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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 153 134 206
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 12.22% 11.89% 16.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.13% 37.85% 38.22%
Number of salaries quoted 117 83 134
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,150 £31,075
25th Percentile £41,075 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -1.41% +6.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,995 £72,137
90th Percentile £83,500 £77,500 £88,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +15.00%

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 372 354 539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 29.71% 31.41% 42.58%
Number of salaries quoted 295 224 408
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,900 £38,375
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,938 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £56,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% -5.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,118 £76,313
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,625
West Yorkshire median annual salary £61,500 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +11.82% -7.60% +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 17 December 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 (13.07%) Apache Spark
2 11 (7.19%) Apache
3 4 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.61%) Confluence
4 3 (1.96%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.31%) CMS
5 2 (1.31%) JBoss
5 2 (1.31%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.31%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.65%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 29 (18.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 73 (47.71%) Azure
2 65 (42.48%) AWS
3 34 (22.22%) Serverless
4 25 (16.34%) GitHub
5 21 (13.73%) Amazon S3
5 21 (13.73%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (11.11%) Power Platform
8 15 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (9.15%) Amazon SQS
9 14 (9.15%) AWS Step Functions
10 12 (7.84%) Amazon EventBridge
11 11 (7.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 10 (6.54%) GCP
13 8 (5.23%) SaaS
14 7 (4.58%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (4.58%) dbt
14 7 (4.58%) Microsoft Purview
15 5 (3.27%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.31%) AMQP
1 2 (1.31%) Intranet
2 1 (0.65%) Firewall
2 1 (0.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.34%) Tableau
2 24 (15.69%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (12.42%) SQL Server
4 18 (11.76%) NoSQL
5 17 (11.11%) Power BI
6 15 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (9.15%) Data Lake
8 13 (8.50%) DynamoDB
9 12 (7.84%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (7.19%) Data Mining
11 9 (5.88%) Metadata
12 8 (5.23%) MongoDB
12 8 (5.23%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 6 (3.92%) MySQL
13 6 (3.92%) OLAP
13 6 (3.92%) Relational Database
14 5 (3.27%) BigQuery
14 5 (3.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
15 4 (2.61%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 20 (13.07%) Git
2 11 (7.19%) JIRA
3 1 (0.65%) MLflow
General
1 58 (37.91%) Social Skills
2 26 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (15.03%) Finance
4 16 (10.46%) Retail
5 13 (8.50%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (5.23%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.58%) Tech for Good
9 6 (3.92%) Legal
10 3 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.31%) Back Office
11 2 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.31%) Law
12 1 (0.65%) Billing
12 1 (0.65%) Marketing
12 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (30.72%) Developer
2 33 (21.57%) Data Engineer
3 31 (20.26%) Senior
4 29 (18.95%) Analyst
5 22 (14.38%) Data Analyst
6 19 (12.42%) Senior Data Engineer
7 15 (9.80%) Software Engineer
8 12 (7.84%) Lead
9 11 (7.19%) .NET Developer
9 11 (7.19%) Data Manager
9 11 (7.19%) Graduate
9 11 (7.19%) Trainee
9 11 (7.19%) Trainee Analyst
9 11 (7.19%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 10 (6.54%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 10 (6.54%) Python Developer
11 9 (5.88%) Engineering Manager
11 9 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (5.88%) Logistics Engineer
12 8 (5.23%) Software Engineering Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.30%) React
2 25 (16.34%) .NET
3 14 (9.15%) RESTful
4 13 (8.50%) ASP.NET
4 13 (8.50%) ASP.NET Core
4 13 (8.50%) CSS
4 13 (8.50%) HTML
5 12 (7.84%) AWS CDK
5 12 (7.84%) Blazor
5 12 (7.84%) Django
5 12 (7.84%) FastAPI
5 12 (7.84%) Flask
5 12 (7.84%) Vue
6 11 (7.19%) .NET Core
7 10 (6.54%) PySpark
8 7 (4.58%) Spring
9 5 (3.27%) Hibernate
10 4 (2.61%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.61%) Node.js
10 4 (2.61%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.03%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.23%) Driving Licence
3 7 (4.58%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.96%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.96%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.31%) DataPower
7 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.31%) IoT
7 2 (1.31%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.65%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.50%) Linux
2 5 (3.27%) Windows
3 2 (1.31%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.65%) Android
4 1 (0.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 50 (32.68%) Mentoring
3 49 (32.03%) Agile
3 49 (32.03%) DevOps
3 49 (32.03%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (24.84%) Analytics
5 36 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
6 33 (21.57%) Data Engineering
7 31 (20.26%) Business Intelligence
7 31 (20.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 27 (17.65%) ETL
9 26 (16.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (16.99%) Data Modelling
9 26 (16.99%) Migration
10 24 (15.69%) Software Engineering
11 22 (14.38%) AI
11 22 (14.38%) Containerisation
12 21 (13.73%) Data Analysis
13 19 (12.42%) Data Governance
14 18 (11.76%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 90 (58.82%) Python
2 24 (15.69%) Java
3 23 (15.03%) JavaScript
4 15 (9.80%) C#
5 12 (7.84%) T-SQL
6 10 (6.54%) PL/SQL
7 8 (5.23%) C
7 8 (5.23%) C++
7 8 (5.23%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.27%) Scala
9 3 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.96%) PHP
10 2 (1.31%) R
11 1 (0.65%) Delphi
11 1 (0.65%) Perl
11 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (9.15%) Degree
2 11 (7.19%) AWS Certification
3 10 (6.54%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.58%) Security Cleared
6 6 (3.92%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.92%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.96%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.61%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.61%) QA
3 3 (1.96%) GDPR
4 2 (1.31%) WCAG
5 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 38 (24.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (19.61%) Terraform
2 13 (8.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.65%) Ansible
3 1 (0.65%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 30 (19.61%) Databricks
3 7 (4.58%) Oracle
4 5 (3.27%) Palantir
5 3 (1.96%) Google
6 1 (0.65%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.65%) ESRI
6 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.65%) VMware