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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 174 133 275
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 6.52% 16.88% 11.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.34% 48.54% 40.68%
Number of salaries quoted 113 113 225
10th Percentile £35,000 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +26.32% -6.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £84,750 £92,522 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £56,750 £46,500
% change year-on-year +1.32% +22.04% -9.71%

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 593 274 676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 22.23% 34.77% 29.04%
Number of salaries quoted 440 228 552
10th Percentile £39,900 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,110 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.85% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,125 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -9.16%

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 12 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 (4.02%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.87%) Apache
2 5 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.15%) IIS
5 1 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 38 (21.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.30%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 68 (39.08%) Azure
2 61 (35.06%) AWS
3 42 (24.14%) Power Platform
4 39 (22.41%) Serverless
5 35 (20.11%) AWS Lambda
6 33 (18.97%) Amazon S3
7 32 (18.39%) GitHub
8 28 (16.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (16.09%) Amazon ECS
8 28 (16.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (14.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 25 (14.37%) AWS Step Functions
11 16 (9.20%) Azure AI
12 15 (8.62%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (8.05%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (7.47%) Datadog
15 12 (6.90%) GCP
16 10 (5.75%) SaaS
17 9 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 6 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (23.56%) Power BI
2 33 (18.97%) NoSQL
2 33 (18.97%) Tableau
3 28 (16.09%) DynamoDB
4 26 (14.94%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (8.62%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (5.75%) SQL Server
7 9 (5.17%) BigQuery
8 8 (4.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (4.02%) Data Mining
9 7 (4.02%) Spark SQL
10 6 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (2.87%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.87%) Metadata
11 5 (2.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (2.30%) MongoDB
12 4 (2.30%) MySQL
12 4 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (2.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (16.09%) Git
2 12 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.30%) JIRA
3 4 (2.30%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 63 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 32 (18.39%) Finance
3 28 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.47%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.02%) Legal
6 5 (2.87%) Agriculture
6 5 (2.87%) Automotive
6 5 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.15%) Games
7 2 (1.15%) Retail
8 1 (0.57%) Banking
8 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (32.76%) Developer
2 42 (24.14%) Analyst
3 30 (17.24%) Data Analyst
3 30 (17.24%) Java Developer
4 29 (16.67%) Senior
5 22 (12.64%) Data Engineer
5 22 (12.64%) Software Engineer
6 20 (11.49%) Lead
7 16 (9.20%) Junior
7 16 (9.20%) Junior Analyst
7 16 (9.20%) Junior Data Analyst
8 12 (6.90%) SQL Developer
9 11 (6.32%) AWS Developer
10 10 (5.75%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (5.75%) Senior Developer
11 9 (5.17%) Senior Java Developer
12 8 (4.60%) Lead Data Engineer
13 7 (4.02%) Python Developer
13 7 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
13 7 (4.02%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (20.69%) AngularJS
2 30 (17.24%) Node.js
3 21 (12.07%) React
4 19 (10.92%) Vue
5 12 (6.90%) .NET
5 12 (6.90%) Spring
6 11 (6.32%) PySpark
6 11 (6.32%) RESTful
7 10 (5.75%) Spring Boot
8 9 (5.17%) CSS
8 9 (5.17%) HTML
9 6 (3.45%) Web Services
10 4 (2.30%) Flask
10 4 (2.30%) REST
11 3 (1.72%) .NET Core
11 3 (1.72%) ASP.NET Core
11 3 (1.72%) Blazor
11 3 (1.72%) OpenAPI
11 3 (1.72%) OpenID
11 3 (1.72%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.32%) Data Structures
2 10 (5.75%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.75%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.87%) e-Learning
4 4 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.72%) PKI
6 2 (1.15%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.15%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.15%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.15%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.15%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.57%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.57%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.57%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (27.59%) CI/CD
2 44 (25.29%) Business Intelligence
3 43 (24.71%) DevOps
4 41 (23.56%) Agile
5 36 (20.69%) Mentoring
6 32 (18.39%) Analytics
7 30 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (16.67%) AI
8 29 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (16.09%) Software Engineering
10 24 (13.79%) Data Analysis
11 23 (13.22%) DevSecOps
12 21 (12.07%) ETL
13 20 (11.49%) Data Pipeline
14 19 (10.92%) Continuous Integration
14 19 (10.92%) Decision-Making
14 19 (10.92%) Workflow
15 18 (10.34%) Data Engineering
16 17 (9.77%) Full-Stack Development
16 17 (9.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 62 (35.63%) Python
2 48 (27.59%) Java
3 31 (17.82%) C#
3 31 (17.82%) TypeScript
4 28 (16.09%) Kotlin
5 24 (13.79%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.60%) T-SQL
7 6 (3.45%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.87%) Scala
9 4 (2.30%) PHP
10 3 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.15%) R
11 2 (1.15%) VBA
12 1 (0.57%) Bicep
12 1 (0.57%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (10.92%) Degree
2 17 (9.77%) Azure Certification
3 13 (7.47%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.17%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.30%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.30%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.72%) IIBA
7 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.22%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.02%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.87%) GDPR
4 4 (2.30%) QA
4 4 (2.30%) SLA
5 2 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.57%) HL7
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (18.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (6.32%) Terraform
2 2 (1.15%) Ansible
2 2 (1.15%) Kibana
2 2 (1.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 37 (21.26%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.02%) Databricks
3 6 (3.45%) Oracle
4 5 (2.87%) Google
5 2 (1.15%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.15%) IBM
5 2 (1.15%) IFS
5 2 (1.15%) Informatica
5 2 (1.15%) SAP
6 1 (0.57%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.57%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.57%) Rockwell
6 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow