SQL Job Trends in Yorkshire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 23 12
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 480 300 629
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 7.01% 8.78% 10.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.37% 47.54% 39.04%
Number of salaries quoted 277 245 507
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,750 £31,547
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £57,500 £45,249
Median % change year-on-year -9.34% +27.08% -12.14%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

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 1,189 631 1,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.35% 18.48% 26.44%
Number of salaries quoted 820 506 1,318
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £31,425
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,680 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +17.36% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £86,250 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

SQL
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

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 10 July 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 -6 221 £57,500 -4.17% 50
South Yorkshire -2 127 £47,000 -14.55% 25
North Yorkshire +18 57 £50,000 -16.67% 13
East Yorkshire +11 54 £42,500 +78.95% 8
Humberside - 1 £28,000 - 10
SQL
England

SQL
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 24 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.88%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.04%) Apache
4 5 (1.04%) IIS
5 3 (0.63%) Confluence
6 2 (0.42%) CMS
6 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.42%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 185 (38.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.25%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.83%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (0.63%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.42%) Shopify
4 2 (0.42%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.21%) Magento
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 280 (58.33%) Azure
2 230 (47.92%) Power Platform
3 156 (32.50%) Azure AI
4 77 (16.04%) AWS
5 43 (8.96%) Serverless
6 35 (7.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 31 (6.46%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (6.25%) GitHub
9 28 (5.83%) Amazon S3
10 26 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
11 25 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (5.21%) PowerApps
12 24 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 24 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
13 23 (4.79%) GCP
13 23 (4.79%) Power Automate
14 21 (4.38%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.25%) Firewall
2 4 (0.83%) LAN
2 4 (0.83%) WAN
3 3 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.21%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (47.71%) Power BI
2 166 (34.58%) Tableau
3 50 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (7.08%) NoSQL
5 30 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 29 (6.04%) MongoDB
7 25 (5.21%) SQL Server
8 24 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
8 24 (5.00%) DynamoDB
9 18 (3.75%) Spark SQL
10 17 (3.54%) BigQuery
10 17 (3.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 17 (3.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 16 (3.33%) MySQL
12 13 (2.71%) Relational Database
13 12 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (2.50%) Data Mining
14 11 (2.29%) Data Lake
15 10 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
16 9 (1.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (6.04%) Git
2 15 (3.13%) JIRA
3 11 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.83%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.21%) MLflow
6 1 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 237 (49.38%) Social Skills
2 73 (15.21%) Finance
3 55 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (6.04%) Manufacturing
5 26 (5.42%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.92%) Law
7 11 (2.29%) Legal
8 10 (2.08%) Retail
9 8 (1.67%) Advertising
10 6 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.04%) Agriculture
11 5 (1.04%) Automotive
11 5 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.83%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.63%) Back Office
13 3 (0.63%) Local Government
14 1 (0.21%) Banking
14 1 (0.21%) Games
14 1 (0.21%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 195 (40.63%) Analyst
2 168 (35.00%) Data Analyst
3 147 (30.63%) Junior
