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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 9 11
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 105 68 111
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 6.43% 11.06% 9.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.50% 50.75% 37.50%
Number of salaries quoted 74 66 60
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,500 £31,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £52,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% +22.35% -5.56%
75th Percentile £74,047 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £78,246
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,161 £57,500 £45,221
% change year-on-year -12.76% +27.15% -9.56%

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 253 134 296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 15.50% 21.79% 26.43%
Number of salaries quoted 200 126 190
10th Percentile £34,875 £28,375 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £81,875 £72,042
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,000 £57,500 £53,750
% change year-on-year -0.87% +6.98% -2.27%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -4 81 £45,000 -10.00% 19
Barnsley -8 12 £44,721 -18.69% 5
Doncaster -20 11 £79,000 +31.67% 3
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 (22.86%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.90%) Confluence
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.95%) CMS
3 1 (0.95%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 35 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 63 (60.00%) Power Platform
2 60 (57.14%) Azure
3 34 (32.38%) Azure AI
4 24 (22.86%) Dynamics 365
4 24 (22.86%) Power Automate
4 24 (22.86%) PowerApps
5 23 (21.90%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (19.05%) OneDrive
7 19 (18.10%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (9.52%) Serverless
10 9 (8.57%) Azure Functions
10 9 (8.57%) Azure Logic Apps
10 9 (8.57%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (6.67%) AWS
12 4 (3.81%) Google Play
13 3 (2.86%) Azure Databricks
14 2 (1.90%) dbt
14 2 (1.90%) Entra ID
14 2 (1.90%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (60.00%) Power BI
2 31 (29.52%) Tableau
3 14 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (12.38%) Spark SQL
5 8 (7.62%) Semantic Layer
6 7 (6.67%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.86%) Metadata
8 3 (2.86%) MySQL
8 3 (2.86%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.86%) Power Query
8 3 (2.86%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.86%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.90%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.90%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.95%) Big Data
10 1 (0.95%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.95%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.95%) Looker
Development Applications
1 5 (4.76%) JIRA
2 3 (2.86%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.95%) Git
General
1 58 (55.24%) Social Skills
2 30 (28.57%) Finance
3 17 (16.19%) Manufacturing
4 8 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.62%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.76%) Law
5 5 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.95%) Back Office
6 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.95%) Legal
6 1 (0.95%) Legal Technology
6 1 (0.95%) Local Government
6 1 (0.95%) Marketing
6 1 (0.95%) Publishing
6 1 (0.95%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 41 (39.05%) Analyst
2 32 (30.48%) Data Analyst
3 31 (29.52%) Junior
4 30 (28.57%) Junior Analyst
4 30 (28.57%) Junior Data Analyst
5 25 (23.81%) Data Engineer
6 17 (16.19%) Applications Support
7 15 (14.29%) Lead
8 12 (11.43%) Developer
8 12 (11.43%) Lead Data Engineer
8 12 (11.43%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (10.48%) Databricks Engineer
10 10 (9.52%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 9 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (8.57%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 9 (8.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (6.67%) .NET Developer
12 7 (6.67%) Applications Support Analyst
12 7 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
12 7 (6.67%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.24%) PySpark
2 11 (10.48%) .NET
3 10 (9.52%) REST
4 9 (8.57%) ARM Templates
4 9 (8.57%) Terraform
5 7 (6.67%) React
5 7 (6.67%) RESTful
6 6 (5.71%) Node.js
7 5 (4.76%) .NET Core
8 4 (3.81%) ASP.NET
8 4 (3.81%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (3.81%) Blazor
8 4 (3.81%) ML.NET
9 3 (2.86%) CSS
10 2 (1.90%) HTML
10 2 (1.90%) HTML5 Canvas
10 2 (1.90%) JSON
11 1 (0.95%) .NET Framework
11 1 (0.95%) jQuery
11 1 (0.95%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.76%) Operational Technology
2 4 (3.81%) iPhone
2 4 (3.81%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.95%) AI Agents
4 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.95%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.95%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.81%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (62.86%) Business Intelligence
2 36 (34.29%) AI
3 31 (29.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 31 (29.52%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (21.90%) DevOps
5 22 (20.95%) Process Improvement
6 21 (20.00%) Data Engineering
6 21 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 21 (20.00%) ITIL
6 21 (20.00%) Service Management
7 20 (19.05%) Business Continuity
7 20 (19.05%) Lakehouse
8 18 (17.14%) CI/CD
9 16 (15.24%) ETL
9 16 (15.24%) Mentoring
9 16 (15.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 15 (14.29%) Analytics
10 15 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 14 (13.33%) Customer Service
12 13 (12.38%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 45 (42.86%) Python
2 13 (12.38%) C#
3 11 (10.48%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.71%) Java
5 3 (2.86%) C++
5 3 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.86%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.90%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.90%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.95%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 11 (10.48%) Degree
3 10 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.90%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.90%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.48%) Data Quality
2 10 (9.52%) GDPR
3 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.95%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 69 (65.71%) Microsoft
2 16 (15.24%) Databricks
3 5 (4.76%) Google
4 2 (1.90%) Cisco
5 1 (0.95%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.95%) Informatica
5 1 (0.95%) Meraki