SQL Server Jobs in Yorkshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 37 58
Rank change year-on-year -36 +21 -27
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 117 288 347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.12% 4.46% 5.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 34.41% 32.18% 25.29%
Number of salaries quoted 99 264 291
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,579 £36,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,938 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £71,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +3.64% -0.90% +0.91%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 340 895 1,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 9.08% 13.85% 20.53%
Number of salaries quoted 287 671 786
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -9.52% +1.94%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £69,725
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £79,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £58,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.84% -10.00% +8.33%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Yorkshire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Yorkshire

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Yorkshire

SQL Server
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
West Yorkshire -12 46 £60,000 +20.00% 34
South Yorkshire +7 41 £45,000 -5.26% 11
North Yorkshire -33 13 £60,000 +23.08% 3
East Yorkshire -10 2 £52,500 +23.53% 5
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (5.98%) Confluence
1 7 (5.98%) IIS
2 2 (1.71%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.71%) WebSphere
2 2 (1.71%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.71%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.85%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.85%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 76 (64.96%) Azure
2 30 (25.64%) AWS
3 22 (18.80%) SaaS
4 11 (9.40%) GitHub
5 10 (8.55%) Power Platform
6 7 (5.98%) GCP
7 5 (4.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 5 (4.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.42%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.42%) Azure Stack
8 4 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.42%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.56%) IaaS
9 3 (2.56%) PaaS
10 1 (0.85%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.85%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.85%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.84%) Multicast
2 7 (5.98%) SAN
3 3 (2.56%) Firewall
3 3 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.71%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.71%) DHCP
4 2 (1.71%) DNS
4 2 (1.71%) FCoE
4 2 (1.71%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (1.71%) iSCSI
4 2 (1.71%) LAN
4 2 (1.71%) NAS
4 2 (1.71%) VPN
4 2 (1.71%) WAN
5 1 (0.85%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.40%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (9.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 10 (8.55%) MySQL
2 10 (8.55%) Power BI
3 9 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (6.84%) NoSQL
4 8 (6.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 7 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.13%) DB2
7 5 (4.27%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.42%) Biml
8 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (1.71%) Endeca
9 2 (1.71%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.85%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.85%) MS Access
10 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (10.26%) JIRA
2 6 (5.13%) Git
2 6 (5.13%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.42%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.42%) Selenium
3 4 (3.42%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.71%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.71%) GitLab
4 2 (1.71%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.85%) Liquibase
General
1 48 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.80%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (15.38%) Finance
3 18 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (5.13%) Manufacturing
4 6 (5.13%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.13%) Retail
5 5 (4.27%) Legal
6 4 (3.42%) Banking
7 3 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.56%) Marketing
8 2 (1.71%) Law
9 1 (0.85%) Cantonese Language
9 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (46.15%) Developer
2 33 (28.21%) SQL Developer
3 25 (21.37%) Support Engineer
4 18 (15.38%) IT Engineer
4 18 (15.38%) IT Support
4 18 (15.38%) IT Support Engineer
5 16 (13.68%) Database Developer
5 16 (13.68%) Software Support Engineer
5 16 (13.68%) SQL Database Developer
6 13 (11.11%) Senior
7 9 (7.69%) Architect
7 9 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.98%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Applications Support
10 5 (4.27%) Graduate
10 5 (4.27%) Graduate Developer
10 5 (4.27%) IT Graduate
10 5 (4.27%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Software Developer
10 5 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (22.22%) .NET
2 15 (12.82%) CSS
3 11 (9.40%) ASP.NET
3 11 (9.40%) React
4 10 (8.55%) .NET Framework
4 10 (8.55%) HTML
5 7 (5.98%) .NET Core
5 7 (5.98%) AngularJS
5 7 (5.98%) jQuery
5 7 (5.98%) Node.js
6 6 (5.13%) Bootstrap
6 6 (5.13%) RESTful
7 5 (4.27%) CSS3
7 5 (4.27%) HTML5
7 5 (4.27%) Vue
8 4 (3.42%) LDAP
8 4 (3.42%) REST
8 4 (3.42%) SOAP
8 4 (3.42%) XML
9 3 (2.56%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.24%) Mobile App
1 19 (16.24%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (6.84%) Replication
3 5 (4.27%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.71%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.71%) Clustering
5 2 (1.71%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.71%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.85%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 32 (27.35%) Windows
2 18 (15.38%) Android
3 7 (5.98%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (5.13%) Linux
4 6 (5.13%) Windows 10
4 6 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (5.13%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (3.42%) Unix
6 3 (2.56%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.71%) Solaris
8 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (31.62%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (19.66%) CRM
3 22 (18.80%) Agile
3 22 (18.80%) Migration
4 21 (17.95%) Customer Service
5 20 (17.09%) Software Testing
6 18 (15.38%) Analytical Thinking
6 18 (15.38%) Data Privacy
6 18 (15.38%) DevOps
6 18 (15.38%) Exploratory Testing
6 18 (15.38%) Mathematics
7 17 (14.53%) CI/CD
8 14 (11.97%) Software Engineering
9 13 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (11.11%) Containerisation
10 11 (9.40%) MVC
11 10 (8.55%) ETL
12 9 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
13 8 (6.84%) Computer Science
13 8 (6.84%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (63.25%) SQL
2 41 (35.04%) T-SQL
3 26 (22.22%) C#
4 14 (11.97%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.55%) Java
6 7 (5.98%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.13%) Python
8 5 (4.27%) C++
8 5 (4.27%) PHP
8 5 (4.27%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (2.56%) Bash
10 3 (2.56%) Bicep
11 1 (0.85%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.85%) ActionScript 2.0
11 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.85%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.85%) XPath
Qualifications
1 28 (23.93%) DBS Check
2 17 (14.53%) Degree
3 7 (5.98%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.56%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.71%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.71%) MCITP
6 2 (1.71%) MCSE
7 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.85%) PMP
7 1 (0.85%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.27%) QA
2 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.85%) GDPR
3 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 8 (6.84%) Active Directory
3 5 (4.27%) Docker
3 5 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.71%) KVM
4 2 (1.71%) NFS
4 2 (1.71%) SRDF
4 2 (1.71%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.71%) vSphere
4 2 (1.71%) Xen
5 1 (0.85%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 7 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.13%) Ansible
2 6 (5.13%) Terraform
3 3 (2.56%) SCCM
4 2 (1.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.71%) Puppet
4 2 (1.71%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.85%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 77 (65.81%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.38%) Zoho
3 9 (7.69%) Cisco
4 8 (6.84%) VMware
5 7 (5.98%) IBM
5 7 (5.98%) Oracle
6 2 (1.71%) EMC
6 2 (1.71%) F5
6 2 (1.71%) Google
6 2 (1.71%) NetApp
6 2 (1.71%) SAP
7 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.85%) Commvault
7 1 (0.85%) CyberSource
7 1 (0.85%) Databricks
7 1 (0.85%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.85%) Sage
7 1 (0.85%) Splunk
7 1 (0.85%) Veeam