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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 171 132 270
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 9.41% 17.08% 13.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.62% 43.85% 44.93%
Number of salaries quoted 116 100 212
10th Percentile £31,625 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,250 £94,247 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £48,754 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.81% -2.49% -

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 494 301 601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 27.19% 38.94% 30.63%
Number of salaries quoted 379 232 480
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £69,813
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,775 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% +2.80% -6.96%

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 20 March 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 12 (7.02%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.09%) Apache
3 6 (3.51%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.17%) CMS
5 2 (1.17%) Confluence
5 2 (1.17%) JBoss
5 2 (1.17%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.17%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.58%) IIS
Applications
1 44 (25.73%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (1.17%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 72 (42.11%) Azure
2 66 (38.60%) AWS
3 47 (27.49%) Serverless
4 39 (22.81%) GitHub
5 35 (20.47%) Amazon S3
5 35 (20.47%) AWS Lambda
5 35 (20.47%) Power Platform
6 27 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 27 (15.79%) AWS Step Functions
7 26 (15.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (12.28%) GitHub Actions
9 17 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (8.19%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (8.19%) Amazon EventBridge
10 14 (8.19%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (8.19%) Azure AI
11 13 (7.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 11 (6.43%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (5.85%) GCP
14 7 (4.09%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.17%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (23.39%) Tableau
2 35 (20.47%) Power BI
3 32 (18.71%) NoSQL
4 27 (15.79%) DynamoDB
5 21 (12.28%) SQL Server
6 16 (9.36%) Data Mining
6 16 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (7.60%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (5.85%) Data Lake
10 8 (4.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (4.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (4.09%) Metadata
11 7 (4.09%) MySQL
12 6 (3.51%) MongoDB
13 5 (2.92%) BigQuery
13 5 (2.92%) Spark SQL
14 4 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 30 (17.54%) Git
2 8 (4.68%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.34%) JIRA
4 2 (1.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 71 (41.52%) Social Skills
2 42 (24.56%) Finance
3 30 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.77%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.77%) Retail
5 9 (5.26%) Legal
5 9 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (4.68%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.34%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.58%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.58%) Automotive
8 1 (0.58%) Banking
8 1 (0.58%) Billing
8 1 (0.58%) Games
8 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (36.84%) Developer
2 47 (27.49%) Analyst
3 37 (21.64%) Data Analyst
4 29 (16.96%) Senior
5 28 (16.37%) Data Engineer
6 18 (10.53%) Software Engineer
7 17 (9.94%) Java Developer
8 16 (9.36%) Junior
8 16 (9.36%) Trainee
8 16 (9.36%) Trainee Analyst
8 16 (9.36%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 14 (8.19%) Junior Analyst
9 14 (8.19%) Junior Data Analyst
10 13 (7.60%) Graduate
11 12 (7.02%) .NET Developer
11 12 (7.02%) Senior Developer
12 11 (6.43%) Python Developer
12 11 (6.43%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (6.43%) SQL Developer
13 10 (5.85%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.96%) React
2 25 (14.62%) .NET
3 17 (9.94%) AngularJS
3 17 (9.94%) RESTful
4 16 (9.36%) Node.js
5 15 (8.77%) ASP.NET
5 15 (8.77%) ASP.NET Core
6 14 (8.19%) PySpark
6 14 (8.19%) Vue
7 13 (7.60%) .NET Core
7 13 (7.60%) AWS CDK
7 13 (7.60%) Blazor
7 13 (7.60%) CSS
7 13 (7.60%) Django
7 13 (7.60%) FastAPI
7 13 (7.60%) Flask
7 13 (7.60%) HTML
8 10 (5.85%) Spring
9 6 (3.51%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.87%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.85%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.68%) Driving Licence
3 8 (4.68%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.17%) DataPower
5 2 (1.17%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.17%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.58%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.58%) Hackathon
6 1 (0.58%) IoT
6 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.58%) NHS
6 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.58%) Sports Betting
6 1 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.85%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Windows
2 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (33.92%) CI/CD
2 47 (27.49%) Agile
2 47 (27.49%) Analytics
2 47 (27.49%) DevOps
3 43 (25.15%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (23.98%) Business Intelligence
5 40 (23.39%) Mentoring
6 35 (20.47%) AI
7 32 (18.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (16.96%) Data Analysis
8 29 (16.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (15.20%) Containerisation
9 26 (15.20%) Software Engineering
10 25 (14.62%) Data Engineering
11 23 (13.45%) Data Pipeline
12 20 (11.70%) ETL
13 19 (11.11%) Business Analysis
14 18 (10.53%) Decision-Making
14 18 (10.53%) Microservices
15 17 (9.94%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 79 (46.20%) Python
2 35 (20.47%) Java
3 17 (9.94%) JavaScript
4 15 (8.77%) C#
4 15 (8.77%) Kotlin
5 14 (8.19%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.68%) C
6 8 (4.68%) C++
6 8 (4.68%) PL/SQL
6 8 (4.68%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (2.92%) PHP
7 5 (2.92%) Scala
8 3 (1.75%) R
9 1 (0.58%) Delphi
9 1 (0.58%) Perl
9 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (8.77%) Azure Certification
1 15 (8.77%) Degree
2 14 (8.19%) AWS Certification
3 11 (6.43%) AWS Certified Developer
4 8 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.51%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.34%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.75%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.75%) IIBA
7 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.58%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.94%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.68%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.09%) GDPR
4 2 (1.17%) SLA
4 2 (1.17%) WCAG
5 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (27.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (16.37%) Terraform
2 6 (3.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 48 (28.07%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.11%) Databricks
3 4 (2.34%) Google
3 4 (2.34%) Oracle
3 4 (2.34%) Palantir
4 1 (0.58%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.58%) IFS
4 1 (0.58%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.58%) SAP