SQL Contracts in West Yorkshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 10 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +9
Contract jobs citing SQL 91 103 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.31% 10.63% 11.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.75% 35.15% 40.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 68 110
10th Percentile £313 £275 £398
25th Percentile £405 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £519
Median % change year-on-year - -8.43% +3.75%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £625
90th Percentile £575 £618 £676
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £511
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.20% +13.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 - £21.31
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year -17.60% +87.71% -18.04%

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 208 293 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 32.70% 30.24% 29.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 211 303
10th Percentile £333 £300 £402
25th Percentile £411 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £625
90th Percentile £575 £638 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £31.53 - -
25th Percentile £31.62 £48.75 £21.31
Median hourly rate £33.11 £52.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.93% -2.78% +107.69%
75th Percentile £66.51 £56.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.74 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £33.11 £57.50 £49.12
% change year-on-year -42.42% +17.07% +88.91%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for SQL in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for SQL in West Yorkshire

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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 2 July 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 +1 77 £475 +2.70% 253
Huddersfield +3 2 £525 +5.00% 6
Bradford - 2 £450 - 43
Halifax -8 1 £600 -17.24% 7
Calderdale - 1 £375 -
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 14 (15.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.40%) Confluence
3 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.20%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.10%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.27%) Azure
2 22 (24.18%) Power Platform
3 18 (19.78%) AWS
4 11 (12.09%) GCP
5 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.30%) PaaS
7 2 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.20%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (2.20%) dbt
7 2 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.20%) Google Analytics
7 2 (2.20%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (2.20%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.20%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.20%) SaaS
7 2 (2.20%) Serverless
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.10%) Contentsquare
8 1 (1.10%) Miro
8 1 (1.10%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.58%) DNS
2 1 (1.10%) Firewall
2 1 (1.10%) LAN
2 1 (1.10%) SSL
2 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.10%) VLAN
2 1 (1.10%) VPN
2 1 (1.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (24.18%) Power BI
2 18 (19.78%) Oracle Database
3 9 (9.89%) Tableau
4 8 (8.79%) SQL Server
5 7 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (6.59%) NoSQL
7 5 (5.49%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.40%) BigQuery
8 4 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (4.40%) Delta Lake
8 4 (4.40%) MySQL
9 3 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (3.30%) DataStage
9 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
9 3 (3.30%) QlikView
9 3 (3.30%) Star Schema
10 2 (2.20%) Bigtable
10 2 (2.20%) RDBMS
10 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Git
2 5 (5.49%) JIRA
3 4 (4.40%) GitLab
3 4 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.40%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (3.30%) Artifactory
4 3 (3.30%) Selenium
4 3 (3.30%) SonarQube
4 3 (3.30%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.20%) Postman
6 1 (1.10%) DBeaver
6 1 (1.10%) Maven
6 1 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.10%) TestRail
6 1 (1.10%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (31.87%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (9.89%) Finance
3 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.20%) Banking
4 2 (2.20%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.10%) Environmental Health
5 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.10%) Local Government
5 1 (1.10%) Marketing
5 1 (1.10%) Retail
5 1 (1.10%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 19 (20.88%) Analyst
2 13 (14.29%) Developer
3 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (9.89%) Senior
4 8 (8.79%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 7 (7.69%) Data Analyst
5 7 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Engineering Specialist
5 7 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 5 (5.49%) Architect
7 5 (5.49%) IT Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.40%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Network Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Software Developer
8 4 (4.40%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.99%) .NET
2 5 (5.49%) .NET Core
3 4 (4.40%) PySpark
4 3 (3.30%) CSS
4 3 (3.30%) HTML
4 3 (3.30%) Kafka
4 3 (3.30%) Node.js
4 3 (3.30%) RESTful
5 2 (2.20%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.20%) XML
6 1 (1.10%) Apache CXF
6 1 (1.10%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.10%) Dropwizard
6 1 (1.10%) JAX-RS
6 1 (1.10%) JSON
6 1 (1.10%) Nightwatchjs
6 1 (1.10%) Playwright
6 1 (1.10%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (1.10%) Spring
6 1 (1.10%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.48%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (8.79%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.59%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.49%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.40%) NHS
6 3 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.30%) Low-Code
6 3 (3.30%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.10%) FMCG
7 1 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.88%) Windows
2 18 (19.78%) Linux
3 17 (18.68%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.20%) Unix
5 1 (1.10%) CentOS
5 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.47%) Agile
2 24 (26.37%) Migration
3 19 (20.88%) Business Intelligence
3 19 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (18.68%) CI/CD
4 17 (18.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 17 (18.68%) Microservices
5 16 (17.58%) ETL
6 15 (16.48%) Security Management
7 14 (15.38%) DevOps
7 14 (15.38%) SOA
8 13 (14.29%) Analytics
8 13 (14.29%) Data Migration
8 13 (14.29%) Server Management
9 12 (13.19%) Visualisation
10 11 (12.09%) Data Analysis
10 11 (12.09%) Data Modelling
11 9 (9.89%) Test Automation
12 7 (7.69%) Data Analytics
12 7 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.27%) PL/SQL
2 19 (20.88%) Bash
3 17 (18.68%) Python
4 16 (17.58%) PowerShell
5 14 (15.38%) Perl
6 10 (10.99%) C#
7 7 (7.69%) Java
8 6 (6.59%) JavaScript
9 5 (5.49%) Scala
9 5 (5.49%) T-SQL
10 4 (4.40%) COBOL
11 2 (2.20%) ANSI SQL
11 2 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.10%) PHP
12 1 (1.10%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 25 (27.47%) SC Cleared
3 17 (18.68%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.40%) Degree
5 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.10%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.19%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.79%) QA
3 4 (4.40%) GDPR
4 1 (1.10%) COSHH
System Software
1 17 (18.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (13.19%) Terraform
2 2 (2.20%) Control-M
3 1 (1.10%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (25.27%) Oracle
2 18 (19.78%) Cisco
3 10 (10.99%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.69%) Google
4 7 (7.69%) SAP
5 6 (6.59%) Databricks
6 3 (3.30%) Informatica
6 3 (3.30%) Perforce
6 3 (3.30%) Talend
7 1 (1.10%) Hotjar
7 1 (1.10%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.10%) Okta
7 1 (1.10%) Optimizely
7 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.10%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.10%) VMware
7 1 (1.10%) Workday