4 144 (30.00%) Junior Analyst
4 144 (30.00%) Junior Data Analyst
5 107 (22.29%) Developer
6 52 (10.83%) Data Engineer
7 47 (9.79%) Senior
8 39 (8.13%) Lead
9 32 (6.67%) Applications Support
10 31 (6.46%) Software Engineer
11 29 (6.04%) Java Developer
12 28 (5.83%) .NET Developer
13 24 (5.00%) SQL Developer
14 21 (4.38%) Lead Data Engineer
15 16 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (3.33%) Senior Developer
16 15 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
17 14 (2.92%) Support Analyst
18 13 (2.71%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (10.63%) .NET
2 48 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 41 (8.54%) Node.js
4 38 (7.92%) React
5 32 (6.67%) RESTful
6 31 (6.46%) Vue
7 27 (5.63%) .NET Core
8 26 (5.42%) ASP.NET
8 26 (5.42%) ASP.NET Core
9 25 (5.21%) PySpark
10 18 (3.75%) REST
11 16 (3.33%) CSS
12 14 (2.92%) Entity Framework
12 14 (2.92%) HTML
12 14 (2.92%) Spring
13 13 (2.71%) ASP.NET Web API
13 13 (2.71%) Spring Boot
14 11 (2.29%) ML.NET
15 10 (2.08%) ARM Templates
15 10 (2.08%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 14 (2.92%) Cloud Native
1 14 (2.92%) Management Information System
2 10 (2.08%) Data Structures
3 8 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (1.67%) Operational Technology
3 8 (1.67%) Replication
4 6 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (1.25%) Legacy Code
4 6 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.04%) BBC
5 5 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (1.04%) e-Learning
5 5 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.04%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.04%) Social Media
6 4 (0.83%) Algorithms
6 4 (0.83%) iPhone
7 3 (0.63%) Driving Licence
7 3 (0.63%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 3 (0.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.96%) Windows
2 12 (2.50%) Windows Server
3 8 (1.67%) Linux
4 6 (1.25%) Android
5 5 (1.04%) VMS
6 4 (0.83%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (50.83%) Business Intelligence
2 177 (36.88%) AI
3 82 (17.08%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (15.63%) Agile
4 75 (15.63%) DevOps
5 70 (14.58%) Analytics
5 70 (14.58%) CI/CD
6 65 (13.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 61 (12.71%) Mentoring
8 53 (11.04%) Data Modelling
9 50 (10.42%) Full-Stack Development
10 46 (9.58%) Data Engineering
11 45 (9.38%) Data Pipeline
11 45 (9.38%) Software Engineering
12 44 (9.17%) Decision-Making
12 44 (9.17%) ETL
13 38 (7.92%) Data Analysis
14 35 (7.29%) Data Governance
15 30 (6.25%) ERP
16 28 (5.83%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 225 (46.88%) Python
2 74 (15.42%) C#
3 63 (13.13%) Java
4 57 (11.88%) JavaScript
5 47 (9.79%) TypeScript
6 26 (5.42%) Kotlin
7 11 (2.29%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (1.67%) PHP
9 7 (1.46%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.46%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.25%) Scala
11 4 (0.83%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.83%) R
12 3 (0.63%) C++
12 3 (0.63%) VBA
13 2 (0.42%) XAML
14 1 (0.21%) Bicep
14 1 (0.21%) C
Qualifications
1 145 (30.21%) Azure Certification
2 43 (8.96%) Degree
3 17 (3.54%) Security Cleared
4 16 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.08%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.83%) A+ Certification
7 4 (0.83%) DBS Check
7 4 (0.83%) HNC
7 4 (0.83%) HND
7 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 2 (0.42%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.21%) IIBA
9 1 (0.21%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 17 (3.54%) GDPR
3 7 (1.46%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.04%) QA
6 4 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.83%) SLA
7 2 (0.42%) PMO
8 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.21%) HL7
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (6.04%) Docker
2 5 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (3.75%) Terraform
2 5 (1.04%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.42%) Ansible
3 2 (0.42%) Kibana
4 1 (0.21%) Grafana
Vendors
1 243 (50.63%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.04%) Databricks
3 28 (5.83%) Google
4 13 (2.71%) Oracle
5 6 (1.25%) Sage
5 6 (1.25%) SAP
6 5 (1.04%) Apple
6 5 (1.04%) Facebook
6 5 (1.04%) HubSpot
6 5 (1.04%) Sony
6 5 (1.04%) Yahoo!
7 4 (0.83%) Citrix
7 4 (0.83%) IFS
8 3 (0.63%) Rockwell
9 2 (0.42%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.42%) IBM
9 2 (0.42%) Informatica
9 2 (0.42%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.42%) Workday
10 1 (0.21%) Teradata