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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 116 91 99
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 9.14% 13.85% 10.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.87% 42.52% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 61 66
10th Percentile £292 £313 £275
25th Percentile £403 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £550
90th Percentile £663 £575 £620
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £19.33 £31.50 -
25th Percentile £21.69 £31.54 £31.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.96 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +1.42% +52.51%
75th Percentile £25.06 £34.38 £33.75
90th Percentile £25.18 £34.43 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £32.96 £36.25
% change year-on-year -27.18% -9.08% +70.11%

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 364 214 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 28.68% 32.57% 30.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 136 208
10th Percentile £313 £338 £300
25th Percentile £413 £412 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +4.17% -8.57%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £630 £575 £632
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £19.85 £31.53 £33.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.62 £35.63
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.51% -22.09% -21.30%
75th Percentile £25.25 £66.51 £50.63
90th Percentile £26.90 £85.74 £54.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.25 £33.11 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.76% -36.93% +6.89%

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 July 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 5 July 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 -16 82 £448 -5.79% 36
Bradford +7 18 £450 - 4
Huddersfield +2 9 £500 -4.76%
Halifax -2 6 - - 1
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 (4.31%) Confluence
2 3 (2.59%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (2.59%) SAS
2 3 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.72%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.86%) Apache
4 1 (0.86%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.86%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.55%) Azure
2 24 (20.69%) AWS
3 13 (11.21%) Power Platform
4 12 (10.34%) GCP
4 12 (10.34%) Serverless
5 8 (6.90%) Cloud Run
5 8 (6.90%) GitHub
6 7 (6.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (6.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 6 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.31%) OpenShift
9 4 (3.45%) Apigee
9 4 (3.45%) Azure AKS
9 4 (3.45%) Azure Functions
9 4 (3.45%) Azure Storage
9 4 (3.45%) IaaS
9 4 (3.45%) Kong
9 4 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.90%) SSL
2 7 (6.03%) DNS
3 4 (3.45%) BGP
3 4 (3.45%) HTTP
3 4 (3.45%) IPsec
3 4 (3.45%) Kerberos
3 4 (3.45%) Network Security
3 4 (3.45%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (2.59%) Firewall
5 2 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (24.14%) SQL Server
2 17 (14.66%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (11.21%) Power BI
4 10 (8.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (7.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (6.90%) MongoDB
6 8 (6.90%) NoSQL
7 7 (6.03%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (6.03%) Relational Database
7 7 (6.03%) Tableau
8 5 (4.31%) Data Lake
8 5 (4.31%) Oracle Database
8 5 (4.31%) Oracle Database 12c
8 5 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (3.45%) Hazelcast
9 4 (3.45%) OLAP
9 4 (3.45%) RDBMS
9 4 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (16.38%) Git
2 17 (14.66%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.62%) GitLab
4 6 (5.17%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (4.31%) Gradle
6 4 (3.45%) Flyway
6 4 (3.45%) Maven
6 4 (3.45%) Snyk
7 3 (2.59%) ERwin
8 2 (1.72%) JIRA
9 1 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 23 (19.83%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (16.38%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.34%) Finance
5 4 (3.45%) Banking
5 4 (3.45%) Games
5 4 (3.45%) Legal
5 4 (3.45%) Retail
6 3 (2.59%) Marketing
6 3 (2.59%) Social Housing
7 2 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.86%) Local Government
8 1 (0.86%) Military
8 1 (0.86%) Social Science
8 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (35.34%) Developer
2 22 (18.97%) Senior
3 16 (13.79%) Analyst
3 16 (13.79%) Senior Developer
4 12 (10.34%) Backend Developer
4 12 (10.34%) DBA
4 12 (10.34%) Senior Backend Developer
5 8 (6.90%) Lead
5 8 (6.90%) SQL Developer
6 7 (6.03%) Architect
6 7 (6.03%) Consultant
6 7 (6.03%) Java Developer
6 7 (6.03%) Oracle Consultant
6 7 (6.03%) Performance Analyst
6 7 (6.03%) SQL DBA
7 6 (5.17%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.17%) Software Developer
8 5 (4.31%) Oracle Technical Consultant
8 5 (4.31%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (4.31%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.07%) Kafka
2 11 (9.48%) Spring
2 11 (9.48%) Spring Boot
3 10 (8.62%) RESTful
4 9 (7.76%) OAuth
4 9 (7.76%) React
5 8 (6.90%) OAuth2
5 8 (6.90%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (6.03%) Redux
7 6 (5.17%) JSON
7 6 (5.17%) Web Services
8 5 (4.31%) Hibernate
8 5 (4.31%) OpenID
8 5 (4.31%) PySpark
8 5 (4.31%) REST
9 4 (3.45%) AWS CDK
9 4 (3.45%) GraphQL
9 4 (3.45%) JWT
9 4 (3.45%) Spring WebFlux
9 4 (3.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.48%) NHS
2 8 (6.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 7 (6.03%) Data Structures
3 7 (6.03%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.31%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.45%) Sports Betting
6 3 (2.59%) Clustering
6 3 (2.59%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.59%) Replication
7 2 (1.72%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.86%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.59%) Linux
1 3 (2.59%) Oracle Linux
1 3 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.72%) Windows
2 2 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (27.59%) CI/CD
2 30 (25.86%) Agile
3 26 (22.41%) DevOps
4 22 (18.97%) ETL
4 22 (18.97%) Microservices
5 21 (18.10%) Analytics
6 20 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (15.52%) Performance Tuning
8 16 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (12.07%) Data Architecture
9 14 (12.07%) Migration
9 14 (12.07%) Validation
10 13 (11.21%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (10.34%) Code Quality
11 12 (10.34%) Data Modelling
11 12 (10.34%) High Availability
12 11 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (8.62%) Architectural Patterns
13 10 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
14 9 (7.76%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 28 (24.14%) Python
2 17 (14.66%) Java
3 13 (11.21%) PL/SQL
4 9 (7.76%) T-SQL
5 8 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.31%) C#
7 4 (3.45%) Scala
8 3 (2.59%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.72%) Bash
9 2 (1.72%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.86%) ABAP
10 1 (0.86%) Bicep
10 1 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (14.66%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.21%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.03%) Degree
4 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.07%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 14 (12.07%) Docker
2 4 (3.45%) RACF
3 2 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (9.48%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.62%) Terraform
3 5 (4.31%) Control-M
4 4 (3.45%) Argo
4 4 (3.45%) Grafana
4 4 (3.45%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (3.45%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.59%) Foglight
6 1 (0.86%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.86%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 18 (15.52%) Microsoft
1 18 (15.52%) Oracle
2 14 (12.07%) Databricks
3 6 (5.17%) Google
3 6 (5.17%) SAP
4 4 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.59%) Alteryx
5 3 (2.59%) Civica
5 3 (2.59%) RedGate
5 3 (2.59%) SolarWinds
5 3 (2.59%) Splunk
5 3 (2.59%) SYSPRO
5 3 (2.59%) Teradata
6 2 (1.72%) Adobe
6 2 (1.72%) Foundry
6 2 (1.72%) Palantir