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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 5 9
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 175 137 271
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 9.46% 17.75% 13.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.65% 44.63% 44.28%
Number of salaries quoted 119 105 216
10th Percentile £31,850 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,100 £93,778 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -

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 505 307 612
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 27.31% 39.77% 30.66%
Number of salaries quoted 389 238 491
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,600 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £69,875
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £83,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% +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 23 March 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 (6.86%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.00%) Apache
3 6 (3.43%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.14%) CMS
5 2 (1.14%) Confluence
5 2 (1.14%) JBoss
5 2 (1.14%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.14%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.57%) IIS
Applications
1 46 (26.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (1.14%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 73 (41.71%) Azure
2 68 (38.86%) AWS
3 49 (28.00%) Serverless
4 40 (22.86%) GitHub
5 37 (21.14%) Amazon S3
5 37 (21.14%) AWS Lambda
6 36 (20.57%) Power Platform
7 29 (16.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (16.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 27 (15.43%) AWS Step Functions
10 21 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (9.14%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (8.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 15 (8.57%) Azure AI
14 14 (8.00%) Amazon EventBridge
14 14 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (6.29%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (5.71%) GCP
17 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (23.43%) Tableau
2 36 (20.57%) Power BI
3 32 (18.29%) NoSQL
4 29 (16.57%) DynamoDB
5 21 (12.00%) SQL Server
6 16 (9.14%) Data Mining
6 16 (9.14%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (8.57%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (5.71%) Data Lake
9 8 (4.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (4.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (4.00%) Metadata
10 7 (4.00%) MySQL
11 6 (3.43%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.86%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.86%) Spark SQL
13 4 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (1.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 30 (17.14%) Git
2 8 (4.57%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.86%) JIRA
4 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 72 (41.14%) Social Skills
2 42 (24.00%) Finance
3 30 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 14 (8.00%) Retail
6 9 (5.14%) Legal
7 8 (4.57%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (4.00%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.29%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.57%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.57%) Automotive
10 1 (0.57%) Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Billing
10 1 (0.57%) Games
10 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (37.14%) Developer
2 48 (27.43%) Analyst
3 38 (21.71%) Data Analyst
4 32 (18.29%) Senior
5 28 (16.00%) Data Engineer
6 19 (10.86%) Java Developer
7 17 (9.71%) Junior
7 17 (9.71%) Software Engineer
8 16 (9.14%) Trainee
8 16 (9.14%) Trainee Analyst
8 16 (9.14%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 15 (8.57%) Junior Analyst
9 15 (8.57%) Junior Data Analyst
10 14 (8.00%) Senior Developer
11 12 (6.86%) .NET Developer
11 12 (6.86%) Graduate
12 11 (6.29%) Python Developer
12 11 (6.29%) Senior Data Engineer
12 11 (6.29%) SQL Developer
13 10 (5.71%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.57%) React
2 25 (14.29%) .NET
3 18 (10.29%) Node.js
4 17 (9.71%) AngularJS
4 17 (9.71%) RESTful
5 15 (8.57%) ASP.NET
5 15 (8.57%) ASP.NET Core
6 14 (8.00%) PySpark
6 14 (8.00%) Vue
7 13 (7.43%) .NET Core
7 13 (7.43%) AWS CDK
7 13 (7.43%) Blazor
7 13 (7.43%) CSS
7 13 (7.43%) Django
7 13 (7.43%) FastAPI
7 13 (7.43%) Flask
7 13 (7.43%) HTML
8 10 (5.71%) Spring
9 6 (3.43%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (12.57%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.71%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.57%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.00%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.14%) DataPower
6 2 (1.14%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.57%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.57%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.57%) IoT
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.57%) NHS
7 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.57%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.14%) Linux
2 1 (0.57%) Windows
2 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (33.14%) CI/CD
2 48 (27.43%) DevOps
3 47 (26.86%) Agile
3 47 (26.86%) Analytics
4 44 (25.14%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
6 40 (22.86%) Mentoring
7 36 (20.57%) AI
8 32 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (16.57%) Data Analysis
9 29 (16.57%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (14.86%) Containerisation
11 25 (14.29%) Data Engineering
11 25 (14.29%) Software Engineering
12 23 (13.14%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (11.43%) ETL
14 19 (10.86%) Business Analysis
15 18 (10.29%) Decision-Making
15 18 (10.29%) Microservices
16 17 (9.71%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 80 (45.71%) Python
2 36 (20.57%) Java
3 17 (9.71%) JavaScript
3 17 (9.71%) Kotlin
4 16 (9.14%) TypeScript
5 15 (8.57%) C#
6 8 (4.57%) T-SQL
7 7 (4.00%) C
7 7 (4.00%) C++
7 7 (4.00%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (2.86%) PHP
8 5 (2.86%) Scala
9 3 (1.71%) R
10 2 (1.14%) VBA
11 1 (0.57%) Delphi
11 1 (0.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (9.14%) Azure Certification
2 15 (8.57%) Degree
3 14 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 11 (6.29%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.00%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.86%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.71%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.71%) IIBA
7 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.71%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.57%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.00%) GDPR
4 2 (1.14%) SLA
4 2 (1.14%) WCAG
5 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (26.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (16.00%) Terraform
2 6 (3.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 49 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.86%) Databricks
3 4 (2.29%) Google
3 4 (2.29%) Oracle
3 4 (2.29%) Palantir
4 2 (1.14%) SAP
5 1 (0.57%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.57%) IFS
5 1 (0.57%) Salesforce