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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 186 139 259
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 7.77% 18.05% 12.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.52% 47.44% 42.25%
Number of salaries quoted 115 116 220
10th Percentile £32,000 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,707 £36,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,250 £49,913
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +12.70% -0.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,750 £65,313
90th Percentile £81,200 £93,778 £87,625
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -1.96%

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 572 293 613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 23.89% 38.05% 29.37%
Number of salaries quoted 415 241 516
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -14.53%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £69,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £51,528
% change year-on-year +13.04% +11.59% -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 2 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 11 (5.91%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.69%) Apache
4 4 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.08%) CMS
5 2 (1.08%) IIS
5 2 (1.08%) JBoss
5 2 (1.08%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.08%) WebSphere
Applications
1 45 (24.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.15%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 82 (44.09%) Azure
2 69 (37.10%) AWS
3 46 (24.73%) Serverless
4 43 (23.12%) Power Platform
5 40 (21.51%) AWS Lambda
6 39 (20.97%) GitHub
7 38 (20.43%) Amazon S3
8 32 (17.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 32 (17.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 29 (15.59%) AWS Step Functions
10 23 (12.37%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (11.83%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (11.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 21 (11.29%) Azure AI
13 13 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (6.99%) GCP
14 11 (5.91%) Amazon EventBridge
14 11 (5.91%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (5.38%) SaaS
16 9 (4.84%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) Intranet
2 1 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (23.66%) Tableau
2 42 (22.58%) Power BI
3 35 (18.82%) NoSQL
4 32 (17.20%) DynamoDB
5 21 (11.29%) Amazon Athena
6 16 (8.60%) SQL Server
7 14 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (6.45%) Data Mining
9 11 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (4.30%) Metadata
11 6 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (3.23%) BigQuery
11 6 (3.23%) MongoDB
11 6 (3.23%) MySQL
11 6 (3.23%) Spark SQL
12 5 (2.69%) Data Lake
13 4 (2.15%) Relational Database
13 4 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (1.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (16.67%) Git
2 11 (5.91%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.15%) JIRA
4 2 (1.08%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 75 (40.32%) Social Skills
2 37 (19.89%) Finance
3 26 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.60%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.30%) Legal
5 8 (4.30%) Retail
6 6 (3.23%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.15%) Agriculture
8 4 (2.15%) Automotive
9 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.08%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.54%) Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Games
Job Titles
1 68 (36.56%) Developer
2 51 (27.42%) Analyst
3 39 (20.97%) Data Analyst
4 30 (16.13%) Senior
5 26 (13.98%) Java Developer
6 23 (12.37%) Data Engineer
6 23 (12.37%) Junior
7 21 (11.29%) Junior Analyst
7 21 (11.29%) Junior Data Analyst
8 17 (9.14%) Lead
8 17 (9.14%) Software Engineer
9 12 (6.45%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.45%) SQL Developer
9 12 (6.45%) Trainee
9 12 (6.45%) Trainee Analyst
9 12 (6.45%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 11 (5.91%) .NET Developer
10 11 (5.91%) AWS Developer
10 11 (5.91%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (5.38%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.59%) AngularJS
2 26 (13.98%) React
3 23 (12.37%) .NET
3 23 (12.37%) Node.js
4 19 (10.22%) RESTful
4 19 (10.22%) Vue
5 13 (6.99%) ASP.NET
5 13 (6.99%) ASP.NET Core
5 13 (6.99%) PySpark
5 13 (6.99%) Spring
6 12 (6.45%) CSS
6 12 (6.45%) HTML
7 11 (5.91%) .NET Core
7 11 (5.91%) AWS CDK
7 11 (5.91%) Blazor
8 8 (4.30%) Spring Boot
8 8 (4.30%) Web Services
9 7 (3.76%) Flask
9 7 (3.76%) REST
10 5 (2.69%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.75%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.84%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.30%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.69%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.61%) PKI
6 2 (1.08%) DataPower
6 2 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.08%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.08%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.08%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.54%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.54%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.54%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.54%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.23%) Linux
2 1 (0.54%) Windows
2 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (30.65%) CI/CD
2 46 (24.73%) Business Intelligence
3 45 (24.19%) DevOps
4 44 (23.66%) Agile
5 40 (21.51%) AI
5 40 (21.51%) Analytics
6 39 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (19.35%) Mentoring
8 32 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (13.98%) Data Analysis
10 21 (11.29%) Infrastructure as Code
10 21 (11.29%) Software Engineering
11 20 (10.75%) Containerisation
11 20 (10.75%) Data Engineering
12 19 (10.22%) Computer Science
12 19 (10.22%) Data Pipeline
12 19 (10.22%) Decision-Making
13 18 (9.68%) Data Governance
13 18 (9.68%) DevSecOps
14 17 (9.14%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 77 (41.40%) Python
2 42 (22.58%) Java
3 26 (13.98%) TypeScript
4 23 (12.37%) C#
4 23 (12.37%) Kotlin
5 18 (9.68%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.84%) PL/SQL
7 7 (3.76%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.23%) PHP
8 6 (3.23%) Scala
9 5 (2.69%) C
9 5 (2.69%) C++
10 3 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.61%) R
11 2 (1.08%) VBA
12 1 (0.54%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 22 (11.83%) Azure Certification
2 20 (10.75%) Degree
3 12 (6.45%) AWS Certification
3 12 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.84%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (4.30%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.61%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.61%) IIBA
7 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.23%) GDPR
4 4 (2.15%) SLA
5 2 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.08%) WCAG
6 1 (0.54%) HL7
6 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.54%) QA
System Software
1 41 (22.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (11.29%) Terraform
2 4 (2.15%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.08%) Ansible
3 2 (1.08%) Kibana
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 48 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.99%) Databricks
3 8 (4.30%) Oracle
4 4 (2.15%) Google
4 4 (2.15%) Palantir
5 2 (1.08%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.08%) IBM
5 2 (1.08%) IFS
5 2 (1.08%) SAP
6 1 (0.54%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.54%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.54%) Rockwell