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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 180 137 198
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 6.38% 14.44% 10.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.93% 47.74% 35.80%
Number of salaries quoted 122 117 150
10th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £37,950
25th Percentile £42,433 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £76,000 £76,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £49,384
% change year-on-year -4.17% +21.50% -4.11%

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 582 287 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 20.62% 30.24% 28.65%
Number of salaries quoted 430 244 442
10th Percentile £39,000 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% +15.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £69,938
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,250 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -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 1 August 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
5 1 (0.56%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 31 (17.22%) 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 75 (41.67%) Azure
2 57 (31.67%) AWS
3 40 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 31 (17.22%) Serverless
5 26 (14.44%) AWS Lambda
6 25 (13.89%) Amazon ECS
6 25 (13.89%) GitHub
7 24 (13.33%) Amazon S3
8 23 (12.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (12.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 22 (12.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 19 (10.56%) AWS Step Functions
11 16 (8.89%) GCP
12 15 (8.33%) Azure AI
13 14 (7.78%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (6.67%) Datadog
14 12 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (4.44%) SaaS
16 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 39 (21.67%) Power BI
2 25 (13.89%) NoSQL
2 25 (13.89%) Tableau
3 22 (12.22%) Amazon Athena
3 22 (12.22%) DynamoDB
4 19 (10.56%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (7.22%) BigQuery
6 11 (6.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (6.11%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.33%) Metadata
7 6 (3.33%) Spark SQL
8 5 (2.78%) Data Mining
8 5 (2.78%) MySQL
8 5 (2.78%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.22%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.67%) Big Data
10 3 (1.67%) Redis
10 3 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (14.44%) Git
2 9 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.78%) JIRA
4 4 (2.22%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.67%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 67 (37.22%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (14.44%) Finance
4 16 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 10 (5.56%) Retail
7 8 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
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%) Legal
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 52 (28.89%) Developer
2 36 (20.00%) Analyst
3 29 (16.11%) Software Engineer
4 27 (15.00%) Java Developer
4 27 (15.00%) Senior
5 25 (13.89%) Data Analyst
6 23 (12.78%) Data Engineer
7 22 (12.22%) Lead
8 15 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 14 (7.78%) Junior
9 14 (7.78%) Junior Analyst
9 14 (7.78%) Junior Data Analyst
10 13 (7.22%) Graduate
11 11 (6.11%) AWS Developer
11 11 (6.11%) SQL Developer
12 9 (5.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
13 8 (4.44%) Lead Data Engineer
13 8 (4.44%) Senior Data Engineer
14 7 (3.89%) C# Software Engineer
14 7 (3.89%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.78%) AngularJS
2 29 (16.11%) 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
7 12 (6.67%) CSS
7 12 (6.67%) HTML
8 10 (5.56%) PySpark
9 9 (5.00%) RESTful
10 6 (3.33%) Web Services
11 4 (2.22%) ASP.NET
11 4 (2.22%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (2.22%) REST
12 3 (1.67%) Entity Framework
12 3 (1.67%) Flask
12 3 (1.67%) OAuth
12 3 (1.67%) OAuth2
12 3 (1.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.89%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.78%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.22%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.22%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.67%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.67%) PKI
7 2 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.11%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.11%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.56%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.56%) FMCG
8 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 1 (0.56%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.89%) Linux
2 3 (1.67%) Windows
3 2 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (23.89%) CI/CD
2 42 (23.33%) Agile
2 42 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
3 39 (21.67%) DevOps
4 38 (21.11%) Software Engineering
5 35 (19.44%) Mentoring
6 34 (18.89%) AI
7 31 (17.22%) Analytics
8 26 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (12.22%) Data Pipeline
10 21 (11.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 21 (11.67%) Workflow
11 20 (11.11%) Data Analysis
11 20 (11.11%) ETL
11 20 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
12 19 (10.56%) DevSecOps
13 18 (10.00%) Data Engineering
14 17 (9.44%) Data Modelling
14 17 (9.44%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 62 (34.44%) Python
2 49 (27.22%) Java
3 35 (19.44%) C#
4 29 (16.11%) TypeScript
5 26 (14.44%) JavaScript
6 24 (13.33%) Kotlin
7 9 (5.00%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.89%) Scala
8 7 (3.89%) T-SQL
9 6 (3.33%) PHP
10 4 (2.22%) C++
11 3 (1.67%) C
11 3 (1.67%) R
11 3 (1.67%) VBA
12 2 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.56%) Bicep
13 1 (0.56%) Perl
13 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.56%) RPG
Qualifications
1 19 (10.56%) Degree
2 15 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 10 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.44%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.78%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.11%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.11%) 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 25 (13.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (5.56%) 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 36 (20.00%) 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