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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 173 138 272
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 9.63% 17.60% 14.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.88% 45.54% 44.37%
Number of salaries quoted 119 100 215
10th Percentile £31,850 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £68,125
90th Percentile £83,500 £94,247 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £52,014
% change year-on-year +12.24% -5.79% +4.03%

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 496 303 613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 27.62% 38.65% 31.70%
Number of salaries quoted 383 226 490
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,455 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,764 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £54,250
% change year-on-year +13.64% +1.38% -5.65%

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 12 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 14 (8.09%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.20%) Apache
3 6 (3.47%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.16%) CMS
5 2 (1.16%) Confluence
5 2 (1.16%) JBoss
5 2 (1.16%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.16%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.58%) IIS
Applications
1 44 (25.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (1.16%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 71 (41.04%) Azure
2 67 (38.73%) AWS
3 48 (27.75%) Serverless
4 40 (23.12%) GitHub
5 36 (20.81%) Amazon S3
5 36 (20.81%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (19.65%) Power Platform
7 28 (16.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (16.18%) AWS Step Functions
8 26 (15.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (12.72%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (10.98%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (8.67%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (8.09%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (8.09%) Amazon EventBridge
13 13 (7.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 13 (7.51%) Azure AI
14 12 (6.94%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (5.78%) GCP
16 7 (4.05%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (23.70%) Tableau
2 34 (19.65%) Power BI
3 32 (18.50%) NoSQL
4 27 (15.61%) DynamoDB
5 21 (12.14%) SQL Server
6 17 (9.83%) Data Mining
7 16 (9.25%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (7.51%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (6.94%) Data Lake
10 10 (5.78%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (4.62%) Metadata
11 8 (4.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (4.05%) MySQL
13 6 (3.47%) MongoDB
14 5 (2.89%) BigQuery
14 5 (2.89%) Spark SQL
15 4 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 3 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (1.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 31 (17.92%) Git
2 8 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.31%) JIRA
4 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 74 (42.77%) Social Skills
2 42 (24.28%) Finance
3 33 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.25%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.67%) Retail
6 9 (5.20%) Legal
6 9 (5.20%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (4.62%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.31%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.58%) Billing
9 1 (0.58%) Games
9 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (36.99%) Developer
2 47 (27.17%) Analyst
3 37 (21.39%) Data Analyst
4 29 (16.76%) Data Engineer
4 29 (16.76%) Senior
5 17 (9.83%) Java Developer
5 17 (9.83%) Software Engineer
5 17 (9.83%) Trainee
5 17 (9.83%) Trainee Analyst
5 17 (9.83%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 15 (8.67%) Junior
7 13 (7.51%) Graduate
7 13 (7.51%) Junior Analyst
7 13 (7.51%) Junior Data Analyst
8 12 (6.94%) .NET Developer
8 12 (6.94%) Senior Data Engineer
8 12 (6.94%) Senior Developer
9 11 (6.36%) Python Developer
9 11 (6.36%) SQL Developer
10 10 (5.78%) Graduate Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.18%) React
2 26 (15.03%) .NET
3 18 (10.40%) RESTful
4 16 (9.25%) AngularJS
4 16 (9.25%) Node.js
5 15 (8.67%) ASP.NET
5 15 (8.67%) ASP.NET Core
6 14 (8.09%) PySpark
7 13 (7.51%) .NET Core
7 13 (7.51%) AWS CDK
7 13 (7.51%) Blazor
7 13 (7.51%) CSS
7 13 (7.51%) Django
7 13 (7.51%) FastAPI
7 13 (7.51%) Flask
7 13 (7.51%) HTML
7 13 (7.51%) Vue
8 10 (5.78%) Spring
9 6 (3.47%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.72%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.78%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.62%) Driving Licence
3 8 (4.62%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.16%) DataPower
5 2 (1.16%) IoT
5 2 (1.16%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.16%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.58%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.58%) Hackathon
6 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.58%) NHS
6 1 (0.58%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.58%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.78%) Linux
2 1 (0.58%) Android
2 1 (0.58%) Windows
2 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (33.53%) CI/CD
2 50 (28.90%) Analytics
2 50 (28.90%) DevOps
3 48 (27.75%) Agile
4 46 (26.59%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (24.28%) Business Intelligence
6 38 (21.97%) Mentoring
7 33 (19.08%) AI
8 32 (18.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (17.34%) Data Analysis
10 29 (16.76%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (15.61%) Data Engineering
12 26 (15.03%) Containerisation
12 26 (15.03%) Data Pipeline
13 25 (14.45%) Software Engineering
14 22 (12.72%) ETL
15 20 (11.56%) Business Analysis
16 19 (10.98%) Data Analytics
16 19 (10.98%) Decision-Making
16 19 (10.98%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (47.40%) Python
2 36 (20.81%) Java
3 16 (9.25%) JavaScript
4 15 (8.67%) C#
4 15 (8.67%) Kotlin
5 13 (7.51%) TypeScript
6 8 (4.62%) C
6 8 (4.62%) C++
6 8 (4.62%) PL/SQL
6 8 (4.62%) T-SQL
7 5 (2.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (2.89%) PHP
7 5 (2.89%) Scala
8 3 (1.73%) R
9 1 (0.58%) Delphi
9 1 (0.58%) Perl
9 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (8.67%) Degree
2 14 (8.09%) AWS Certification
2 14 (8.09%) Azure Certification
3 11 (6.36%) AWS Certified Developer
4 8 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.47%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.31%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.73%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.73%) IIBA
7 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.58%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.40%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.05%) GDPR
4 2 (1.16%) SLA
4 2 (1.16%) WCAG
5 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 49 (28.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (15.61%) Terraform
2 8 (4.62%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 50 (28.90%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.98%) Databricks
3 4 (2.31%) Google
3 4 (2.31%) Oracle
3 4 (2.31%) Palantir
4 1 (0.58%) Alteryx
4 1 (0.58%) IFS
4 1 (0.58%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.58%) SAP