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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 165 128 266
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 9.88% 15.65% 14.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.81% 42.24% 43.89%
Number of salaries quoted 114 85 209
10th Percentile £32,000 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,228 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% +8.46% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £98,474 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% +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 474 303 606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.38% 37.04% 33.48%
Number of salaries quoted 365 206 482
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +2.80% -6.96%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,375 £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 1 March 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 (10.30%) Apache Spark
2 10 (6.06%) Apache
3 6 (3.64%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.21%) CMS
5 2 (1.21%) Confluence
5 2 (1.21%) JBoss
5 2 (1.21%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 44 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.42%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (1.21%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 67 (40.61%) Azure
2 66 (40.00%) AWS
3 48 (29.09%) Serverless
4 38 (23.03%) GitHub
5 34 (20.61%) Amazon S3
5 34 (20.61%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (18.79%) Power Platform
7 26 (15.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (15.76%) AWS Step Functions
8 24 (14.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (12.73%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (8.48%) Amazon EventBridge
13 12 (7.27%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (7.27%) GCP
14 11 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 11 (6.67%) Azure AI
15 10 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.21%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (23.64%) Tableau
2 31 (18.79%) NoSQL
2 31 (18.79%) Power BI
3 25 (15.15%) DynamoDB
4 18 (10.91%) SQL Server
5 17 (10.30%) Data Mining
6 16 (9.70%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (9.70%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (7.27%) Data Lake
8 11 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (4.85%) Metadata
10 8 (4.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (4.24%) MySQL
12 6 (3.64%) MongoDB
13 5 (3.03%) BigQuery
13 5 (3.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (2.42%) Spark SQL
14 4 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 30 (18.18%) Git
2 7 (4.24%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.64%) JIRA
4 2 (1.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 69 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 40 (24.24%) Finance
3 33 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 15 (9.09%) Retail
6 9 (5.45%) Legal
6 9 (5.45%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (4.85%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.03%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.61%) Billing
9 1 (0.61%) Games
9 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (35.15%) Developer
2 45 (27.27%) Analyst
3 35 (21.21%) Data Analyst
4 28 (16.97%) Senior
5 27 (16.36%) Data Engineer
6 17 (10.30%) Software Engineer
6 17 (10.30%) Trainee
6 17 (10.30%) Trainee Analyst
6 17 (10.30%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 14 (8.48%) Java Developer
8 13 (7.88%) Junior
8 13 (7.88%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (7.27%) .NET Developer
10 11 (6.67%) Graduate
10 11 (6.67%) Junior Analyst
10 11 (6.67%) Junior Data Analyst
10 11 (6.67%) Python Developer
11 10 (6.06%) AWS Developer
11 10 (6.06%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 10 (6.06%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.97%) React
2 24 (14.55%) .NET
3 18 (10.91%) RESTful
4 15 (9.09%) ASP.NET
4 15 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (8.48%) AngularJS
6 13 (7.88%) .NET Core
6 13 (7.88%) AWS CDK
6 13 (7.88%) Blazor
6 13 (7.88%) CSS
6 13 (7.88%) Django
6 13 (7.88%) FastAPI
6 13 (7.88%) Flask
6 13 (7.88%) HTML
6 13 (7.88%) Node.js
6 13 (7.88%) Vue
7 11 (6.67%) PySpark
8 9 (5.45%) Spring
9 6 (3.64%) Web Services
10 5 (3.03%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.94%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.45%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.85%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.21%) DataPower
6 2 (1.21%) IoT
6 2 (1.21%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.21%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.61%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.61%) NHS
7 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.61%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.61%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.67%) Linux
2 2 (1.21%) Windows
3 1 (0.61%) Android
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (34.55%) CI/CD
2 52 (31.52%) DevOps
3 49 (29.70%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (29.09%) Analytics
5 45 (27.27%) Agile
6 40 (24.24%) Business Intelligence
6 40 (24.24%) Mentoring
7 32 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (18.18%) AI
8 30 (18.18%) Data Analysis
9 28 (16.97%) Infrastructure as Code
10 25 (15.15%) Containerisation
10 25 (15.15%) Data Engineering
11 24 (14.55%) Data Pipeline
11 24 (14.55%) Software Engineering
12 22 (13.33%) ETL
12 22 (13.33%) Migration
13 20 (12.12%) Business Analysis
13 20 (12.12%) Microservices
14 19 (11.52%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 82 (49.70%) Python
2 35 (21.21%) Java
3 18 (10.91%) JavaScript
4 13 (7.88%) C#
4 13 (7.88%) TypeScript
5 12 (7.27%) Kotlin
6 11 (6.67%) T-SQL
7 8 (4.85%) C
7 8 (4.85%) C++
7 8 (4.85%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (3.03%) Scala
9 3 (1.82%) PHP
9 3 (1.82%) R
10 1 (0.61%) Delphi
10 1 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (9.70%) Degree
2 14 (8.48%) AWS Certification
3 12 (7.27%) Azure Certification
4 11 (6.67%) AWS Certified Developer
5 9 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.64%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.42%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.82%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.82%) IIBA
8 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.61%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.30%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.85%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.24%) GDPR
4 2 (1.21%) WCAG
5 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) QA
5 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (29.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (16.36%) Terraform
2 10 (6.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 47 (28.48%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.30%) Databricks
3 6 (3.64%) Google
4 4 (2.42%) Oracle
4 4 (2.42%) Palantir
5 1 (0.61%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.61%) IFS
5 1 (0.61%) Salesforce