SQL Contracts in Yorkshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 21 13
Rank change year-on-year +10 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 109 114 202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.72% 6.75% 8.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.06% 25.79% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 72 136
10th Percentile £340 £301 £388
25th Percentile £405 £394 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £600
90th Percentile £643 £624 £650
England median daily rate £516 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.14% - +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 - -
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
England median hourly rate £43.66 £42.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.72% -15.00% +40.85%

All Programming Languages
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 320 442 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 31.47% 26.17% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 319 423
10th Percentile £350 £300 £395
25th Percentile £405 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 11
10th Percentile £31.62 - £42.67
25th Percentile £44.87 £61.25 £47.40
Median hourly rate £91.05 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.68% - +126.98%
75th Percentile £101.14 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 - -
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Yorkshire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Yorkshire

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Yorkshire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Yorkshire +10 84 £475 +2.70% 129
South Yorkshire +6 24 £521 +9.74% 34
North Yorkshire +8 2 £400 -17.95% 29
SQL
England

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 16 (14.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (11.01%) Confluence
3 6 (5.50%) Apache
3 6 (5.50%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.83%) Tuxedo
5 1 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.92%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (7.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.92%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.83%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 24 (22.02%) Power Platform
2 23 (21.10%) Azure
3 19 (17.43%) AWS
4 17 (15.60%) GCP
5 11 (10.09%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (6.42%) Slack
7 5 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.83%) GitHub
9 2 (1.83%) PaaS
9 2 (1.83%) SaaS
10 1 (0.92%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.92%) Google Analytics
10 1 (0.92%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.92%) Miro
10 1 (0.92%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.92%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.51%) DNS
2 5 (4.59%) HTTP
3 1 (0.92%) Firewall
3 1 (0.92%) LAN
3 1 (0.92%) SSL
3 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.92%) VLAN
3 1 (0.92%) VPN
3 1 (0.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.02%) Power BI
2 21 (19.27%) Oracle Database
3 15 (13.76%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (11.01%) MySQL
5 10 (9.17%) Apache Cassandra
5 10 (9.17%) MongoDB
6 9 (8.26%) Tableau
7 6 (5.50%) SQL Server
8 5 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (4.59%) Flink
8 5 (4.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.75%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.75%) Metadata
9 3 (2.75%) QlikView
10 2 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.83%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.83%) Hazelcast
10 2 (1.83%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (14.68%) JIRA
2 8 (7.34%) Cucumber
2 8 (7.34%) Git
2 8 (7.34%) Jasmine
2 8 (7.34%) JUnit
3 4 (3.67%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (2.75%) Selenium
5 2 (1.83%) ERwin
5 2 (1.83%) Jaeger
5 2 (1.83%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.83%) Postman
5 2 (1.83%) TestRail
6 1 (0.92%) DBeaver
6 1 (0.92%) GitLab
6 1 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 37 (33.94%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.35%) Finance
3 14 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.42%) Banking
6 3 (2.75%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.83%) Retail
8 1 (0.92%) Back Office
8 1 (0.92%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Front Office
8 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (20.18%) Analyst
2 20 (18.35%) Developer
3 18 (16.51%) Senior
4 11 (10.09%) Data Engineer
4 11 (10.09%) Java Developer
5 10 (9.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (8.26%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 8 (7.34%) Business Analyst
7 8 (7.34%) Engineering Specialist
7 8 (7.34%) Senior Developer
7 8 (7.34%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (6.42%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 6 (5.50%) Data Analyst
9 6 (5.50%) IT Engineer
10 5 (4.59%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.59%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (4.59%) SQL Developer
11 4 (3.67%) Linux Engineer
11 4 (3.67%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.01%) Spring Boot
2 11 (10.09%) Spring
3 9 (8.26%) Spring Security
4 8 (7.34%) RESTful
4 8 (7.34%) Spring Batch
5 7 (6.42%) Swagger
6 6 (5.50%) OpenAPI
7 5 (4.59%) .NET
8 4 (3.67%) Kafka
8 4 (3.67%) XML
9 3 (2.75%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.75%) JSON
10 2 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
10 2 (1.83%) FpML
10 2 (1.83%) gRPC
11 1 (0.92%) CSS
11 1 (0.92%) HTML
11 1 (0.92%) JPA
11 1 (0.92%) jQuery
11 1 (0.92%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.60%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (5.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (4.59%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.59%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.83%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.83%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.83%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.92%) FMCG
7 1 (0.92%) NHS
7 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.92%) PMI
7 1 (0.92%) Replication
7 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (31.19%) Linux
2 21 (19.27%) Windows
3 19 (17.43%) Windows Server
4 11 (10.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.83%) Unix
6 1 (0.92%) CentOS
6 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.36%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (26.61%) Agile
2 29 (26.61%) Microservices
2 29 (26.61%) Migration
3 24 (22.02%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (17.43%) ETL
4 19 (17.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (15.60%) Data Analysis
5 17 (15.60%) Security Management
6 16 (14.68%) CI/CD
6 16 (14.68%) SOA
7 15 (13.76%) Data Modelling
7 15 (13.76%) Server Management
8 14 (12.84%) DevOps
8 14 (12.84%) Visualisation
9 13 (11.93%) Software Engineering
10 12 (11.01%) Analytics
10 12 (11.01%) Containerisation
10 12 (11.01%) Test Automation
11 11 (10.09%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 33 (30.28%) Bash
2 26 (23.85%) PL/SQL
3 23 (21.10%) Python
4 18 (16.51%) PowerShell
5 17 (15.60%) Java
6 16 (14.68%) Perl
7 5 (4.59%) C#
7 5 (4.59%) T-SQL
8 4 (3.67%) COBOL
9 2 (1.83%) Groovy
9 2 (1.83%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.92%) PHP
10 1 (0.92%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (29.36%) Security Cleared
2 29 (26.61%) SC Cleared
3 19 (17.43%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (6.42%) Degree
5 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.83%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.92%) CBAP
6 1 (0.92%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.92%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.51%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.42%) QA
3 4 (3.67%) GDPR
4 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (17.43%) Active Directory
2 11 (10.09%) Docker
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 12 (11.01%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.34%) Terraform
3 2 (1.83%) Control-M
3 2 (1.83%) Grafana
3 2 (1.83%) Istio
3 2 (1.83%) Kiali
4 1 (0.92%) Ansible
4 1 (0.92%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 27 (24.77%) Oracle
2 20 (18.35%) Cisco
3 12 (11.01%) Google
4 9 (8.26%) SAP
5 7 (6.42%) Databricks
6 5 (4.59%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.75%) Perforce
8 2 (1.83%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.83%) Liquidlogic
8 2 (1.83%) Sparx
8 2 (1.83%) Splunk
8 2 (1.83%) xMatters
9 1 (0.92%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.92%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.92%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.92%) VMware