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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 147 129 254
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 10.23% 12.78% 15.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.93% 39.69% 42.26%
Number of salaries quoted 102 78 193
10th Percentile £32,000 £25,313 £31,579
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £72,433
90th Percentile £84,850 £98,474 £88,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +21.05% -9.52% +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 398 325 601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 27.70% 32.21% 37.08%
Number of salaries quoted 302 194 475
10th Percentile £28,300 £31,250 £35,500
25th Percentile £42,125 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,971 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,593 £87,500
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 26 January 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 17 (11.56%) Apache Spark
2 9 (6.12%) Apache
3 4 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.72%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.36%) CMS
4 2 (1.36%) Confluence
4 2 (1.36%) JBoss
4 2 (1.36%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 31 (21.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 66 (44.90%) AWS
2 64 (43.54%) Azure
3 45 (30.61%) Serverless
4 35 (23.81%) GitHub
5 31 (21.09%) Amazon S3
5 31 (21.09%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (17.01%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (15.65%) AWS Step Functions
8 21 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (13.61%) Power Platform
10 15 (10.20%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (9.52%) Amazon EventBridge
12 11 (7.48%) GCP
13 9 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (6.12%) SaaS
14 8 (5.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 7 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.36%) Intranet
2 1 (0.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (18.37%) Tableau
2 25 (17.01%) NoSQL
3 22 (14.97%) DynamoDB
4 21 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 20 (13.61%) Power BI
6 15 (10.20%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (8.16%) Data Lake
8 12 (8.16%) Data Mining
9 9 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (5.44%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (5.44%) Metadata
11 6 (4.08%) MySQL
11 6 (4.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (3.40%) MongoDB
12 5 (3.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (2.72%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.72%) Relational Database
14 3 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (2.04%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 31 (21.09%) Git
2 6 (4.08%) JIRA
3 4 (2.72%) Jenkins
General
1 62 (42.18%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.05%) Finance
3 24 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.20%) Retail
5 12 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.12%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (5.44%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.08%) Legal
9 5 (3.40%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.36%) Back Office
11 1 (0.68%) Billing
11 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Games
11 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (33.33%) Developer
2 28 (19.05%) Analyst
2 28 (19.05%) Data Engineer
2 28 (19.05%) Senior
3 24 (16.33%) Data Analyst
4 16 (10.88%) Software Engineer
5 13 (8.84%) Senior Data Engineer
6 12 (8.16%) .NET Developer
6 12 (8.16%) Trainee
6 12 (8.16%) Trainee Analyst
6 12 (8.16%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 11 (7.48%) Graduate
7 11 (7.48%) Python Developer
8 10 (6.80%) AWS Developer
8 10 (6.80%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 10 (6.80%) Java Developer
9 9 (6.12%) Linux Engineer
9 9 (6.12%) Logistics Engineer
9 9 (6.12%) Senior Developer
10 8 (5.44%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (19.73%) React
2 25 (17.01%) .NET
3 16 (10.88%) RESTful
4 15 (10.20%) ASP.NET
4 15 (10.20%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (9.52%) Vue
6 13 (8.84%) .NET Core
6 13 (8.84%) AWS CDK
6 13 (8.84%) Blazor
6 13 (8.84%) CSS
6 13 (8.84%) Django
6 13 (8.84%) FastAPI
6 13 (8.84%) Flask
6 13 (8.84%) HTML
7 12 (8.16%) AngularJS
8 11 (7.48%) PySpark
9 9 (6.12%) Node.js
10 6 (4.08%) Spring
11 5 (3.40%) Hibernate
11 5 (3.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.97%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.48%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.44%) Driving Licence
4 5 (3.40%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.36%) DataPower
6 2 (1.36%) IoT
6 2 (1.36%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.36%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.36%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.36%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.68%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.68%) NHS
7 1 (0.68%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.84%) Linux
2 5 (3.40%) Windows
3 2 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.68%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (39.46%) CI/CD
2 52 (35.37%) DevOps
3 49 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (31.29%) Agile
5 41 (27.89%) Analytics
6 39 (26.53%) Mentoring
7 31 (21.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (20.41%) Data Engineering
9 29 (19.73%) Business Intelligence
9 29 (19.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (19.73%) Data Pipeline
10 24 (16.33%) AI
11 23 (15.65%) Data Analysis
11 23 (15.65%) Software Engineering
12 22 (14.97%) Containerisation
13 21 (14.29%) ETL
13 21 (14.29%) Migration
14 19 (12.93%) Data Governance
14 19 (12.93%) Data Modelling
15 18 (12.24%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 80 (54.42%) Python
2 28 (19.05%) Java
3 20 (13.61%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.52%) C#
5 13 (8.84%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.80%) PL/SQL
6 10 (6.80%) T-SQL
7 8 (5.44%) C
7 8 (5.44%) C++
7 8 (5.44%) Kotlin
8 6 (4.08%) Scala
9 4 (2.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (2.04%) PHP
11 2 (1.36%) R
12 1 (0.68%) Delphi
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
12 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (11.56%) Degree
2 14 (9.52%) AWS Certification
3 11 (7.48%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.76%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.40%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.04%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.04%) IIBA
8 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.84%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.40%) GDPR
4 2 (1.36%) WCAG
5 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 46 (31.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (20.41%) Terraform
2 10 (6.80%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.68%) Ansible
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 24 (16.33%) Databricks
3 7 (4.76%) Oracle
4 5 (3.40%) Palantir
5 3 (2.04%) Google
6 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.68%) VMware