SQL Job Trends in West Yorkshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 176 183 318
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 9.29% 12.66% 14.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.60% 43.16% 40.30%
Number of salaries quoted 123 108 250
10th Percentile £32,600 £25,294 £32,408
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,500 £93,778 £88,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £43,250 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.89% -10.00% -4.76%

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 456 424 789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 24.06% 29.32% 36.66%
Number of salaries quoted 333 261 641
10th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £52,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.21% -4.09% -4.35%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

SQL job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

SQL
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 January 2026.

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 19 January 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 -4 151 £57,500 +15.00% 58
Bradford -15 11 £61,250 +11.36% 18
Elland - 5 £42,000 -
Wakefield -9 3 £40,000 -5.88% 13
Huddersfield -8 2 £40,000 -11.97% 3
SQL
Yorkshire

SQL
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 19 (10.80%) Apache Spark
2 11 (6.25%) Apache
3 6 (3.41%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.14%) CMS
5 2 (1.14%) Confluence
5 2 (1.14%) HCL Notes
5 2 (1.14%) IIS
5 2 (1.14%) JBoss
5 2 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.14%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 40 (22.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Markit EDM
1 2 (1.14%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 72 (40.91%) Azure
2 70 (39.77%) AWS
3 43 (24.43%) Serverless
4 33 (18.75%) GitHub
5 29 (16.48%) Amazon S3
5 29 (16.48%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (16.48%) Power Platform
6 23 (13.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (11.93%) AWS Step Functions
8 19 (10.80%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (10.80%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (10.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (7.95%) Amazon EventBridge
12 12 (6.82%) Azure AI
13 11 (6.25%) GCP
14 9 (5.11%) Power Automate
14 9 (5.11%) SaaS
15 7 (3.98%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (3.98%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) AMQP
1 2 (1.14%) Intranet
2 1 (0.57%) Firewall
2 1 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (21.02%) Tableau
2 29 (16.48%) Power BI
3 24 (13.64%) NoSQL
3 24 (13.64%) SQL Server
4 20 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (10.80%) DynamoDB
6 14 (7.95%) Data Lake
6 14 (7.95%) Data Mining
6 14 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (4.55%) Metadata
8 8 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (3.41%) MySQL
10 5 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (2.84%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.27%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.27%) Data Vault
11 4 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (15.91%) Git
2 7 (3.98%) JIRA
3 3 (1.70%) Jenkins
General
1 72 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.05%) Finance
3 29 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.66%) Retail
5 13 (7.39%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.68%) Legal
6 10 (5.68%) Manufacturing
7 9 (5.11%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (3.41%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.14%) Back Office
9 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Law
10 1 (0.57%) Billing
10 1 (0.57%) Games
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (28.98%) Developer
2 36 (20.45%) Analyst
3 34 (19.32%) Senior
4 32 (18.18%) Data Analyst
4 32 (18.18%) Data Engineer
5 19 (10.80%) Software Engineer
6 16 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
7 14 (7.95%) Junior
7 14 (7.95%) Trainee
8 13 (7.39%) .NET Developer
9 12 (6.82%) Junior Analyst
9 12 (6.82%) Junior Data Analyst
9 12 (6.82%) Trainee Analyst
9 12 (6.82%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 11 (6.25%) Data Manager
10 11 (6.25%) Graduate
10 11 (6.25%) Python Developer
11 10 (5.68%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 10 (5.68%) Lead
11 10 (5.68%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (20.45%) .NET
2 31 (17.61%) React
3 21 (11.93%) ASP.NET
4 20 (11.36%) CSS
4 20 (11.36%) HTML
5 16 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
5 16 (9.09%) RESTful
6 14 (7.95%) Blazor
6 14 (7.95%) Vue
7 13 (7.39%) .NET Core
7 13 (7.39%) AWS CDK
7 13 (7.39%) Django
7 13 (7.39%) FastAPI
7 13 (7.39%) Flask
8 11 (6.25%) PySpark
9 10 (5.68%) AngularJS
10 8 (4.55%) Spring
11 6 (3.41%) Node.js
12 5 (2.84%) .NET Framework
12 5 (2.84%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.20%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.68%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.55%) Driving Licence
3 8 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.98%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.84%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.14%) DataPower
7 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.14%) IoT
7 2 (1.14%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.57%) NHS
8 1 (0.57%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.39%) Linux
2 5 (2.84%) Windows
3 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.57%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (38.07%) CI/CD
2 58 (32.95%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (30.68%) DevOps
4 51 (28.98%) Agile
5 44 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 43 (24.43%) Analytics
7 40 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
8 35 (19.89%) Data Engineering
9 33 (18.75%) AI
9 33 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
10 32 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (15.34%) Data Modelling
11 27 (15.34%) Software Engineering
12 25 (14.20%) Data Analysis
12 25 (14.20%) Data Governance
12 25 (14.20%) ETL
12 25 (14.20%) Migration
13 24 (13.64%) Containerisation
14 20 (11.36%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 103 (58.52%) Python
2 33 (18.75%) Java
3 30 (17.05%) JavaScript
4 24 (13.64%) C#
5 14 (7.95%) T-SQL
6 10 (5.68%) C++
6 10 (5.68%) PL/SQL
6 10 (5.68%) TypeScript
7 8 (4.55%) C
7 8 (4.55%) PHP
8 6 (3.41%) Scala
9 5 (2.84%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.14%) R
12 1 (0.57%) Delphi
12 1 (0.57%) Perl
12 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (10.23%) Degree
2 14 (7.95%) AWS Certification
3 13 (7.39%) Azure Certification
4 11 (6.25%) AWS Certified Developer
5 9 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.98%) Security Cleared
7 5 (2.84%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.70%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.14%) IIBA
10 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.52%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.41%) GDPR
4 3 (1.70%) QA
5 2 (1.14%) WCAG
6 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (26.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (17.05%) Terraform
2 12 (6.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.57%) Ansible
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 53 (30.11%) Microsoft
2 29 (16.48%) Databricks
3 9 (5.11%) Oracle
4 5 (2.84%) Palantir
5 3 (1.70%) Google
6 2 (1.14%) Lotus
7 1 (0.57%) Adobe
7 1 (0.57%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.57%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.57%) VMware