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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 155 129 203
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 11.72% 11.90% 15.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.26% 37.07% 37.94%
Number of salaries quoted 113 79 138
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,275 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,991 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,500 £77,500 £88,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £49,493 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.18% -10.01% +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 385 348 535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 29.12% 32.10% 41.34%
Number of salaries quoted 298 219 409
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,950 £38,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,991 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £61,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.82% -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 31 December 2025.

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 18 (11.61%) Apache Spark
2 10 (6.45%) Apache
3 4 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.58%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.29%) CMS
4 2 (1.29%) Confluence
4 2 (1.29%) JBoss
4 2 (1.29%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (20.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 71 (45.81%) Azure
2 66 (42.58%) AWS
3 41 (26.45%) Serverless
4 32 (20.65%) GitHub
5 27 (17.42%) Amazon S3
5 27 (17.42%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (14.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (12.90%) AWS Step Functions
8 19 (12.26%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (12.26%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (12.26%) Power Platform
9 17 (10.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (10.32%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (9.03%) Amazon EventBridge
12 10 (6.45%) GCP
13 8 (5.16%) SaaS
14 7 (4.52%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (4.52%) dbt
14 7 (4.52%) Microsoft Purview
15 5 (3.23%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.29%) AMQP
1 2 (1.29%) Intranet
2 1 (0.65%) Firewall
2 1 (0.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (17.42%) Tableau
2 23 (14.84%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (14.84%) NoSQL
3 21 (13.55%) SQL Server
4 19 (12.26%) Power BI
5 18 (11.61%) DynamoDB
6 15 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (8.39%) Data Lake
8 12 (7.74%) Data Mining
9 11 (7.10%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (5.16%) Metadata
10 8 (5.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (3.87%) MongoDB
11 6 (3.87%) MySQL
11 6 (3.87%) OLAP
11 6 (3.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (3.23%) BigQuery
13 4 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.58%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 26 (16.77%) Git
2 9 (5.81%) JIRA
3 2 (1.29%) Jenkins
General
1 60 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.77%) Finance
3 25 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (11.61%) Retail
5 13 (8.39%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.81%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (5.16%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.52%) Legal
9 6 (3.87%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.29%) Back Office
11 2 (1.29%) Law
12 1 (0.65%) Billing
12 1 (0.65%) Games
12 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (33.55%) Developer
2 33 (21.29%) Senior
3 32 (20.65%) Data Engineer
4 30 (19.35%) Analyst
5 24 (15.48%) Data Analyst
6 18 (11.61%) Senior Data Engineer
7 15 (9.68%) Software Engineer
8 13 (8.39%) .NET Developer
9 12 (7.74%) Trainee
9 12 (7.74%) Trainee Analyst
9 12 (7.74%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 11 (7.10%) Graduate
10 11 (7.10%) Python Developer
11 10 (6.45%) Data Manager
11 10 (6.45%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 9 (5.81%) Lead
12 9 (5.81%) Linux Engineer
12 9 (5.81%) Logistics Engineer
12 9 (5.81%) Senior Developer
13 8 (5.16%) Software Engineering Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (19.35%) React
2 26 (16.77%) .NET
3 16 (10.32%) RESTful
4 15 (9.68%) ASP.NET
4 15 (9.68%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (9.03%) Blazor
5 14 (9.03%) CSS
5 14 (9.03%) HTML
6 13 (8.39%) .NET Core
6 13 (8.39%) AWS CDK
6 13 (8.39%) Django
6 13 (8.39%) FastAPI
6 13 (8.39%) Flask
6 13 (8.39%) Vue
7 10 (6.45%) PySpark
8 8 (5.16%) AngularJS
8 8 (5.16%) Spring
9 6 (3.87%) Node.js
10 5 (3.23%) Hibernate
11 4 (2.58%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.13%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.45%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.16%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.58%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.94%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.94%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.29%) DataPower
6 2 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.29%) IoT
6 2 (1.29%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.29%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.65%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.39%) Linux
2 5 (3.23%) Windows
3 2 (1.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.65%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (41.94%) CI/CD
2 55 (35.48%) DevOps
3 51 (32.90%) Agile
4 47 (30.32%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (28.39%) Mentoring
6 40 (25.81%) Analytics
7 33 (21.29%) Data Pipeline
7 33 (21.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (20.65%) Business Intelligence
9 31 (20.00%) Data Engineering
10 30 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (16.77%) ETL
12 25 (16.13%) Data Modelling
12 25 (16.13%) Migration
13 24 (15.48%) Software Engineering
14 23 (14.84%) Containerisation
14 23 (14.84%) Data Analysis
15 22 (14.19%) AI
16 20 (12.90%) Microservices
17 19 (12.26%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 87 (56.13%) Python
2 27 (17.42%) Java
3 22 (14.19%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.03%) C#
5 13 (8.39%) T-SQL
6 11 (7.10%) TypeScript
7 10 (6.45%) PL/SQL
8 8 (5.16%) C
8 8 (5.16%) C++
9 6 (3.87%) Scala
10 4 (2.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (2.58%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.94%) PHP
12 2 (1.29%) R
13 1 (0.65%) Delphi
13 1 (0.65%) Perl
13 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (10.32%) Degree
2 14 (9.03%) AWS Certification
3 11 (7.10%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.52%) Security Cleared
6 6 (3.87%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.87%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.94%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.29%) IIBA
9 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.03%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.58%) GDPR
4 2 (1.29%) QA
4 2 (1.29%) WCAG
5 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 45 (29.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (20.00%) Terraform
2 12 (7.74%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.65%) Ansible
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (23.23%) Microsoft
2 26 (16.77%) Databricks
3 7 (4.52%) Oracle
4 5 (3.23%) Palantir
5 3 (1.94%) Google
6 1 (0.65%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.65%) VMware