SQL Server Job Trends in Yorkshire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 38 32
Rank change year-on-year -82 -6 +29
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 73 143 301
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.18% 5.77% 5.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.55% 38.54% 34.64%
Number of salaries quoted 59 120 283
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,125 £35,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £51,498
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +1.95% +3.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £65,125 £71,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%

All Database & 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 632 371 869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.22% 14.97% 15.41%
Number of salaries quoted 314 317 719
10th Percentile £31,755 £26,250 £31,916
25th Percentile £39,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £77,424 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £89,444 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

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 12 May 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
West Yorkshire -61 38 £100,000 +89.57% 17
East Yorkshire -12 15 £27,500 -31.25% 1
South Yorkshire -66 6 £42,000 -30.00% 5
North Yorkshire -20 2 £40,000 -27.27%
SQL Server
England

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 17 (23.29%) SharePoint
2 11 (15.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.11%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.37%) Magento
2 1 (1.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 32 (43.84%) AWS
2 23 (31.51%) Azure
3 20 (27.40%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (26.03%) SaaS
5 14 (19.18%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (17.81%) Power Platform
7 12 (16.44%) GitHub
8 10 (13.70%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (13.70%) Serverless
9 8 (10.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (10.96%) Amazon EventBridge
9 8 (10.96%) Amazon S3
9 8 (10.96%) Amazon SQS
9 8 (10.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (10.96%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (10.96%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (5.48%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (5.48%) Power Automate
10 4 (5.48%) PowerApps
11 3 (4.11%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 15 (20.55%) DNS
2 14 (19.18%) DHCP
3 9 (12.33%) Firewall
4 5 (6.85%) VLAN
4 5 (6.85%) VPN
5 3 (4.11%) LAN
5 3 (4.11%) Network Security
5 3 (4.11%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.11%) WAN
5 3 (4.11%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.74%) DMZ
7 1 (1.37%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (27.40%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (17.81%) Power BI
3 8 (10.96%) DynamoDB
3 8 (10.96%) MySQL
3 8 (10.96%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.48%) Power Query
5 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (12.33%) Git
2 2 (2.74%) JIRA
2 2 (2.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (31.51%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.44%) Organisational Skills
3 11 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.96%) Advertising
5 5 (6.85%) Finance
5 5 (6.85%) Law
5 5 (6.85%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.11%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.11%) Retail
7 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.37%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 21 (28.77%) Developer
2 15 (20.55%) IT Support
3 14 (19.18%) .NET Development Manager
3 14 (19.18%) Development Manager
3 14 (19.18%) Software Development Manager
3 14 (19.18%) Software Manager
4 11 (15.07%) IT Support Technician
4 11 (15.07%) IT Technician
4 11 (15.07%) Support Technician
5 9 (12.33%) .NET Developer
6 8 (10.96%) Applications Support
7 7 (9.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (9.59%) Support Engineer
8 6 (8.22%) 1st Line Support
8 6 (8.22%) SQL Developer
9 5 (6.85%) Administrator
9 5 (6.85%) C# Developer
9 5 (6.85%) DBA
9 5 (6.85%) Senior
9 5 (6.85%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (42.47%) .NET
2 11 (15.07%) React
3 9 (12.33%) .NET Core
3 9 (12.33%) ASP.NET
3 9 (12.33%) RESTful
4 8 (10.96%) ASP.NET Core
4 8 (10.96%) AWS CDK
4 8 (10.96%) Blazor
5 6 (8.22%) CSS
6 5 (6.85%) HTML
7 4 (5.48%) REST
8 2 (2.74%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.74%) Django
8 2 (2.74%) Flask
8 2 (2.74%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (2.74%) JSON
8 2 (2.74%) SOAP
8 2 (2.74%) Vue
9 1 (1.37%) FastAPI
9 1 (1.37%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.59%) Driving Licence
3 5 (6.85%) Replication
4 4 (5.48%) Mobile App
5 3 (4.11%) CMDB
5 3 (4.11%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.74%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.74%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.74%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (24.66%) Windows
2 12 (16.44%) Windows Server
3 9 (12.33%) Linux
4 4 (5.48%) Android
5 1 (1.37%) VMS
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (45.21%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (38.36%) Agile
3 27 (36.99%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (26.03%) DevOps
5 15 (20.55%) Patch Management
5 15 (20.55%) Resource Allocation
5 15 (20.55%) SDLC
5 15 (20.55%) Software Engineering
6 14 (19.18%) CI/CD
6 14 (19.18%) Product Vision
7 13 (17.81%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (16.44%) E-Commerce
8 12 (16.44%) Root Cause Analysis
9 11 (15.07%) Analytics
10 10 (13.70%) Deployment Automation
10 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (12.33%) ERP
12 8 (10.96%) Data Analytics
12 8 (10.96%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 37 (50.68%) SQL
2 24 (32.88%) C#
3 14 (19.18%) T-SQL
4 10 (13.70%) PowerShell
5 5 (6.85%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.85%) Shell Script
6 4 (5.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (4.11%) Python
8 2 (2.74%) PHP
8 2 (2.74%) VBA
9 1 (1.37%) C++
9 1 (1.37%) Delphi
9 1 (1.37%) Java
9 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (10.96%) AWS Certification
1 8 (10.96%) AWS Certified Developer
2 5 (6.85%) Degree
3 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.37%) MCITP
3 1 (1.37%) MCSE
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) GDPR
1 5 (6.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.37%) HL7
4 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (21.92%) Active Directory
2 11 (15.07%) Docker
3 4 (5.48%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (4.11%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (2.74%) Terminal Services
5 2 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (13.70%) Terraform
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (30.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.85%) VMware
3 4 (5.48%) Citrix
4 3 (4.11%) Cisco
4 3 (4.11%) IFS
4 3 (4.11%) Oracle
4 3 (4.11%) Zoho
5 1 (1.37%) Duck Creek
5 1 (1.37%) F5
5 1 (1.37%) Foundry
5 1 (1.37%) Meraki
5 1 (1.37%) OutSystems
5 1 (1.37%) Veeam
5 1 (1.37%) WatchGuard
5 1 (1.37%) WooCommerce