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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 197 140 270
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 9.57% 18.32% 13.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.56% 46.51% 43.97%
Number of salaries quoted 126 114 220
10th Percentile £32,000 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,541 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £74,688 £73,886 £66,563
90th Percentile £83,000 £93,778 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% - -

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 554 301 614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 26.91% 39.40% 30.23%
Number of salaries quoted 415 245 504
10th Percentile £32,200 £28,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £52,014
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +5.74% -9.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £93,778 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -8.70%

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 7 April 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 12 (6.09%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.55%) Apache
3 6 (3.05%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.02%) CMS
5 2 (1.02%) JBoss
5 2 (1.02%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.02%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.51%) IIS
Applications
1 47 (23.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.03%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 79 (40.10%) AWS
1 79 (40.10%) Azure
2 58 (29.44%) Serverless
3 46 (23.35%) GitHub
4 43 (21.83%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (20.81%) Amazon S3
6 39 (19.80%) Power Platform
7 33 (16.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 32 (16.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 30 (15.23%) AWS Step Functions
10 23 (11.68%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (11.17%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (9.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 18 (9.14%) Azure AI
14 15 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (7.11%) Amazon EventBridge
15 14 (7.11%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (5.58%) Azure Data Factory
17 10 (5.08%) GCP
18 9 (4.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.02%) Intranet
2 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (22.84%) Tableau
2 39 (19.80%) Power BI
3 35 (17.77%) NoSQL
4 33 (16.75%) DynamoDB
5 20 (10.15%) SQL Server
6 19 (9.64%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (7.61%) Data Mining
9 13 (6.60%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (5.08%) Data Lake
11 8 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (4.06%) Metadata
12 7 (3.55%) MySQL
13 6 (3.05%) MongoDB
13 6 (3.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (2.54%) BigQuery
15 4 (2.03%) Relational Database
15 4 (2.03%) Spark SQL
16 3 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (1.52%) Looker
Development Applications
1 32 (16.24%) Git
2 11 (5.58%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.03%) JIRA
4 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 81 (41.12%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.81%) Finance
3 31 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.64%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.60%) Retail
6 9 (4.57%) Legal
7 8 (4.06%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.06%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.03%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.52%) Agriculture
9 3 (1.52%) Automotive
10 1 (0.51%) Banking
10 1 (0.51%) Billing
10 1 (0.51%) Games
10 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (38.07%) Developer
2 52 (26.40%) Analyst
3 40 (20.30%) Data Analyst
4 37 (18.78%) Senior
5 28 (14.21%) Data Engineer
6 25 (12.69%) Java Developer
7 21 (10.66%) Software Engineer
8 20 (10.15%) Junior
9 18 (9.14%) Junior Analyst
9 18 (9.14%) Junior Data Analyst
10 17 (8.63%) Python Developer
11 15 (7.61%) Senior Developer
11 15 (7.61%) Trainee
11 15 (7.61%) Trainee Analyst
11 15 (7.61%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 13 (6.60%) Lead
13 12 (6.09%) .NET Developer
13 12 (6.09%) Graduate
14 11 (5.58%) Senior Data Engineer
14 11 (5.58%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (17.77%) React
2 26 (13.20%) AngularJS
3 25 (12.69%) Vue
4 24 (12.18%) .NET
5 21 (10.66%) Node.js
6 20 (10.15%) CSS
6 20 (10.15%) HTML
6 20 (10.15%) RESTful
7 16 (8.12%) Flask
8 15 (7.61%) ASP.NET
8 15 (7.61%) ASP.NET Core
9 14 (7.11%) PySpark
10 13 (6.60%) .NET Core
10 13 (6.60%) AWS CDK
10 13 (6.60%) Blazor
10 13 (6.60%) Django
10 13 (6.60%) FastAPI
10 13 (6.60%) Spring
11 9 (4.57%) Spring Boot
12 8 (4.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.68%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.60%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.06%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.55%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.52%) PKI
6 2 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.02%) DataPower
6 2 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.02%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.02%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.51%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.51%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.57%) Linux
2 1 (0.51%) Windows
2 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (32.99%) CI/CD
2 56 (28.43%) Agile
3 50 (25.38%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (24.37%) DevOps
5 47 (23.86%) Analytics
5 47 (23.86%) Mentoring
6 45 (22.84%) Business Intelligence
7 40 (20.30%) AI
8 37 (18.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (18.78%) Data Analysis
9 33 (16.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (14.21%) Software Engineering
11 27 (13.71%) Containerisation
12 24 (12.18%) Data Engineering
13 22 (11.17%) Data Pipeline
13 22 (11.17%) Decision-Making
14 20 (10.15%) Business Analysis
14 20 (10.15%) Mathematics
14 20 (10.15%) Microservices
15 19 (9.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 89 (45.18%) Python
2 41 (20.81%) Java
3 25 (12.69%) JavaScript
4 23 (11.68%) TypeScript
5 21 (10.66%) Kotlin
6 19 (9.64%) C#
7 9 (4.57%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.06%) T-SQL
9 7 (3.55%) C
9 7 (3.55%) C++
10 5 (2.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (2.54%) PHP
10 5 (2.54%) Scala
11 4 (2.03%) R
12 2 (1.02%) VBA
13 1 (0.51%) Delphi
13 1 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (9.64%) Azure Certification
2 18 (9.14%) Degree
3 14 (7.11%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.09%) Security Cleared
5 11 (5.58%) AWS Certified Developer
6 9 (4.57%) SC Cleared
7 8 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.52%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.52%) IIBA
8 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.14%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.08%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.55%) GDPR
4 3 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.02%) SLA
5 2 (1.02%) WCAG
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.51%) HL7
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 54 (27.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (16.75%) Terraform
2 7 (3.55%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.02%) Ansible
3 2 (1.02%) Kibana
Vendors
1 50 (25.38%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.14%) Databricks
3 6 (3.05%) Oracle
4 4 (2.03%) Google
4 4 (2.03%) Palantir
5 2 (1.02%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.02%) IBM
5 2 (1.02%) SAP
6 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.51%) IFS
6 1 (0.51%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.51%) Rockwell