SQL Jobs in Leeds

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 136 255 394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 13.81% 10.78% 15.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.39% 37.89% 37.35%
Number of salaries quoted 116 202 293
10th Percentile £29,125 £32,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £48,891 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.72% -4.14% +2.00%
75th Percentile £72,563 £64,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,751 £80,000 £80,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £47,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +27.66% -8.74% +3.00%

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 287 673 1,055
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 29.14% 28.46% 40.50%
Number of salaries quoted 239 523 717
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £37,952
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.90% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,964 £88,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £51,500 £55,043
% change year-on-year +16.50% -6.44% +4.84%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Leeds

SQL
Salary Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in Leeds.

Salary trend for SQL in Leeds

SQL
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Leeds over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Leeds

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (9.56%) Apache Spark
2 10 (7.35%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.88%) Apache
3 8 (5.88%) Confluence
4 4 (2.94%) SAS
5 2 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.74%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 64 (47.06%) Azure
2 48 (35.29%) AWS
3 25 (18.38%) GCP
4 20 (14.71%) Power Platform
5 14 (10.29%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (10.29%) Serverless
6 9 (6.62%) Amazon S3
7 8 (5.88%) Power Automate
8 7 (5.15%) SaaS
9 6 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (4.41%) AWS Fargate
9 6 (4.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (4.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (3.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.68%) GitHub
10 5 (3.68%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.94%) Azure Stack
11 4 (2.94%) Google Analytics
12 3 (2.21%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.35%) Cisco IOS
1 10 (7.35%) Wireless
2 2 (1.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.74%) Firewall
3 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.74%) VPN
3 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (19.85%) SQL Server
2 23 (16.91%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (16.91%) NoSQL
3 17 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 17 (12.50%) Power BI
4 12 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (8.09%) MySQL
6 9 (6.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 9 (6.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (3.68%) Data Lake
8 5 (3.68%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.94%) Biml
9 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 4 (2.94%) Power Query
9 4 (2.94%) Tableau
10 3 (2.21%) Big Data
11 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 18 (13.24%) JIRA
2 11 (8.09%) Git
3 5 (3.68%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.94%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (2.21%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.21%) Maven
6 2 (1.47%) JUnit
6 2 (1.47%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.74%) GitLab
7 1 (0.74%) Gradle
7 1 (0.74%) MLflow
7 1 (0.74%) Postman
7 1 (0.74%) Selenium
7 1 (0.74%) SoapUI
General
1 33 (24.26%) Social Skills
2 28 (20.59%) Finance
3 22 (16.18%) Banking
4 14 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (9.56%) Law
6 7 (5.15%) Marketing
6 7 (5.15%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.94%) Retail
7 4 (2.94%) Tech for Good
8 3 (2.21%) Back Office
8 3 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (23.53%) Developer
2 28 (20.59%) Lead
2 28 (20.59%) Senior
3 26 (19.12%) Analyst
4 22 (16.18%) Data Engineer
5 15 (11.03%) Software Engineer
6 13 (9.56%) Senior Data Engineer
7 11 (8.09%) SQL Developer
7 11 (8.09%) Support Analyst
8 9 (6.62%) Software Developer
9 8 (5.88%) .NET Software Engineer
9 8 (5.88%) Data Manager
9 8 (5.88%) IT Analyst
9 8 (5.88%) IT Support
9 8 (5.88%) IT Support Analyst
9 8 (5.88%) Lead Developer
10 7 (5.15%) 2nd Line Support
10 7 (5.15%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
10 7 (5.15%) Engineering Manager
10 7 (5.15%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.50%) Node.js
2 14 (10.29%) .NET
3 11 (8.09%) React
4 9 (6.62%) AngularJS
5 7 (5.15%) Vue
6 6 (4.41%) RESTful
7 5 (3.68%) .NET Framework
7 5 (3.68%) HTML
7 5 (3.68%) Kafka
7 5 (3.68%) REST
8 4 (2.94%) Express.js
8 4 (2.94%) PyTorch
8 4 (2.94%) scikit-learn
8 4 (2.94%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.94%) TensorFlow
9 3 (2.21%) AWS CDK
9 3 (2.21%) Plotly
9 3 (2.21%) Spring
10 2 (1.47%) CSS
10 2 (1.47%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.03%) Product Ownership
2 12 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.68%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.94%) Market Risk
6 3 (2.21%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.21%) Clustering
6 3 (2.21%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.74%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.74%) NHS
8 1 (0.74%) Replication
8 1 (0.74%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.29%) Linux
2 11 (8.09%) Windows
2 11 (8.09%) Windows Server
3 10 (7.35%) Mac OS X
3 10 (7.35%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (31.62%) CI/CD
2 38 (27.94%) Mentoring
3 32 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
4 29 (21.32%) Agile
5 28 (20.59%) Data Engineering
6 27 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (18.38%) Analytics
8 23 (16.91%) ETL
9 22 (16.18%) DevOps
10 20 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
10 20 (14.71%) Data Modelling
10 20 (14.71%) Software Engineering
11 19 (13.97%) Data Science
12 18 (13.24%) Roadmaps
13 17 (12.50%) Visualisation
14 14 (10.29%) Migration
15 13 (9.56%) Data Security
15 13 (9.56%) Test Automation
16 12 (8.82%) Data Governance
16 12 (8.82%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 59 (43.38%) Python
2 21 (15.44%) JavaScript
3 19 (13.97%) T-SQL
4 15 (11.03%) C#
5 14 (10.29%) Java
6 11 (8.09%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (3.68%) PHP
7 5 (3.68%) R
8 4 (2.94%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.94%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.94%) Scala
9 3 (2.21%) Go
10 1 (0.74%) Bash
10 1 (0.74%) Bicep
10 1 (0.74%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (17.65%) Degree
2 12 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (8.82%) SC Cleared
2 12 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.35%) CCNP
3 10 (7.35%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (7.35%) MCSA
4 9 (6.62%) DBS Check
5 6 (4.41%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.68%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.47%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.47%) MCITP
8 2 (1.47%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.09%) QA
3 4 (2.94%) Basel II
3 4 (2.94%) Basel III
3 4 (2.94%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (2.94%) GDPR
3 4 (2.94%) IFRS
3 4 (2.94%) IFRS 9
3 4 (2.94%) NIST
3 4 (2.94%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.21%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (2.21%) SLA
5 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (9.56%) Docker
2 11 (8.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (9.56%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.15%) Terraform
3 2 (1.47%) Istio
3 2 (1.47%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.74%) Ansible
4 1 (0.74%) Grafana
4 1 (0.74%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (16.91%) Databricks
2 21 (15.44%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.09%) Cisco
4 9 (6.62%) Oracle
5 5 (3.68%) Google
6 4 (2.94%) Palantir
7 2 (1.47%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.47%) SAP
7 2 (1.47%) VMware
8 1 (0.74%) ESRI
8 1 (0.74%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.74%) iManage
8 1 (0.74%) Intapp
8 1 (0.74%) Meraki