SQL Job Trends in North Yorkshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in North Yorkshire requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 24 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -19 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 28 22 74
As % of all permanent jobs in North Yorkshire 6.85% 3.05% 19.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.42% 43.14% 46.84%
Number of salaries quoted 12 12 49
10th Percentile - £36,625 £27,700
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £49,063 £63,688 £59,250
90th Percentile £63,500 £84,125 £65,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £44,750 £46,431 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.62% -7.14% -4.76%

All Programming Languages
North Yorkshire

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in North Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 66 51 158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 16.14% 7.07% 42.47%
Number of salaries quoted 41 30 130
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £32,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,063 £60,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £65,200 £67,625
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire.

SQL job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

SQL
Salary Trend in North Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in North Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in North Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in North Yorkshire

SQL
Job Locations in North Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the North Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Harrogate +12 9 £30,000 -25.00%
York +5 8 £65,000 +8.33% 76
Middlesbrough - 8 £47,500 - 5
Selby - 2 - -
Scarborough - 1 £50,000 - 1
SQL
Yorkshire

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North 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 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (78.57%) Azure
2 15 (53.57%) Power Platform
3 10 (35.71%) Azure AI
4 7 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 7 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) DHCP
1 7 (25.00%) DNS
1 7 (25.00%) VoIP
1 7 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (3.57%) DMZ
2 1 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (53.57%) Power BI
2 10 (35.71%) Tableau
3 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.57%) Metadata
4 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.14%) Marketing
3 2 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Analyst
2 12 (42.86%) Data Analyst
3 10 (35.71%) Junior
3 10 (35.71%) Junior Analyst
3 10 (35.71%) Junior Data Analyst
4 7 (25.00%) 1st Line Support
5 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 1 (3.57%) 1st/2nd Line Support Technician
6 1 (3.57%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (3.57%) 2nd Line Support Technician
6 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) IT Support
6 1 (3.57%) IT Support Technician
6 1 (3.57%) IT Technician
6 1 (3.57%) Lead
6 1 (3.57%) Risk Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Senior
6 1 (3.57%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) Pandas
3 1 (3.57%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Driving Licence
1 7 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (25.00%) iPad
2 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) Windows
2 8 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 7 (25.00%) Mac OS
3 7 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (35.71%) AI
3 8 (28.57%) Patch Management
4 7 (25.00%) CRM
4 7 (25.00%) ITSM
4 7 (25.00%) Migration
4 7 (25.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
4 7 (25.00%) Service Management
5 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.14%) Agile
7 2 (7.14%) Data Engineering
7 2 (7.14%) Data Modelling
7 2 (7.14%) ETL
7 2 (7.14%) Mentoring
7 2 (7.14%) Project Planning
7 2 (7.14%) Software Architecture
7 2 (7.14%) Software Engineering
7 2 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) C#
2 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.00%) Apple
2 7 (25.00%) Datto
2 7 (25.00%) Freshdesk
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco
3 1 (3.57%) Citrix
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce