SQL Jobs in Yorkshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 11 4
Rank change year-on-year -5 -7 +4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 288 623 1,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 9.97% 10.65% 24.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.50% 37.83% 54.08%
Number of salaries quoted 236 536 671
10th Percentile £25,313 £32,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,070
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,759 £77,715
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +8.81%

All Programming Languages
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 662 1,647 3,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 22.91% 28.14% 44.61%
Number of salaries quoted 530 1,374 1,571
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,630 £34,723
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £70,581
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Yorkshire

SQL
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary trend for SQL in Yorkshire

SQL
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Yorkshire

SQL
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 within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 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
West Yorkshire 0 178 £53,864 +11.04% 580
South Yorkshire +1 55 £60,000 +30.08% 286
North Yorkshire -17 35 £47,500 - 154
East Yorkshire -2 5 £25,000 -39.39% 121
Humberside -12 2 £40,101 +15.08% 1
SQL
England

SQL
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 22 (7.64%) Confluence
2 13 (4.51%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.82%) Apache Spark
4 10 (3.47%) Apache
5 9 (3.13%) SAS
6 8 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (1.04%) IIS
7 3 (1.04%) SugarCRM
8 2 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.69%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.69%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.69%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 16 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 150 (52.08%) Azure
2 54 (18.75%) AWS
3 45 (15.63%) Power Platform
4 42 (14.58%) GCP
5 23 (7.99%) GitHub
5 23 (7.99%) SaaS
6 22 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (6.60%) Entra ID
8 17 (5.90%) Serverless
9 15 (5.21%) Azure Data Factory
9 15 (5.21%) Power Automate
10 12 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (3.47%) Snowflake
13 9 (3.13%) Amazon S3
13 9 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (3.13%) PowerApps
14 7 (2.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 7 (2.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 23 (7.99%) Firewall
2 17 (5.90%) Wireless
3 13 (4.51%) LAN
4 11 (3.82%) WAN
5 10 (3.47%) Cisco IOS
5 10 (3.47%) DNS
6 9 (3.13%) SAN
7 8 (2.78%) Multicast
7 8 (2.78%) VPN
8 7 (2.43%) SD-WAN
8 7 (2.43%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.74%) BGP
9 5 (1.74%) DHCP
9 5 (1.74%) MPLS
9 5 (1.74%) OSPF
10 4 (1.39%) 5G
10 4 (1.39%) Broadband
11 2 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.69%) FCoE
11 2 (0.69%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 41 (14.24%) Power BI
3 28 (9.72%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (7.99%) NoSQL
5 15 (5.21%) MySQL
6 14 (4.86%) Big Data
6 14 (4.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (4.17%) MongoDB
8 11 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (3.47%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (2.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (2.78%) Tableau
11 7 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (2.08%) Data Lake
12 6 (2.08%) DB2
13 5 (1.74%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.74%) Power Query
13 5 (1.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 36 (12.50%) JIRA
2 25 (8.68%) Git
3 8 (2.78%) TeamCity
4 7 (2.43%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (2.08%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (1.74%) GitLab
6 5 (1.74%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.39%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.39%) Selenium
7 4 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.04%) Eclipse RCP
8 3 (1.04%) JUnit
8 3 (1.04%) Maven
9 2 (0.69%) Mocha
9 2 (0.69%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.35%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.35%) Protractor
10 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
General
1 81 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 61 (21.18%) Finance
3 45 (15.63%) Banking
4 26 (9.03%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (9.03%) Law
5 19 (6.60%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.86%) Manufacturing
7 13 (4.51%) Retail
8 10 (3.47%) Legal
9 9 (3.13%) Marketing
10 8 (2.78%) Back Office
11 5 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.39%) Tech for Good
13 3 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.69%) Advertising
14 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (23.96%) Developer
2 57 (19.79%) Analyst
3 38 (13.19%) Senior
4 33 (11.46%) SQL Developer
5 32 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 29 (10.07%) Software Engineer
7 28 (9.72%) Lead
8 24 (8.33%) Support Analyst
9 20 (6.94%) Data Analyst
10 18 (6.25%) Support Engineer
