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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 173 137 276
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 6.58% 16.71% 11.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.93% 48.75% 40.53%
Number of salaries quoted 117 116 223
10th Percentile £33,250 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,375 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year - +26.16% -7.66%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,639 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £45,874
% change year-on-year - +25.34% -10.92%

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 578 281 681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 21.99% 34.27% 29.19%
Number of salaries quoted 432 235 554
10th Percentile £40,000 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,110 £64,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% +28.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £61,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.12% +22.50% -11.89%

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 26 June 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 7 (4.05%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.89%) Apache
2 5 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.73%) IIS
4 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.58%) CMS
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 35 (20.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.31%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.16%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.58%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 72 (41.62%) Azure
2 57 (32.95%) AWS
3 44 (25.43%) Power Platform
4 34 (19.65%) Serverless
5 31 (17.92%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (16.76%) Amazon S3
7 28 (16.18%) GitHub
8 27 (15.61%) Amazon ECS
9 26 (15.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (14.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 25 (14.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (12.72%) AWS Step Functions
12 17 (9.83%) Azure AI
13 15 (8.67%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (8.67%) GCP
14 12 (6.94%) Datadog
14 12 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (6.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (4.62%) SaaS
17 5 (2.89%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) LAN
1 1 (0.58%) WAN
1 1 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (24.86%) Power BI
2 30 (17.34%) Tableau
3 29 (16.76%) NoSQL
4 25 (14.45%) Amazon Athena
4 25 (14.45%) DynamoDB
5 18 (10.40%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (6.94%) BigQuery
7 10 (5.78%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (4.62%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.47%) Data Mining
9 6 (3.47%) Spark SQL
10 5 (2.89%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.89%) Metadata
10 5 (2.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.31%) MongoDB
11 4 (2.31%) MySQL
11 4 (2.31%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (2.31%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (15.61%) Git
2 12 (6.94%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.31%) JIRA
3 4 (2.31%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (36.42%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.34%) Finance
3 27 (15.61%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.67%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.47%) Legal
6 5 (2.89%) Agriculture
6 5 (2.89%) Automotive
6 5 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.73%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.58%) Banking
9 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.58%) Games
9 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 54 (31.21%) Developer
2 40 (23.12%) Analyst
3 30 (17.34%) Java Developer
4 28 (16.18%) Data Analyst
4 28 (16.18%) Senior
5 24 (13.87%) Software Engineer
6 23 (13.29%) Data Engineer
7 21 (12.14%) Lead
8 16 (9.25%) Junior
8 16 (9.25%) Junior Analyst
8 16 (9.25%) Junior Data Analyst
9 12 (6.94%) AWS Developer
9 12 (6.94%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (6.94%) SQL Developer
10 8 (4.62%) Lead Data Engineer
10 8 (4.62%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.62%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (4.05%) C# Software Engineer
11 7 (4.05%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (20.81%) AngularJS
2 30 (17.34%) Node.js
3 20 (11.56%) React
4 18 (10.40%) Vue
5 13 (7.51%) Spring
6 12 (6.94%) Spring Boot
7 11 (6.36%) .NET
8 10 (5.78%) PySpark
8 10 (5.78%) RESTful
9 9 (5.20%) CSS
9 9 (5.20%) HTML
10 6 (3.47%) Web Services
11 4 (2.31%) REST
12 3 (1.73%) Flask
12 3 (1.73%) OAuth
12 3 (1.73%) OAuth2
12 3 (1.73%) OpenID
13 2 (1.16%) ASP.NET Core
13 2 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
13 2 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.62%) Cloud Native
1 8 (4.62%) Data Structures
1 8 (4.62%) Management Information System
2 5 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (2.89%) e-Learning
3 3 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (1.73%) PKI
4 2 (1.16%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (1.16%) Learning Management System
4 2 (1.16%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.16%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.58%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (0.58%) NHS
5 1 (0.58%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.58%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.58%) Windows
1 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (27.17%) Business Intelligence
2 45 (26.01%) CI/CD
3 41 (23.70%) DevOps
4 40 (23.12%) Agile
5 36 (20.81%) Mentoring
6 31 (17.92%) AI
6 31 (17.92%) Software Engineering
7 29 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (16.18%) Analytics
9 24 (13.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (12.72%) Data Analysis
10 22 (12.72%) DevSecOps
11 21 (12.14%) Data Pipeline
12 20 (11.56%) ETL
13 19 (10.98%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (10.98%) Workflow
14 18 (10.40%) Technical Leadership
15 17 (9.83%) Data Engineering
15 17 (9.83%) Data Modelling
15 17 (9.83%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 60 (34.68%) Python
2 48 (27.75%) Java
3 34 (19.65%) C#
4 29 (16.76%) TypeScript
5 27 (15.61%) Kotlin
6 24 (13.87%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.47%) PHP
7 6 (3.47%) PL/SQL
7 6 (3.47%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.89%) Scala
9 2 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.16%) R
9 2 (1.16%) VBA
10 1 (0.58%) Bicep
10 1 (0.58%) C++
Qualifications
1 17 (9.83%) Azure Certification
1 17 (9.83%) Degree
2 12 (6.94%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.62%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.31%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.58%) IIBA
8 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.14%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.89%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.89%) QA
3 4 (2.31%) SLA
4 3 (1.73%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.73%) GDPR
5 2 (1.16%) PMO
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.58%) HL7
6 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (15.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.62%) Terraform
2 2 (1.16%) Ansible
2 2 (1.16%) Kibana
2 2 (1.16%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 36 (20.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.62%) Oracle
3 7 (4.05%) Databricks
3 7 (4.05%) Google
4 4 (2.31%) SAP
5 2 (1.16%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.16%) IBM
5 2 (1.16%) IFS
5 2 (1.16%) Informatica
5 2 (1.16%) Workday
6 1 (0.58%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.58%) Foundry
6 1 (0.58%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.58%) Rockwell
6 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow