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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 174 139 180
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 5.86% 14.48% 9.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.91% 48.60% 34.48%
Number of salaries quoted 117 120 133
10th Percentile £32,950 £32,500 £37,600
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £68,113
90th Percentile £88,148 £75,250 £76,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £48,891
% change year-on-year -4.17% +22.72% -5.07%

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 563 286 522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 18.98% 29.79% 27.99%
Number of salaries quoted 409 241 406
10th Percentile £39,000 £31,250 £35,625
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,805 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +18.18% -9.47%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -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 15 August 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 5 (2.87%) Apache Spark
1 5 (2.87%) IIS
2 3 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.72%) CMS
3 2 (1.15%) Apache
3 2 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 27 (15.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.72%) Shopify
3 2 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.15%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (1.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 70 (40.23%) Azure
2 56 (32.18%) AWS
3 35 (20.11%) Power Platform
4 33 (18.97%) Serverless
5 28 (16.09%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (15.52%) Amazon ECS
7 26 (14.94%) Amazon S3
7 26 (14.94%) GitHub
8 24 (13.79%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 24 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (13.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (12.07%) AWS Step Functions
11 15 (8.62%) Datadog
11 15 (8.62%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (8.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (7.47%) Azure AI
13 13 (7.47%) GCP
14 11 (6.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 8 (4.60%) SaaS
16 6 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.72%) LAN
1 3 (1.72%) WAN
2 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (19.54%) Power BI
2 24 (13.79%) DynamoDB
3 23 (13.22%) NoSQL
4 22 (12.64%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (10.92%) Tableau
6 18 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (6.90%) SQL Server
8 10 (5.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (5.75%) BigQuery
9 8 (4.60%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.45%) Metadata
11 5 (2.87%) Spark SQL
12 4 (2.30%) Data Mining
12 4 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (1.72%) Big Data
13 3 (1.72%) ClickHouse
13 3 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.72%) MySQL
13 3 (1.72%) Redis
13 3 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (15.52%) Git
2 8 (4.60%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.87%) JIRA
4 4 (2.30%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.72%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 65 (37.36%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (14.94%) Finance
3 16 (9.20%) Manufacturing
4 14 (8.05%) Retail
5 11 (6.32%) Pharmaceutical
5 11 (6.32%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.87%) Agriculture
6 5 (2.87%) Automotive
6 5 (2.87%) Legal
7 4 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.72%) Banking
8 3 (1.72%) Games
9 2 (1.15%) Law
9 2 (1.15%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.57%) Local Government
10 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (30.46%) Developer
2 29 (16.67%) Analyst
2 29 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 29 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 27 (15.52%) Senior
4 22 (12.64%) Data Engineer
5 21 (12.07%) Lead
6 20 (11.49%) Data Analyst
7 16 (9.20%) Graduate
8 15 (8.62%) Full-Stack Developer
9 13 (7.47%) AWS Developer
10 12 (6.90%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 12 (6.90%) Junior
10 12 (6.90%) Junior Analyst
10 12 (6.90%) Junior Data Analyst
11 9 (5.17%) Senior Developer
11 9 (5.17%) SQL Developer
12 8 (4.60%) Senior Data Engineer
12 8 (4.60%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (4.02%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (18.97%) AngularJS
2 31 (17.82%) Node.js
3 20 (11.49%) React
4 16 (9.20%) Vue
5 15 (8.62%) Spring
6 14 (8.05%) Spring Boot
7 12 (6.90%) CSS
7 12 (6.90%) HTML
8 11 (6.32%) .NET
9 10 (5.75%) PySpark
10 7 (4.02%) RESTful
11 4 (2.30%) ASP.NET
11 4 (2.30%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (2.30%) REST
11 4 (2.30%) Web Services
12 3 (1.72%) Entity Framework
12 3 (1.72%) Flask
12 3 (1.72%) OAuth
12 3 (1.72%) OAuth2
12 3 (1.72%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.17%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.02%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.87%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.30%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.30%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.72%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.72%) PKI
7 2 (1.15%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.15%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.15%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.57%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.57%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.75%) Linux
2 5 (2.87%) Windows
3 3 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (26.44%) CI/CD
2 43 (24.71%) Agile
3 40 (22.99%) DevOps
4 38 (21.84%) Software Engineering
5 35 (20.11%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (18.39%) AI
7 30 (17.24%) Mentoring
8 26 (14.94%) Analytics
8 26 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (12.07%) Full-Stack Development
11 20 (11.49%) Data Analysis
11 20 (11.49%) Data Pipeline
11 20 (11.49%) Technical Leadership
11 20 (11.49%) Workflow
12 19 (10.92%) Decision-Making
12 19 (10.92%) DevSecOps
13 18 (10.34%) ETL
14 17 (9.77%) Data Modelling
15 16 (9.20%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 59 (33.91%) Python
2 49 (28.16%) Java
3 34 (19.54%) C#
4 31 (17.82%) TypeScript
5 26 (14.94%) Kotlin
6 25 (14.37%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.17%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.60%) Scala
8 8 (4.60%) T-SQL
9 6 (3.45%) PHP
10 4 (2.30%) C++
11 3 (1.72%) C
11 3 (1.72%) VBA
12 2 (1.15%) Bicep
12 2 (1.15%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.15%) R
12 2 (1.15%) RPG
13 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (9.77%) Degree
2 13 (7.47%) Azure Certification
3 9 (5.17%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.02%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.87%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.02%) QA
3 5 (2.87%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.30%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (2.30%) SLA
5 3 (1.72%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.15%) PMO
7 1 (0.57%) GDPR
7 1 (0.57%) HL7
System Software
1 27 (15.52%) Docker
2 2 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (6.90%) Terraform
2 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (2.30%) Ansible
4 2 (1.15%) Kibana
4 2 (1.15%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.15%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (18.39%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.60%) Oracle
3 7 (4.02%) Databricks
4 4 (2.30%) IBM
4 4 (2.30%) SAP
5 3 (1.72%) Google
5 3 (1.72%) Informatica
6 2 (1.15%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.15%) Cisco
6 2 (1.15%) Foundry
6 2 (1.15%) IFS
6 2 (1.15%) VMware
6 2 (1.15%) Workday
7 1 (0.57%) Duck Creek
7 1 (0.57%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.57%) Liquidlogic
7 1 (0.57%) OutSystems
7 1 (0.57%) Rockwell
7 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow