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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 -8
Permanent jobs citing SQL 174 138 180
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 5.82% 14.53% 9.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.81% 48.76% 33.90%
Number of salaries quoted 118 119 132
10th Percentile £33,025 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +20.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £68,113
90th Percentile £88,704 £75,500 £76,125
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £48,507
% change year-on-year - +23.69% -5.81%

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 547 283 531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 18.28% 29.79% 28.05%
Number of salaries quoted 396 238 408
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £34,925
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,690 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,250 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -5.17%

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 22 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 5 (2.87%) Apache Spark
1 5 (2.87%) IIS
2 3 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.72%) CMS
3 2 (1.15%) Apache
3 2 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 24 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.30%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.72%) Shopify
3 2 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.15%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 69 (39.66%) Azure
2 58 (33.33%) AWS
3 35 (20.11%) Serverless
4 34 (19.54%) Power Platform
5 30 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
7 28 (16.09%) Amazon S3
7 28 (16.09%) GitHub
8 26 (14.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 26 (14.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (13.22%) AWS Step Functions
11 17 (9.77%) Datadog
11 17 (9.77%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (8.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (7.47%) GCP
14 12 (6.90%) Azure AI
15 11 (6.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 9 (5.17%) SaaS
17 7 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.30%) LAN
1 4 (2.30%) WAN
2 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.97%) Power BI
2 26 (14.94%) DynamoDB
3 24 (13.79%) NoSQL
4 23 (13.22%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (8.62%) Tableau
7 12 (6.90%) SQL Server
8 10 (5.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (5.75%) BigQuery
9 9 (5.17%) Relational Database
10 6 (3.45%) Metadata
11 5 (2.87%) Spark SQL
12 4 (2.30%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (1.72%) Big Data
13 3 (1.72%) ClickHouse
13 3 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.72%) MySQL
13 3 (1.72%) Redis
13 3 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (1.15%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 28 (16.09%) Git
2 8 (4.60%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.87%) JIRA
4 4 (2.30%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.72%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 66 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.22%) Finance
4 16 (9.20%) Manufacturing
5 14 (8.05%) Retail
6 11 (6.32%) Pharmaceutical
6 11 (6.32%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.87%) Agriculture
7 5 (2.87%) Automotive
7 5 (2.87%) Legal
8 4 (2.30%) Banking
8 4 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.72%) Games
10 2 (1.15%) Law
10 2 (1.15%) Marketing
11 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.57%) Local Government
11 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (32.18%) Developer
2 31 (17.82%) Java Developer
3 29 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 28 (16.09%) Senior
5 24 (13.79%) Analyst
6 22 (12.64%) Data Engineer
7 21 (12.07%) Lead
8 16 (9.20%) Data Analyst
8 16 (9.20%) Graduate
9 15 (8.62%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (8.05%) AWS Developer
11 12 (6.90%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 11 (6.32%) Junior
12 11 (6.32%) Junior Analyst
12 11 (6.32%) Junior Data Analyst
13 10 (5.75%) Senior Developer
14 9 (5.17%) Senior Java Developer
14 9 (5.17%) SQL Developer
15 8 (4.60%) Senior Data Engineer
15 8 (4.60%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (20.11%) AngularJS
2 33 (18.97%) Node.js
3 20 (11.49%) React
4 16 (9.20%) Spring
4 16 (9.20%) Vue
5 15 (8.62%) Spring Boot
6 12 (6.90%) CSS
6 12 (6.90%) HTML
6 12 (6.90%) Terraform
7 11 (6.32%) .NET
8 10 (5.75%) PySpark
9 7 (4.02%) RESTful
10 4 (2.30%) ASP.NET
10 4 (2.30%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (2.30%) REST
11 3 (1.72%) Entity Framework
11 3 (1.72%) OAuth
11 3 (1.72%) OAuth2
11 3 (1.72%) OpenID
11 3 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.75%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.02%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.87%) e-Learning
4 5 (2.87%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.30%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.30%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.72%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.72%) PKI
7 2 (1.15%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.15%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.15%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.57%) FMCG
8 1 (0.57%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.75%) Linux
2 6 (3.45%) Windows
3 4 (2.30%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (27.59%) CI/CD
2 44 (25.29%) Agile
3 42 (24.14%) DevOps
4 38 (21.84%) Software Engineering
5 34 (19.54%) Business Intelligence
6 31 (17.82%) AI
7 30 (17.24%) Mentoring
8 26 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (13.22%) Analytics
11 21 (12.07%) Full-Stack Development
12 20 (11.49%) Data Pipeline
12 20 (11.49%) DevSecOps
12 20 (11.49%) Technical Leadership
12 20 (11.49%) Workflow
13 19 (10.92%) Decision-Making
14 18 (10.34%) Data Analysis
14 18 (10.34%) ETL
15 17 (9.77%) Data Modelling
16 16 (9.20%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 56 (32.18%) Python
2 51 (29.31%) Java
3 34 (19.54%) C#
4 33 (18.97%) TypeScript
5 28 (16.09%) Kotlin
6 26 (14.94%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.17%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.60%) Scala
8 8 (4.60%) T-SQL
9 6 (3.45%) PHP
10 4 (2.30%) C++
11 3 (1.72%) C
11 3 (1.72%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.72%) RPG
11 3 (1.72%) VBA
12 2 (1.15%) Bicep
12 2 (1.15%) R
13 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.57%) Perl
13 1 (0.57%) RPG/400
Qualifications
1 17 (9.77%) Degree
2 12 (6.90%) Azure Certification
3 9 (5.17%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.02%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.87%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.77%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.02%) QA
3 6 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.30%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (2.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (2.30%) SLA
5 2 (1.15%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.15%) PMO
6 1 (0.57%) HL7
System Software
1 29 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (4.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.30%) Ansible
3 2 (1.15%) Kibana
3 2 (1.15%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.15%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.60%) Oracle
3 7 (4.02%) Databricks
4 5 (2.87%) SAP
5 4 (2.30%) IBM
6 3 (1.72%) Google
6 3 (1.72%) Informatica
7 2 (1.15%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.15%) Cisco
7 2 (1.15%) Foundry
7 2 (1.15%) IFS
7 2 (1.15%) VMware
7 2 (1.15%) Workday
8 1 (0.57%) Duck Creek
8 1 (0.57%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.57%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (0.57%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.57%) Rockwell
8 1 (0.57%) Sage
8 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow