SQL Job Trends in South Yorkshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 15 8
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 +4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 86 56 109
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 4.93% 9.33% 11.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.63% 53.33% 43.25%
Number of salaries quoted 76 53 36
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £34,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% +3.45%
75th Percentile £71,235 £62,500 £62,966
90th Percentile £83,000 £74,750 £71,991
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £56,250 £45,936
% change year-on-year -11.11% +22.45% -8.13%

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 217 105 252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 12.43% 17.50% 25.85%
Number of salaries quoted 194 97 103
10th Percentile £35,150 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £49,274
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -6.64% +3.73%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £61,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,850 £71,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +12.15% -2.73%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

SQL job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

SQL
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 October 2026.

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 8 October 2026. 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 0 75 £45,000 +5.88% 39
Barnsley -10 5 £44,721 -18.69% 2
Doncaster -28 4 £79,000 +74.59% 8
SQL
Yorkshire

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 24 (27.91%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.65%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.33%) Confluence
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 14 (16.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (2.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 41 (47.67%) Power Platform
2 31 (36.05%) Azure
3 24 (27.91%) Dynamics 365
3 24 (27.91%) Power Automate
3 24 (27.91%) PowerApps
4 23 (26.74%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (23.26%) OneDrive
6 14 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (15.12%) Azure AI
8 8 (9.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (8.14%) AWS
9 7 (8.14%) dbt
9 7 (8.14%) Serverless
10 5 (5.81%) Azure Functions
10 5 (5.81%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (5.81%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (4.65%) Google Play
12 2 (2.33%) Amazon EMR
12 2 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.33%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (47.67%) Power BI
2 13 (15.12%) Semantic Layer
3 10 (11.63%) Tableau
4 8 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (9.30%) Spark SQL
5 7 (8.14%) Delta Lake
5 7 (8.14%) Metadata
5 7 (8.14%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.81%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (3.49%) MySQL
7 3 (3.49%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (2.33%) Power Query
8 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.33%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.16%) Big Data
9 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (4.65%) JIRA
2 3 (3.49%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.16%) Git
General
1 40 (46.51%) Social Skills
2 31 (36.05%) Finance
3 18 (20.93%) Manufacturing
4 12 (13.95%) Public Sector
5 9 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.81%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.65%) Law
8 2 (2.33%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.16%) Back Office
9 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.16%) Local Government
9 1 (1.16%) Marketing
9 1 (1.16%) Publishing
9 1 (1.16%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 29 (33.72%) Data Engineer
2 18 (20.93%) Analyst
3 17 (19.77%) Applications Support
4 13 (15.12%) Senior
5 12 (13.95%) Databricks Engineer
6 11 (12.79%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 11 (12.79%) Developer
7 10 (11.63%) Data Analyst
7 10 (11.63%) Lead
8 9 (10.47%) Junior
8 9 (10.47%) Junior Analyst
8 9 (10.47%) Junior Data Analyst
8 9 (10.47%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (8.14%) .NET Developer
9 7 (8.14%) Applications Support Analyst
9 7 (8.14%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
9 7 (8.14%) Support Analyst
10 6 (6.98%) Lead Data Engineer
10 6 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.98%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.60%) PySpark
2 12 (13.95%) .NET
3 7 (8.14%) RESTful
4 6 (6.98%) React
4 6 (6.98%) REST
5 5 (5.81%) .NET Core
5 5 (5.81%) ARM Templates
5 5 (5.81%) Node.js
5 5 (5.81%) Terraform
6 4 (4.65%) ASP.NET
6 4 (4.65%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (4.65%) Blazor
6 4 (4.65%) ML.NET
7 2 (2.33%) CSS
7 2 (2.33%) HTML
7 2 (2.33%) HTML5 Canvas
7 2 (2.33%) JSON
7 2 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (2.33%) Web Services
7 2 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.81%) Operational Technology
2 4 (4.65%) iPhone
2 4 (4.65%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.33%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.16%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.16%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.16%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.65%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (60.47%) Business Intelligence
2 34 (39.53%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (36.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (26.74%) Mentoring
4 23 (26.74%) Process Improvement
5 22 (25.58%) Analytics
5 22 (25.58%) ITIL
5 22 (25.58%) Service Management
6 21 (24.42%) Data Modelling
7 20 (23.26%) Business Continuity
8 19 (22.09%) CI/CD
8 19 (22.09%) Lakehouse
9 18 (20.93%) Data Engineering
10 17 (19.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (18.60%) DevOps
12 15 (17.44%) AI
12 15 (17.44%) Customer Service
12 15 (17.44%) ETL
13 14 (16.28%) Test Automation
14 13 (15.12%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.42%) Python
2 12 (13.95%) C#
2 12 (13.95%) JavaScript
3 6 (6.98%) Java
4 3 (3.49%) C++
5 2 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.33%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.33%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (10.47%) Azure Certification
2 6 (6.98%) Degree
3 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.49%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.60%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.81%) GDPR
3 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 47 (54.65%) Microsoft
2 15 (17.44%) Databricks
3 4 (4.65%) Google
3 4 (4.65%) Oracle
4 2 (2.33%) Cisco
5 1 (1.16%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.16%) Informatica
5 1 (1.16%) Meraki