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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 181 130 264
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 6.88% 16.86% 12.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.47% 47.79% 41.44%
Number of salaries quoted 115 109 226
10th Percentile £33,950 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +21.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,750 £63,563
90th Percentile £86,500 £93,778 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £54,228 £48,032
% change year-on-year +6.03% +12.90% -6.73%

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 594 272 637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 22.57% 35.28% 29.21%
Number of salaries quoted 438 223 535
10th Percentile £38,200 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,459 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,860 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.77% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £79,375 £69,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,772 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £51,528
% change year-on-year +8.33% +16.44% -10.39%

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 29 May 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 (3.87%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.76%) Apache
2 5 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.21%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.10%) IIS
5 1 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 43 (23.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.21%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 76 (41.99%) Azure
2 65 (35.91%) AWS
3 45 (24.86%) Power Platform
4 43 (23.76%) Serverless
5 38 (20.99%) AWS Lambda
6 36 (19.89%) Amazon S3
6 36 (19.89%) GitHub
7 31 (17.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 31 (17.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (15.47%) AWS Step Functions
9 27 (14.92%) Amazon ECS
10 25 (13.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 19 (10.50%) Azure AI
11 19 (10.50%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (7.73%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (6.63%) Datadog
13 12 (6.63%) GCP
14 10 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (5.52%) SaaS
15 9 (4.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (24.31%) Power BI
2 38 (20.99%) Tableau
3 36 (19.89%) NoSQL
4 31 (17.13%) DynamoDB
5 25 (13.81%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (8.29%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (7.18%) SQL Server
8 10 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (4.97%) BigQuery
9 9 (4.97%) Data Mining
10 8 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (3.87%) Spark SQL
12 6 (3.31%) Metadata
12 6 (3.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (2.76%) Data Lake
13 5 (2.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (2.21%) MongoDB
14 4 (2.21%) MySQL
14 4 (2.21%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (2.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (17.13%) Git
2 12 (6.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.21%) JIRA
3 4 (2.21%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 69 (38.12%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.78%) Finance
3 30 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.18%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.31%) Legal
6 5 (2.76%) Agriculture
6 5 (2.76%) Automotive
6 5 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.66%) Retail
8 2 (1.10%) Games
8 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.55%) Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (33.70%) Developer
2 47 (25.97%) Analyst
3 35 (19.34%) Data Analyst
4 30 (16.57%) Senior
5 29 (16.02%) Java Developer
6 23 (12.71%) Data Engineer
7 21 (11.60%) Lead
8 20 (11.05%) Software Engineer
9 19 (10.50%) Junior
9 19 (10.50%) Junior Analyst
9 19 (10.50%) Junior Data Analyst
10 12 (6.63%) SQL Developer
11 11 (6.08%) AWS Developer
11 11 (6.08%) Senior Developer
12 10 (5.52%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (4.97%) Lead Data Engineer
13 9 (4.97%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (4.97%) Trainee
13 9 (4.97%) Trainee Analyst
13 9 (4.97%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.34%) AngularJS
2 29 (16.02%) Node.js
3 22 (12.15%) React
4 20 (11.05%) Vue
5 16 (8.84%) .NET
6 15 (8.29%) RESTful
7 12 (6.63%) PySpark
8 11 (6.08%) Spring
9 10 (5.52%) CSS
9 10 (5.52%) HTML
10 9 (4.97%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.87%) .NET Core
11 7 (3.87%) ASP.NET
11 7 (3.87%) ASP.NET Core
11 7 (3.87%) Blazor
12 6 (3.31%) AWS CDK
12 6 (3.31%) Web Services
13 5 (2.76%) Flask
14 4 (2.21%) REST
15 3 (1.66%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.29%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.08%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.52%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.66%) PKI
7 2 (1.10%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.10%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.10%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.10%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.10%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.55%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 1 (0.55%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (29.28%) CI/CD
2 47 (25.97%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (25.97%) DevOps
3 45 (24.86%) Agile
4 37 (20.44%) Mentoring
5 35 (19.34%) Analytics
6 33 (18.23%) AI
6 33 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (16.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (14.36%) Data Analysis
8 26 (14.36%) Software Engineering
9 22 (12.15%) DevSecOps
10 21 (11.60%) ETL
11 20 (11.05%) Data Pipeline
11 20 (11.05%) Decision-Making
12 19 (10.50%) Data Engineering
13 18 (9.94%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (9.94%) Workflow
14 17 (9.39%) Data Governance
14 17 (9.39%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 70 (38.67%) Python
2 48 (26.52%) Java
3 30 (16.57%) TypeScript
4 28 (15.47%) C#
5 27 (14.92%) Kotlin
6 21 (11.60%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.42%) T-SQL
8 7 (3.87%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.76%) Scala
10 4 (2.21%) PHP
11 3 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.10%) C++
12 2 (1.10%) R
12 2 (1.10%) VBA
13 1 (0.55%) Bicep
13 1 (0.55%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (11.05%) Azure Certification
1 20 (11.05%) Degree
2 13 (7.18%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.97%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.87%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.21%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.21%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.66%) IIBA
7 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.10%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.71%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.87%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.76%) GDPR
4 4 (2.21%) QA
4 4 (2.21%) SLA
5 2 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.55%) HL7
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (19.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (8.29%) Terraform
2 2 (1.10%) Ansible
2 2 (1.10%) Kibana
2 2 (1.10%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 43 (23.76%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.42%) Databricks
3 6 (3.31%) Oracle
4 5 (2.76%) Google
5 2 (1.10%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.10%) IBM
5 2 (1.10%) IFS
5 2 (1.10%) Informatica
5 2 (1.10%) SAP
6 1 (0.55%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.55%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.55%) Rockwell
6 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow