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 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 42 43
Rank change year-on-year -72 +1 +10
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 35 65 126
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.04% 5.16% 4.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.39% 32.50% 29.37%
Number of salaries quoted 24 54 117
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,375 £31,831
25th Percentile £52,813 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £52,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +46.92% +0.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile - £66,250 £71,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £44,000 £52,500 £50,749
% change year-on-year -16.19% +3.45% +1.50%

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 337 200 429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 9.98% 15.87% 15.22%
Number of salaries quoted 189 175 342
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £45,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +14.29% -4.42%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,886 £66,550
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%

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 May 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 15 May 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 -60 32 £90,000 +71.43% 13
Wakefield -6 1 £45,000 -15.09% 1
Bradford -24 1 - - 2
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 (8.57%) IIS
2 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Magento
1 1 (2.86%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (62.86%) AWS
2 15 (42.86%) Azure
3 13 (37.14%) SaaS
4 10 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (28.57%) GitHub
5 9 (25.71%) Serverless
6 8 (22.86%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
7 7 (20.00%) Amazon S3
7 7 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
9 3 (8.57%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
10 2 (5.71%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) Firewall
2 2 (5.71%) DHCP
2 2 (5.71%) DNS
2 2 (5.71%) LAN
2 2 (5.71%) VLAN
2 2 (5.71%) VPN
2 2 (5.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 7 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (11.43%) Power BI
4 2 (5.71%) Power Query
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Finance
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Developer
2 11 (31.43%) .NET Development Manager
2 11 (31.43%) Development Manager
2 11 (31.43%) Software Development Manager
2 11 (31.43%) Software Manager
3 7 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 4 (11.43%) C# Developer
4 4 (11.43%) SQL Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Applications Support
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Developer
5 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (5.71%) Data Manager
5 2 (5.71%) DevOps Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Insight Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Python Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior
5 2 (5.71%) Serverless Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (68.57%) .NET
2 9 (25.71%) React
3 8 (22.86%) .NET Core
3 8 (22.86%) ASP.NET
3 8 (22.86%) RESTful
4 7 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 7 (20.00%) AWS CDK
4 7 (20.00%) Blazor
5 4 (11.43%) REST
6 3 (8.57%) CSS
6 3 (8.57%) HTML
7 2 (5.71%) Django
7 2 (5.71%) Flask
7 2 (5.71%) SOAP
7 2 (5.71%) Vue
8 1 (2.86%) .NET Framework
8 1 (2.86%) FastAPI
8 1 (2.86%) FHIR
8 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.86%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.71%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.86%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Windows
1 4 (11.43%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.86%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Agile
2 13 (37.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (34.29%) CI/CD
3 12 (34.29%) DevOps
3 12 (34.29%) Resource Allocation
3 12 (34.29%) SDLC
3 12 (34.29%) Software Engineering
4 11 (31.43%) Product Vision
4 11 (31.43%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (20.00%) Application Security
6 7 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 7 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (20.00%) Microservices
7 5 (14.29%) ETL
8 4 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (11.43%) Data Modelling
8 4 (11.43%) E-Commerce
9 3 (8.57%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) C#
2 16 (45.71%) SQL
3 6 (17.14%) T-SQL
4 3 (8.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.71%) Python
6 1 (2.86%) Delphi
6 1 (2.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 7 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.86%) MCITP
2 1 (2.86%) MCSE
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (5.71%) GDPR
2 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) HL7
3 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Terraform
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Duck Creek
2 1 (2.86%) F5
2 1 (2.86%) OutSystems
2 1 (2.86%) VMware
2 1 (2.86%) WooCommerce