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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 55 44
Rank change year-on-year -24 -11 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 29 60 130
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.70% 3.19% 6.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.50% 28.30% 25.49%
Number of salaries quoted 22 48 112
10th Percentile £40,200 £30,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,725 £44,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £50,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £75,313 £62,500 £71,546
90th Percentile £98,000 £69,500 £84,625
Yorkshire median annual salary £41,750 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.11% -9.52% -

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 200 212 510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.72% 11.28% 24.29%
Number of salaries quoted 149 139 359
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £35,625
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £44,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,250 £84,056
Yorkshire median annual salary £56,242 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +12.48% -2.91% -6.36%

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 15 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 15 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 -15 23 £63,750 +27.50% 22
Bradford - 5 £49,000 - 1
Wakefield -7 1 £40,000 -33.61%
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 (6.90%) Confluence
1 2 (6.90%) HCL Notes
1 2 (6.90%) IIS
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Markit EDM
1 2 (6.90%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 13 (44.83%) Azure
2 12 (41.38%) AWS
3 7 (24.14%) GitHub
3 7 (24.14%) Serverless
4 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (17.24%) SaaS
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon EventBridge
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (13.79%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (10.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (20.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (13.79%) DynamoDB
4 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
4 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (13.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (6.90%) Power BI
5 2 (6.90%) RDBMS
5 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
4 5 (17.24%) Legal
5 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (10.34%) Financial Institution
7 2 (6.90%) Back Office
7 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
8 1 (3.45%) Billing
8 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Developer
2 4 (13.79%) .NET Developer
2 4 (13.79%) Development Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Software Development Manager
2 4 (13.79%) Software Manager
3 3 (10.34%) .NET Development Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Architect
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Lead
3 3 (10.34%) Python Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Senior
3 3 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.90%) .NET Software Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Business Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Lead Python Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (55.17%) .NET
2 8 (27.59%) React
3 7 (24.14%) .NET Core
3 7 (24.14%) ASP.NET
4 6 (20.69%) Blazor
5 5 (17.24%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (13.79%) AWS CDK
6 4 (13.79%) CSS
6 4 (13.79%) HTML
6 4 (13.79%) RESTful
6 4 (13.79%) Vue
7 3 (10.34%) Django
7 3 (10.34%) FastAPI
7 3 (10.34%) Flask
8 2 (6.90%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (6.90%) WCF
8 2 (6.90%) XML
9 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
9 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
9 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.90%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Agile
2 12 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (34.48%) DevOps
3 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (27.59%) SDLC
5 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
5 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (24.14%) Decision-Making
6 6 (20.69%) Mentoring
6 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
7 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (17.24%) Data Analysis
7 5 (17.24%) ETL
7 5 (17.24%) Visualisation
8 4 (13.79%) Application Security
8 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
8 4 (13.79%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (13.79%) Microservices
8 4 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (10.34%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) SQL
2 13 (44.83%) C#
3 7 (24.14%) JavaScript
3 7 (24.14%) Python
4 3 (10.34%) T-SQL
5 2 (6.90%) C++
5 2 (6.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
5 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) AWS Certification
1 4 (13.79%) AWS Certified Developer
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (10.34%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) Lotus