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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 172 132 266
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 9.88% 16.04% 14.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.82% 43.56% 44.19%
Number of salaries quoted 119 88 209
10th Percentile £32,000 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,500 £98,474 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +14.58% -6.80% +3.00%

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 494 303 602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.37% 36.82% 33.08%
Number of salaries quoted 381 211 478
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +2.80% -6.96%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £85,000
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 6 March 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 (9.88%) Apache Spark
2 10 (5.81%) Apache
3 6 (3.49%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.16%) CMS
5 2 (1.16%) Confluence
5 2 (1.16%) JBoss
5 2 (1.16%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.16%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.58%) IIS
Applications
1 45 (26.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.33%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (1.16%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 69 (40.12%) AWS
1 69 (40.12%) Azure
2 50 (29.07%) Serverless
3 40 (23.26%) GitHub
4 36 (20.93%) Amazon S3
4 36 (20.93%) AWS Lambda
5 32 (18.60%) Power Platform
6 28 (16.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 28 (16.28%) AWS Step Functions
7 26 (15.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (12.79%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (11.05%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (8.72%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (8.14%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (8.14%) Amazon EventBridge
12 13 (7.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (6.98%) Azure AI
13 12 (6.98%) GCP
14 10 (5.81%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (4.07%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (23.26%) Tableau
2 34 (19.77%) NoSQL
3 32 (18.60%) Power BI
4 27 (15.70%) DynamoDB
5 20 (11.63%) SQL Server
6 17 (9.88%) Data Mining
7 16 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (7.56%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (6.98%) Data Lake
10 10 (5.81%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (4.65%) Metadata
11 8 (4.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (4.07%) MySQL
13 6 (3.49%) MongoDB
14 5 (2.91%) BigQuery
14 5 (2.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (2.33%) Spark SQL
15 4 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 3 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 31 (18.02%) Git
2 8 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.49%) JIRA
4 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 72 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 40 (23.26%) Finance
3 33 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.72%) Retail
6 9 (5.23%) Legal
6 9 (5.23%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (4.65%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.91%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.58%) Billing
9 1 (0.58%) Games
9 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (36.63%) Developer
2 46 (26.74%) Analyst
3 36 (20.93%) Data Analyst
4 30 (17.44%) Senior
5 27 (15.70%) Data Engineer
6 17 (9.88%) Java Developer
6 17 (9.88%) Software Engineer
6 17 (9.88%) Trainee
6 17 (9.88%) Trainee Analyst
6 17 (9.88%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 14 (8.14%) Junior
8 13 (7.56%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (6.98%) .NET Developer
9 12 (6.98%) Junior Analyst
9 12 (6.98%) Junior Data Analyst
9 12 (6.98%) Senior Developer
10 11 (6.40%) Graduate
10 11 (6.40%) Python Developer
11 10 (5.81%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 10 (5.81%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.28%) React
2 25 (14.53%) .NET
3 18 (10.47%) RESTful
4 16 (9.30%) AngularJS
4 16 (9.30%) Node.js
5 15 (8.72%) ASP.NET
5 15 (8.72%) ASP.NET Core
6 13 (7.56%) .NET Core
6 13 (7.56%) AWS CDK
6 13 (7.56%) Blazor
6 13 (7.56%) CSS
6 13 (7.56%) Django
6 13 (7.56%) FastAPI
6 13 (7.56%) Flask
6 13 (7.56%) HTML
6 13 (7.56%) Vue
7 11 (6.40%) PySpark
8 10 (5.81%) Spring
9 6 (3.49%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.37%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.81%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.23%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.65%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.16%) DataPower
6 2 (1.16%) IoT
6 2 (1.16%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.16%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.58%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.58%) NHS
7 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.58%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.58%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.40%) Linux
2 2 (1.16%) Windows
3 1 (0.58%) Android
3 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (34.88%) CI/CD
2 54 (31.40%) DevOps
3 49 (28.49%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (27.91%) Analytics
5 45 (26.16%) Agile
6 41 (23.84%) Business Intelligence
7 40 (23.26%) Mentoring
8 32 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (18.02%) AI
10 30 (17.44%) Data Analysis
11 28 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
12 26 (15.12%) Containerisation
13 25 (14.53%) Data Engineering
14 24 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
14 24 (13.95%) Software Engineering
15 22 (12.79%) ETL
15 22 (12.79%) Migration
16 20 (11.63%) Business Analysis
16 20 (11.63%) Microservices
17 19 (11.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 83 (48.26%) Python
2 38 (22.09%) Java
3 18 (10.47%) JavaScript
4 15 (8.72%) Kotlin
4 15 (8.72%) TypeScript
5 14 (8.14%) C#
6 11 (6.40%) T-SQL
7 8 (4.65%) C
7 8 (4.65%) C++
7 8 (4.65%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (2.91%) Scala
9 3 (1.74%) PHP
9 3 (1.74%) R
10 1 (0.58%) Delphi
10 1 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (9.30%) Degree
2 14 (8.14%) AWS Certification
3 13 (7.56%) Azure Certification
4 11 (6.40%) AWS Certified Developer
5 9 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.49%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.33%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.74%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.74%) IIBA
8 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.58%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.88%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.07%) GDPR
4 2 (1.16%) SLA
4 2 (1.16%) WCAG
5 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 51 (29.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (15.70%) Terraform
2 10 (5.81%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 49 (28.49%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.88%) Databricks
3 6 (3.49%) Google
4 4 (2.33%) Oracle
4 4 (2.33%) Palantir
5 1 (0.58%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.58%) IFS
5 1 (0.58%) Salesforce