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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 158 128 261
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 10.12% 14.33% 14.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.75% 40.25% 42.23%
Number of salaries quoted 111 79 204
10th Percentile £32,000 £26,800 £31,855
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £98,474 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £48,254 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.98% -8.09% +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 442 318 618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.32% 35.61% 35.07%
Number of salaries quoted 343 196 493
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,764 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%

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 February 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 17 (10.76%) Apache Spark
2 10 (6.33%) Apache
3 6 (3.80%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.27%) CMS
5 2 (1.27%) Confluence
5 2 (1.27%) JBoss
5 2 (1.27%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 39 (24.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Markit EDM
1 2 (1.27%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 66 (41.77%) AWS
1 66 (41.77%) Azure
2 47 (29.75%) Serverless
3 37 (23.42%) GitHub
4 33 (20.89%) Amazon S3
4 33 (20.89%) AWS Lambda
5 28 (17.72%) Power Platform
6 26 (16.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (15.82%) AWS Step Functions
8 23 (14.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (13.29%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (9.49%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (8.86%) Amazon EventBridge
13 12 (7.59%) GCP
14 11 (6.96%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (6.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 10 (6.33%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (5.70%) Azure AI
17 7 (4.43%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (21.52%) Tableau
2 29 (18.35%) NoSQL
3 28 (17.72%) Power BI
4 24 (15.19%) DynamoDB
5 18 (11.39%) SQL Server
6 17 (10.76%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (9.49%) Data Mining
9 13 (8.23%) Data Lake
10 10 (6.33%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (5.06%) Metadata
11 8 (5.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (4.43%) MySQL
13 6 (3.80%) MongoDB
14 5 (3.16%) BigQuery
14 5 (3.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (2.53%) Spark SQL
15 4 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 3 (1.90%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 31 (19.62%) Git
2 6 (3.80%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.80%) JIRA
3 2 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 67 (42.41%) Social Skills
2 35 (22.15%) Finance
3 30 (18.99%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 15 (9.49%) Retail
6 9 (5.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (5.06%) Legal
7 8 (5.06%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.16%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.63%) Billing
9 1 (0.63%) Games
9 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (34.81%) Developer
2 37 (23.42%) Analyst
3 30 (18.99%) Data Analyst
4 28 (17.72%) Senior
5 27 (17.09%) Data Engineer
6 18 (11.39%) Software Engineer
7 15 (9.49%) Trainee
7 15 (9.49%) Trainee Analyst
7 15 (9.49%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 13 (8.23%) Senior Data Engineer
9 12 (7.59%) .NET Developer
9 12 (7.59%) Java Developer
10 11 (6.96%) Graduate
10 11 (6.96%) Junior
10 11 (6.96%) Python Developer
11 10 (6.33%) AWS Developer
11 10 (6.33%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 9 (5.70%) Junior Analyst
12 9 (5.70%) Logistics Engineer
12 9 (5.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (18.35%) React
2 25 (15.82%) .NET
3 18 (11.39%) RESTful
4 15 (9.49%) ASP.NET
4 15 (9.49%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (8.86%) AngularJS
5 14 (8.86%) Vue
6 13 (8.23%) .NET Core
6 13 (8.23%) AWS CDK
6 13 (8.23%) Blazor
6 13 (8.23%) CSS
6 13 (8.23%) Django
6 13 (8.23%) FastAPI
6 13 (8.23%) Flask
6 13 (8.23%) HTML
7 11 (6.96%) Node.js
7 11 (6.96%) PySpark
8 8 (5.06%) Spring
9 5 (3.16%) Hibernate
9 5 (3.16%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.56%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.33%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.06%) Driving Licence
4 7 (4.43%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.27%) DataPower
6 2 (1.27%) IoT
6 2 (1.27%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.27%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.63%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.63%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.63%) NHS
7 1 (0.63%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.63%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.96%) Linux
2 2 (1.27%) Windows
3 1 (0.63%) Android
3 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (36.08%) CI/CD
2 53 (33.54%) DevOps
3 50 (31.65%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (29.75%) Agile
5 46 (29.11%) Analytics
6 43 (27.22%) Mentoring
7 38 (24.05%) Business Intelligence
8 30 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (18.35%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (17.72%) AI
10 28 (17.72%) Data Analysis
10 28 (17.72%) Data Engineering
11 26 (16.46%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (15.82%) Software Engineering
13 24 (15.19%) Containerisation
13 24 (15.19%) ETL
14 20 (12.66%) Microservices
14 20 (12.66%) Migration
15 18 (11.39%) Business Analysis
15 18 (11.39%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 80 (50.63%) Python
2 33 (20.89%) Java
3 19 (12.03%) JavaScript
4 14 (8.86%) C#
5 13 (8.23%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.33%) Kotlin
6 10 (6.33%) T-SQL
7 8 (5.06%) C
7 8 (5.06%) C++
7 8 (5.06%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (3.16%) Scala
9 3 (1.90%) PHP
9 3 (1.90%) R
10 1 (0.63%) Delphi
10 1 (0.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (10.13%) Degree
2 14 (8.86%) AWS Certification
3 11 (6.96%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (6.33%) Azure Certification
5 9 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.80%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.53%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.90%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.90%) IIBA
8 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.13%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.43%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.80%) GDPR
4 2 (1.27%) WCAG
5 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 48 (30.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (17.72%) Terraform
2 10 (6.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 43 (27.22%) Microsoft
2 20 (12.66%) Databricks
3 6 (3.80%) Google
4 4 (2.53%) Oracle
4 4 (2.53%) Palantir
5 1 (0.63%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.63%) Salesforce