SQL Optimisation Job Trends in West Yorkshire

SQL Optimisation
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring SQL Optimisation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 97 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Permanent jobs citing SQL Optimisation 8 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.44% 0.069% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.079% -
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £66,250 - -
25th Percentile £67,188 £67,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - -
75th Percentile £78,125 £72,500 -
90th Percentile £80,000 - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

SQL Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,458 1,268 1,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 80.37% 88.12% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 850 629 1,434
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,200 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,500 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%

SQL Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

SQL Optimisation job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

SQL Optimisation
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SQL Optimisation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SQL Optimisation

SQL Optimisation
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Optimisation in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Optimisation in West Yorkshire

SQL Optimisation
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Optimisation within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Leeds -10 8 £72,500 +3.57% 1
SQL Optimisation
Yorkshire

SQL Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub
2 4 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Engineering Manager
1 4 (50.00%) Python Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) CSS
1 4 (50.00%) Django
1 4 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 4 (50.00%) Flask
1 4 (50.00%) HTML
1 4 (50.00%) React
1 4 (50.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) API Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Coaching
2 4 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) OO
2 4 (50.00%) OOP
2 4 (50.00%) People Management
2 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Databricks