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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 10 21
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 -11
Contract jobs citing SQL 66 66 73
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 7.04% 12.38% 6.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.32% 36.07% 27.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 41 49
10th Percentile £180 £263 £281
25th Percentile £403 £370 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £600
90th Percentile £696 £650 £615
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £20.18
25th Percentile - £26.25 £21.28
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £23.74
Median % change year-on-year - +15.83% -
75th Percentile - £31.45 £25.58
90th Percentile - £33.07 £26.30
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £27.50 £23.74
% change year-on-year - +15.83% -

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 283 183 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 30.20% 34.33% 23.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 121 200
10th Percentile £320 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £567 £588
90th Percentile £650 £725 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 3
10th Percentile - £26.25 £20.91
25th Percentile - £27.56 £23.11
Median hourly rate - £61.61 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year - +130.07% -59.58%
75th Percentile - £100.66 £44.39
90th Percentile - £102.00 £54.96
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £61.61 £44.39
% change year-on-year -19.66% +38.80% -28.98%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -15 64 £465 -11.43% 31
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 (6.06%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.55%) Confluence
2 3 (4.55%) SAS
3 2 (3.03%) Apache
3 2 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 29 (43.94%) Azure
2 27 (40.91%) AWS
3 12 (18.18%) Serverless
4 8 (12.12%) GCP
5 7 (10.61%) Power Platform
6 5 (7.58%) Azure AKS
6 5 (7.58%) IaaS
6 5 (7.58%) PaaS
6 5 (7.58%) SaaS
7 4 (6.06%) Azure Functions
7 4 (6.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (6.06%) GitHub
8 3 (4.55%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.55%) Google Compute Engine
8 3 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.03%) Azure Storage
9 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.58%) IPsec
1 5 (7.58%) Kerberos
1 5 (7.58%) SSL
2 4 (6.06%) DNS
3 3 (4.55%) Firewall
4 2 (3.03%) VPN
5 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.15%) NoSQL
2 9 (13.64%) SQL Server
3 7 (10.61%) Power BI
4 6 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (6.06%) Data Lake
5 4 (6.06%) Metadata
5 4 (6.06%) Redis
5 4 (6.06%) Relational Database
5 4 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.55%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (3.03%) Tableau
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.52%) Big Data
8 1 (1.52%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.52%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 12 (18.18%) Git
2 8 (12.12%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.06%) Mocha
4 3 (4.55%) JIRA
5 2 (3.03%) GitLab
6 1 (1.52%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.52%) Flyway
6 1 (1.52%) Gradle
6 1 (1.52%) JUnit
6 1 (1.52%) Log4j
6 1 (1.52%) Maven
6 1 (1.52%) Mockito
6 1 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.52%) Subversion
General
1 17 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.15%) Public Sector
4 9 (13.64%) Finance
5 5 (7.58%) Banking
6 3 (4.55%) Health Technology
6 3 (4.55%) Marketing
7 2 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Law
8 1 (1.52%) Legal
8 1 (1.52%) Military
8 1 (1.52%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 19 (28.79%) Developer
2 15 (22.73%) Senior
3 11 (16.67%) Analyst
4 8 (12.12%) Data Engineer
4 8 (12.12%) Senior Developer
5 7 (10.61%) Architect
6 6 (9.09%) Senior Architect
7 5 (7.58%) DBA
7 5 (7.58%) Java Developer
7 5 (7.58%) Lead
7 5 (7.58%) Senior Technical Architect
7 5 (7.58%) Software Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) SQL DBA
7 5 (7.58%) Technical Architect
8 4 (6.06%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Data Analyst
9 3 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (4.55%) Performance Analyst
9 3 (4.55%) PHP Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.61%) .NET
1 7 (10.61%) CSS
1 7 (10.61%) HTML
1 7 (10.61%) OAuth
1 7 (10.61%) React
2 6 (9.09%) OAuth2
2 6 (9.09%) OpenID
2 6 (9.09%) SAML
2 6 (9.09%) Spring
3 5 (7.58%) Node.js
3 5 (7.58%) Web Services
3 5 (7.58%) XACML
4 4 (6.06%) Jest
4 4 (6.06%) REST
4 4 (6.06%) RESTful
4 4 (6.06%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.55%) Express.js
5 3 (4.55%) FHIR
5 3 (4.55%) Kafka
5 3 (4.55%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Cloud Native
1 5 (7.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 4 (6.06%) NHS
2 4 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.55%) Clustering
3 3 (4.55%) Credit Risk
3 3 (4.55%) Replication
4 2 (3.03%) Derivative
4 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.52%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.52%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Linux
2 4 (6.06%) Windows
3 2 (3.03%) Unix
4 1 (1.52%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.30%) CI/CD
2 19 (28.79%) Agile
3 14 (21.21%) DevOps
4 12 (18.18%) Microservices
5 11 (16.67%) Analytics
5 11 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (13.64%) Roadmaps
7 7 (10.61%) Data Architecture
7 7 (10.61%) Data Modelling
7 7 (10.61%) Decision-Making
8 6 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (9.09%) Data Analysis
8 6 (9.09%) ETL
8 6 (9.09%) Front End Development
8 6 (9.09%) Open Source
8 6 (9.09%) Project Management
8 6 (9.09%) Security Architecture
8 6 (9.09%) UML
8 6 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (24.24%) Python
2 10 (15.15%) JavaScript
3 8 (12.12%) Java
4 6 (9.09%) C#
4 6 (9.09%) PHP
5 4 (6.06%) Bash
5 4 (6.06%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.06%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.55%) Delphi
7 2 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.52%) Go
8 1 (1.52%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.52%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.06%) Degree
4 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.52%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.06%) WCAG
3 3 (4.55%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.03%) QA
5 1 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.52%) GDPR
5 1 (1.52%) HL7
5 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (13.64%) Docker
2 5 (7.58%) RACF
3 2 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (12.12%) Terraform
2 7 (10.61%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.55%) Ansible
5 1 (1.52%) Foglight
5 1 (1.52%) Grafana
5 1 (1.52%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.09%) Databricks
3 5 (7.58%) Google
4 4 (6.06%) Oracle
5 3 (4.55%) RedGate
5 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.55%) SolarWinds
5 3 (4.55%) Teradata
6 2 (3.03%) Brio
6 2 (3.03%) Calypso
7 1 (1.52%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.52%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.52%) Pega
7 1 (1.52%) Splunk