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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 11 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 +5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 176 330 1,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 12.80% 10.70% 24.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.57% 38.11% 53.51%
Number of salaries quoted 145 281 443
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,579 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,890 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,228 £47,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.16% -7.77% +6.19%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £67,070
90th Percentile £82,751 £87,500 £77,715
Yorkshire median annual salary £53,500 £46,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.44% -10.95% +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 370 866 2,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 26.91% 28.07% 44.88%
Number of salaries quoted 304 699 1,061
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,500 £55,043
Median % change year-on-year +16.50% -6.44% +4.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £69,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £94,633 £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 30 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 30 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 +3 131 £57,500 +21.05% 199
Bradford +7 14 £60,000 +45.45% 162
Halifax -12 7 £25,625 -63.69% 2
Wakefield +6 2 £41,500 -36.15% 122
Brighouse - 2 - -
Mirfield - 2 £45,000 -
Castleford -5 1 - - 3
Batley -7 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - -
Cleckheaton - 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 (7.39%) Confluence
2 12 (6.82%) SharePoint
3 11 (6.25%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.98%) Apache
5 6 (3.41%) SAS
6 2 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.14%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (5.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.27%) 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 (39.77%) Azure
2 33 (18.75%) AWS
2 33 (18.75%) GCP
3 31 (17.61%) Power Platform
4 15 (8.52%) Serverless
5 11 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (5.68%) Entra ID
6 10 (5.68%) Power Automate
7 9 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (4.55%) Amazon S3
8 8 (4.55%) GitHub
8 8 (4.55%) SaaS
9 7 (3.98%) Snowflake
10 6 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 6 (3.41%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.84%) dbt
12 4 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.27%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.82%) Wireless
2 10 (5.68%) Cisco IOS
2 10 (5.68%) Firewall
3 6 (3.41%) LAN
4 5 (2.84%) DNS
5 4 (2.27%) 5G
5 4 (2.27%) Broadband
5 4 (2.27%) 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 43 (24.43%) SQL Server
2 28 (15.91%) Power BI
3 27 (15.34%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (10.80%) NoSQL
5 14 (7.95%) Big Data
5 14 (7.95%) MySQL
6 13 (7.39%) MongoDB
6 13 (7.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (6.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (2.84%) Tableau
10 4 (2.27%) Biml
10 4 (2.27%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 4 (2.27%) Power Query
10 4 (2.27%) Redis
10 4 (2.27%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 23 (13.07%) JIRA
2 15 (8.52%) Git
3 6 (3.41%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (2.84%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.27%) GitLab
5 4 (2.27%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.27%) Selenium
6 3 (1.70%) Maven
7 2 (1.14%) JUnit
7 2 (1.14%) Mocha
7 2 (1.14%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.57%) Gradle
8 1 (0.57%) Postman
8 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
General
1 48 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 47 (26.70%) Finance
3 37 (21.02%) Banking
4 18 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.23%) Public Sector
5 17 (9.66%) Law
6 9 (5.11%) Marketing
7 7 (3.98%) Back Office
8 4 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.27%) Legal
9 3 (1.70%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.70%) Retail
10 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (23.30%) Analyst
2 37 (21.02%) Developer
3 31 (17.61%) Senior
4 26 (14.77%) Data Engineer
5 25 (14.20%) Lead
6 20 (11.36%) Data Analyst
7 18 (10.23%) Software Engineer
8 14 (7.95%) Support Analyst
9 13 (7.39%) SQL Developer
10 11 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
11 10 (5.68%) IT Support
12 8 (4.55%) Applications Support
12 8 (4.55%) IT Analyst
12 8 (4.55%) IT Support Analyst
13 7 (3.98%) .NET Software Engineer
13 7 (3.98%) 2nd Line Support
13 7 (3.98%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
13 7 (3.98%) Lead Software Engineer
13 7 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
14 6 (3.41%) SQL Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.52%) .NET
1 15 (8.52%) Node.js
2 14 (7.95%) HTML
2 14 (7.95%) React
3 8 (4.55%) AngularJS
3 8 (4.55%) Express.js
3 8 (4.55%) Kafka
4 7 (3.98%) Vue
5 6 (3.41%) REST
5 6 (3.41%) RESTful
6 4 (2.27%) .NET Framework
6 4 (2.27%) Spring Boot
7 3 (1.70%) CSS
7 3 (1.70%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.70%) HTML5
7 3 (1.70%) Plotly
7 3 (1.70%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.70%) Spring
7 3 (1.70%) TensorFlow
7 3 (1.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (6.82%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.98%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.98%) Credit Risk
4 5 (2.84%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.27%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.27%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.70%) Clustering
6 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.70%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.14%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.14%) HP Storage
8 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.57%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.57%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.57%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.93%) Windows
2 19 (10.80%) Windows Server
3 15 (8.52%) Linux
4 12 (6.82%) Windows 10
5 10 (5.68%) 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 41 (23.30%) Analytics
2 37 (21.02%) Agile
3 36 (20.45%) CI/CD
4 32 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 31 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (16.48%) Visualisation
7 28 (15.91%) Data Pipeline
8 25 (14.20%) Data Engineering
9 24 (13.64%) ETL
9 24 (13.64%) Mentoring
10 23 (13.07%) Software Engineering
11 22 (12.50%) DevOps
12 20 (11.36%) Machine Learning
13 19 (10.80%) Data Modelling
13 19 (10.80%) Data Science
13 19 (10.80%) Service Delivery
14 18 (10.23%) Computer Science
14 18 (10.23%) Data Analytics
15 17 (9.66%) Storytelling
16 16 (9.09%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 69 (39.20%) Python
2 28 (15.91%) JavaScript
3 27 (15.34%) C#
4 21 (11.93%) T-SQL
5 20 (11.36%) Java
5 20 (11.36%) TypeScript
6 13 (7.39%) PHP
6 13 (7.39%) R
7 8 (4.55%) C
7 8 (4.55%) C++
7 8 (4.55%) Dart
7 8 (4.55%) MATLAB
7 8 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.55%) Ruby
7 8 (4.55%) Rust
8 6 (3.41%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.84%) Bash
9 5 (2.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (2.27%) Scala
11 3 (1.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 47 (26.70%) Degree
2 14 (7.95%) SC Cleared
2 14 (7.95%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.39%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (6.82%) DBS Check
5 11 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.68%) CCNP
6 10 (5.68%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (5.68%) MCSA
7 7 (3.98%) Master's Degree
8 6 (3.41%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.14%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.14%) MCITP
9 2 (1.14%) MCSE
10 1 (0.57%) PhD
10 1 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.55%) QA
3 5 (2.84%) GDPR
3 5 (2.84%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.84%) SLA
4 4 (2.27%) Basel II
4 4 (2.27%) Basel III
4 4 (2.27%) Dodd-Frank
4 4 (2.27%) IFRS
4 4 (2.27%) IFRS 9
5 3 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.70%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 21 (11.93%) Docker
3 4 (2.27%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.70%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (9.66%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.68%) Terraform
3 3 (1.70%) Ansible
3 3 (1.70%) 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 (23.30%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.09%) Databricks
3 13 (7.39%) Cisco
4 12 (6.82%) Oracle
5 6 (3.41%) Google
6 4 (2.27%) Palantir
7 3 (1.70%) Meraki
7 3 (1.70%) 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