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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 161 128 258
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 10.10% 14.48% 14.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.70% 40.13% 43.14%
Number of salaries quoted 113 80 202
10th Percentile £32,000 £26,900 £31,671
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £98,474 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £48,254 £52,014
% change year-on-year +13.98% -7.23% +4.03%

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 451 319 598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.29% 36.09% 34.43%
Number of salaries quoted 350 202 474
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,250 £85,000
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 19 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 17 (10.56%) Apache Spark
2 10 (6.21%) Apache
3 6 (3.73%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.11%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.24%) CMS
5 2 (1.24%) Confluence
5 2 (1.24%) JBoss
5 2 (1.24%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 41 (25.47%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (1.24%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 68 (42.24%) Azure
2 67 (41.61%) AWS
3 48 (29.81%) Serverless
4 38 (23.60%) GitHub
5 34 (21.12%) Amazon S3
5 34 (21.12%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (18.01%) Power Platform
7 27 (16.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (16.15%) AWS Step Functions
9 24 (14.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (13.04%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (12.42%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (9.32%) Amazon SQS
13 14 (8.70%) Amazon EventBridge
14 12 (7.45%) Amazon ECS
14 12 (7.45%) GCP
15 11 (6.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 10 (6.21%) Azure AI
16 10 (6.21%) Azure Data Factory
17 7 (4.35%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.24%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (22.36%) Tableau
2 30 (18.63%) NoSQL
3 29 (18.01%) Power BI
4 25 (15.53%) DynamoDB
5 18 (11.18%) SQL Server
6 16 (9.94%) Data Mining
6 16 (9.94%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (9.94%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (7.45%) Data Lake
8 11 (6.83%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (6.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (4.97%) Metadata
10 8 (4.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (4.35%) MySQL
12 6 (3.73%) MongoDB
13 5 (3.11%) BigQuery
13 5 (3.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (2.48%) Spark SQL
14 4 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (1.86%) Looker
Development Applications
1 31 (19.25%) Git
2 7 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.73%) JIRA
4 2 (1.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 68 (42.24%) Social Skills
2 37 (22.98%) Finance
3 31 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.94%) Public Sector
5 15 (9.32%) Retail
6 9 (5.59%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (4.97%) Legal
7 8 (4.97%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.11%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.62%) Billing
9 1 (0.62%) Games
9 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (34.78%) Developer
2 40 (24.84%) Analyst
3 32 (19.88%) Data Analyst
4 27 (16.77%) Data Engineer
4 27 (16.77%) Senior
5 18 (11.18%) Software Engineer
6 16 (9.94%) Trainee
6 16 (9.94%) Trainee Analyst
6 16 (9.94%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 13 (8.07%) Java Developer
7 13 (8.07%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (7.45%) .NET Developer
8 12 (7.45%) Junior
9 11 (6.83%) Graduate
9 11 (6.83%) Python Developer
10 10 (6.21%) AWS Developer
10 10 (6.21%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 10 (6.21%) Junior Analyst
10 10 (6.21%) Junior Data Analyst
11 9 (5.59%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (18.01%) React
2 25 (15.53%) .NET
3 18 (11.18%) RESTful
4 15 (9.32%) AngularJS
4 15 (9.32%) ASP.NET
4 15 (9.32%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (8.70%) Vue
6 13 (8.07%) .NET Core
6 13 (8.07%) AWS CDK
6 13 (8.07%) Blazor
6 13 (8.07%) CSS
6 13 (8.07%) Django
6 13 (8.07%) FastAPI
6 13 (8.07%) Flask
6 13 (8.07%) HTML
7 12 (7.45%) Node.js
8 11 (6.83%) PySpark
9 9 (5.59%) Spring
10 5 (3.11%) Hibernate
10 5 (3.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.21%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.97%) Driving Licence
4 7 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.86%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.24%) DataPower
6 2 (1.24%) IoT
6 2 (1.24%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.24%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.24%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.62%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.62%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.62%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.62%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.62%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.83%) Linux
2 2 (1.24%) Windows
3 1 (0.62%) Android
3 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (36.02%) CI/CD
2 54 (33.54%) DevOps
3 50 (31.06%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (29.19%) Analytics
5 46 (28.57%) Agile
6 42 (26.09%) Mentoring
7 39 (24.22%) Business Intelligence
8 30 (18.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (18.01%) AI
9 29 (18.01%) Data Analysis
9 29 (18.01%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (16.77%) Data Engineering
11 26 (16.15%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (15.53%) Containerisation
12 25 (15.53%) Software Engineering
13 23 (14.29%) ETL
14 21 (13.04%) Migration
15 20 (12.42%) Microservices
16 19 (11.80%) Business Analysis
17 18 (11.18%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 82 (50.93%) Python
2 34 (21.12%) Java
3 19 (11.80%) JavaScript
4 14 (8.70%) C#
5 13 (8.07%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.83%) Kotlin
7 10 (6.21%) T-SQL
8 8 (4.97%) C
8 8 (4.97%) C++
8 8 (4.97%) PL/SQL
9 5 (3.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (3.11%) Scala
10 3 (1.86%) PHP
10 3 (1.86%) R
11 1 (0.62%) Delphi
11 1 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (9.94%) Degree
2 14 (8.70%) AWS Certification
3 11 (6.83%) AWS Certified Developer
3 11 (6.83%) Azure Certification
4 9 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.73%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.48%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.86%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.86%) IIBA
7 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.62%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (9.94%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.73%) GDPR
4 2 (1.24%) WCAG
5 1 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 49 (30.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (17.39%) Terraform
2 10 (6.21%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (27.95%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.80%) Databricks
3 6 (3.73%) Google
4 4 (2.48%) Oracle
4 4 (2.48%) Palantir
5 1 (0.62%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.62%) Salesforce