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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 9 12
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 180 132 210
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 6.58% 14.21% 10.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.09% 46.32% 36.14%
Number of salaries quoted 123 113 162
10th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £65,938
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,000 £76,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £49,274
% change year-on-year -4.17% +21.77% -4.32%

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 579 285 581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 21.16% 30.68% 29.34%
Number of salaries quoted 430 241 467
10th Percentile £39,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £83,485
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -6.25%

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 25 July 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 6 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.78%) IIS
3 4 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.67%) Apache
4 3 (1.67%) CMS
4 3 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 35 (19.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.22%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (1.67%) Shopify
3 2 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 78 (43.33%) Azure
2 55 (30.56%) AWS
3 43 (23.89%) Power Platform
4 29 (16.11%) Serverless
5 25 (13.89%) AWS Lambda
6 24 (13.33%) GitHub
7 23 (12.78%) Amazon ECS
7 23 (12.78%) Amazon S3
8 22 (12.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (11.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 21 (11.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
11 16 (8.89%) Azure AI
11 16 (8.89%) Azure Data Factory
11 16 (8.89%) GCP
12 12 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (6.11%) Datadog
13 11 (6.11%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (4.44%) SaaS
15 6 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.11%) LAN
1 2 (1.11%) WAN
2 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (23.33%) Power BI
2 27 (15.00%) Tableau
3 24 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 21 (11.67%) Amazon Athena
4 21 (11.67%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (11.67%) DynamoDB
5 13 (7.22%) BigQuery
6 11 (6.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (6.11%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.33%) Data Mining
7 6 (3.33%) Metadata
7 6 (3.33%) Spark SQL
8 5 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (2.22%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.22%) MySQL
9 4 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (2.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (13.89%) Git
2 9 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.78%) JIRA
4 4 (2.22%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.67%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (16.11%) Finance
4 16 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.89%) Retail
7 6 (3.33%) Legal
8 5 (2.78%) Agriculture
8 5 (2.78%) Automotive
8 5 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.67%) Games
11 2 (1.11%) Marketing
12 1 (0.56%) Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.56%) Law
12 1 (0.56%) Local Government
12 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (29.44%) Developer
2 38 (21.11%) Analyst
3 27 (15.00%) Data Analyst
4 26 (14.44%) Java Developer
4 26 (14.44%) Senior
4 26 (14.44%) Software Engineer
5 23 (12.78%) Data Engineer
6 22 (12.22%) Lead
7 15 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (8.33%) Junior
7 15 (8.33%) Junior Analyst
7 15 (8.33%) Junior Data Analyst
8 12 (6.67%) SQL Developer
9 10 (5.56%) AWS Developer
9 10 (5.56%) Graduate
10 8 (4.44%) Lead Data Engineer
10 8 (4.44%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (3.89%) C# Software Engineer
12 6 (3.33%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (17.22%) AngularJS
2 28 (15.56%) Node.js
3 21 (11.67%) React
4 17 (9.44%) Vue
5 14 (7.78%) Spring
6 13 (7.22%) Spring Boot
7 12 (6.67%) .NET
8 11 (6.11%) CSS
8 11 (6.11%) HTML
9 10 (5.56%) PySpark
10 9 (5.00%) RESTful
11 6 (3.33%) Web Services
12 4 (2.22%) ASP.NET
12 4 (2.22%) ASP.NET Core
12 4 (2.22%) REST
13 3 (1.67%) Entity Framework
13 3 (1.67%) Flask
13 3 (1.67%) OAuth
13 3 (1.67%) OAuth2
13 3 (1.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.44%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.89%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.78%) e-Learning
6 4 (2.22%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.22%) Learning Management System
6 4 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.67%) PKI
8 2 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.11%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.11%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.11%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.56%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 1 (0.56%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.22%) Linux
2 3 (1.67%) Windows
3 2 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (25.56%) Business Intelligence
2 42 (23.33%) Agile
2 42 (23.33%) CI/CD
3 38 (21.11%) DevOps
4 37 (20.56%) Mentoring
5 35 (19.44%) Software Engineering
6 34 (18.89%) AI
7 32 (17.78%) Analytics
8 28 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (12.78%) Data Analysis
11 22 (12.22%) Data Pipeline
11 22 (12.22%) ETL
12 21 (11.67%) Full-Stack Development
13 20 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (11.11%) Workflow
14 19 (10.56%) Decision-Making
15 18 (10.00%) Data Engineering
15 18 (10.00%) DevSecOps
16 17 (9.44%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 64 (35.56%) Python
2 47 (26.11%) Java
3 35 (19.44%) C#
4 27 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 25 (13.89%) JavaScript
6 23 (12.78%) Kotlin
7 8 (4.44%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.89%) Scala
8 7 (3.89%) T-SQL
9 6 (3.33%) PHP
10 3 (1.67%) C++
10 3 (1.67%) R
10 3 (1.67%) VBA
11 2 (1.11%) C
11 2 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.56%) Bicep
12 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.56%) RPG
Qualifications
1 18 (10.00%) Degree
2 16 (8.89%) Azure Certification
3 10 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.44%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.22%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.11%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.22%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.33%) QA
3 4 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.22%) SLA
4 3 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.11%) GDPR
5 2 (1.11%) PMO
6 1 (0.56%) HL7
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (12.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (5.00%) Terraform
2 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.67%) Ansible
4 2 (1.11%) Kibana
4 2 (1.11%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (21.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.44%) Oracle
3 7 (3.89%) Databricks
4 6 (3.33%) Google
5 4 (2.22%) SAP
6 3 (1.67%) IBM
6 3 (1.67%) Informatica
7 2 (1.11%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.11%) Foundry
7 2 (1.11%) IFS
7 2 (1.11%) Workday
8 1 (0.56%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco
8 1 (0.56%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (0.56%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.56%) Rockwell
8 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.56%) VMware