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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 189 137 271
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 9.67% 17.91% 13.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.06% 45.07% 44.87%
Number of salaries quoted 123 109 218
10th Percentile £32,000 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £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 £74,375 £73,886 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,300 £93,778 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £49,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.16% -1.00% -

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 539 304 604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 27.57% 39.74% 30.05%
Number of salaries quoted 406 242 492
10th Percentile £31,625 £27,638 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £78,877 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £84,842
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -8.70%

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 1 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 (6.35%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.70%) Apache
3 6 (3.17%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.06%) CMS
5 2 (1.06%) JBoss
5 2 (1.06%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.06%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.53%) IIS
Applications
1 48 (25.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 78 (41.27%) AWS
2 75 (39.68%) Azure
3 58 (30.69%) Serverless
4 46 (24.34%) GitHub
5 43 (22.75%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (21.69%) Amazon S3
7 38 (20.11%) Power Platform
8 33 (17.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 32 (16.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 30 (15.87%) AWS Step Functions
11 23 (12.17%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (11.64%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (10.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 17 (8.99%) Azure AI
15 15 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (7.41%) Amazon EventBridge
16 14 (7.41%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (5.82%) Azure Data Factory
18 10 (5.29%) GCP
19 8 (4.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (22.75%) Tableau
2 38 (20.11%) Power BI
3 35 (18.52%) NoSQL
4 33 (17.46%) DynamoDB
5 19 (10.05%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (10.05%) SQL Server
6 16 (8.47%) Data Mining
6 16 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (6.88%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (5.29%) Data Lake
9 8 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (4.23%) Metadata
10 7 (3.70%) MySQL
11 6 (3.17%) MongoDB
11 6 (3.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (2.65%) BigQuery
13 4 (2.12%) Relational Database
13 4 (2.12%) Spark SQL
14 3 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (1.59%) Looker
Development Applications
1 32 (16.93%) Git
2 11 (5.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.59%) JIRA
4 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 77 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 40 (21.16%) Finance
3 30 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.99%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.88%) Retail
6 9 (4.76%) Legal
7 8 (4.23%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (3.70%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.12%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.06%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.06%) Automotive
11 1 (0.53%) Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Billing
11 1 (0.53%) Games
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (39.68%) Developer
2 50 (26.46%) Analyst
3 40 (21.16%) Data Analyst
4 34 (17.99%) Senior
5 28 (14.81%) Data Engineer
6 25 (13.23%) Java Developer
7 19 (10.05%) Junior
7 19 (10.05%) Software Engineer
8 17 (8.99%) Junior Analyst
8 17 (8.99%) Junior Data Analyst
9 16 (8.47%) Python Developer
9 16 (8.47%) Trainee
9 16 (8.47%) Trainee Analyst
9 16 (8.47%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 15 (7.94%) Senior Developer
11 12 (6.35%) .NET Developer
11 12 (6.35%) Graduate
11 12 (6.35%) Lead
12 11 (5.82%) AWS Developer
12 11 (5.82%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.46%) React
2 24 (12.70%) AngularJS
3 23 (12.17%) .NET
4 22 (11.64%) Vue
5 21 (11.11%) Node.js
6 19 (10.05%) CSS
6 19 (10.05%) HTML
6 19 (10.05%) RESTful
7 16 (8.47%) Flask
8 15 (7.94%) ASP.NET
8 15 (7.94%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (6.88%) .NET Core
9 13 (6.88%) AWS CDK
9 13 (6.88%) Blazor
9 13 (6.88%) Django
9 13 (6.88%) FastAPI
9 13 (6.88%) PySpark
9 13 (6.88%) Spring
10 9 (4.76%) Spring Boot
11 8 (4.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.64%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.88%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.23%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.70%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.59%) PKI
6 2 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.06%) DataPower
6 2 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.06%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.06%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.53%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.53%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.53%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (0.53%) Windows
2 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (33.86%) CI/CD
2 52 (27.51%) Agile
3 49 (25.93%) DevOps
4 46 (24.34%) Analytics
5 45 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (23.28%) Business Intelligence
7 43 (22.75%) Mentoring
8 38 (20.11%) AI
9 35 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (18.52%) Data Analysis
10 33 (17.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (14.29%) Containerisation
12 26 (13.76%) Software Engineering
13 24 (12.70%) Data Engineering
14 21 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
14 21 (11.11%) Decision-Making
15 20 (10.58%) Microservices
16 19 (10.05%) Business Analysis
16 19 (10.05%) Test Automation
17 18 (9.52%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 87 (46.03%) Python
2 41 (21.69%) Java
3 23 (12.17%) JavaScript
4 21 (11.11%) Kotlin
4 21 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 16 (8.47%) C#
6 9 (4.76%) PL/SQL
7 8 (4.23%) T-SQL
8 7 (3.70%) C
8 7 (3.70%) C++
9 5 (2.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (2.65%) PHP
9 5 (2.65%) Scala
10 3 (1.59%) R
11 2 (1.06%) VBA
12 1 (0.53%) Delphi
12 1 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (9.52%) Azure Certification
2 15 (7.94%) Degree
3 14 (7.41%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.82%) AWS Certified Developer
4 11 (5.82%) Security Cleared
5 9 (4.76%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.59%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.59%) IIBA
7 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.99%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.23%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.70%) GDPR
4 2 (1.06%) SLA
4 2 (1.06%) WCAG
5 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 54 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (17.46%) Terraform
2 7 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.06%) Ansible
3 2 (1.06%) Kibana
Vendors
1 50 (26.46%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.52%) Databricks
3 6 (3.17%) Oracle
4 4 (2.12%) Google
4 4 (2.12%) Palantir
5 2 (1.06%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.06%) IBM
5 2 (1.06%) SAP
6 1 (0.53%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.53%) IFS