SQL Jobs in West Yorkshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 11 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 175 332 1,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 12.82% 10.85% 24.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.95% 38.07% 54.16%
Number of salaries quoted 144 283 443
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,579 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £39,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,228 £48,507 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.79% -5.81% +8.42%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £67,070
90th Percentile £82,751 £87,500 £77,715
Yorkshire median annual salary £53,000 £47,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.77% -10.48% +5.00%

All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 365 872 2,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 26.74% 28.49% 45.20%
Number of salaries quoted 299 702 1,062
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £37,025
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,063 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,528 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.44% -10.39% +9.52%
75th Percentile £78,125 £69,688 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,964 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in West Yorkshire

SQL
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in West Yorkshire.

Salary trend for SQL in West Yorkshire

SQL
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in West Yorkshire

SQL
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 within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 May 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 +3 130 £57,500 +20.91% 130
Bradford +9 13 £60,000 +41.18% 9
Halifax -10 8 £25,625 -63.69% 2
Wakefield +6 2 £41,500 -36.15% 6
Brighouse - 2 - -
Mirfield - 2 £45,000 -
Castleford -5 1 - - 3
Batley -7 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - -
Cleckheaton - 1 - - 1
Dewsbury - 1 - -
Elland - 1 - -
SQL
Yorkshire

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (7.43%) Confluence
2 12 (6.86%) SharePoint
3 11 (6.29%) Apache Spark
4 7 (4.00%) Apache
5 6 (3.43%) SAS
6 2 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.14%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 70 (40.00%) Azure
2 33 (18.86%) AWS
2 33 (18.86%) GCP
3 31 (17.71%) Power Platform
4 15 (8.57%) Serverless
5 11 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (6.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (5.71%) Entra ID
6 10 (5.71%) Power Automate
7 9 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (4.57%) Amazon S3
8 8 (4.57%) GitHub
8 8 (4.57%) SaaS
9 7 (4.00%) Snowflake
10 6 (3.43%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (3.43%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.86%) dbt
12 4 (2.29%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (2.29%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.86%) Wireless
2 10 (5.71%) Cisco IOS
2 10 (5.71%) Firewall
3 6 (3.43%) LAN
4 5 (2.86%) DNS
5 4 (2.29%) 5G
5 4 (2.29%) Broadband
5 4 (2.29%) VPN
6 2 (1.14%) DHCP
6 2 (1.14%) IP Telephony
6 2 (1.14%) SAN
6 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.57%) Network Security
7 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (24.00%) SQL Server
2 28 (16.00%) Power BI
3 26 (14.86%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (10.86%) NoSQL
5 14 (8.00%) Big Data
5 14 (8.00%) MySQL
6 13 (7.43%) MongoDB
6 13 (7.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 11 (6.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (4.57%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (4.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (2.86%) Tableau
10 4 (2.29%) Biml
10 4 (2.29%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 4 (2.29%) Power Query
10 4 (2.29%) Redis
10 4 (2.29%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.71%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (13.14%) JIRA
2 15 (8.57%) Git
3 6 (3.43%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (2.86%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.29%) GitLab
5 4 (2.29%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.29%) Selenium
6 3 (1.71%) Maven
7 2 (1.14%) JUnit
7 2 (1.14%) Mocha
7 2 (1.14%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.57%) Gradle
8 1 (0.57%) Postman
8 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 48 (27.43%) Finance
2 47 (26.86%) Social Skills
3 38 (21.71%) Banking
4 19 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (9.71%) Law
5 17 (9.71%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.14%) Marketing
7 7 (4.00%) Back Office
8 5 (2.86%) Legal
9 4 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.71%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.71%) Retail
11 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.14%) Tech for Good
11 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (23.43%) Analyst
2 35 (20.00%) Developer
3 31 (17.71%) Senior
4 26 (14.86%) Data Engineer
5 25 (14.29%) Lead
6 20 (11.43%) Data Analyst
7 18 (10.29%) Software Engineer
8 14 (8.00%) Support Analyst
9 13 (7.43%) SQL Developer
10 11 (6.29%) Senior Data Engineer
11 10 (5.71%) IT Support
12 8 (4.57%) Applications Support
12 8 (4.57%) IT Analyst
12 8 (4.57%) IT Support Analyst
13 7 (4.00%) .NET Software Engineer
13 7 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support
13 7 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
13 7 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
13 7 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
14 6 (3.43%) SQL Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.57%) .NET
1 15 (8.57%) Node.js
2 14 (8.00%) React
3 13 (7.43%) HTML
4 8 (4.57%) AngularJS
4 8 (4.57%) Express.js
4 8 (4.57%) Kafka
5 7 (4.00%) Vue
6 6 (3.43%) REST
6 6 (3.43%) RESTful
7 4 (2.29%) .NET Framework
7 4 (2.29%) Spring Boot
8 3 (1.71%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.71%) Plotly
8 3 (1.71%) PyTorch
8 3 (1.71%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.71%) Spring
8 3 (1.71%) TensorFlow
9 2 (1.14%) Flask
9 2 (1.14%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.43%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (6.86%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.57%) Credit Risk
4 7 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.86%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.86%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.29%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.71%) Clustering
7 3 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.71%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.14%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.14%) HP Storage
8 2 (1.14%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.57%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.00%) Windows
2 19 (10.86%) Windows Server
3 15 (8.57%) Linux
4 12 (6.86%) Windows 10
5 10 (5.71%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.14%) Unix
6 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (24.00%) Analytics
2 38 (21.71%) Agile
3 36 (20.57%) CI/CD
4 32 (18.29%) Business Intelligence
5 31 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (17.14%) Visualisation
7 29 (16.57%) Data Pipeline
8 26 (14.86%) Data Engineering
9 24 (13.71%) Mentoring
10 23 (13.14%) ETL
10 23 (13.14%) Software Engineering
11 22 (12.57%) DevOps
12 21 (12.00%) Machine Learning
13 20 (11.43%) Data Science
14 19 (10.86%) Data Analytics
14 19 (10.86%) Data Modelling
15 18 (10.29%) Computer Science
15 18 (10.29%) Service Delivery
16 17 (9.71%) Storytelling
17 16 (9.14%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 69 (39.43%) Python
2 28 (16.00%) JavaScript
3 26 (14.86%) C#
4 21 (12.00%) T-SQL
5 20 (11.43%) Java
5 20 (11.43%) TypeScript
6 13 (7.43%) R
7 12 (6.86%) PHP
8 8 (4.57%) C
8 8 (4.57%) C++
8 8 (4.57%) Dart
8 8 (4.57%) MATLAB
8 8 (4.57%) Ruby
8 8 (4.57%) Rust
9 7 (4.00%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.43%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.86%) Bash
11 5 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (2.29%) Scala
13 3 (1.71%) Go
Qualifications
1 48 (27.43%) Degree
2 14 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 14 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (6.86%) DBS Check
5 11 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.71%) CCNP
6 10 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (5.71%) MCSA
7 8 (4.57%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.43%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.14%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.14%) MCITP
9 2 (1.14%) MCSE
9 2 (1.14%) PhD
10 1 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.14%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.57%) QA
3 5 (2.86%) GDPR
3 5 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.86%) SLA
4 4 (2.29%) Basel II
4 4 (2.29%) Basel III
4 4 (2.29%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (2.29%) IFRS
4 4 (2.29%) IFRS 9
5 3 (1.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.71%) NIST
6 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 22 (12.57%) Active Directory
2 21 (12.00%) Docker
3 4 (2.29%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (9.71%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.71%) Terraform
3 3 (1.71%) Ansible
3 3 (1.71%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.14%) Grafana
4 2 (1.14%) Istio
4 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (23.43%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.14%) Databricks
3 13 (7.43%) Cisco
4 12 (6.86%) Oracle
5 6 (3.43%) Google
6 4 (2.29%) Palantir
7 3 (1.71%) Meraki
7 3 (1.71%) VMware
8 2 (1.14%) Avaya
8 2 (1.14%) Dell
8 2 (1.14%) HP
8 2 (1.14%) Intapp
8 2 (1.14%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.14%) Sage
8 2 (1.14%) SAP
8 2 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.14%) SonicWALL
8 2 (1.14%) Veeam
9 1 (0.57%) CyberSource
9 1 (0.57%) HubSpot