11 17 (5.90%) IT Support
12 16 (5.56%) Database Developer
12 16 (5.56%) SQL Database Developer
13 14 (4.86%) IT Analyst
13 14 (4.86%) IT Support Analyst
14 12 (4.17%) Applications Support
14 12 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
15 11 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
16 10 (3.47%) Service Desk Engineer
16 10 (3.47%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (11.81%) .NET
2 30 (10.42%) HTML
3 23 (7.99%) React
4 16 (5.56%) ASP.NET
4 16 (5.56%) CSS
5 13 (4.51%) .NET Core
5 13 (4.51%) Node.js
6 12 (4.17%) .NET Framework
6 12 (4.17%) Kafka
6 12 (4.17%) REST
7 11 (3.82%) AngularJS
8 9 (3.13%) ASP.NET MVC
9 8 (2.78%) Bootstrap
9 8 (2.78%) Express.js
9 8 (2.78%) Vue
10 7 (2.43%) LINQ
10 7 (2.43%) RESTful
11 6 (2.08%) ASP.NET Core
11 6 (2.08%) Entity Framework
11 6 (2.08%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.68%) Product Ownership
2 19 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.47%) Credit Risk
6 9 (3.13%) Replication
7 8 (2.78%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.43%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.43%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.43%) Clustering
9 5 (1.74%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.74%) Market Risk
9 5 (1.74%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.39%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.04%) CCTV
11 3 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.04%) Learning Management System
11 3 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 42 (14.58%) Windows
2 26 (9.03%) Windows Server
3 25 (8.68%) Linux
4 18 (6.25%) Windows 10
5 10 (3.47%) Mac OS X
6 9 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (2.43%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (1.39%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.04%) Unix
11 2 (0.69%) Solaris
11 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (25.69%) Agile
2 64 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (18.75%) Analytics
4 51 (17.71%) Business Intelligence
4 51 (17.71%) CI/CD
5 44 (15.28%) DevOps
6 39 (13.54%) Software Engineering
7 35 (12.15%) ETL
8 33 (11.46%) Data Pipeline
8 33 (11.46%) Visualisation
9 31 (10.76%) Mentoring
10 26 (9.03%) Data Engineering
10 26 (9.03%) Service Delivery
11 24 (8.33%) Data Modelling
12 22 (7.64%) Data Science
12 22 (7.64%) Machine Learning
12 22 (7.64%) Roadmaps
13 21 (7.29%) Migration
14 20 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (6.94%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 82 (28.47%) Python
2 52 (18.06%) C#
3 46 (15.97%) JavaScript
4 43 (14.93%) T-SQL
5 27 (9.38%) Java
6 23 (7.99%) TypeScript
7 16 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 15 (5.21%) R
9 12 (4.17%) PHP
10 11 (3.82%) Rust
11 9 (3.13%) C++
12 8 (2.78%) C
12 8 (2.78%) Dart
12 8 (2.78%) MATLAB
12 8 (2.78%) Ruby
13 7 (2.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (2.08%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.74%) Bash
15 5 (1.74%) Scala
16 3 (1.04%) Go
Qualifications
1 61 (21.18%) Degree
2 33 (11.46%) DBS Check
3 22 (7.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (5.21%) SC Cleared
4 15 (5.21%) Security Cleared
5 14 (4.86%) MCSA
6 12 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.47%) CCNP
7 10 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (3.13%) Master's Degree
9 8 (2.78%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.43%) MCSE
11 4 (1.39%) MCP
12 3 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.04%) PhD
13 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.69%) MCITP
14 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.17%) SLA
3 7 (2.43%) GDPR
3 7 (2.43%) QA
4 6 (2.08%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.74%) Basel II
5 5 (1.74%) Basel III
5 5 (1.74%) Dodd-Frank
5 5 (1.74%) IFRS
5 5 (1.74%) IFRS 9
6 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.39%) NIST
7 3 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.04%) ISO 14001
7 3 (1.04%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (13.54%) Active Directory
2 23 (7.99%) Docker
2 23 (7.99%) Hyper-V
3 7 (2.43%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.04%) vSphere
6 2 (0.69%) KVM
6 2 (0.69%) NFS
6 2 (0.69%) SRDF
6 2 (0.69%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 2 (0.69%) Xen
7 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 24 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.17%) Terraform
3 9 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.08%) Ansible
5 5 (1.74%) FortiGate
5 5 (1.74%) WSUS
6 4 (1.39%) PaperCut
7 3 (1.04%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (0.69%) Grafana
8 2 (0.69%) Istio
8 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.69%) Puppet
8 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 95 (32.99%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.64%) Cisco
3 20 (6.94%) Databricks
4 19 (6.60%) Oracle
5 12 (4.17%) VMware
6 10 (3.47%) Google
7 8 (2.78%) IBM
8 5 (1.74%) Draytek
8 5 (1.74%) SAP
8 5 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.74%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (1.39%) Meraki
9 4 (1.39%) Palantir
10 3 (1.04%) Intapp
10 3 (1.04%) Sage
11 2 (0.69%) Avaya
11 2 (0.69%) Dell
11 2 (0.69%) EMC
11 2 (0.69%) HP
11 2 (0.69%) NetApp