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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 190 139 272
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 9.55% 18.27% 13.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.32% 46.33% 44.08%
Number of salaries quoted 123 113 222
10th Percentile £32,000 £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 £74,375 £73,886 £67,188
90th Percentile £83,300 £93,778 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -

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 538 300 617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 27.04% 39.42% 30.39%
Number of salaries quoted 405 244 507
10th Percentile £32,000 £27,913 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,938 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -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 4 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 (6.32%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.68%) Apache
3 6 (3.16%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.05%) CMS
5 2 (1.05%) JBoss
5 2 (1.05%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.05%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.53%) IIS
Applications
1 46 (24.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.11%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 78 (41.05%) AWS
2 75 (39.47%) Azure
3 58 (30.53%) Serverless
4 46 (24.21%) GitHub
5 43 (22.63%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (21.58%) Amazon S3
7 38 (20.00%) Power Platform
8 33 (17.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 32 (16.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 30 (15.79%) AWS Step Functions
11 23 (12.11%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (11.58%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 17 (8.95%) Azure AI
15 15 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (7.37%) Amazon EventBridge
16 14 (7.37%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (5.79%) Azure Data Factory
18 10 (5.26%) GCP
19 8 (4.21%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.05%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (23.16%) Tableau
2 38 (20.00%) Power BI
3 35 (18.42%) NoSQL
4 33 (17.37%) DynamoDB
5 19 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 16 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (7.89%) Data Mining
8 13 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (5.26%) Data Lake
10 8 (4.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (4.21%) Metadata
11 7 (3.68%) MySQL
12 6 (3.16%) MongoDB
12 6 (3.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (2.63%) BigQuery
14 4 (2.11%) Relational Database
14 4 (2.11%) Spark SQL
15 3 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (1.58%) Looker
Development Applications
1 32 (16.84%) Git
2 11 (5.79%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.11%) JIRA
4 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 79 (41.58%) Social Skills
2 41 (21.58%) Finance
3 30 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.84%) Retail
6 9 (4.74%) Legal
7 8 (4.21%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (3.68%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.11%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.05%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.05%) Automotive
11 1 (0.53%) Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Billing
11 1 (0.53%) Games
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (38.95%) Developer
2 51 (26.84%) Analyst
3 39 (20.53%) Data Analyst
4 35 (18.42%) Senior
5 28 (14.74%) Data Engineer
6 25 (13.16%) Java Developer
7 19 (10.00%) Junior
7 19 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 17 (8.95%) Junior Analyst
8 17 (8.95%) Junior Data Analyst
9 16 (8.42%) Python Developer
10 15 (7.89%) Senior Developer
10 15 (7.89%) Trainee
10 15 (7.89%) Trainee Analyst
10 15 (7.89%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 12 (6.32%) .NET Developer
11 12 (6.32%) Graduate
11 12 (6.32%) Lead
12 11 (5.79%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (5.79%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.37%) React
2 24 (12.63%) AngularJS
3 23 (12.11%) .NET
4 22 (11.58%) Vue
5 21 (11.05%) Node.js
6 19 (10.00%) CSS
6 19 (10.00%) HTML
6 19 (10.00%) RESTful
7 16 (8.42%) Flask
8 15 (7.89%) ASP.NET
8 15 (7.89%) ASP.NET Core
9 14 (7.37%) PySpark
10 13 (6.84%) .NET Core
10 13 (6.84%) AWS CDK
10 13 (6.84%) Blazor
10 13 (6.84%) Django
10 13 (6.84%) FastAPI
10 13 (6.84%) Spring
11 9 (4.74%) Spring Boot
12 8 (4.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.58%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.84%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.21%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.68%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.58%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.58%) PKI
6 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.05%) DataPower
6 2 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.05%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.05%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.53%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.53%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.53%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.53%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.74%) Linux
2 1 (0.53%) Windows
2 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (33.68%) CI/CD
2 54 (28.42%) Agile
3 48 (25.26%) DevOps
4 47 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (23.68%) Analytics
6 44 (23.16%) Business Intelligence
6 44 (23.16%) Mentoring
7 38 (20.00%) AI
8 36 (18.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (18.95%) Data Analysis
9 33 (17.37%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (14.21%) Containerisation
11 26 (13.68%) Software Engineering
12 24 (12.63%) Data Engineering
13 22 (11.58%) Data Pipeline
13 22 (11.58%) Decision-Making
14 20 (10.53%) Business Analysis
14 20 (10.53%) Microservices
15 19 (10.00%) Mathematics
15 19 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 87 (45.79%) Python
2 41 (21.58%) Java
3 23 (12.11%) JavaScript
4 21 (11.05%) Kotlin
4 21 (11.05%) TypeScript
5 16 (8.42%) C#
6 9 (4.74%) PL/SQL
7 7 (3.68%) C
7 7 (3.68%) C++
7 7 (3.68%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (2.63%) PHP
8 5 (2.63%) Scala
9 4 (2.11%) R
10 2 (1.05%) VBA
11 1 (0.53%) Delphi
11 1 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (9.47%) Azure Certification
2 17 (8.95%) Degree
3 14 (7.37%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.79%) AWS Certified Developer
4 11 (5.79%) Security Cleared
5 9 (4.74%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.58%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.58%) IIBA
7 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.68%) GDPR
4 3 (1.58%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.05%) SLA
5 2 (1.05%) WCAG
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 54 (28.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (17.37%) Terraform
2 7 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.05%) Ansible
3 2 (1.05%) Kibana
Vendors
1 49 (25.79%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.47%) Databricks
3 6 (3.16%) Oracle
4 4 (2.11%) Google
4 4 (2.11%) Palantir
5 2 (1.05%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.05%) IBM
5 2 (1.05%) SAP
6 1 (0.53%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.53%) IFS