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 8 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 15 18
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL 96 125 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.39% 9.00% 7.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.53% 35.11% 28.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 89 109
10th Percentile £303 £374 £325
25th Percentile £420 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +13.51% +5.71%
75th Percentile £564 £625 £600
90th Percentile £625 £690 £668
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £455
% change year-on-year -4.76% +15.38% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £26.75 £17.12 £21.60
25th Percentile £27.50 £19.81 £22.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £21.31 £23.59
Median % change year-on-year +40.78% -9.65% -9.29%
75th Percentile £32.50 £22.68 £25.17
90th Percentile £33.25 £25.14 £25.97
Yorkshire median hourly rate £36.25 £21.31 £23.59
% change year-on-year +70.11% -9.65% -9.29%

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 278 356 525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 32.98% 25.63% 26.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 261 408
10th Percentile £350 £394 £368
25th Percentile £419 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £648 £700 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £507 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.43% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 4
10th Percentile £27.25 £17.12 £18.95
25th Percentile £28.75 £19.81 £20.38
Median hourly rate £32.50 £21.31 £23.59
Median % change year-on-year +52.51% -9.65% -9.29%
75th Percentile £45.00 £22.68 £33.00
90th Percentile £51.75 £25.14 £44.70
Yorkshire median hourly rate £40.00 £24.05 £26.00
% 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
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

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in West Yorkshire

SQL
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

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 8 September 2024. 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 -2 84 £475 -9.52% 54
Halifax +6 2 £725 -
Bradford +1 2 £381 +12.96% 7
Wakefield +8 1 £450 +63.64% 2
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 19 (19.79%) Apache Spark
2 12 (12.50%) Apache
3 10 (10.42%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (4.17%) IIS
4 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (2.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (2.08%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (2.08%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.04%) Confluence
6 1 (1.04%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (13.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.21%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (28.13%) Azure
2 20 (20.83%) GCP
3 18 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 17 (17.71%) AWS
5 9 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (7.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (6.25%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 5 (5.21%) Amazon S3
10 4 (4.17%) Azure App Service
10 4 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (4.17%) GitHub
10 4 (4.17%) Snowflake
11 3 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (3.13%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) Network Security
1 3 (3.13%) WAN
2 2 (2.08%) DAB
2 2 (2.08%) DNS
3 1 (1.04%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
1 18 (18.75%) Power BI
1 18 (18.75%) Spark SQL
2 14 (14.58%) Big Data
2 14 (14.58%) Tableau
3 10 (10.42%) SQL Server
3 10 (10.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (9.38%) Data Lake
5 8 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (7.29%) Apache Hive
6 7 (7.29%) BigQuery
6 7 (7.29%) Hadoop
7 6 (6.25%) QlikView
8 5 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (3.13%) MySQL
10 3 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (3.13%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (14.58%) Git
2 6 (6.25%) JIRA
2 6 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (2.08%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.04%) GitLab
4 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (14.58%) Finance
3 12 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.29%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.21%) Retail
6 4 (4.17%) Marketing
7 3 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.04%) Banking
8 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.04%) Front Office
8 1 (1.04%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 25 (26.04%) Analyst
2 21 (21.88%) Developer
3 17 (17.71%) Architect
4 9 (9.38%) Data Analyst
5 8 (8.33%) Senior
6 7 (7.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 7 (7.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 7 (7.29%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) SQL Developer
8 5 (5.21%) Lead
8 5 (5.21%) Scala Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) SQL BI Developer
9 4 (4.17%) Azure Data Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Data Centre Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Data Migration Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Database Analyst
9 4 (4.17%) Database Marketing Analyst
9 4 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Marketing Analyst
9 4 (4.17%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.58%) PySpark
2 9 (9.38%) Kafka
3 6 (6.25%) HTML
4 4 (4.17%) .NET
4 4 (4.17%) Spring Boot
5 3 (3.13%) ARM Templates
5 3 (3.13%) CSS
5 3 (3.13%) J2EE
5 3 (3.13%) jQuery
5 3 (3.13%) JSON
5 3 (3.13%) JSON Schema
5 3 (3.13%) JSP
5 3 (3.13%) XML
6 2 (2.08%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.08%) Express.js
6 2 (2.08%) Next.js
6 2 (2.08%) Node.js
6 2 (2.08%) Prisma
6 2 (2.08%) React
6 2 (2.08%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.54%) Low-Code
2 4 (4.17%) Clustering
2 4 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.17%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.17%) NHS
3 3 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.04%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.46%) Windows
2 7 (7.29%) Windows Server
3 6 (6.25%) Linux
4 4 (4.17%) VMS
4 4 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.13%) Unix
6 1 (1.04%) Android
6 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.04%) CentOS
6 1 (1.04%) Fedora
6 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.04%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.04%) Business Intelligence
2 20 (20.83%) Data Modelling
3 19 (19.79%) ETL
4 18 (18.75%) Data Integration
5 16 (16.67%) Analytics
5 16 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (15.63%) Data Visualisation
6 15 (15.63%) DevOps
6 15 (15.63%) Migration
6 15 (15.63%) Visualisation
7 14 (14.58%) CI/CD
7 14 (14.58%) Data Analysis
7 14 (14.58%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (12.50%) Data Engineering
9 8 (8.33%) Agile
9 8 (8.33%) Computer Science
9 8 (8.33%) Data Cleansing
9 8 (8.33%) Data Migration
9 8 (8.33%) Data Science
10 7 (7.29%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 21 (21.88%) Python
2 9 (9.38%) JavaScript
3 7 (7.29%) Scala
3 7 (7.29%) T-SQL
4 6 (6.25%) Bash
4 6 (6.25%) Java
5 4 (4.17%) PL/SQL
5 4 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.13%) Bicep
6 3 (3.13%) C
6 3 (3.13%) C++
6 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.08%) Perl
8 1 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.04%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (9.38%) SC Cleared
1 9 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (8.33%) Docker
2 6 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.25%) HDFS
3 4 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (11.46%) Grafana
2 9 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.17%) Terraform
4 1 (1.04%) Graylog
4 1 (1.04%) HAProxy
4 1 (1.04%) Proxmox
4 1 (1.04%) Rsyslog
4 1 (1.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.46%) Cloudera
3 8 (8.33%) Oracle
4 5 (5.21%) Databricks
5 3 (3.13%) Informatica
6 2 (2.08%) Cisco
6 2 (2.08%) Google
6 2 (2.08%) IBM
7 1 (1.04%) Ariba
7 1 (1.04%) Concur
7 1 (1.04%) Confluent
7 1 (1.04%) Foundry
7 1 (1.04%) iManage
7 1 (1.04%) Intapp
7 1 (1.04%) Intel
7 1 (1.04%) Palantir
7 1 (1.04%) SAP
7 1 (1.04%) Skytap
7 1 (1.04%) VMware