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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 178 117 168
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 5.72% 12.84% 9.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.72% 46.80% 33.14%
Number of salaries quoted 117 106 110
10th Percentile £34,300 £40,000 £37,199
25th Percentile £42,410 £47,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,188 £68,591
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £76,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £48,507
% change year-on-year -2.08% +23.69% -7.61%

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 544 250 507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 17.48% 27.44% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 389 209 352
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,400 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% +10.45% -7.60%

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 September 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 (2.81%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.25%) IIS
2 4 (2.25%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.69%) CMS
4 2 (1.12%) Apache
4 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.56%) Confluence
5 1 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 18 (10.11%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (3.37%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.81%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.69%) Shopify
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.12%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 64 (35.96%) AWS
2 58 (32.58%) Azure
3 43 (24.16%) Serverless
4 38 (21.35%) AWS Lambda
5 33 (18.54%) Amazon S3
5 33 (18.54%) GitHub
6 30 (16.85%) Amazon ECS
6 30 (16.85%) Power Platform
7 29 (16.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 27 (15.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 27 (15.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (13.48%) AWS Step Functions
9 24 (13.48%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (10.67%) Datadog
11 14 (7.87%) GCP
11 14 (7.87%) SaaS
12 12 (6.74%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (5.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (4.49%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.25%) LAN
1 4 (2.25%) WAN
2 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.73%) Power BI
2 27 (15.17%) DynamoDB
3 23 (12.92%) Amazon Athena
3 23 (12.92%) NoSQL
4 15 (8.43%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (5.62%) BigQuery
5 10 (5.62%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.62%) Tableau
6 9 (5.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (5.06%) Relational Database
7 7 (3.93%) Spark SQL
8 6 (3.37%) Metadata
8 6 (3.37%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (1.69%) Big Data
9 3 (1.69%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.69%) MySQL
9 3 (1.69%) Redis
9 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.12%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 29 (16.29%) Git
2 12 (6.74%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.18%) JIRA
4 5 (2.81%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.81%) GitLab
4 5 (2.81%) JMeter
4 5 (2.81%) Postman
5 4 (2.25%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (1.69%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 67 (37.64%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (12.36%) Finance
4 18 (10.11%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.99%) Manufacturing
6 15 (8.43%) Retail
7 11 (6.18%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.81%) Legal
9 4 (2.25%) Agriculture
9 4 (2.25%) Automotive
9 4 (2.25%) Banking
9 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.69%) Games
11 2 (1.12%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.12%) Law
11 2 (1.12%) Marketing
12 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (28.09%) Developer
2 31 (17.42%) Senior
3 30 (16.85%) Java Developer
4 27 (15.17%) Data Engineer
4 27 (15.17%) Software Engineer
5 19 (10.67%) Lead
6 18 (10.11%) Analyst
7 16 (8.99%) AWS Developer
8 15 (8.43%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (7.87%) Graduate
10 12 (6.74%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 11 (6.18%) Data Analyst
12 10 (5.62%) Consultant
13 9 (5.06%) Senior Data Engineer
14 8 (4.49%) Senior Developer
15 7 (3.93%) Architect
15 7 (3.93%) C# Software Engineer
15 7 (3.93%) Junior
15 7 (3.93%) Senior Java Developer
15 7 (3.93%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (19.10%) AngularJS
2 32 (17.98%) Node.js
3 18 (10.11%) React
4 16 (8.99%) Spring
5 15 (8.43%) Spring Boot
6 14 (7.87%) Vue
7 12 (6.74%) .NET
7 12 (6.74%) CSS
7 12 (6.74%) HTML
8 11 (6.18%) RESTful
8 11 (6.18%) Terraform
9 9 (5.06%) PySpark
10 5 (2.81%) Gherkin
10 5 (2.81%) Playwright
10 5 (2.81%) REST
10 5 (2.81%) XML
11 4 (2.25%) ASP.NET
11 4 (2.25%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (2.25%) Web Services
12 3 (1.69%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.18%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.49%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.93%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.81%) e-Learning
6 4 (2.25%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.25%) Learning Management System
6 4 (2.25%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.69%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.69%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.69%) PKI
8 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.12%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.62%) Linux
2 6 (3.37%) Windows
3 4 (2.25%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (29.21%) CI/CD
2 49 (27.53%) Agile
3 43 (24.16%) DevOps
4 35 (19.66%) Software Engineering
5 34 (19.10%) Business Intelligence
5 34 (19.10%) Mentoring
6 32 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (15.17%) Analytics
8 27 (15.17%) Decision-Making
9 26 (14.61%) AI
10 25 (14.04%) ETL
10 25 (14.04%) Workflow
11 24 (13.48%) Full-Stack Development
12 22 (12.36%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (11.24%) DevSecOps
14 18 (10.11%) Data Analysis
14 18 (10.11%) Data Engineering
14 18 (10.11%) Data Pipeline
15 16 (8.99%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 53 (29.78%) Java
2 51 (28.65%) Python
3 36 (20.22%) JavaScript
3 36 (20.22%) TypeScript
4 31 (17.42%) C#
5 27 (15.17%) Kotlin
6 11 (6.18%) PL/SQL
7 8 (4.49%) Scala
8 7 (3.93%) C++
8 7 (3.93%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.37%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.25%) PHP
10 4 (2.25%) RPG
11 3 (1.69%) C
12 2 (1.12%) Bicep
12 2 (1.12%) R
12 2 (1.12%) RPG/400
12 2 (1.12%) VBA
13 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (10.11%) Degree
2 12 (6.74%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.62%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.93%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.81%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.69%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.67%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.18%) QA
3 5 (2.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.25%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.12%) PMO
5 2 (1.12%) SLA
6 1 (0.56%) HL7
System Software
1 30 (16.85%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (3.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.25%) Ansible
3 2 (1.12%) Kibana
3 2 (1.12%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.74%) Oracle
3 8 (4.49%) SAP
4 5 (2.81%) Databricks
4 5 (2.81%) Sage
5 4 (2.25%) Google
5 4 (2.25%) IBM
6 3 (1.69%) Informatica
7 2 (1.12%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.12%) Cisco
7 2 (1.12%) Foundry
7 2 (1.12%) VMware
7 2 (1.12%) Workday
8 1 (0.56%) ESRI
8 1 (0.56%) Freshdesk
8 1 (0.56%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.56%) IFS
8 1 (0.56%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.56%) Rockwell
8 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow