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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 12 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 148 149 227
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 12.69% 11.56% 16.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.53% 36.52% 38.47%
Number of salaries quoted 119 86 150
10th Percentile £34,400 £35,250 £31,225
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.29% +6.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,991 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,500 £77,500 £83,168
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 340 408 590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 29.16% 31.65% 42.02%
Number of salaries quoted 281 252 452
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,059 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.96% -3.24% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £61,500 £55,000 £59,763
% change year-on-year +11.82% -7.97% +8.66%

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 30 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 20 (13.51%) Apache Spark
2 11 (7.43%) Apache
3 4 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.70%) Confluence
4 2 (1.35%) CMS
4 2 (1.35%) JBoss
4 2 (1.35%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.35%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.35%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.68%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 23 (15.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 72 (48.65%) Azure
2 67 (45.27%) AWS
3 30 (20.27%) Serverless
4 21 (14.19%) GitHub
5 18 (12.16%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (11.49%) Amazon S3
7 14 (9.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 14 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (8.78%) Power Platform
9 10 (6.76%) Amazon SQS
9 10 (6.76%) AWS Step Functions
9 10 (6.76%) GCP
9 10 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (5.41%) Amazon EventBridge
11 7 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (4.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (4.73%) dbt
11 7 (4.73%) SaaS
12 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.35%) AMQP
1 2 (1.35%) Intranet
2 1 (0.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.22%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (13.51%) Tableau
3 17 (11.49%) NoSQL
4 15 (10.14%) SQL Server
5 14 (9.46%) Data Lake
5 14 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (8.78%) Power BI
7 12 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (7.43%) MongoDB
9 9 (6.08%) Data Mining
9 9 (6.08%) DynamoDB
10 8 (5.41%) Metadata
10 8 (5.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 7 (4.73%) Relational Database
12 6 (4.05%) MySQL
12 6 (4.05%) OLAP
13 5 (3.38%) BigQuery
14 4 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (2.70%) Data Vault
14 4 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (10.81%) Git
2 12 (8.11%) JIRA
3 1 (0.68%) MLflow
General
1 53 (35.81%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (12.84%) Finance
4 15 (10.14%) Retail
5 13 (8.78%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (5.41%) Tech for Good
7 7 (4.73%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.38%) Legal
9 3 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.35%) Back Office
10 2 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.35%) Law
11 1 (0.68%) Billing
11 1 (0.68%) Marketing
11 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (30.41%) Developer
2 32 (21.62%) Data Engineer
3 30 (20.27%) Senior
4 24 (16.22%) Analyst
5 19 (12.84%) Senior Data Engineer
6 17 (11.49%) Data Analyst
7 15 (10.14%) Lead
7 15 (10.14%) Software Engineer
8 11 (7.43%) Data Manager
8 11 (7.43%) Software Developer
9 10 (6.76%) Engineering Manager
9 10 (6.76%) Graduate
10 9 (6.08%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 9 (6.08%) Python Developer
10 9 (6.08%) Trainee
10 9 (6.08%) Trainee Analyst
10 9 (6.08%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 8 (5.41%) Lead Developer
11 8 (5.41%) Linux Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Logistics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (16.22%) React
2 22 (14.86%) .NET
3 12 (8.11%) CSS
3 12 (8.11%) HTML
4 11 (7.43%) Django
4 11 (7.43%) FastAPI
4 11 (7.43%) Flask
4 11 (7.43%) Vue
5 10 (6.76%) ASP.NET
5 10 (6.76%) RESTful
6 9 (6.08%) ASP.NET Core
6 9 (6.08%) AWS CDK
6 9 (6.08%) PySpark
7 8 (5.41%) .NET Core
7 8 (5.41%) Blazor
8 7 (4.73%) Node.js
8 7 (4.73%) Spring
9 5 (3.38%) Hibernate
10 4 (2.70%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.70%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.16%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.08%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.73%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.73%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.03%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.35%) DataPower
6 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.35%) IoT
6 2 (1.35%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.68%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.11%) Linux
2 5 (3.38%) Windows
3 2 (1.35%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.68%) Android
4 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (41.22%) CI/CD
2 54 (36.49%) Mentoring
3 46 (31.08%) Agile
3 46 (31.08%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (30.41%) DevOps
5 38 (25.68%) Data Pipeline
6 34 (22.97%) Data Engineering
7 33 (22.30%) Analytics
8 27 (18.24%) Business Intelligence
8 27 (18.24%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (17.57%) Data Modelling
9 26 (17.57%) ETL
10 25 (16.89%) Migration
11 24 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (16.22%) Software Engineering
12 19 (12.84%) Data Analysis
13 18 (12.16%) AI
13 18 (12.16%) Containerisation
14 17 (11.49%) Coaching
14 17 (11.49%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 87 (58.78%) Python
2 26 (17.57%) Java
2 26 (17.57%) JavaScript
3 16 (10.81%) C#
4 11 (7.43%) T-SQL
5 9 (6.08%) PL/SQL
6 8 (5.41%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.73%) C
7 7 (4.73%) C++
8 5 (3.38%) Scala
9 3 (2.03%) PHP
10 2 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.35%) R
11 1 (0.68%) Delphi
11 1 (0.68%) Perl
11 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (9.46%) Degree
2 10 (6.76%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.08%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.41%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.73%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.70%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.03%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.76%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.73%) QA
3 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.35%) GDPR
4 2 (1.35%) WCAG
5 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.68%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (22.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (16.89%) Terraform
2 13 (8.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.68%) Ansible
3 1 (0.68%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (22.30%) Databricks
2 28 (18.92%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.73%) Oracle
4 5 (3.38%) Palantir
5 3 (2.03%) Google
6 1 (0.68%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.68%) ESRI
6 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.68%) VMware