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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 56 43
Rank change year-on-year -54 -13 +6
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 30 56 123
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.84% 4.03% 4.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.26% 29.63% 28.47%
Number of salaries quoted 22 47 112
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,950 £31,579
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £66,250 £71,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -

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 324 189 432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 9.04% 13.62% 14.56%
Number of salaries quoted 188 162 336
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £46,438 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +15.38% -0.95%
75th Percentile £79,159 £73,886 £65,765
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,650 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £56,500 £57,500 £48,507
% change year-on-year -1.74% +18.54% -7.61%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -64 26 £60,500 +12.56% 16
Bradford -20 2 £45,000 -12.20% 1
Wakefield - 1 £45,000 -
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 (6.67%) IIS
1 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Shopify
2 1 (3.33%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) Azure
2 11 (36.67%) AWS
3 7 (23.33%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (23.33%) GitHub
3 7 (23.33%) SaaS
4 6 (20.00%) Serverless
5 5 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (16.67%) Power Platform
6 4 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (13.33%) Amazon EventBridge
6 4 (13.33%) Amazon S3
6 4 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (6.67%) Power Automate
8 2 (6.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (6.67%) DHCP
2 2 (6.67%) DNS
2 2 (6.67%) LAN
2 2 (6.67%) VLAN
2 2 (6.67%) VPN
2 2 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Power BI
2 4 (13.33%) DynamoDB
2 4 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.67%) Power Query
5 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.33%) Metadata
5 1 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) SQL Developer
3 4 (13.33%) .NET Developer
3 4 (13.33%) .NET Development Manager
3 4 (13.33%) C# Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Development Manager
3 4 (13.33%) Software Development Manager
3 4 (13.33%) Software Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Data Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Insight Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Python Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Architect
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (60.00%) .NET
2 8 (26.67%) React
3 7 (23.33%) .NET Core
4 6 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
5 5 (16.67%) Blazor
5 5 (16.67%) RESTful
6 4 (13.33%) AWS CDK
6 4 (13.33%) CSS
6 4 (13.33%) HTML
7 3 (10.00%) REST
8 2 (6.67%) Django
8 2 (6.67%) Flask
8 2 (6.67%) SOAP
8 2 (6.67%) Vue
9 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
9 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
9 1 (3.33%) FastAPI
9 1 (3.33%) FHIR
9 1 (3.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.67%) Learning Management System
3 2 (6.67%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.33%) Educational Technology
4 1 (3.33%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
1 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Agile
2 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 9 (30.00%) DevOps
4 8 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (23.33%) ETL
5 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (16.67%) E-Commerce
7 5 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
7 5 (16.67%) SDLC
8 4 (13.33%) Application Security
8 4 (13.33%) Containerisation
8 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
8 4 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (13.33%) Product Vision
8 4 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) SQL
2 14 (46.67%) C#
3 8 (26.67%) T-SQL
4 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (10.00%) Python
6 1 (3.33%) Bicep
6 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) AWS Certification
1 4 (13.33%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (6.67%) GDPR
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.33%) HL7
3 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Terraform
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Duck Creek
2 1 (3.33%) F5
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle
2 1 (3.33%) OutSystems
2 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (3.33%) Teradata
2 1 (3.33%) VMware
2 1 (3.33%) WooCommerce