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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 199 143 267
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 9.33% 18.74% 12.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.86% 47.19% 43.56%
Number of salaries quoted 128 117 220
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £74,063 £73,886 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,800 £93,778 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +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 555 303 613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 26.03% 39.71% 29.73%
Number of salaries quoted 416 245 505
10th Percentile £33,125 £29,025 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £55,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% +5.24% -8.70%

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 12 April 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 12 (6.03%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.52%) Apache
3 6 (3.02%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.01%) CMS
5 2 (1.01%) IIS
5 2 (1.01%) JBoss
5 2 (1.01%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.01%) WebSphere
Applications
1 47 (23.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.01%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 84 (42.21%) Azure
2 76 (38.19%) AWS
3 55 (27.64%) Serverless
4 44 (22.11%) GitHub
5 43 (21.61%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (20.60%) Amazon S3
6 41 (20.60%) Power Platform
7 33 (16.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 32 (16.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 30 (15.08%) AWS Step Functions
10 23 (11.56%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (11.06%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (9.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 19 (9.55%) Azure AI
13 15 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (7.04%) Amazon EventBridge
14 14 (7.04%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (5.53%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (5.03%) GCP
17 8 (4.02%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.01%) Intranet
2 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (22.61%) Tableau
2 40 (20.10%) Power BI
3 35 (17.59%) NoSQL
4 33 (16.58%) DynamoDB
5 20 (10.05%) SQL Server
6 19 (9.55%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (7.04%) Data Mining
9 12 (6.03%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (4.52%) Data Lake
11 8 (4.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (4.02%) Metadata
12 7 (3.52%) MySQL
13 6 (3.02%) MongoDB
13 6 (3.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (2.51%) BigQuery
14 5 (2.51%) Relational Database
15 4 (2.01%) Spark SQL
16 3 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
16 3 (1.51%) Looker
Development Applications
1 32 (16.08%) Git
2 11 (5.53%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.01%) JIRA
4 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 83 (41.71%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.60%) Finance
3 31 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.55%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.53%) Retail
6 9 (4.52%) Legal
7 8 (4.02%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.02%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.01%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.51%) Agriculture
9 3 (1.51%) Automotive
10 1 (0.50%) Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Billing
10 1 (0.50%) Games
10 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (37.69%) Developer
2 53 (26.63%) Analyst
3 40 (20.10%) Data Analyst
4 35 (17.59%) Senior
5 27 (13.57%) Data Engineer
6 25 (12.56%) Java Developer
7 21 (10.55%) Junior
7 21 (10.55%) Software Engineer
8 19 (9.55%) Junior Analyst
8 19 (9.55%) Junior Data Analyst
9 14 (7.04%) Graduate
9 14 (7.04%) Lead
9 14 (7.04%) Python Developer
9 14 (7.04%) Senior Developer
9 14 (7.04%) Trainee
9 14 (7.04%) Trainee Analyst
9 14 (7.04%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 12 (6.03%) .NET Developer
10 12 (6.03%) SQL Developer
11 11 (5.53%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (16.58%) React
2 26 (13.07%) AngularJS
3 24 (12.06%) .NET
4 23 (11.56%) Vue
5 21 (10.55%) Node.js
5 21 (10.55%) RESTful
6 17 (8.54%) CSS
6 17 (8.54%) HTML
7 15 (7.54%) ASP.NET
7 15 (7.54%) ASP.NET Core
8 14 (7.04%) PySpark
8 14 (7.04%) Spring
9 13 (6.53%) .NET Core
9 13 (6.53%) AWS CDK
9 13 (6.53%) Blazor
9 13 (6.53%) Flask
10 10 (5.03%) Django
10 10 (5.03%) FastAPI
11 9 (4.52%) Spring Boot
12 8 (4.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.56%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.53%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.52%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.52%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.51%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.51%) PKI
6 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.01%) DataPower
6 2 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.01%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.01%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.01%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.50%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.50%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.50%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.52%) Linux
2 1 (0.50%) Windows
2 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (31.16%) CI/CD
2 54 (27.14%) Agile
3 49 (24.62%) DevOps
4 47 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (23.12%) Analytics
5 46 (23.12%) Business Intelligence
6 44 (22.11%) Mentoring
7 41 (20.60%) AI
8 37 (18.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (16.58%) Data Analysis
10 30 (15.08%) Infrastructure as Code
11 28 (14.07%) Software Engineering
12 26 (13.07%) Containerisation
13 23 (11.56%) Data Engineering
14 22 (11.06%) Data Pipeline
14 22 (11.06%) Decision-Making
15 20 (10.05%) Microservices
16 19 (9.55%) Business Analysis
17 18 (9.05%) Data Governance
17 18 (9.05%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 86 (43.22%) Python
2 42 (21.11%) Java
3 24 (12.06%) TypeScript
4 23 (11.56%) JavaScript
5 21 (10.55%) C#
5 21 (10.55%) Kotlin
6 9 (4.52%) PL/SQL
6 9 (4.52%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.52%) C
7 7 (3.52%) C++
7 7 (3.52%) PHP
8 5 (2.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (2.51%) Scala
9 4 (2.01%) R
10 2 (1.01%) VBA
11 1 (0.50%) Delphi
11 1 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (10.05%) Azure Certification
2 18 (9.05%) Degree
3 14 (7.04%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.03%) Security Cleared
5 11 (5.53%) AWS Certified Developer
6 9 (4.52%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.51%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.51%) IIBA
8 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.05%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.03%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.52%) GDPR
4 4 (2.01%) SLA
5 3 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.01%) WCAG
7 1 (0.50%) HL7
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 51 (25.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (15.08%) Terraform
2 7 (3.52%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.01%) Ansible
3 2 (1.01%) Kibana
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 52 (26.13%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.54%) Databricks
3 6 (3.02%) Oracle
4 4 (2.01%) Google
4 4 (2.01%) Palantir
5 2 (1.01%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.01%) IBM
5 2 (1.01%) IFS
5 2 (1.01%) SAP
6 1 (0.50%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.50%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.50%) Rockwell