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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 5 22
Rank change year-on-year -13 +17 -12
Contract jobs citing SQL 83 85 70
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 8.38% 16.87% 6.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.75% 46.96% 26.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 55 47
10th Percentile £306 £283 £275
25th Percentile £413 £368 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% -18.07%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £559
90th Percentile £670 - £615
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £27.29 -
25th Percentile - £28.86 £19.44
Median hourly rate - £32.81 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - +58.46% -
75th Percentile - £34.31 £21.97
90th Percentile - £34.40 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £32.81 £20.71
% change year-on-year - +58.46% -

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 279 181 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.15% 35.91% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 116 193
10th Percentile £320 £319 £300
25th Percentile £425 £396 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £552 £588
90th Percentile £625 £725 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
10th Percentile - £29.38 £23.70
25th Percentile - £31.62 £30.08
Median hourly rate - £90.42 £41.35
Median % change year-on-year - +118.64% -40.93%
75th Percentile - £100.28 £51.99
90th Percentile - £102.00 £58.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £49.50 £90.42 £62.00
% change year-on-year -45.25% +45.83% -0.80%

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 March 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 March 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 74 £475 - 64
Bradford -10 4 £500 +11.11% 13
Huddersfield - 2 £500 - 7
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 (6.02%) Confluence
2 4 (4.82%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.61%) SAS
4 2 (2.41%) Apache
4 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.20%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (36.14%) Azure
2 27 (32.53%) AWS
3 10 (12.05%) Serverless
4 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
5 6 (7.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (7.23%) GCP
6 5 (6.02%) IaaS
6 5 (6.02%) PaaS
6 5 (6.02%) SaaS
7 4 (4.82%) Azure AKS
7 4 (4.82%) Azure Storage
7 4 (4.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (4.82%) GitHub
8 3 (3.61%) Azure Functions
8 3 (3.61%) Google Analytics
8 3 (3.61%) Google Compute Engine
8 3 (3.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.41%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) IPsec
1 5 (6.02%) Kerberos
1 5 (6.02%) SSL
2 4 (4.82%) DNS
2 4 (4.82%) Firewall
3 2 (2.41%) VPN
4 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.48%) SQL Server
2 11 (13.25%) NoSQL
3 9 (10.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (9.64%) Power BI
5 7 (8.43%) Data Lake
6 6 (7.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (7.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (6.02%) MongoDB
8 4 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (4.82%) Metadata
8 4 (4.82%) Redis
9 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (3.61%) DTS
9 3 (3.61%) Oracle Database
9 3 (3.61%) Oracle Database 12c
9 3 (3.61%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.41%) Tableau
11 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 13 (15.66%) Git
2 10 (12.05%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.82%) GitLab
3 4 (4.82%) Mocha
4 3 (3.61%) Flyway
4 3 (3.61%) JIRA
5 2 (2.41%) ERwin
5 2 (2.41%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.20%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 21 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.48%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (15.66%) Public Sector
4 8 (9.64%) Finance
5 5 (6.02%) Banking
6 3 (3.61%) Health Technology
6 3 (3.61%) Legal
6 3 (3.61%) Marketing
7 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Social Housing
8 1 (1.20%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Games
8 1 (1.20%) Law
8 1 (1.20%) Military
8 1 (1.20%) Retail
8 1 (1.20%) Social Science
8 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (26.51%) Developer
2 12 (14.46%) Analyst
2 12 (14.46%) Senior
3 10 (12.05%) DBA
4 8 (9.64%) Architect
5 7 (8.43%) Data Engineer
5 7 (8.43%) SQL DBA
6 6 (7.23%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Lead
7 5 (6.02%) Senior Architect
7 5 (6.02%) Senior Technical Architect
7 5 (6.02%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.82%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Performance Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Oracle Consultant
9 3 (3.61%) Oracle DBA
9 3 (3.61%) Oracle Technical Consultant
9 3 (3.61%) PHP Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.84%) .NET
2 7 (8.43%) CSS
2 7 (8.43%) HTML
2 7 (8.43%) OAuth
3 6 (7.23%) OAuth2
3 6 (7.23%) OpenID
3 6 (7.23%) React
3 6 (7.23%) RESTful
3 6 (7.23%) SAML
4 5 (6.02%) Spring
4 5 (6.02%) Web Services
4 5 (6.02%) XACML
5 4 (4.82%) Jest
5 4 (4.82%) Node.js
5 4 (4.82%) REST
6 3 (3.61%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.61%) Express.js
6 3 (3.61%) FHIR
6 3 (3.61%) Kafka
6 3 (3.61%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.43%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.23%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.23%) NHS
3 5 (6.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (4.82%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.61%) Clustering
5 3 (3.61%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.61%) Replication
6 2 (2.41%) Derivative
6 2 (2.41%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.20%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.64%) Linux
2 4 (4.82%) Windows
3 2 (2.41%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.20%) Unix
4 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (30.12%) Agile
2 23 (27.71%) CI/CD
3 17 (20.48%) DevOps
4 13 (15.66%) Microservices
4 13 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (14.46%) Analytics
5 12 (14.46%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (13.25%) Data Architecture
6 11 (13.25%) Roadmaps
7 10 (12.05%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (10.84%) Data Modelling
8 9 (10.84%) ETL
8 9 (10.84%) Front End Development
8 9 (10.84%) High Availability
9 8 (9.64%) Architectural Patterns
9 8 (9.64%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (9.64%) Migration
10 7 (8.43%) AI
10 7 (8.43%) Collaborative Working
10 7 (8.43%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.69%) Python
2 9 (10.84%) JavaScript
3 8 (9.64%) C#
4 7 (8.43%) Java
4 7 (8.43%) TypeScript
5 6 (7.23%) PHP
6 4 (4.82%) Bash
6 4 (4.82%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.82%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.61%) Delphi
7 3 (3.61%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.20%) ABAP
8 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.20%) Go
8 1 (1.20%) Scala
8 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (13.25%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.05%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.23%) Degree
4 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.82%) WCAG
3 3 (3.61%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.61%) QA
4 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.20%) GDPR
4 1 (1.20%) HL7
4 1 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (13.25%) Docker
2 5 (6.02%) RACF
3 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (8.43%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.23%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (7.23%) Terraform
3 3 (3.61%) Ansible
3 3 (3.61%) Foglight
3 3 (3.61%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.20%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.20%) Grafana
4 1 (1.20%) HAProxy
4 1 (1.20%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 15 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.05%) Databricks
3 8 (9.64%) Oracle
4 6 (7.23%) Google
5 5 (6.02%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.61%) RedGate
6 3 (3.61%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.61%) Teradata
7 2 (2.41%) Brio
7 2 (2.41%) Calypso
7 2 (2.41%) Civica
8 1 (1.20%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.20%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.20%) Pega
8 1 (1.20%) SAP
8 1 (1.20%) Splunk