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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 178 141 187
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 6.14% 14.75% 10.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.23% 48.45% 35.22%
Number of salaries quoted 120 120 142
10th Percentile £33,175 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,433 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £64,688
90th Percentile £87,565 £75,250 £76,125
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £48,891
% change year-on-year -4.17% +22.72% -5.07%

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 570 291 531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 19.66% 30.44% 28.46%
Number of salaries quoted 418 247 421
10th Percentile £39,000 £31,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £48,404 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,762 £62,733 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.42% +14.06% -8.52%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £54,250
% change year-on-year +8.33% +10.60% -5.65%

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 8 August 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 6 (3.37%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.81%) IIS
3 4 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.69%) Apache
4 3 (1.69%) CMS
5 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 29 (16.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.25%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.69%) Shopify
2 3 (1.69%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 72 (40.45%) Azure
2 59 (33.15%) AWS
3 39 (21.91%) Power Platform
4 33 (18.54%) Serverless
5 28 (15.73%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (15.17%) Amazon ECS
7 26 (14.61%) Amazon S3
7 26 (14.61%) GitHub
8 24 (13.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 24 (13.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 24 (13.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (11.80%) AWS Step Functions
10 16 (8.99%) GCP
11 14 (7.87%) Azure AI
11 14 (7.87%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (7.87%) Datadog
11 14 (7.87%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (6.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (3.93%) SaaS
14 5 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.12%) LAN
1 2 (1.12%) WAN
2 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (21.35%) Power BI
2 26 (14.61%) NoSQL
3 24 (13.48%) DynamoDB
4 23 (12.92%) Amazon Athena
4 23 (12.92%) Tableau
5 19 (10.67%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (7.30%) BigQuery
7 11 (6.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (6.18%) SQL Server
8 6 (3.37%) Metadata
8 6 (3.37%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.81%) MySQL
9 5 (2.81%) Spark SQL
10 4 (2.25%) Data Mining
10 4 (2.25%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.25%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.69%) Redis
11 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (14.61%) Git
2 9 (5.06%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.25%) JIRA
3 4 (2.25%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (1.69%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (37.08%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (14.61%) Finance
4 16 (8.99%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.43%) Manufacturing
6 13 (7.30%) Retail
7 10 (5.62%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.81%) Agriculture
8 5 (2.81%) Automotive
8 5 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.25%) Legal
10 3 (1.69%) Games
11 2 (1.12%) Banking
11 2 (1.12%) Marketing
12 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.56%) Law
12 1 (0.56%) Local Government
12 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (30.34%) Developer
2 33 (18.54%) Analyst
3 30 (16.85%) Software Engineer
4 29 (16.29%) Java Developer
5 26 (14.61%) Senior
6 23 (12.92%) Data Analyst
7 22 (12.36%) Data Engineer
7 22 (12.36%) Lead
8 15 (8.43%) Full-Stack Developer
8 15 (8.43%) Graduate
9 13 (7.30%) AWS Developer
9 13 (7.30%) Junior
9 13 (7.30%) Junior Analyst
9 13 (7.30%) Junior Data Analyst
10 11 (6.18%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 10 (5.62%) SQL Developer
12 8 (4.49%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (4.49%) Senior Developer
13 7 (3.93%) C# Software Engineer
13 7 (3.93%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (18.54%) AngularJS
2 31 (17.42%) Node.js
3 20 (11.24%) React
4 16 (8.99%) Vue
5 15 (8.43%) Spring
6 14 (7.87%) Spring Boot
7 12 (6.74%) CSS
7 12 (6.74%) HTML
8 11 (6.18%) .NET
9 10 (5.62%) PySpark
10 9 (5.06%) RESTful
11 5 (2.81%) Web Services
12 4 (2.25%) ASP.NET
12 4 (2.25%) ASP.NET Core
12 4 (2.25%) REST
13 3 (1.69%) Entity Framework
13 3 (1.69%) Flask
13 3 (1.69%) OAuth
13 3 (1.69%) OAuth2
13 3 (1.69%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.62%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.93%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.37%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.81%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.25%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.25%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.69%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.69%) PKI
7 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.12%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.12%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.56%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.56%) FMCG
8 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 1 (0.56%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.06%) Linux
2 3 (1.69%) Windows
3 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (24.72%) CI/CD
2 43 (24.16%) Agile
3 40 (22.47%) Business Intelligence
4 39 (21.91%) DevOps
4 39 (21.91%) Software Engineering
5 35 (19.66%) Mentoring
6 32 (17.98%) AI
7 29 (16.29%) Analytics
8 25 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (11.80%) Data Pipeline
10 21 (11.80%) Full-Stack Development
10 21 (11.80%) Workflow
11 20 (11.24%) DevSecOps
11 20 (11.24%) Technical Leadership
12 19 (10.67%) Data Analysis
12 19 (10.67%) ETL
13 18 (10.11%) Decision-Making
14 17 (9.55%) Data Engineering
14 17 (9.55%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 59 (33.15%) Python
2 51 (28.65%) Java
3 34 (19.10%) C#
4 30 (16.85%) TypeScript
5 26 (14.61%) Kotlin
6 25 (14.04%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.06%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.93%) Scala
8 7 (3.93%) T-SQL
9 6 (3.37%) PHP
10 4 (2.25%) C++
11 3 (1.69%) C
11 3 (1.69%) R
11 3 (1.69%) VBA
12 2 (1.12%) RPG
13 1 (0.56%) Bicep
13 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.56%) Perl
13 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (10.11%) Degree
2 14 (7.87%) Azure Certification
3 9 (5.06%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.93%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.81%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.67%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.37%) QA
3 4 (2.25%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.25%) SLA
4 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.12%) PMO
6 1 (0.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) HL7
System Software
1 27 (15.17%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (5.62%) Terraform
2 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.69%) Ansible
4 2 (1.12%) Kibana
4 2 (1.12%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (17.98%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.49%) Oracle
3 7 (3.93%) Databricks
4 6 (3.37%) Google
5 4 (2.25%) IBM
5 4 (2.25%) SAP
6 3 (1.69%) Informatica
7 2 (1.12%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.12%) Foundry
7 2 (1.12%) IFS
7 2 (1.12%) Workday
8 1 (0.56%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco
8 1 (0.56%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (0.56%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.56%) Rockwell
8 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.56%) VMware