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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 154 126 256
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 9.95% 13.91% 14.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.57% 39.75% 41.97%
Number of salaries quoted 107 78 199
10th Percentile £32,000 £26,700 £32,316
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,688 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,100 £98,474 £87,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.58% -8.57% +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 433 317 610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 27.99% 34.99% 35.20%
Number of salaries quoted 331 193 485
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,100 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,750 £86,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%

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 February 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 16 (10.39%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.84%) Apache
3 6 (3.90%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.30%) CMS
5 2 (1.30%) Confluence
5 2 (1.30%) JBoss
5 2 (1.30%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 38 (24.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.30%) Markit EDM
1 2 (1.30%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 66 (42.86%) AWS
1 66 (42.86%) Azure
2 47 (30.52%) Serverless
3 37 (24.03%) GitHub
4 33 (21.43%) Amazon S3
4 33 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (17.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 26 (16.88%) Power Platform
7 25 (16.23%) AWS Step Functions
8 23 (14.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (9.74%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
13 11 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (6.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 10 (6.49%) GCP
15 9 (5.84%) Azure AI
15 9 (5.84%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.30%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (20.78%) Tableau
2 28 (18.18%) NoSQL
3 26 (16.88%) Power BI
4 24 (15.58%) DynamoDB
5 18 (11.69%) SQL Server
6 16 (10.39%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (9.74%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (9.09%) Data Mining
9 12 (7.79%) Data Lake
10 10 (6.49%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (5.84%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (5.19%) Metadata
12 8 (5.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (3.90%) MySQL
14 5 (3.25%) MongoDB
14 5 (3.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (2.60%) Spark SQL
15 4 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 3 (1.95%) BigQuery
16 3 (1.95%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 31 (20.13%) Git
2 6 (3.90%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.90%) JIRA
3 2 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 67 (43.51%) Social Skills
2 34 (22.08%) Finance
3 27 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.74%) Retail
5 13 (8.44%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.84%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (5.19%) Legal
7 8 (5.19%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.25%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.65%) Billing
9 1 (0.65%) Games
9 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (35.06%) Developer
2 35 (22.73%) Analyst
3 29 (18.83%) Data Analyst
4 27 (17.53%) Data Engineer
4 27 (17.53%) Senior
5 17 (11.04%) Software Engineer
6 14 (9.09%) Trainee
6 14 (9.09%) Trainee Analyst
6 14 (9.09%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 13 (8.44%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (7.79%) .NET Developer
8 12 (7.79%) Java Developer
9 11 (7.14%) Graduate
9 11 (7.14%) Junior
9 11 (7.14%) Python Developer
10 10 (6.49%) AWS Developer
10 10 (6.49%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 9 (5.84%) Junior Analyst
11 9 (5.84%) Junior Data Analyst
11 9 (5.84%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (18.83%) React
2 25 (16.23%) .NET
3 17 (11.04%) RESTful
4 15 (9.74%) ASP.NET
4 15 (9.74%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (9.09%) AngularJS
5 14 (9.09%) Vue
6 13 (8.44%) .NET Core
6 13 (8.44%) AWS CDK
6 13 (8.44%) Blazor
6 13 (8.44%) CSS
6 13 (8.44%) Django
6 13 (8.44%) FastAPI
6 13 (8.44%) Flask
6 13 (8.44%) HTML
7 11 (7.14%) Node.js
7 11 (7.14%) PySpark
8 8 (5.19%) Spring
9 5 (3.25%) Hibernate
9 5 (3.25%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.49%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.19%) Driving Licence
4 7 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.30%) DataPower
6 2 (1.30%) IoT
6 2 (1.30%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.30%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.30%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.65%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.65%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (1.30%) Windows
3 1 (0.65%) Android
3 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (38.31%) CI/CD
2 54 (35.06%) DevOps
3 49 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (29.87%) Agile
5 44 (28.57%) Analytics
6 41 (26.62%) Mentoring
7 36 (23.38%) Business Intelligence
8 30 (19.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (19.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (18.83%) Data Engineering
10 28 (18.18%) AI
11 27 (17.53%) Data Analysis
11 27 (17.53%) Data Pipeline
12 24 (15.58%) Containerisation
12 24 (15.58%) ETL
12 24 (15.58%) Software Engineering
13 20 (12.99%) Migration
14 19 (12.34%) Data Modelling
14 19 (12.34%) Decision-Making
14 19 (12.34%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 79 (51.30%) Python
2 31 (20.13%) Java
3 19 (12.34%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.09%) C#
5 13 (8.44%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.49%) Kotlin
6 10 (6.49%) T-SQL
7 8 (5.19%) C
7 8 (5.19%) C++
7 8 (5.19%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (3.25%) Scala
9 3 (1.95%) PHP
10 2 (1.30%) R
11 1 (0.65%) Delphi
11 1 (0.65%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (9.74%) Degree
2 14 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 11 (7.14%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (6.49%) Azure Certification
5 9 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.90%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.60%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.95%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.95%) IIBA
9 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.74%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.90%) GDPR
4 2 (1.30%) WCAG
5 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 48 (31.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (18.83%) Terraform
2 10 (6.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (26.62%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.29%) Databricks
3 4 (2.60%) Google
3 4 (2.60%) Oracle
3 4 (2.60%) Palantir
4 1 (0.65%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.65%) Salesforce