power Query
6 4 (6.78%) Redis
6 4 (6.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (5.08%) DataStage
7 3 (5.08%) Delta Lake
7 3 (5.08%) MongoDB
7 3 (5.08%) RDBMS
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (3.39%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Git
2 7 (11.86%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.78%) Mocha
4 3 (5.08%) Artifactory
4 3 (5.08%) GitLab
4 3 (5.08%) JIRA
4 3 (5.08%) SonarQube
4 3 (5.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (3.39%) Maven
6 1 (1.69%) Gradle
6 1 (1.69%) JUnit
6 1 (1.69%) Log4j
6 1 (1.69%) Mockito
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.69%) Subversion
6 1 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.69%) TestRail
6 1 (1.69%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (13.56%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.08%) Finance
5 2 (3.39%) Legal
5 2 (3.39%) Local Government
5 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Environmental Health
6 1 (1.69%) Marketing
6 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (30.51%) Developer
2 14 (23.73%) Senior
3 12 (20.34%) Analyst
4 11 (18.64%) Data Engineer
5 8 (13.56%) Data Analyst
6 7 (11.86%) Senior Developer
7 5 (8.47%) Architect
8 4 (6.78%) .NET Software Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Data Architect
9 3 (5.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (5.08%) Lead
9 3 (5.08%) Power BI Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.39%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.56%) Node.js
2 7 (11.86%) .NET
2 7 (11.86%) PySpark
3 6 (10.17%) CSS
3 6 (10.17%) HTML
4 5 (8.47%) React
4 5 (8.47%) Spring
5 4 (6.78%) Jest
5 4 (6.78%) RESTful
6 3 (5.08%) Express.js
6 3 (5.08%) Kafka
6 3 (5.08%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.39%) .NET Core
7 2 (3.39%) ARM Templates
7 2 (3.39%) WCF
8 1 (1.69%) Blazor
8 1 (1.69%) Dropwizard
8 1 (1.69%) JWT
8 1 (1.69%) Playwright
8 1 (1.69%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.78%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (6.78%) Low-Code
1 4 (6.78%) NHS
1 4 (6.78%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.08%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (5.08%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.08%) Reference Data
3 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.39%) Derivative
3 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.69%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.08%) Linux
1 3 (5.08%) Unix
2 1 (1.69%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.73%) Agile
1 14 (23.73%) CI/CD
1 14 (23.73%) Visualisation
2 13 (22.03%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (20.34%) Analytics
3 12 (20.34%) ETL
4 11 (18.64%) Data Modelling
5 10 (16.95%) Data Visualisation
6 9 (15.25%) Data Engineering
6 9 (15.25%) Microservices
7 8 (13.56%) DevOps
7 8 (13.56%) Test Automation
8 7 (11.86%) Migration
9 6 (10.17%) Data Analytics
9 6 (10.17%) Data Governance
9 6 (10.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (10.17%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (8.47%) Clean Code
10 5 (8.47%) Decision-Making
10 5 (8.47%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.42%) Python
2 11 (18.64%) Java
3 10 (16.95%) JavaScript
4 7 (11.86%) C#
5 5 (8.47%) Scala
6 4 (6.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (5.08%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.39%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.69%) Bicep
9 1 (1.69%) PHP
9 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.69%) R
9 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.69%) VB
9 1 (1.69%) VB6
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) SC Cleared
1 7 (11.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.39%) Degree
3 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.47%) QA
3 4 (6.78%) WCAG
4 3 (5.08%) Accessibility
5 2 (3.39%) GDPR
6 1 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.69%) COSHH
6 1 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (6.78%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (16.95%) Terraform
2 2 (3.39%) Ansible
2 2 (3.39%) Control-M
3 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (16.95%) Databricks
1 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) Google
3 4 (6.78%) Oracle
4 3 (5.08%) Informatica
4 3 (5.08%) Talend
5 2 (3.39%) Calypso
6 1 (1.69%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.69%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.69%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.69%) Okta
6 1 (1.69%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.69%) SAP
6 1 (1.69%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.69%) Splunk
6 1 (1.69%) Workday