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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 151 123 234
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 10.79% 12.01% 16.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.52% 37.73% 41.12%
Number of salaries quoted 107 73 169
10th Percentile £32,000 £25,313 £34,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,125 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £84,100 £87,250 £92,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% +10.00%

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 392 326 569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.00% 31.84% 39.03%
Number of salaries quoted 300 198 438
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,539 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
% 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 19 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 19 (12.58%) Apache Spark
2 11 (7.28%) Apache
3 4 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.65%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.32%) CMS
4 2 (1.32%) Confluence
4 2 (1.32%) JBoss
4 2 (1.32%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (21.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 66 (43.71%) Azure
2 65 (43.05%) AWS
3 43 (28.48%) Serverless
4 33 (21.85%) GitHub
5 29 (19.21%) Amazon S3
5 29 (19.21%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (15.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (13.91%) AWS Step Functions
7 21 (13.91%) Power Platform
8 19 (12.58%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (12.58%) GitHub Actions
9 18 (11.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (10.60%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (9.27%) Amazon EventBridge
12 11 (7.28%) GCP
13 9 (5.96%) SaaS
14 7 (4.64%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (4.64%) dbt
14 7 (4.64%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (3.97%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) AMQP
1 2 (1.32%) Intranet
2 1 (0.66%) Firewall
2 1 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.54%) Tableau
2 24 (15.89%) NoSQL
3 21 (13.91%) Power BI
3 21 (13.91%) SQL Server
4 19 (12.58%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (12.58%) DynamoDB
5 14 (9.27%) Data Lake
5 14 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (7.95%) Data Mining
7 11 (7.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (5.30%) Metadata
9 6 (3.97%) MySQL
9 6 (3.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (3.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (3.31%) MongoDB
11 4 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.65%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.65%) Data Vault
11 4 (2.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (17.88%) Git
2 7 (4.64%) JIRA
3 3 (1.99%) Jenkins
General
1 61 (40.40%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.54%) Finance
3 25 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.60%) Retail
5 13 (8.61%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.96%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (5.30%) Legal
7 8 (5.30%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.97%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.32%) Back Office
9 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Law
10 1 (0.66%) Billing
10 1 (0.66%) Games
10 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (32.45%) Developer
2 31 (20.53%) Data Engineer
2 31 (20.53%) Senior
3 29 (19.21%) Analyst
4 25 (16.56%) Data Analyst
5 16 (10.60%) Senior Data Engineer
5 16 (10.60%) Software Engineer
6 13 (8.61%) .NET Developer
7 12 (7.95%) Trainee
7 12 (7.95%) Trainee Analyst
7 12 (7.95%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 11 (7.28%) Graduate
8 11 (7.28%) Python Developer
9 10 (6.62%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 9 (5.96%) Linux Engineer
10 9 (5.96%) Logistics Engineer
11 8 (5.30%) AWS Developer
11 8 (5.30%) Data Manager
11 8 (5.30%) Lead
11 8 (5.30%) Software Engineering Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (19.87%) React
2 25 (16.56%) .NET
3 16 (10.60%) RESTful
4 15 (9.93%) ASP.NET
4 15 (9.93%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (9.27%) Blazor
6 13 (8.61%) .NET Core
6 13 (8.61%) AWS CDK
6 13 (8.61%) CSS
6 13 (8.61%) Django
6 13 (8.61%) FastAPI
6 13 (8.61%) Flask
6 13 (8.61%) HTML
6 13 (8.61%) Vue
7 11 (7.28%) PySpark
8 8 (5.30%) AngularJS
8 8 (5.30%) Spring
9 6 (3.97%) Node.js
10 5 (3.31%) Hibernate
11 4 (2.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.56%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.62%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.30%) Driving Licence
4 5 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.99%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.99%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.99%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.32%) DataPower
6 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.32%) IoT
6 2 (1.32%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.32%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.66%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.66%) NHS
7 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.66%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.61%) Linux
2 5 (3.31%) Windows
3 2 (1.32%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.66%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (41.06%) CI/CD
2 53 (35.10%) DevOps
3 50 (33.11%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (32.45%) Agile
5 41 (27.15%) Analytics
5 41 (27.15%) Mentoring
6 32 (21.19%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (21.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (21.19%) Data Pipeline
6 32 (21.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (20.53%) Data Engineering
8 24 (15.89%) AI
8 24 (15.89%) Containerisation
8 24 (15.89%) ETL
8 24 (15.89%) Migration
8 24 (15.89%) Software Engineering
9 23 (15.23%) Data Analysis
9 23 (15.23%) Data Modelling
10 20 (13.25%) Data Governance
10 20 (13.25%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 85 (56.29%) Python
2 27 (17.88%) Java
3 21 (13.91%) JavaScript
4 13 (8.61%) C#
5 11 (7.28%) T-SQL
6 10 (6.62%) PL/SQL
6 10 (6.62%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.30%) C
7 8 (5.30%) C++
8 6 (3.97%) Scala
9 5 (3.31%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.99%) PHP
12 2 (1.32%) R
13 1 (0.66%) Delphi
13 1 (0.66%) Perl
13 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (10.60%) Degree
2 14 (9.27%) AWS Certification
3 11 (7.28%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.64%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.64%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.31%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.99%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.32%) IIBA
9 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.93%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.64%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.31%) GDPR
4 2 (1.32%) WCAG
5 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 46 (30.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (19.87%) Terraform
2 12 (7.95%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.66%) Ansible
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.66%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (24.50%) Microsoft
2 25 (16.56%) Databricks
3 7 (4.64%) Oracle
4 5 (3.31%) Palantir
5 3 (1.99%) Google
6 1 (0.66%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.66%) VMware