SQL Job Trends in Leeds

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 175 132 279
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 6.60% 16.34% 11.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.56% 47.83% 40.14%
Number of salaries quoted 116 112 227
10th Percentile £33,250 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +26.32% -6.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £93,150 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £45,249
% change year-on-year - +27.08% -12.14%

All Programming Languages
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 592 276 695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 22.32% 34.16% 29.16%
Number of salaries quoted 441 231 565
10th Percentile £39,000 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,720 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.20% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -9.16%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Leeds

SQL
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Leeds over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Leeds

SQL
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 7 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.86%) Apache
2 5 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.14%) IIS
5 1 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 37 (21.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.29%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 69 (39.43%) Azure
2 59 (33.71%) AWS
3 45 (25.71%) Power Platform
4 37 (21.14%) Serverless
5 34 (19.43%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (18.29%) Amazon S3
7 30 (17.14%) GitHub
8 29 (16.57%) Amazon ECS
9 28 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 27 (15.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 27 (15.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 24 (13.71%) AWS Step Functions
12 17 (9.71%) Azure AI
13 14 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (7.43%) Datadog
14 13 (7.43%) GCP
14 13 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (5.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (5.14%) SaaS
16 4 (2.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) LAN
1 1 (0.57%) WAN
1 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (25.14%) Power BI
2 32 (18.29%) NoSQL
3 31 (17.71%) Tableau
4 27 (15.43%) Amazon Athena
4 27 (15.43%) DynamoDB
5 16 (9.14%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (5.71%) BigQuery
7 8 (4.57%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (4.57%) SQL Server
8 6 (3.43%) Data Mining
8 6 (3.43%) Spark SQL
9 5 (2.86%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.86%) Metadata
9 5 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (2.29%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.29%) MySQL
10 4 (2.29%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (15.43%) Git
2 13 (7.43%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.29%) JIRA
3 4 (2.29%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 63 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.29%) Finance
3 27 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.00%) Legal
6 5 (2.86%) Agriculture
6 5 (2.86%) Automotive
6 5 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.14%) Games
7 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.57%) Banking
8 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (32.00%) Developer
2 41 (23.43%) Analyst
3 32 (18.29%) Java Developer
4 29 (16.57%) Data Analyst
4 29 (16.57%) Senior
5 24 (13.71%) Software Engineer
6 22 (12.57%) Data Engineer
7 20 (11.43%) Lead
8 16 (9.14%) Junior
8 16 (9.14%) Junior Analyst
8 16 (9.14%) Junior Data Analyst
9 13 (7.43%) AWS Developer
10 12 (6.86%) SQL Developer
11 11 (6.29%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (5.71%) Senior Developer
13 9 (5.14%) Senior Java Developer
14 8 (4.57%) Lead Data Engineer
15 7 (4.00%) C# Software Engineer
15 7 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
16 6 (3.43%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (21.71%) AngularJS
2 31 (17.71%) Node.js
3 19 (10.86%) React
4 18 (10.29%) Vue
5 14 (8.00%) Spring
6 12 (6.86%) Spring Boot
7 10 (5.71%) .NET
7 10 (5.71%) PySpark
7 10 (5.71%) RESTful
8 8 (4.57%) CSS
8 8 (4.57%) HTML
9 6 (3.43%) Web Services
10 4 (2.29%) REST
11 3 (1.71%) Flask
11 3 (1.71%) OAuth
11 3 (1.71%) OAuth2
11 3 (1.71%) OpenID
11 3 (1.71%) RabbitMQ
12 2 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (1.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.14%) Data Structures
1 9 (5.14%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.57%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.86%) e-Learning
4 4 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.71%) PKI
6 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.14%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.14%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.57%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.57%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.57%) Windows
1 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (26.86%) Business Intelligence
1 47 (26.86%) CI/CD
2 43 (24.57%) DevOps
3 40 (22.86%) Agile
4 35 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 31 (17.71%) AI
6 30 (17.14%) Analytics
6 30 (17.14%) Software Engineering
7 28 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (13.71%) DevSecOps
10 22 (12.57%) Data Analysis
11 20 (11.43%) ETL
12 19 (10.86%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (10.86%) Data Pipeline
12 19 (10.86%) Workflow
13 18 (10.29%) Decision-Making
13 18 (10.29%) Full-Stack Development
14 17 (9.71%) Data Modelling
14 17 (9.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 59 (33.71%) Python
2 50 (28.57%) Java
3 33 (18.86%) C#
4 31 (17.71%) TypeScript
5 29 (16.57%) Kotlin
6 23 (13.14%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.00%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.43%) PHP
8 6 (3.43%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.86%) Scala
10 3 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.14%) R
11 2 (1.14%) VBA
12 1 (0.57%) Bicep
12 1 (0.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (10.29%) Degree
2 17 (9.71%) Azure Certification
3 13 (7.43%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.14%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.29%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.14%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.14%) IIBA
8 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.57%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.43%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.86%) QA
4 4 (2.29%) GDPR
4 4 (2.29%) SLA
5 3 (1.71%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.57%) HL7
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.57%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (17.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.57%) Terraform
2 2 (1.14%) Ansible
2 2 (1.14%) Kibana
2 2 (1.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 37 (21.14%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.00%) Oracle
3 6 (3.43%) Databricks
3 6 (3.43%) Google
4 3 (1.71%) SAP
5 2 (1.14%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.14%) IBM
5 2 (1.14%) IFS
5 2 (1.14%) Informatica
6 1 (0.57%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.57%) Foundry
6 1 (0.57%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.57%) Rockwell
6 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.57%) Workday