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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 12 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 138 149 239
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 12.21% 10.66% 16.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.59% 35.14% 38.24%
Number of salaries quoted 115 82 160
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,075 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,375 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% - +6.00%
75th Percentile £72,625 £71,991 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,200 £77,375 £88,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +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 324 424 625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.67% 30.33% 42.66%
Number of salaries quoted 273 257 478
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,450 £39,450
25th Percentile £45,909 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,625
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year +12.61% -6.76% +8.23%

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 16 November 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 (13.04%) Apache Spark
2 11 (7.97%) Apache
3 4 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.90%) Confluence
4 1 (0.72%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 19 (13.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 67 (48.55%) Azure
2 66 (47.83%) AWS
3 29 (21.01%) Serverless
4 18 (13.04%) GitHub
5 17 (12.32%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (10.14%) Amazon S3
7 11 (7.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (7.97%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (6.52%) Power Platform
9 8 (5.80%) GCP
9 8 (5.80%) SaaS
10 7 (5.07%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (5.07%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (5.07%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (5.07%) dbt
10 7 (5.07%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (3.62%) Amazon EventBridge
12 5 (3.62%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.45%) AMQP
2 1 (0.72%) Firewall
2 1 (0.72%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (11.59%) NoSQL
2 16 (11.59%) Tableau
3 14 (10.14%) Data Lake
4 11 (7.97%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (7.97%) MongoDB
4 11 (7.97%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (7.97%) SQL Server
5 8 (5.80%) Data Mining
5 8 (5.80%) Power BI
5 8 (5.80%) Relational Database
5 8 (5.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 7 (5.07%) Metadata
7 6 (4.35%) DynamoDB
7 6 (4.35%) OLAP
8 5 (3.62%) MySQL
9 4 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (2.90%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (2.17%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (9.42%) JIRA
2 11 (7.97%) Git
3 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.72%) MLflow
3 1 (0.72%) Postman
3 1 (0.72%) Selenium
3 1 (0.72%) SoapUI
General
1 40 (28.99%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (11.59%) Finance
4 11 (7.97%) Retail
5 10 (7.25%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.80%) Tech for Good
7 5 (3.62%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.90%) Law
8 4 (2.90%) Legal
8 4 (2.90%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.45%) Back Office
10 2 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.45%) Marketing
11 1 (0.72%) Billing
11 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (28.99%) Developer
2 32 (23.19%) Data Engineer
3 28 (20.29%) Senior
4 21 (15.22%) Analyst
5 19 (13.77%) Lead
5 19 (13.77%) Senior Data Engineer
6 13 (9.42%) Data Analyst
6 13 (9.42%) Software Engineer
7 12 (8.70%) Data Manager
8 11 (7.97%) Engineering Manager
8 11 (7.97%) Software Developer
9 9 (6.52%) Lead Developer
9 9 (6.52%) Python Developer
10 8 (5.80%) Trainee
10 8 (5.80%) Trainee Analyst
10 8 (5.80%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 7 (5.07%) Lead Software Developer
12 6 (4.35%) .NET Software Engineer
12 6 (4.35%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 6 (4.35%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.49%) React
2 15 (10.87%) .NET
3 11 (7.97%) CSS
3 11 (7.97%) Django
3 11 (7.97%) FastAPI
3 11 (7.97%) Flask
3 11 (7.97%) HTML
3 11 (7.97%) Vue
4 9 (6.52%) Node.js
4 9 (6.52%) PySpark
5 7 (5.07%) AWS CDK
5 7 (5.07%) RESTful
6 5 (3.62%) .NET Core
6 5 (3.62%) ASP.NET
6 5 (3.62%) Blazor
7 4 (2.90%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.90%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (2.90%) Pandas
8 3 (2.17%) Spring
8 3 (2.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.25%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.07%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.90%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.17%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.45%) IoT
6 2 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.45%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.72%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.72%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.72%) W3C
7 1 (0.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.80%) Linux
2 4 (2.90%) Windows
3 1 (0.72%) Android
3 1 (0.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (42.03%) CI/CD
2 54 (39.13%) Mentoring
3 42 (30.43%) DevOps
3 42 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (29.71%) Agile
5 39 (28.26%) Data Pipeline
6 36 (26.09%) Data Engineering
7 31 (22.46%) Analytics
8 26 (18.84%) Data Modelling
8 26 (18.84%) ETL
9 24 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (16.67%) Migration
11 21 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (15.22%) Software Engineering
12 18 (13.04%) Data Analysis
13 17 (12.32%) Data Security
13 17 (12.32%) Roadmaps
14 16 (11.59%) Coaching
14 16 (11.59%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 82 (59.42%) Python
2 25 (18.12%) JavaScript
3 22 (15.94%) Java
4 13 (9.42%) C#
5 11 (7.97%) T-SQL
6 7 (5.07%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.35%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.90%) C
8 4 (2.90%) C++
8 4 (2.90%) Scala
9 3 (2.17%) PHP
10 2 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.72%) Go
11 1 (0.72%) Perl
11 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.72%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (8.70%) Degree
1 12 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.97%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.62%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.90%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.72%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.72%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.52%) QA
2 8 (5.80%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.45%) NIST
4 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 28 (20.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (15.94%) Terraform
2 12 (8.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.72%) Ansible
3 1 (0.72%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (25.36%) Databricks
2 22 (15.94%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.35%) Oracle
4 4 (2.90%) Palantir
5 3 (2.17%) Google
6 1 (0.72%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.72%) ESRI
6 1 (0.72%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.72%) iManage
6 1 (0.72%) Intapp
6 1 (0.72%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.72%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.72%) VMware