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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 6 11
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 186 136 258
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 7.47% 17.55% 12.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.07% 47.72% 42.09%
Number of salaries quoted 116 113 221
10th Percentile £32,250 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,098 £36,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £48,507
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +13.39% -2.99%
75th Percentile £74,988 £69,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,250 £93,778 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -1.96%

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 580 285 613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 23.28% 36.77% 29.23%
Number of salaries quoted 423 238 517
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,138 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,978
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £59,738 £51,528
% change year-on-year +8.81% +15.93% -10.39%

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 14 May 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 11 (5.91%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.23%) Apache
2 6 (3.23%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.08%) CMS
4 2 (1.08%) IIS
4 2 (1.08%) JBoss
4 2 (1.08%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.08%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 44 (23.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.15%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 84 (45.16%) Azure
2 68 (36.56%) AWS
3 45 (24.19%) Power Platform
4 44 (23.66%) Serverless
5 39 (20.97%) AWS Lambda
6 37 (19.89%) Amazon S3
7 36 (19.35%) GitHub
8 31 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 31 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 28 (15.05%) AWS Step Functions
10 24 (12.90%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (11.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 21 (11.29%) Azure AI
13 20 (10.75%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (7.53%) GCP
15 12 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (5.38%) Datadog
16 10 (5.38%) SaaS
17 9 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) Intranet
2 1 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (23.66%) Power BI
2 42 (22.58%) Tableau
3 35 (18.82%) NoSQL
4 31 (16.67%) DynamoDB
5 22 (11.83%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (7.53%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (7.53%) SQL Server
7 13 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (5.38%) Data Mining
9 9 (4.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (4.84%) BigQuery
10 7 (3.76%) Spark SQL
11 6 (3.23%) Data Lake
11 6 (3.23%) Metadata
12 5 (2.69%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.69%) MySQL
12 5 (2.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (2.15%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.61%) ClickHouse
14 3 (1.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (17.20%) Git
2 11 (5.91%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.15%) JIRA
4 3 (1.61%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 75 (40.32%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.82%) Finance
3 28 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.30%) Legal
6 7 (3.76%) Retail
7 5 (2.69%) Agriculture
7 5 (2.69%) Automotive
7 5 (2.69%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Games
10 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (35.48%) Developer
2 49 (26.34%) Analyst
3 37 (19.89%) Data Analyst
4 32 (17.20%) Senior
5 27 (14.52%) Java Developer
6 22 (11.83%) Data Engineer
6 22 (11.83%) Junior
7 21 (11.29%) Junior Analyst
7 21 (11.29%) Junior Data Analyst
8 20 (10.75%) Lead
8 20 (10.75%) Software Engineer
9 12 (6.45%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.45%) SQL Developer
10 11 (5.91%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (5.38%) AWS Developer
11 10 (5.38%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (5.38%) Trainee
11 10 (5.38%) Trainee Analyst
11 10 (5.38%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 9 (4.84%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.20%) AngularJS
2 25 (13.44%) Node.js
3 24 (12.90%) React
4 22 (11.83%) .NET
5 20 (10.75%) Vue
6 18 (9.68%) RESTful
7 13 (6.99%) Spring
8 12 (6.45%) PySpark
9 11 (5.91%) ASP.NET
9 11 (5.91%) ASP.NET Core
9 11 (5.91%) CSS
9 11 (5.91%) HTML
10 9 (4.84%) .NET Core
10 9 (4.84%) AWS CDK
10 9 (4.84%) Blazor
11 8 (4.30%) Spring Boot
11 8 (4.30%) Web Services
12 7 (3.76%) REST
13 5 (2.69%) Flask
13 5 (2.69%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.84%) Data Structures
2 9 (4.84%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.15%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.61%) PKI
6 2 (1.08%) DataPower
6 2 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.08%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.08%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.08%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.54%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.54%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.54%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.54%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.69%) Linux
2 1 (0.54%) Windows
2 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (29.57%) CI/CD
2 48 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
3 47 (25.27%) Agile
4 46 (24.73%) DevOps
5 39 (20.97%) Mentoring
6 38 (20.43%) AI
7 36 (19.35%) Analytics
7 36 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (13.98%) Software Engineering
10 24 (12.90%) Data Analysis
11 20 (10.75%) ETL
12 19 (10.22%) Data Engineering
12 19 (10.22%) Data Pipeline
12 19 (10.22%) Decision-Making
12 19 (10.22%) DevSecOps
13 18 (9.68%) Computer Science
13 18 (9.68%) Data Governance
13 18 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (9.14%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 73 (39.25%) Python
2 48 (25.81%) Java
3 29 (15.59%) TypeScript
4 27 (14.52%) C#
5 24 (12.90%) Kotlin
6 21 (11.29%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.84%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.23%) PHP
8 6 (3.23%) Scala
8 6 (3.23%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.69%) C++
10 4 (2.15%) C
11 3 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.61%) R
12 2 (1.08%) VBA
13 1 (0.54%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 22 (11.83%) Azure Certification
2 20 (10.75%) Degree
3 12 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.38%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.30%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.76%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (2.15%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.61%) IIBA
9 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.29%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.23%) GDPR
4 4 (2.15%) SLA
5 2 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.08%) QA
5 2 (1.08%) WCAG
6 1 (0.54%) HL7
6 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (20.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (9.14%) Terraform
2 3 (1.61%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.08%) Ansible
3 2 (1.08%) Kibana
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 45 (24.19%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.38%) Databricks
3 7 (3.76%) Oracle
4 5 (2.69%) Google
5 2 (1.08%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.08%) IBM
5 2 (1.08%) IFS
5 2 (1.08%) Palantir
5 2 (1.08%) SAP
6 1 (0.54%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.54%) Informatica
6 1 (0.54%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.54%) Rockwell