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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 148 128 259
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 10.10% 13.29% 15.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.72% 39.26% 41.91%
Number of salaries quoted 103 77 198
10th Percentile £32,000 £25,313 £31,579
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £40,313
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 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,700 £98,474 £88,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £48,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +19.79% -8.57% +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 403 326 618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 27.49% 33.85% 35.81%
Number of salaries quoted 307 193 489
10th Percentile £28,550 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,625 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,750 £85,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £61,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.82% - -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 2 February 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 16 (10.81%) Apache Spark
2 9 (6.08%) Apache
3 6 (4.05%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.35%) CMS
5 2 (1.35%) Confluence
5 2 (1.35%) JBoss
5 2 (1.35%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 35 (23.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 64 (43.24%) AWS
1 64 (43.24%) Azure
2 45 (30.41%) Serverless
3 35 (23.65%) GitHub
4 31 (20.95%) Amazon S3
4 31 (20.95%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (16.89%) AWS CloudFormation
6 23 (15.54%) AWS Step Functions
6 23 (15.54%) Power Platform
7 21 (14.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (14.19%) GitHub Actions
8 20 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (10.14%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (9.46%) Amazon EventBridge
11 9 (6.08%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (6.08%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (6.08%) GCP
11 9 (6.08%) SaaS
12 8 (5.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 7 (4.73%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.35%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.92%) Tableau
2 25 (16.89%) NoSQL
3 23 (15.54%) Power BI
4 22 (14.86%) DynamoDB
5 21 (14.19%) SQL Server
6 17 (11.49%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (8.78%) Data Mining
9 12 (8.11%) Data Lake
10 9 (6.08%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (5.41%) Metadata
11 8 (5.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (3.38%) MySQL
12 5 (3.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (3.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.70%) MongoDB
13 4 (2.70%) Relational Database
14 3 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 31 (20.95%) Git
2 6 (4.05%) JIRA
3 4 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 65 (43.92%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.95%) Finance
3 25 (16.89%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (10.14%) Retail
5 11 (7.43%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.08%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (5.41%) Legal
7 8 (5.41%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.38%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.35%) Back Office
10 1 (0.68%) Billing
10 1 (0.68%) Games
10 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (35.14%) Developer
2 29 (19.59%) Analyst
3 27 (18.24%) Data Engineer
4 26 (17.57%) Senior
5 25 (16.89%) Data Analyst
6 16 (10.81%) Software Engineer
7 13 (8.78%) Trainee
7 13 (8.78%) Trainee Analyst
7 13 (8.78%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 12 (8.11%) .NET Developer
8 12 (8.11%) Senior Data Engineer
9 11 (7.43%) Graduate
9 11 (7.43%) Python Developer
10 10 (6.76%) AWS Developer
10 10 (6.76%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 10 (6.76%) Java Developer
11 9 (6.08%) Junior
11 9 (6.08%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (6.08%) Logistics Engineer
11 9 (6.08%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (19.59%) React
2 25 (16.89%) .NET
3 16 (10.81%) RESTful
4 15 (10.14%) ASP.NET
4 15 (10.14%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (9.46%) Vue
6 13 (8.78%) .NET Core
6 13 (8.78%) AWS CDK
6 13 (8.78%) Blazor
6 13 (8.78%) CSS
6 13 (8.78%) Django
6 13 (8.78%) FastAPI
6 13 (8.78%) Flask
6 13 (8.78%) HTML
7 12 (8.11%) AngularJS
8 11 (7.43%) PySpark
9 9 (6.08%) Node.js
10 6 (4.05%) Spring
11 5 (3.38%) Hibernate
11 5 (3.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.19%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.43%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.41%) Driving Licence
4 7 (4.73%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.35%) DataPower
6 2 (1.35%) IoT
6 2 (1.35%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.35%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.35%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.35%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.68%) NHS
7 1 (0.68%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.68%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.43%) Linux
2 3 (2.03%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) Android
3 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (38.51%) CI/CD
2 52 (35.14%) DevOps
3 49 (33.11%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (31.08%) Agile
5 41 (27.70%) Analytics
5 41 (27.70%) Mentoring
6 33 (22.30%) Business Intelligence
7 30 (20.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (19.59%) Data Engineering
9 28 (18.92%) Data Pipeline
10 26 (17.57%) Data Analysis
11 25 (16.89%) AI
12 23 (15.54%) ETL
12 23 (15.54%) Software Engineering
13 22 (14.86%) Containerisation
14 20 (13.51%) Migration
15 19 (12.84%) Data Governance
15 19 (12.84%) Data Modelling
16 18 (12.16%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 79 (53.38%) Python
2 28 (18.92%) Java
3 20 (13.51%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.46%) C#
5 13 (8.78%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.76%) PL/SQL
6 10 (6.76%) T-SQL
7 8 (5.41%) C
7 8 (5.41%) C++
7 8 (5.41%) Kotlin
8 5 (3.38%) Scala
9 4 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (2.03%) PHP
11 2 (1.35%) R
12 1 (0.68%) Delphi
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (11.49%) Degree
2 14 (9.46%) AWS Certification
3 11 (7.43%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 7 (4.73%) Security Cleared
7 5 (3.38%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.03%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.03%) IIBA
9 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.68%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.46%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.73%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.38%) GDPR
4 2 (1.35%) WCAG
5 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 46 (31.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (19.59%) Terraform
2 10 (6.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 38 (25.68%) Microsoft
2 23 (15.54%) Databricks
3 6 (4.05%) Oracle
4 4 (2.70%) Palantir
5 3 (2.03%) Google
6 1 (0.68%) Salesforce