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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 57 38
Rank change year-on-year -31 -19 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 24 60 136
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.40% 3.19% 6.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.44% 28.44% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 18 48 118
10th Percentile £39,250 £31,425 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,125 £45,114 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,117 £50,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.23% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,125 £69,500 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £48,507 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.54% -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 193 211 513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.24% 11.22% 24.23%
Number of salaries quoted 143 138 361
10th Percentile £35,500 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £73,250
90th Percentile £83,500 £78,250 £84,056
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,250 £49,274 £52,000
% change year-on-year +16.19% -5.24% -5.45%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 -13 18 £57,617 +15.23% 23
Bradford - 5 £49,000 - 9
Wakefield -7 1 £40,000 -40.74%
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 2 (8.33%) Confluence
1 2 (8.33%) HCL Notes
1 2 (8.33%) IIS
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Markit EDM
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) AWS
3 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (20.83%) GitHub
3 5 (20.83%) Serverless
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (12.50%) DynamoDB
5 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (8.33%) Power BI
6 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
6 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 5 (20.83%) Legal
3 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
4 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 2 (8.33%) Back Office
6 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (4.17%) Billing
7 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) .NET Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Architect
2 3 (12.50%) Lead
2 3 (12.50%) Senior
2 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.33%) .NET Software Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Business Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) ETL Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Lead Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Lead Python Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Python Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Software Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) .NET
2 6 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 6 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 6 (25.00%) React
3 5 (20.83%) Blazor
4 4 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (12.50%) AWS CDK
5 3 (12.50%) CSS
5 3 (12.50%) HTML
5 3 (12.50%) RESTful
5 3 (12.50%) Vue
6 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (8.33%) Django
6 2 (8.33%) FastAPI
6 2 (8.33%) Flask
6 2 (8.33%) WCF
6 2 (8.33%) XML
7 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (4.17%) Entity Framework
7 1 (4.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (37.50%) DevOps
3 8 (33.33%) Agile
3 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (29.17%) Decision-Making
5 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
5 5 (20.83%) ETL
5 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
5 5 (20.83%) SDLC
5 5 (20.83%) Visualisation
6 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (16.67%) Data Analysis
7 3 (12.50%) Analytics
7 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 3 (12.50%) MVC
7 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
7 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) UML
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) SQL
2 10 (41.67%) C#
3 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (25.00%) Python
4 3 (12.50%) T-SQL
5 2 (8.33%) C++
5 2 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (8.33%) PL/SQL
5 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 3 (12.50%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (8.33%) Lotus