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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 152 123 237
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 10.70% 11.95% 15.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.10% 37.50% 41.36%
Number of salaries quoted 107 73 175
10th Percentile £32,000 £25,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £84,100 £87,250 £91,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% +10.00%

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 399 328 573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.08% 31.88% 37.90%
Number of salaries quoted 304 199 445
10th Percentile £28,400 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,813 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £56,409
% change year-on-year +13.64% -2.50% -1.90%

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 22 January 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 19 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 11 (7.24%) Apache
3 4 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.63%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.32%) CMS
4 2 (1.32%) Confluence
4 2 (1.32%) JBoss
4 2 (1.32%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 67 (44.08%) AWS
2 66 (43.42%) Azure
3 46 (30.26%) Serverless
4 36 (23.68%) GitHub
5 32 (21.05%) Amazon S3
5 32 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (17.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (15.79%) AWS Step Functions
8 21 (13.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (13.82%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (13.82%) Power Platform
9 20 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
10 16 (10.53%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (9.21%) Amazon EventBridge
12 11 (7.24%) GCP
13 9 (5.92%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (5.92%) SaaS
14 8 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 7 (4.61%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (4.61%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) Intranet
2 1 (0.66%) AMQP
2 1 (0.66%) Firewall
2 1 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (17.76%) Tableau
2 26 (17.11%) NoSQL
3 22 (14.47%) DynamoDB
4 21 (13.82%) Power BI
4 21 (13.82%) SQL Server
5 19 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (9.21%) Data Lake
6 14 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (7.89%) Data Mining
8 11 (7.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (5.26%) Metadata
10 6 (3.95%) MySQL
10 6 (3.95%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (3.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (3.29%) MongoDB
12 4 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.63%) Data Vault
12 4 (2.63%) OLAP
12 4 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (20.39%) Git
2 7 (4.61%) JIRA
3 4 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 63 (41.45%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.42%) Finance
3 25 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.53%) Retail
5 13 (8.55%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.92%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (5.26%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.61%) Legal
9 6 (3.95%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.32%) Back Office
11 1 (0.66%) Billing
11 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Games
11 1 (0.66%) Law
11 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (34.21%) Developer
2 31 (20.39%) Data Engineer
2 31 (20.39%) Senior
3 28 (18.42%) Analyst
4 24 (15.79%) Data Analyst
5 16 (10.53%) Senior Data Engineer
5 16 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 13 (8.55%) .NET Developer
7 12 (7.89%) Trainee
7 12 (7.89%) Trainee Analyst
7 12 (7.89%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 11 (7.24%) Graduate
8 11 (7.24%) Python Developer
9 10 (6.58%) AWS Developer
9 10 (6.58%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 10 (6.58%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.92%) Linux Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) Logistics Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) Senior Developer
11 8 (5.26%) Software Engineering Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (19.74%) React
2 26 (17.11%) .NET
3 16 (10.53%) RESTful
4 15 (9.87%) ASP.NET
4 15 (9.87%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (9.21%) Blazor
5 14 (9.21%) Vue
6 13 (8.55%) .NET Core
6 13 (8.55%) AWS CDK
6 13 (8.55%) CSS
6 13 (8.55%) Django
6 13 (8.55%) FastAPI
6 13 (8.55%) Flask
6 13 (8.55%) HTML
7 12 (7.89%) AngularJS
8 11 (7.24%) PySpark
9 9 (5.92%) Node.js
10 7 (4.61%) Spring
11 5 (3.29%) Hibernate
12 4 (2.63%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.58%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.26%) Driving Licence
4 5 (3.29%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.97%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.97%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.32%) DataPower
6 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.32%) IoT
6 2 (1.32%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.32%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.66%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.66%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.66%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.66%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.55%) Linux
2 5 (3.29%) Windows
3 2 (1.32%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.66%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (41.45%) CI/CD
2 56 (36.84%) DevOps
3 51 (33.55%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (31.58%) Agile
5 41 (26.97%) Analytics
6 40 (26.32%) Mentoring
7 32 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
7 32 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (20.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (20.39%) Data Pipeline
9 30 (19.74%) Data Engineering
10 24 (15.79%) AI
10 24 (15.79%) ETL
10 24 (15.79%) Software Engineering
11 23 (15.13%) Containerisation
11 23 (15.13%) Data Analysis
11 23 (15.13%) Data Modelling
11 23 (15.13%) Migration
12 19 (12.50%) Data Governance
12 19 (12.50%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 83 (54.61%) Python
2 29 (19.08%) Java
3 21 (13.82%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.21%) C#
5 13 (8.55%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.24%) T-SQL
7 10 (6.58%) PL/SQL
8 8 (5.26%) C
8 8 (5.26%) C++
8 8 (5.26%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.95%) Scala
10 4 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.97%) PHP
12 2 (1.32%) R
13 1 (0.66%) Delphi
13 1 (0.66%) Perl
13 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (10.53%) Degree
2 14 (9.21%) AWS Certification
3 11 (7.24%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.26%) Security Cleared
6 7 (4.61%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.29%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.97%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.32%) IIBA
10 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.21%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.61%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.29%) GDPR
4 2 (1.32%) WCAG
5 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 48 (31.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (19.74%) Terraform
2 11 (7.24%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.66%) Ansible
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.66%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (24.34%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.79%) Databricks
3 7 (4.61%) Oracle
4 5 (3.29%) Palantir
5 3 (1.97%) Google
6 1 (0.66%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.66%) VMware