SQL Server Job Trends in Leeds

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 56 37
Rank change year-on-year -12 -19 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 11 42 104
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.11% 2.86% 6.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.86% 25.77% 30.77%
Number of salaries quoted 11 38 89
10th Percentile £42,000 £31,238 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £44,133 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £59,063 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £69,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £56,367 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.73% -9.09% +10.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 140 163 338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 14.07% 11.08% 22.25%
Number of salaries quoted 115 113 246
10th Percentile £40,500 £31,250 £39,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £46,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £74,688
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,250 £84,056
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Leeds

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Leeds over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Leeds

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) SaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Serverless
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
2 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Financial Institution
2 3 (27.27%) Legal
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Back Office
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) ETL Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Python Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Applications Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 2 (18.18%) Django
2 2 (18.18%) FastAPI
2 2 (18.18%) Flask
2 2 (18.18%) HTML
2 2 (18.18%) React
2 2 (18.18%) Vue
3 1 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
1 3 (27.27%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
4 3 (27.27%) ArchiMate
4 3 (27.27%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (27.27%) Architecture Governance
4 3 (27.27%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (27.27%) Data Architecture
4 3 (27.27%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
4 3 (27.27%) ETL
4 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
4 3 (27.27%) UML
4 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
5 2 (18.18%) Master Data Management
5 2 (18.18%) OO
5 2 (18.18%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) C#
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle