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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 202 144 267
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 8.99% 18.95% 12.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.50% 47.52% 42.65%
Number of salaries quoted 126 119 221
10th Percentile £31,625 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,313 £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 £74,688 £72,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,000 £93,778 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% +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 569 303 626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 25.31% 39.87% 29.77%
Number of salaries quoted 421 244 519
10th Percentile £33,750 £28,988 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,375 £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 £75,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% +9.52% -7.49%

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 18 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 (5.94%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.47%) Apache
3 6 (2.97%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.99%) CMS
5 2 (0.99%) IIS
5 2 (0.99%) JBoss
5 2 (0.99%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.99%) WebSphere
Applications
1 48 (23.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.98%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 88 (43.56%) Azure
2 78 (38.61%) AWS
3 55 (27.23%) Serverless
4 45 (22.28%) GitHub
5 44 (21.78%) Power Platform
6 43 (21.29%) AWS Lambda
7 41 (20.30%) Amazon S3
8 34 (16.83%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (16.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 31 (15.35%) AWS Step Functions
11 24 (11.88%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (11.39%) Amazon ECS
13 20 (9.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 20 (9.90%) Azure AI
14 15 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (6.93%) Amazon EventBridge
15 14 (6.93%) Amazon SQS
16 13 (6.44%) GCP
17 11 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
18 9 (4.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.99%) Intranet
2 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (22.77%) Tableau
2 43 (21.29%) Power BI
3 36 (17.82%) NoSQL
4 34 (16.83%) DynamoDB
5 20 (9.90%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (9.90%) SQL Server
6 16 (7.92%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (6.93%) Data Mining
7 14 (6.93%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (4.95%) Metadata
9 8 (3.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (3.96%) Data Lake
10 7 (3.47%) MySQL
11 6 (2.97%) BigQuery
11 6 (2.97%) MongoDB
11 6 (2.97%) Spark SQL
11 6 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (2.48%) Relational Database
13 3 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (1.49%) Looker
Development Applications
1 32 (15.84%) Git
2 11 (5.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.98%) JIRA
4 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 83 (41.09%) Social Skills
2 42 (20.79%) Finance
3 32 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.45%) Retail
6 9 (4.46%) Legal
7 7 (3.47%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.47%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.98%) Agriculture
8 4 (1.98%) Automotive
9 3 (1.49%) Tech for Good
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 (37.13%) Developer
2 54 (26.73%) Analyst
3 41 (20.30%) Data Analyst
4 34 (16.83%) Senior
5 28 (13.86%) Data Engineer
6 25 (12.38%) Java Developer
7 22 (10.89%) Junior
8 21 (10.40%) Software Engineer
9 20 (9.90%) Junior Analyst
9 20 (9.90%) Junior Data Analyst
10 17 (8.42%) Lead
11 14 (6.93%) Python Developer
11 14 (6.93%) Trainee
11 14 (6.93%) Trainee Analyst
11 14 (6.93%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 13 (6.44%) Graduate
12 13 (6.44%) Senior Developer
13 12 (5.94%) .NET Developer
13 12 (5.94%) SQL Developer
14 11 (5.45%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (16.83%) React
2 28 (13.86%) AngularJS
3 24 (11.88%) .NET
3 24 (11.88%) Vue
4 22 (10.89%) Node.js
5 21 (10.40%) RESTful
6 17 (8.42%) CSS
6 17 (8.42%) HTML
7 15 (7.43%) ASP.NET
7 15 (7.43%) ASP.NET Core
7 15 (7.43%) PySpark
8 13 (6.44%) .NET Core
8 13 (6.44%) AWS CDK
8 13 (6.44%) Blazor
8 13 (6.44%) Flask
8 13 (6.44%) Spring
9 10 (4.95%) Django
9 10 (4.95%) FastAPI
10 8 (3.96%) Spring Boot
10 8 (3.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.88%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.45%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.46%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.97%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.49%) PKI
6 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.99%) DataPower
6 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.99%) Legacy Code
6 2 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.99%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.99%) Product Ownership
6 2 (0.99%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.50%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.50%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.96%) Linux
2 1 (0.50%) Windows
2 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (31.19%) CI/CD
2 55 (27.23%) Agile
3 51 (25.25%) DevOps
4 49 (24.26%) Business Intelligence
5 47 (23.27%) Analytics
6 46 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (21.29%) Mentoring
8 40 (19.80%) AI
9 36 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (16.34%) Data Analysis
11 30 (14.85%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (14.36%) Software Engineering
13 25 (12.38%) Containerisation
13 25 (12.38%) Data Engineering
14 24 (11.88%) Decision-Making
15 23 (11.39%) Data Pipeline
16 20 (9.90%) Data Governance
16 20 (9.90%) Microservices
17 19 (9.41%) Business Analysis
17 19 (9.41%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 87 (43.07%) Python
2 42 (20.79%) Java
3 26 (12.87%) TypeScript
4 23 (11.39%) JavaScript
5 22 (10.89%) C#
5 22 (10.89%) Kotlin
6 8 (3.96%) PL/SQL
6 8 (3.96%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.47%) PHP
8 6 (2.97%) C
8 6 (2.97%) C++
8 6 (2.97%) Scala
9 5 (2.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.49%) R
11 2 (0.99%) VBA
12 1 (0.50%) Delphi
12 1 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (10.40%) Azure Certification
2 19 (9.41%) Degree
3 14 (6.93%) AWS Certification
4 13 (6.44%) Security Cleared
5 11 (5.45%) AWS Certified Developer
6 9 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.46%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.49%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.49%) IIBA
7 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.99%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.40%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.95%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.47%) GDPR
4 4 (1.98%) SLA
5 3 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.99%) WCAG
7 1 (0.50%) HL7
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 51 (25.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (14.85%) Terraform
2 5 (2.48%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.99%) Ansible
3 2 (0.99%) Kibana
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 52 (25.74%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.92%) Databricks
3 6 (2.97%) Oracle
4 4 (1.98%) Google
4 4 (1.98%) Palantir
5 2 (0.99%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.99%) IBM
5 2 (0.99%) IFS
5 2 (0.99%) SAP
6 1 (0.50%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.50%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.50%) Rockwell