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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 60 35
Rank change year-on-year -26 -25 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 20 61 137
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.27% 3.04% 6.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.66% 28.37% 27.08%
Number of salaries quoted 18 47 119
10th Percentile £42,000 £31,400 £35,625
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,787 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,367 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £64,375 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £66,250 £69,750 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £44,500 £48,507 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.26% -7.61% -

All Database and 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 158 215 506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 10.06% 10.72% 22.47%
Number of salaries quoted 123 139 363
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £73,250 £68,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,700 £81,250 £84,056
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £49,384 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.44% -5.94% -4.55%

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 13 October 2025.

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 13 October 2025. 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 -9 12 £57,617 +15.23% 17
Bradford -4 6 £53,250 -
Wakefield -5 1 £40,000 -36.00% 1
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 3 (15.00%) IIS
2 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (10.00%) HCL Notes
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Markit EDM
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) SaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.00%) IaaS
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Legal
3 3 (15.00%) Financial Institution
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Back Office
4 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) SQL Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Business Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Database Developer
4 2 (10.00%) ETL Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Database Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) .NET
2 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (10.00%) WCF
3 2 (10.00%) XML
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (5.00%) CSS
4 1 (5.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) PySpark
4 1 (5.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) DevOps
1 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 5 (25.00%) ETL
2 5 (25.00%) SDLC
3 4 (20.00%) Visualisation
4 3 (15.00%) ArchiMate
4 3 (15.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (15.00%) Architecture Governance
4 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (15.00%) Data Architecture
4 3 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (15.00%) MVC
4 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (15.00%) UML
5 2 (10.00%) Batch Scheduling
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) SQL
2 8 (40.00%) C#
3 7 (35.00%) T-SQL
4 5 (25.00%) Python
5 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (10.00%) C++
6 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
7 1 (5.00%) Bash
7 1 (5.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) DBS Check
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) SCCM
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Lotus
4 1 (5.00%) VMware