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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 6 12
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 175 139 257
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 6.55% 14.98% 11.55%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.07% 48.10% 39.91%
Number of salaries quoted 119 117 206
10th Percentile £33,250 £29,550 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £60,000 £48,891
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +22.72% -4.14%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,750 £63,563
90th Percentile £87,630 £82,751 £80,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +27.66% -8.74%

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 582 289 644
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 21.77% 31.14% 28.94%
Number of salaries quoted 434 240 526
10th Percentile £40,000 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,153 £64,500 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% +25.24% -14.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,625 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £83,732
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +25.00% -11.31%

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 11 July 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 8 (4.57%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.86%) Apache
2 5 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.71%) IIS
4 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.57%) CMS
5 1 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 36 (20.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.29%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.14%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (42.86%) Azure
2 58 (33.14%) AWS
3 45 (25.71%) Power Platform
4 33 (18.86%) Serverless
5 30 (17.14%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (16.00%) Amazon S3
7 27 (15.43%) GitHub
8 26 (14.86%) Amazon ECS
9 25 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (13.71%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 24 (13.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 21 (12.00%) AWS Step Functions
12 17 (9.71%) Azure AI
13 16 (9.14%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (9.14%) GCP
14 12 (6.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (6.86%) Datadog
14 12 (6.86%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (4.57%) SaaS
16 5 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) LAN
1 2 (1.14%) WAN
2 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (25.14%) Power BI
2 30 (17.14%) Tableau
3 28 (16.00%) NoSQL
4 24 (13.71%) Amazon Athena
4 24 (13.71%) DynamoDB
5 19 (10.86%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (7.43%) BigQuery
7 11 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (4.57%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.43%) Data Mining
9 6 (3.43%) Spark SQL
10 5 (2.86%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.86%) Metadata
10 5 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.29%) MongoDB
11 4 (2.29%) MySQL
11 4 (2.29%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (2.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 26 (14.86%) Git
2 11 (6.29%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.29%) JIRA
3 4 (2.29%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (36.57%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.14%) Finance
3 28 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.14%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.00%) Legal
6 5 (2.86%) Agriculture
6 5 (2.86%) Automotive
6 5 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.71%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.57%) Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.57%) Games
9 1 (0.57%) Law
9 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (30.29%) Developer
2 40 (22.86%) Analyst
3 29 (16.57%) Java Developer
4 28 (16.00%) Data Analyst
4 28 (16.00%) Senior
5 24 (13.71%) Data Engineer
5 24 (13.71%) Software Engineer
6 22 (12.57%) Lead
7 16 (9.14%) Junior
7 16 (9.14%) Junior Analyst
7 16 (9.14%) Junior Data Analyst
8 12 (6.86%) AWS Developer
8 12 (6.86%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (6.86%) SQL Developer
9 8 (4.57%) Lead Data Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (4.00%) C# Software Engineer
10 7 (4.00%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.00%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 29 (16.57%) Node.js
3 20 (11.43%) React
4 18 (10.29%) Vue
5 14 (8.00%) Spring
6 13 (7.43%) Spring Boot
7 11 (6.29%) .NET
7 11 (6.29%) PySpark
8 10 (5.71%) RESTful
9 9 (5.14%) CSS
9 9 (5.14%) HTML
10 6 (3.43%) Web Services
11 4 (2.29%) REST
12 3 (1.71%) Flask
12 3 (1.71%) OAuth
12 3 (1.71%) OAuth2
12 3 (1.71%) OpenID
13 2 (1.14%) ASP.NET Core
13 2 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
13 2 (1.14%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.57%) Cloud Native
1 8 (4.57%) Data Structures
1 8 (4.57%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.86%) e-Learning
4 3 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.71%) PKI
5 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.14%) Learning Management System
5 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.14%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.57%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (0.57%) NHS
6 1 (0.57%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.14%) Windows
1 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (27.43%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (25.14%) CI/CD
3 41 (23.43%) Agile
4 40 (22.86%) DevOps
5 38 (21.71%) Mentoring
6 32 (18.29%) AI
6 32 (18.29%) Software Engineering
7 29 (16.57%) Analytics
7 29 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (13.14%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (12.57%) Data Analysis
10 22 (12.57%) ETL
11 21 (12.00%) DevSecOps
12 20 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
13 19 (10.86%) Data Engineering
13 19 (10.86%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (10.86%) Workflow
14 17 (9.71%) Data Modelling
14 17 (9.71%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 62 (35.43%) Python
2 48 (27.43%) Java
3 34 (19.43%) C#
4 29 (16.57%) TypeScript
5 26 (14.86%) Kotlin
6 24 (13.71%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.43%) PHP
7 6 (3.43%) PL/SQL
7 6 (3.43%) Scala
7 6 (3.43%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.14%) R
8 2 (1.14%) VBA
9 1 (0.57%) Bicep
9 1 (0.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 17 (9.71%) Azure Certification
1 17 (9.71%) Degree
2 12 (6.86%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.57%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.29%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.57%) IIBA
8 1 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.57%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.86%) QA
3 4 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.29%) SLA
4 3 (1.71%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.71%) GDPR
5 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.14%) PMO
6 1 (0.57%) HL7
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (14.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.57%) Terraform
2 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.14%) Ansible
3 2 (1.14%) Kibana
3 2 (1.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (21.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.57%) Oracle
3 7 (4.00%) Databricks
3 7 (4.00%) Google
4 4 (2.29%) SAP
5 3 (1.71%) Informatica
6 2 (1.14%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.14%) IBM
6 2 (1.14%) IFS
6 2 (1.14%) Workday
7 1 (0.57%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.57%) Foundry
7 1 (0.57%) OutSystems
7 1 (0.57%) Rockwell
7 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow