SQL Server Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 48 36
Rank change year-on-year -27 -12 +12
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 46 64 120
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.54% 4.37% 6.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.76% 31.84% 26.26%
Number of salaries quoted 30 54 104
10th Percentile £42,000 £31,250 £35,375
25th Percentile £55,058 £42,125 £44,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £51,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +51.22% -10.87% +15.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £60,938 £72,433
90th Percentile - £70,500 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
West Yorkshire

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 259 201 457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.29% 13.71% 23.14%
Number of salaries quoted 164 148 326
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,938 £42,500 £43,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £69,063 £72,433
90th Percentile £92,500 £83,250 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -13.04%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in West Yorkshire

SQL Server
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 Server within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 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 -12 43 £80,000 +76.04% 17
Bradford -15 3 £57,500 +64.29% 8
SQL Server
Yorkshire

SQL Server
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.70%) IIS
1 4 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.35%) Confluence
2 2 (4.35%) HCL Notes
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Markit EDM
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 31 (67.39%) AWS
2 18 (39.13%) Azure
3 17 (36.96%) SaaS
4 15 (32.61%) GitHub
4 15 (32.61%) Serverless
5 14 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (23.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (23.91%) Amazon EventBridge
6 11 (23.91%) Amazon S3
6 11 (23.91%) Amazon SQS
6 11 (23.91%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (23.91%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (23.91%) AWS Step Functions
6 11 (23.91%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
8 3 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (4.35%) Power Automate
9 2 (4.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (23.91%) DynamoDB
2 11 (23.91%) NoSQL
3 8 (17.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (10.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (8.70%) Power BI
5 4 (8.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (4.35%) Power Query
7 2 (4.35%) RDBMS
7 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (30.43%) Git
2 2 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 18 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Finance
3 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Back Office
5 2 (4.35%) Legal
5 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.17%) Billing
6 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (43.48%) Developer
2 14 (30.43%) Development Manager
2 14 (30.43%) Software Development Manager
2 14 (30.43%) Software Manager
3 13 (28.26%) .NET Development Manager
4 10 (21.74%) .NET Developer
5 5 (10.87%) AWS Developer
6 4 (8.70%) Lead
6 4 (8.70%) Python Developer
6 4 (8.70%) Senior
7 3 (6.52%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.52%) DevOps Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Insight Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Serverless Developer
8 2 (4.35%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Lead Python Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (65.22%) .NET
2 16 (34.78%) React
3 14 (30.43%) ASP.NET
4 13 (28.26%) .NET Core
4 13 (28.26%) Blazor
5 12 (26.09%) ASP.NET Core
6 11 (23.91%) AWS CDK
6 11 (23.91%) RESTful
7 5 (10.87%) CSS
7 5 (10.87%) HTML
7 5 (10.87%) Vue
8 4 (8.70%) Django
8 4 (8.70%) FastAPI
8 4 (8.70%) Flask
9 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (4.35%) WCF
10 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
10 1 (2.17%) Entity Framework
10 1 (2.17%) REST
10 1 (2.17%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (23.91%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.70%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.35%) Low-Code
4 2 (4.35%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Windows
1 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (67.39%) Agile
2 19 (41.30%) Continuous Improvement
2 19 (41.30%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (39.13%) SDLC
4 17 (36.96%) Software Engineering
5 16 (34.78%) CI/CD
5 16 (34.78%) DevOps
6 15 (32.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (28.26%) Product Vision
7 13 (28.26%) Resource Allocation
8 12 (26.09%) Root Cause Analysis
9 11 (23.91%) Application Security
9 11 (23.91%) Containerisation
9 11 (23.91%) Deployment Automation
9 11 (23.91%) Microservices
10 7 (15.22%) Mentoring
10 7 (15.22%) Visualisation
11 6 (13.04%) Data Analysis
12 5 (10.87%) Data Modelling
12 5 (10.87%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 24 (52.17%) SQL
2 19 (41.30%) C#
3 8 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 6 (13.04%) Python
4 6 (13.04%) T-SQL
5 4 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (4.35%) C++
6 2 (4.35%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.17%) Delphi
7 1 (2.17%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) AWS Certification
1 11 (23.91%) AWS Certified Developer
2 4 (8.70%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.17%) MCITP
3 1 (2.17%) MCSE
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.52%) QA
3 1 (2.17%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 16 (34.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (32.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.70%) Oracle
3 2 (4.35%) Lotus
4 1 (2.17%) Duck Creek
4 1 (2.17%) F5
4 1 (2.17%) VMware