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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 198 145 267
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 9.12% 19.03% 12.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.48% 47.70% 42.93%
Number of salaries quoted 126 119 222
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,318 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,250 £93,778 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,750 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +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 558 304 622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 25.69% 39.90% 29.90%
Number of salaries quoted 417 245 515
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,025 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £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 £93,767 £84,478
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -7.49%

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 15 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 11 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.03%) Apache
2 6 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.01%) CMS
4 2 (1.01%) IIS
4 2 (1.01%) JBoss
4 2 (1.01%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.01%) WebSphere
Applications
1 48 (24.24%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.02%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 84 (42.42%) Azure
2 74 (37.37%) AWS
3 54 (27.27%) Serverless
4 44 (22.22%) GitHub
5 42 (21.21%) AWS Lambda
5 42 (21.21%) Power Platform
6 40 (20.20%) Amazon S3
7 33 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 32 (16.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 30 (15.15%) AWS Step Functions
10 23 (11.62%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
12 20 (10.10%) Azure AI
13 19 (9.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 15 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (7.07%) Amazon EventBridge
15 14 (7.07%) Amazon SQS
16 10 (5.05%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (5.05%) GCP
17 8 (4.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.01%) Intranet
2 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (23.23%) Tableau
2 41 (20.71%) Power BI
3 35 (17.68%) NoSQL
4 33 (16.67%) DynamoDB
5 20 (10.10%) SQL Server
6 19 (9.60%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (7.07%) Data Mining
9 11 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (4.04%) Data Lake
11 7 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (3.54%) Metadata
11 7 (3.54%) MySQL
12 6 (3.03%) MongoDB
12 6 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (2.53%) BigQuery
13 5 (2.53%) Relational Database
14 4 (2.02%) Spark SQL
15 3 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (1.52%) Looker
Development Applications
1 31 (15.66%) Git
2 11 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.02%) JIRA
4 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 82 (41.41%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.71%) Finance
3 31 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.06%) Retail
6 9 (4.55%) Legal
7 8 (4.04%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.02%) Agriculture
8 4 (2.02%) Automotive
9 3 (1.52%) Tech for Good
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 (37.37%) Developer
2 54 (27.27%) Analyst
3 41 (20.71%) Data Analyst
4 34 (17.17%) Senior
5 25 (12.63%) Data Engineer
6 24 (12.12%) Java Developer
7 22 (11.11%) Junior
7 22 (11.11%) Software Engineer
8 20 (10.10%) Junior Analyst
8 20 (10.10%) Junior Data Analyst
9 14 (7.07%) Graduate
9 14 (7.07%) Lead
9 14 (7.07%) Python Developer
9 14 (7.07%) Trainee
9 14 (7.07%) Trainee Analyst
9 14 (7.07%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 13 (6.57%) Senior Developer
11 12 (6.06%) .NET Developer
11 12 (6.06%) SQL Developer
12 11 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (17.17%) React
2 27 (13.64%) AngularJS
3 24 (12.12%) .NET
3 24 (12.12%) Vue
4 21 (10.61%) Node.js
4 21 (10.61%) RESTful
5 17 (8.59%) CSS
5 17 (8.59%) HTML
6 15 (7.58%) ASP.NET
6 15 (7.58%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (6.57%) .NET Core
7 13 (6.57%) AWS CDK
7 13 (6.57%) Blazor
7 13 (6.57%) Flask
7 13 (6.57%) PySpark
7 13 (6.57%) Spring
8 10 (5.05%) Django
8 10 (5.05%) FastAPI
9 8 (4.04%) Spring Boot
9 8 (4.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.12%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.55%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.54%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.52%) PKI
6 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.01%) DataPower
6 2 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.01%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.01%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.01%) 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 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (0.51%) Windows
2 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (30.30%) CI/CD
2 54 (27.27%) Agile
3 48 (24.24%) DevOps
4 47 (23.74%) Business Intelligence
5 46 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (22.73%) Analytics
7 42 (21.21%) Mentoring
8 40 (20.20%) AI
9 36 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (16.67%) Data Analysis
11 30 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (14.65%) Software Engineering
13 25 (12.63%) Containerisation
14 22 (11.11%) Data Engineering
14 22 (11.11%) Decision-Making
15 20 (10.10%) Data Pipeline
15 20 (10.10%) Microservices
16 19 (9.60%) Business Analysis
17 18 (9.09%) Data Governance
17 18 (9.09%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 84 (42.42%) Python
2 41 (20.71%) Java
3 25 (12.63%) TypeScript
4 23 (11.62%) JavaScript
5 22 (11.11%) C#
6 21 (10.61%) Kotlin
7 9 (4.55%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.04%) T-SQL
9 7 (3.54%) C
9 7 (3.54%) C++
9 7 (3.54%) PHP
10 5 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (2.53%) Scala
11 3 (1.52%) R
12 2 (1.01%) VBA
13 1 (0.51%) Delphi
13 1 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (10.61%) Azure Certification
2 18 (9.09%) Degree
3 14 (7.07%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.06%) Security Cleared
5 11 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
6 9 (4.55%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.04%) 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 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.05%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.54%) GDPR
4 4 (2.02%) SLA
5 3 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.01%) WCAG
7 1 (0.51%) HL7
7 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 50 (25.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (15.15%) Terraform
2 5 (2.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.01%) Ansible
3 2 (1.01%) Kibana
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 52 (26.26%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.08%) Databricks
3 6 (3.03%) Oracle
4 4 (2.02%) Google
4 4 (2.02%) Palantir
5 2 (1.01%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.01%) IBM
5 2 (1.01%) IFS
5 2 (1.01%) SAP
6 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.51%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.51%) Rockwell