SQL Jobs in South Yorkshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 54 160 322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 12.77% 10.95% 22.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.20% 35.71% 46.13%
Number of salaries quoted 48 135 74
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £27,600
25th Percentile £34,063 £35,312 £34,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,000 £48,272
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% -2.64% -5.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £73,500 £61,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £53,500 £46,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.44% -10.95% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
South 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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 125 448 698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 29.55% 30.66% 49.12%
Number of salaries quoted 101 378 216
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £27,600
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,232 £70,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in South Yorkshire

SQL
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in South Yorkshire.

Salary trend for SQL in South Yorkshire

SQL
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Salary histogram for SQL in South Yorkshire

SQL
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +4 44 £60,000 +32.60% 135
Doncaster +6 8 £60,000 +43.71% 119
Rotherham +3 1 £42,500 - 2
Barnsley -2 1 £55,000 +15.79% 11
SQL
Yorkshire

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 2 (3.70%) Confluence
1 2 (3.70%) Tomcat
1 2 (3.70%) WebSphere
1 2 (3.70%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (1.85%) IIS
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.85%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 40 (74.07%) Azure
2 16 (29.63%) AWS
3 11 (20.37%) SaaS
4 10 (18.52%) Power Platform
5 7 (12.96%) GCP
6 5 (9.26%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (9.26%) Entra ID
6 5 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (9.26%) Power Automate
7 4 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (7.41%) PowerApps
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (5.56%) GitHub
8 3 (5.56%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.70%) Azure WebJobs
9 2 (3.70%) dbt
9 2 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.81%) Multicast
2 7 (12.96%) SAN
3 4 (7.41%) Firewall
3 4 (7.41%) WAN
4 3 (5.56%) LAN
4 3 (5.56%) VPN
5 2 (3.70%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (3.70%) DNS
5 2 (3.70%) FCoE
5 2 (3.70%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (3.70%) iSCSI
5 2 (3.70%) NAS
6 1 (1.85%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.85%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 10 (18.52%) Power BI
3 6 (11.11%) DB2
4 5 (9.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (7.41%) NoSQL
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (5.56%) BigQuery
6 3 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.85%) MySQL
7 1 (1.85%) Power Query
7 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Git
1 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 3 (5.56%) JIRA
2 2 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.85%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.85%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.85%) Jasmine
3 1 (1.85%) JUnit
3 1 (1.85%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (1.85%) Mockito
3 1 (1.85%) Protractor
General
1 16 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.81%) Finance
3 4 (7.41%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Banking
4 2 (3.70%) Law
5 1 (1.85%) Cantonese Language
5 1 (1.85%) Publishing
5 1 (1.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 18 (33.33%) Developer
2 13 (24.07%) SQL Developer
3 9 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Database Developer
4 7 (12.96%) SQL Database Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) C# Software Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Data Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Lead
6 5 (9.26%) Lead Software Engineer
6 5 (9.26%) Senior
6 5 (9.26%) Software Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) Administrator
8 3 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Applications Support
8 3 (5.56%) Applications Support Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Architect
8 3 (5.56%) Data Administrator
8 3 (5.56%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) HTML
1 4 (7.41%) Kafka
2 3 (5.56%) .NET
2 3 (5.56%) .NET Core
2 3 (5.56%) JSON
3 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (3.70%) Blazor
3 2 (3.70%) LDAP
3 2 (3.70%) Middleware
3 2 (3.70%) React
3 2 (3.70%) SignalR
3 2 (3.70%) Skia Graphics Library
3 2 (3.70%) WPF
4 1 (1.85%) CSS3
4 1 (1.85%) HTML5
4 1 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Replication
2 5 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (9.26%) Enterprise Storage
2 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.56%) Pricing Data
4 2 (3.70%) Clustering
5 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.85%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.85%) NHS
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.67%) Windows
2 6 (11.11%) Windows 10
2 6 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
2 6 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
2 6 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (5.56%) Linux
4 2 (3.70%) Solaris
4 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.93%) Agile
1 14 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (22.22%) DevOps
3 11 (20.37%) CI/CD
4 10 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (18.52%) Software Engineering
5 9 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 7 (12.96%) ETL
7 6 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 6 (11.11%) Customer Service
7 6 (11.11%) ITIL
7 6 (11.11%) Product Management
8 5 (9.26%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (9.26%) Data Analysis
8 5 (9.26%) Decision-Making
8 5 (9.26%) Mentoring
8 5 (9.26%) OO
8 5 (9.26%) Technology Roadmap
8 5 (9.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.07%) T-SQL
2 8 (14.81%) C#
3 7 (12.96%) Python
4 6 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.26%) Java
6 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.85%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.85%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.85%) Bicep
8 1 (1.85%) R
8 1 (1.85%) Scala
8 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.85%) XPath
Qualifications
1 15 (27.78%) DBS Check
2 6 (11.11%) Degree
3 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.85%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.85%) GDPR
1 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.85%) NCSC
1 1 (1.85%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (14.81%) Hyper-V
2 6 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.70%) KVM
3 2 (3.70%) NFS
3 2 (3.70%) SRDF
3 2 (3.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.70%) Xen
4 1 (1.85%) Docker
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Ansible
2 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.70%) Puppet
3 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.81%) IBM
3 7 (12.96%) Cisco
4 6 (11.11%) Oracle
5 5 (9.26%) Databricks
6 3 (5.56%) Google
6 3 (5.56%) SAP
7 2 (3.70%) EMC
7 2 (3.70%) F5
7 2 (3.70%) NetApp
7 2 (3.70%) VMware
8 1 (1.85%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.85%) arcserve
8 1 (1.85%) Forcepoint
8 1 (1.85%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.85%) Meraki
8 1 (1.85%) Sophos
8 1 (1.85%) Splunk