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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 20 3
Rank change year-on-year -11 -17 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 31 30 105
As % of all permanent jobs in North Yorkshire 3.92% 3.35% 23.44%
As % of the Programming Languages category 57.41% 40.54% 57.69%
Number of salaries quoted 20 12 59
10th Percentile £30,000 - £33,750
25th Percentile £35,625 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% -21.74%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,313 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £84,750 £70,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £49,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -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 54 74 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 6.84% 8.27% 40.63%
Number of salaries quoted 39 45 119
10th Percentile £30,000 £38,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £61,575 £65,000 £60,625
90th Percentile £71,250 £66,200 £67,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 +11 11 £30,000 -63.64% 3
York -12 9 £62,500 +3.73% 9
Middlesbrough -1 7 £60,000 -11.11% 4
Selby - 3 - -
Ripon - 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 (22.58%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (22.58%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) Power Platform
3 7 (22.58%) Entra ID
3 7 (22.58%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.90%) PowerApps
4 4 (12.90%) SaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.23%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (22.58%) DHCP
1 7 (22.58%) DNS
1 7 (22.58%) VoIP
1 7 (22.58%) VPN
2 1 (3.23%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) Power BI
2 5 (16.13%) RDBMS
2 5 (16.13%) Relational Database
3 4 (12.90%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (3.23%) Data Mining
4 1 (3.23%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.23%) Metadata
4 1 (3.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) MLflow
General
1 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Marketing
3 3 (9.68%) Retail
4 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Developer
2 7 (22.58%) 1st Line Support
2 7 (22.58%) Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) .NET Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Power BI Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Data Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Senior
5 3 (9.68%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) 2nd Line Support
7 1 (3.23%) Applications Support
7 1 (3.23%) Applications Support Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) IT Support Technician
7 1 (3.23%) Risk Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Support Technician
7 1 (3.23%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (54.84%) .NET
2 7 (22.58%) ASP.NET
3 5 (16.13%) Pandas
4 4 (12.90%) ASP.NET Core
4 4 (12.90%) REST
4 4 (12.90%) WinForms
5 3 (9.68%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 2 (6.45%) scikit-learn
6 2 (6.45%) TensorFlow
6 2 (6.45%) XML
7 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
7 1 (3.23%) ADO
7 1 (3.23%) HTML
7 1 (3.23%) Keras
7 1 (3.23%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (3.23%) NumPy
7 1 (3.23%) PySpark
7 1 (3.23%) pytest
7 1 (3.23%) XGBoost
7 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Driving Licence
1 7 (22.58%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (22.58%) iPad
2 5 (16.13%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.45%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (38.71%) Windows
2 7 (22.58%) Mac OS
2 7 (22.58%) Windows 10
2 7 (22.58%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Migration
2 9 (29.03%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (22.58%) CRM
3 7 (22.58%) DevOps
3 7 (22.58%) ITSM
3 7 (22.58%) Patch Management
3 7 (22.58%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 7 (22.58%) Service Management
4 6 (19.35%) Agile
4 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
5 5 (16.13%) API Development
5 5 (16.13%) CI/CD
5 5 (16.13%) OO
5 5 (16.13%) OOP
5 5 (16.13%) Scrum
5 5 (16.13%) TDD
6 4 (12.90%) Customer Service
6 4 (12.90%) Dashboard Development
6 4 (12.90%) Design Patterns
6 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) Python
2 6 (19.35%) C#
3 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) Degree
1 1 (3.23%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 7 (22.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.23%) Kubeflow
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) Apple
2 7 (22.58%) Datto
2 7 (22.58%) Freshdesk
3 1 (3.23%) Databricks
3 1 (3.23%) Sage
3 1 (3.23%) Salesforce