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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -8 -4 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 94 62 116
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 5.47% 10.23% 11.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.17% 54.87% 42.65%
Number of salaries quoted 78 59 43
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,625 £34,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% +27.06% -1.73%
75th Percentile £71,235 £62,500 £61,875
90th Percentile £83,750 £76,750 £72,398
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £45,936
% change year-on-year -16.67% +30.62% -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 234 113 272
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 13.62% 18.65% 26.80%
Number of salaries quoted 198 105 122
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £68,438 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,800 £78,900 £69,875
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -5 79 £47,500 -12.04% 39
Barnsley -10 7 £44,721 -18.69% 5
Doncaster -28 6 £79,000 +31.67% 7
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 (25.53%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.26%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.13%) Confluence
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.06%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 20 (21.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (2.13%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.13%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (2.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 48 (51.06%) Power Platform
2 39 (41.49%) Azure
3 24 (25.53%) Dynamics 365
3 24 (25.53%) Power Automate
3 24 (25.53%) PowerApps
4 23 (24.47%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (21.28%) OneDrive
6 19 (20.21%) Azure AI
7 16 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (11.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (9.57%) Serverless
10 7 (7.45%) Azure Functions
10 7 (7.45%) Azure Logic Apps
10 7 (7.45%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (6.38%) AWS
11 6 (6.38%) dbt
12 4 (4.26%) Google Play
13 2 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (2.13%) Azure Databricks
13 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (51.06%) Power BI
2 16 (17.02%) Tableau
3 12 (12.77%) Semantic Layer
4 11 (11.70%) Spark SQL
5 10 (10.64%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (6.38%) Delta Lake
6 6 (6.38%) Metadata
6 6 (6.38%) MongoDB
7 5 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.13%) MySQL
8 2 (2.13%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.13%) Power Query
8 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.13%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.06%) Big Data
9 1 (1.06%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 4 (4.26%) JIRA
2 3 (3.19%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.06%) Git
General
1 45 (47.87%) Social Skills
2 31 (32.98%) Finance
3 18 (19.15%) Manufacturing
4 12 (12.77%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.32%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.26%) Law
8 2 (2.13%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.06%) Back Office
9 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.06%) Local Government
9 1 (1.06%) Marketing
9 1 (1.06%) Publishing
9 1 (1.06%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 31 (32.98%) Data Engineer
2 25 (26.60%) Analyst
3 17 (18.09%) Applications Support
4 16 (17.02%) Data Analyst
5 15 (15.96%) Junior
5 15 (15.96%) Junior Analyst
5 15 (15.96%) Junior Data Analyst
6 13 (13.83%) Databricks Engineer
6 13 (13.83%) Lead
6 13 (13.83%) Senior
7 12 (12.77%) Databricks Data Engineer
8 11 (11.70%) Developer
9 9 (9.57%) Lead Data Engineer
9 9 (9.57%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (8.51%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (7.45%) Applications Support Analyst
11 7 (7.45%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (7.45%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 7 (7.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (7.45%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.15%) PySpark
2 12 (12.77%) .NET
3 8 (8.51%) REST
4 7 (7.45%) ARM Templates
4 7 (7.45%) Terraform
5 6 (6.38%) React
5 6 (6.38%) RESTful
6 5 (5.32%) .NET Core
6 5 (5.32%) Node.js
7 4 (4.26%) ASP.NET
7 4 (4.26%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (4.26%) Blazor
7 4 (4.26%) ML.NET
8 2 (2.13%) CSS
8 2 (2.13%) HTML
8 2 (2.13%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (2.13%) JSON
8 2 (2.13%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (2.13%) Web Services
8 2 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.32%) Operational Technology
2 4 (4.26%) iPhone
2 4 (4.26%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.06%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.06%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.06%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (61.70%) Business Intelligence
2 34 (36.17%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (32.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (24.47%) Process Improvement
5 22 (23.40%) Analytics
5 22 (23.40%) Data Modelling
5 22 (23.40%) ITIL
5 22 (23.40%) Mentoring
5 22 (23.40%) Service Management
6 21 (22.34%) AI
6 21 (22.34%) Data Engineering
6 21 (22.34%) Lakehouse
7 20 (21.28%) Business Continuity
7 20 (21.28%) CI/CD
8 19 (20.21%) DevOps
9 17 (18.09%) ETL
9 17 (18.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 15 (15.96%) Customer Service
10 15 (15.96%) Test Automation
11 14 (14.89%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 28 (29.79%) Python
2 12 (12.77%) C#
2 12 (12.77%) JavaScript
3 5 (5.32%) Java
4 3 (3.19%) C++
5 2 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.13%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.13%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (15.96%) Azure Certification
2 8 (8.51%) Degree
3 7 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.26%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.96%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 53 (56.38%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.09%) Databricks
3 5 (5.32%) Google
4 4 (4.26%) Oracle
5 2 (2.13%) Cisco
6 1 (1.06%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.06%) Informatica
6 1 (1.06%) Meraki