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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 12 16
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing SQL 65 100 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 8.61% 11.75% 8.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.39% 34.84% 35.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 67 83
10th Percentile £313 £340 £400
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +8.81%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £625
90th Percentile £575 £625 £698
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £26.75 £17.12
25th Percentile - £27.50 £19.81
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +40.78% -9.65%
75th Percentile - £32.50 £22.68
90th Percentile - £33.25 £25.14
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £36.25 £21.31
% change year-on-year - +70.11% -9.65%

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 256 287 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 33.91% 33.73% 24.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 221 245
10th Percentile £364 £356 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £648 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -3.37% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £27.25 £17.12
25th Percentile - £28.75 £19.81
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +52.51% -9.65%
75th Percentile - £45.00 £22.68
90th Percentile - £51.75 £25.14
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £40.00 £24.05
% change year-on-year - +66.35% -7.52%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for SQL 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -8 53 £463 -6.57% 60
Huddersfield - 2 £525 - 5
Halifax -7 1 £600 -17.24% 1
SQL
Yorkshire

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.62%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.08%) Apache
4 1 (1.54%) Confluence
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.54%) Magento
1 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (44.62%) Azure
2 22 (33.85%) Power Platform
3 19 (29.23%) AWS
4 13 (20.00%) GCP
5 7 (10.77%) Serverless
6 5 (7.69%) PaaS
7 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (6.15%) Azure Functions
7 4 (6.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.62%) dbt
8 3 (4.62%) Google Analytics
8 3 (4.62%) SaaS
9 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.08%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (3.08%) GitHub
9 2 (3.08%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (3.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) DNS
1 1 (1.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (33.85%) Power BI
2 10 (15.38%) Tableau
3 9 (13.85%) SQL Server
4 8 (12.31%) NoSQL
5 7 (10.77%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (9.23%) Data Lake
6 6 (9.23%) Relational Database
7 5 (7.69%) BigQuery
7 5 (7.69%) Power Query
7 5 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (6.15%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (6.15%) Delta Lake
8 4 (6.15%) MySQL
8 4 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (6.15%) Star Schema
9 3 (4.62%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (4.62%) DataStage
9 3 (4.62%) MongoDB
9 3 (4.62%) RDBMS
10 2 (3.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Git
2 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.15%) JIRA
4 3 (4.62%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.62%) GitLab
4 3 (4.62%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.62%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (3.08%) Maven
6 1 (1.54%) Gradle
6 1 (1.54%) JUnit
6 1 (1.54%) Log4j
6 1 (1.54%) Mockito
6 1 (1.54%) Subversion
6 1 (1.54%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.54%) TestRail
6 1 (1.54%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.77%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.23%) Finance
5 2 (3.08%) Legal
5 2 (3.08%) Local Government
6 1 (1.54%) Banking
6 1 (1.54%) Environmental Health
6 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.54%) Marketing
6 1 (1.54%) Retail
6 1 (1.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Analyst
2 15 (23.08%) Developer
3 11 (16.92%) Data Engineer
4 10 (15.38%) Senior
5 8 (12.31%) Data Analyst
6 5 (7.69%) Performance Analyst
6 5 (7.69%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.15%) .NET Software Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Power BI Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Software Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (3.08%) Lead
9 2 (3.08%) Senior .NET Software Developer
9 2 (3.08%) Senior C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.31%) .NET
2 6 (9.23%) PySpark
3 4 (6.15%) Kafka
3 4 (6.15%) Node.js
3 4 (6.15%) RESTful
4 3 (4.62%) .NET Core
4 3 (4.62%) ARM Templates
4 3 (4.62%) CSS
4 3 (4.62%) HTML
4 3 (4.62%) Spring
4 3 (4.62%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.08%) React
5 2 (3.08%) XML
6 1 (1.54%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.54%) Apache CXF
6 1 (1.54%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.54%) JAX-RS
6 1 (1.54%) JPA
6 1 (1.54%) Laravel
6 1 (1.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.15%) Low-Code
2 4 (6.15%) NHS
2 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.62%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.62%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.62%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.54%) FMCG
5 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Unix
2 2 (3.08%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) Windows
3 1 (1.54%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.15%) Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.15%) Visualisation
2 15 (23.08%) Agile
2 15 (23.08%) CI/CD
3 12 (18.46%) Analytics
3 12 (18.46%) Data Modelling
3 12 (18.46%) ETL
4 11 (16.92%) Data Visualisation
4 11 (16.92%) DevOps
5 10 (15.38%) Migration
6 9 (13.85%) Data Engineering
7 8 (12.31%) Data Migration
8 7 (10.77%) Clean Code
8 7 (10.77%) Microservices
8 7 (10.77%) Test Automation
9 6 (9.23%) Data Analytics
9 6 (9.23%) Data Governance
9 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (9.23%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.15%) Python
2 9 (13.85%) Java
3 8 (12.31%) C#
4 7 (10.77%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (7.69%) Scala
6 3 (4.62%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.08%) ANSI SQL
7 2 (3.08%) Bash
7 2 (3.08%) PHP
7 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.54%) Bicep
8 1 (1.54%) Perl
8 1 (1.54%) R
8 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.54%) VB
8 1 (1.54%) VB6
Qualifications
1 12 (18.46%) SC Cleared
1 12 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.62%) Degree
3 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.54%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 6 (9.23%) QA
3 2 (3.08%) GDPR
4 1 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.54%) COSHH
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (18.46%) Terraform
2 2 (3.08%) Control-M
3 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (18.46%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.85%) Databricks
3 8 (12.31%) Google
4 3 (4.62%) Informatica
4 3 (4.62%) Oracle
4 3 (4.62%) SAP
4 3 (4.62%) Talend
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco
5 1 (1.54%) Hotjar
5 1 (1.54%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.54%) Okta
5 1 (1.54%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.54%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.54%) Splunk
5 1 (1.54%) Workday