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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 149 125 249
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 9.98% 13.20% 14.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.73% 39.06% 41.29%
Number of salaries quoted 105 75 192
10th Percentile £32,000 £25,588 £31,579
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,693 £70,313
90th Percentile £84,400 £98,474 £88,625
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £47,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.18% -9.05% +5.00%

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 417 320 603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 27.93% 33.79% 35.28%
Number of salaries quoted 321 191 479
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £43,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £85,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%

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 5 February 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 16 (10.74%) Apache Spark
2 9 (6.04%) Apache
3 6 (4.03%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.34%) CMS
5 2 (1.34%) Confluence
5 2 (1.34%) JBoss
5 2 (1.34%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 35 (23.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.67%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 65 (43.62%) AWS
1 65 (43.62%) Azure
2 46 (30.87%) Serverless
3 36 (24.16%) GitHub
4 32 (21.48%) Amazon S3
4 32 (21.48%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (17.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 24 (16.11%) AWS Step Functions
7 22 (14.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 22 (14.77%) Power Platform
8 21 (14.09%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (14.09%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (10.07%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (9.40%) Amazon EventBridge
11 10 (6.71%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (6.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (6.04%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (6.04%) GCP
12 9 (6.04%) SaaS
13 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.34%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (19.46%) Tableau
2 26 (17.45%) NoSQL
3 23 (15.44%) DynamoDB
4 22 (14.77%) Power BI
5 20 (13.42%) SQL Server
6 16 (10.74%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (9.40%) Data Mining
7 14 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (8.05%) Data Lake
9 9 (6.04%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (6.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (5.37%) Metadata
10 8 (5.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (3.36%) MySQL
11 5 (3.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (2.68%) MongoDB
12 4 (2.68%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (2.01%) Data Vault
13 3 (2.01%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 32 (21.48%) Git
2 6 (4.03%) JIRA
3 5 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 65 (43.62%) Social Skills
2 33 (22.15%) Finance
3 26 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.07%) Retail
5 11 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.04%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (5.37%) Legal
7 8 (5.37%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.36%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.34%) Back Office
10 1 (0.67%) Billing
10 1 (0.67%) Games
10 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (34.90%) Developer
2 30 (20.13%) Analyst
3 26 (17.45%) Data Analyst
3 26 (17.45%) Data Engineer
3 26 (17.45%) Senior
4 17 (11.41%) Software Engineer
5 14 (9.40%) Trainee
5 14 (9.40%) Trainee Analyst
5 14 (9.40%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 12 (8.05%) .NET Developer
6 12 (8.05%) Senior Data Engineer
7 11 (7.38%) Graduate
7 11 (7.38%) Java Developer
7 11 (7.38%) Python Developer
8 10 (6.71%) AWS Developer
8 10 (6.71%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 9 (6.04%) Junior
9 9 (6.04%) Linux Engineer
9 9 (6.04%) Logistics Engineer
9 9 (6.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.13%) React
2 26 (17.45%) .NET
3 16 (10.74%) RESTful
4 15 (10.07%) ASP.NET
4 15 (10.07%) ASP.NET Core
4 15 (10.07%) Vue
5 14 (9.40%) AngularJS
6 13 (8.72%) .NET Core
6 13 (8.72%) AWS CDK
6 13 (8.72%) Blazor
6 13 (8.72%) CSS
6 13 (8.72%) Django
6 13 (8.72%) FastAPI
6 13 (8.72%) Flask
6 13 (8.72%) HTML
7 11 (7.38%) PySpark
8 10 (6.71%) Node.js
9 7 (4.70%) Spring
10 5 (3.36%) Hibernate
10 5 (3.36%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.09%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.71%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.37%) Driving Licence
4 7 (4.70%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.34%) DataPower
6 2 (1.34%) IoT
6 2 (1.34%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.34%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.34%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.34%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.67%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.67%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.38%) Linux
2 3 (2.01%) Windows
3 1 (0.67%) Android
3 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (38.93%) CI/CD
2 54 (36.24%) DevOps
3 50 (33.56%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (30.20%) Agile
5 42 (28.19%) Analytics
6 40 (26.85%) Mentoring
7 32 (21.48%) Business Intelligence
8 30 (20.13%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (19.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (19.46%) Data Engineering
10 27 (18.12%) Data Analysis
10 27 (18.12%) Data Pipeline
11 25 (16.78%) AI
12 24 (16.11%) Software Engineering
13 23 (15.44%) Containerisation
13 23 (15.44%) ETL
14 20 (13.42%) Migration
15 19 (12.75%) Data Modelling
16 18 (12.08%) Data Governance
16 18 (12.08%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 78 (52.35%) Python
2 29 (19.46%) Java
3 21 (14.09%) JavaScript
4 15 (10.07%) C#
5 14 (9.40%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.71%) PL/SQL
6 10 (6.71%) T-SQL
7 9 (6.04%) Kotlin
8 8 (5.37%) C
8 8 (5.37%) C++
9 5 (3.36%) Scala
10 4 (2.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (2.01%) PHP
12 2 (1.34%) R
13 1 (0.67%) Delphi
13 1 (0.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (10.74%) Degree
2 14 (9.40%) AWS Certification
3 11 (7.38%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.37%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.03%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.68%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.01%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.01%) IIBA
9 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.67%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.40%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.70%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.36%) GDPR
4 2 (1.34%) WCAG
5 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 47 (31.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (19.46%) Terraform
2 10 (6.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (24.83%) Microsoft
2 23 (15.44%) Databricks
3 6 (4.03%) Oracle
4 4 (2.68%) Palantir
5 3 (2.01%) Google
6 1 (0.67%) Salesforce