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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 197 143 272
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 9.31% 18.60% 13.19%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.69% 46.89% 43.87%
Number of salaries quoted 127 117 222
10th Percentile £31,700 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,625 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £74,375 £73,886 £65,938
90th Percentile £82,900 £93,778 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 552 305 620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 26.10% 39.66% 30.07%
Number of salaries quoted 415 247 510
10th Percentile £33,750 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -8.70%

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 11 April 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 12 (6.09%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.55%) Apache
3 6 (3.05%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.02%) CMS
5 2 (1.02%) IIS
5 2 (1.02%) JBoss
5 2 (1.02%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.02%) WebSphere
Applications
1 46 (23.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.03%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 82 (41.62%) Azure
2 76 (38.58%) AWS
3 55 (27.92%) Serverless
4 44 (22.34%) GitHub
5 43 (21.83%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (20.81%) Amazon S3
7 40 (20.30%) Power Platform
8 33 (16.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 32 (16.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 30 (15.23%) AWS Step Functions
11 23 (11.68%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (11.17%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (9.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 18 (9.14%) Azure AI
15 15 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
16 14 (7.11%) Amazon EventBridge
16 14 (7.11%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (5.58%) Azure Data Factory
18 10 (5.08%) GCP
19 8 (4.06%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.02%) Intranet
2 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (22.34%) Tableau
2 39 (19.80%) Power BI
3 35 (17.77%) NoSQL
4 33 (16.75%) DynamoDB
5 20 (10.15%) SQL Server
6 19 (9.64%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (7.11%) Data Mining
9 12 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (4.57%) Data Lake
11 8 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (4.06%) Metadata
12 7 (3.55%) MySQL
13 6 (3.05%) MongoDB
13 6 (3.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (2.54%) BigQuery
14 5 (2.54%) Relational Database
15 4 (2.03%) Spark SQL
16 3 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
16 3 (1.52%) Looker
Development Applications
1 32 (16.24%) Git
2 11 (5.58%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.03%) JIRA
4 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 82 (41.62%) Social Skills
2 40 (20.30%) Finance
3 31 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.64%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.60%) Retail
6 9 (4.57%) Legal
7 8 (4.06%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.06%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.03%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.52%) Agriculture
9 3 (1.52%) Automotive
10 1 (0.51%) Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Billing
10 1 (0.51%) Games
10 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (37.56%) Developer
2 52 (26.40%) Analyst
3 39 (19.80%) Data Analyst
4 35 (17.77%) Senior
5 27 (13.71%) Data Engineer
6 25 (12.69%) Java Developer
7 21 (10.66%) Software Engineer
8 20 (10.15%) Junior
9 18 (9.14%) Junior Analyst
9 18 (9.14%) Junior Data Analyst
10 14 (7.11%) Lead
10 14 (7.11%) Python Developer
10 14 (7.11%) Senior Developer
10 14 (7.11%) Trainee
10 14 (7.11%) Trainee Analyst
10 14 (7.11%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 13 (6.60%) Graduate
12 12 (6.09%) .NET Developer
13 11 (5.58%) Senior Java Developer
13 11 (5.58%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (16.75%) React
2 26 (13.20%) AngularJS
3 24 (12.18%) .NET
4 23 (11.68%) Vue
5 21 (10.66%) Node.js
5 21 (10.66%) RESTful
6 17 (8.63%) CSS
6 17 (8.63%) HTML
7 15 (7.61%) ASP.NET
7 15 (7.61%) ASP.NET Core
8 14 (7.11%) PySpark
8 14 (7.11%) Spring
9 13 (6.60%) .NET Core
9 13 (6.60%) AWS CDK
9 13 (6.60%) Blazor
9 13 (6.60%) Flask
10 10 (5.08%) Django
10 10 (5.08%) FastAPI
11 9 (4.57%) Spring Boot
12 8 (4.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.68%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.58%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.57%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.55%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.52%) PKI
6 2 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.02%) DataPower
6 2 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.02%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.02%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.02%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.51%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.51%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.51%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.57%) Linux
2 1 (0.51%) Windows
2 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (31.47%) CI/CD
2 53 (26.90%) Agile
3 49 (24.87%) DevOps
4 47 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (23.35%) Analytics
6 45 (22.84%) Business Intelligence
7 44 (22.34%) Mentoring
8 40 (20.30%) AI
9 37 (18.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (16.75%) Data Analysis
11 30 (15.23%) Infrastructure as Code
12 28 (14.21%) Software Engineering
13 26 (13.20%) Containerisation
14 23 (11.68%) Data Engineering
15 22 (11.17%) Data Pipeline
15 22 (11.17%) Decision-Making
16 20 (10.15%) Microservices
17 19 (9.64%) Business Analysis
18 18 (9.14%) Data Governance
18 18 (9.14%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 85 (43.15%) Python
2 42 (21.32%) Java
3 24 (12.18%) TypeScript
4 23 (11.68%) JavaScript
5 21 (10.66%) Kotlin
6 20 (10.15%) C#
7 9 (4.57%) PL/SQL
7 9 (4.57%) T-SQL
8 7 (3.55%) C
8 7 (3.55%) C++
9 6 (3.05%) PHP
10 5 (2.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (2.54%) Scala
11 4 (2.03%) R
12 2 (1.02%) VBA
13 1 (0.51%) Delphi
13 1 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (9.64%) Azure Certification
2 18 (9.14%) Degree
3 14 (7.11%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.09%) Security Cleared
5 11 (5.58%) AWS Certified Developer
6 9 (4.57%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.52%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.52%) IIBA
8 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.14%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.08%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.55%) GDPR
4 4 (2.03%) SLA
5 3 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.02%) WCAG
7 1 (0.51%) HL7
7 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 51 (25.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (15.23%) Terraform
2 7 (3.55%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.02%) Ansible
3 2 (1.02%) Kibana
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 51 (25.89%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.63%) Databricks
3 6 (3.05%) Oracle
4 4 (2.03%) Google
4 4 (2.03%) Palantir
5 2 (1.02%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.02%) IBM
5 2 (1.02%) IFS
5 2 (1.02%) SAP
6 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.51%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.51%) Rockwell