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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 196 142 264
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 8.38% 18.66% 12.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.91% 48.30% 42.38%
Number of salaries quoted 122 118 221
10th Percentile £32,000 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,313 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £56,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,800 £93,778 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -

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 578 294 623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 24.72% 38.63% 29.55%
Number of salaries quoted 422 241 519
10th Percentile £33,750 £28,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,000 £69,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £52,014
% change year-on-year +13.04% +10.55% -9.54%

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 25 April 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 11 (5.61%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.06%) Apache
2 6 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.02%) CMS
4 2 (1.02%) IIS
4 2 (1.02%) JBoss
4 2 (1.02%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.02%) WebSphere
Applications
1 49 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 86 (43.88%) Azure
2 74 (37.76%) AWS
3 51 (26.02%) Serverless
4 45 (22.96%) Power Platform
5 43 (21.94%) AWS Lambda
5 43 (21.94%) GitHub
6 41 (20.92%) Amazon S3
7 34 (17.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 33 (16.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 31 (15.82%) AWS Step Functions
10 24 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (11.22%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (10.71%) Azure AI
13 20 (10.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 15 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (7.14%) Amazon EventBridge
15 14 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
16 13 (6.63%) GCP
17 10 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
17 10 (5.10%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.02%) Intranet
2 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (23.98%) Tableau
2 44 (22.45%) Power BI
3 36 (18.37%) NoSQL
4 34 (17.35%) DynamoDB
5 20 (10.20%) Amazon Athena
5 20 (10.20%) SQL Server
6 16 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (7.14%) Data Mining
8 13 (6.63%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (4.59%) Metadata
10 7 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (3.57%) Data Lake
11 6 (3.06%) BigQuery
11 6 (3.06%) MongoDB
11 6 (3.06%) MySQL
11 6 (3.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (2.55%) Relational Database
12 5 (2.55%) Spark SQL
13 3 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.53%) Looker
Development Applications
1 32 (16.33%) Git
2 11 (5.61%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.04%) JIRA
4 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 80 (40.82%) Social Skills
2 42 (21.43%) Finance
3 31 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.10%) Retail
6 9 (4.59%) Legal
7 7 (3.57%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.04%) Agriculture
9 4 (2.04%) Automotive
10 3 (1.53%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.51%) Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Billing
11 1 (0.51%) Games
11 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (36.22%) Developer
2 55 (28.06%) Analyst
3 42 (21.43%) Data Analyst
4 32 (16.33%) Senior
5 25 (12.76%) Data Engineer
5 25 (12.76%) Java Developer
6 23 (11.73%) Junior
7 21 (10.71%) Junior Analyst
7 21 (10.71%) Junior Data Analyst
8 20 (10.20%) Software Engineer
9 17 (8.67%) Lead
10 14 (7.14%) Trainee
10 14 (7.14%) Trainee Analyst
10 14 (7.14%) Trainee Data Analyst
11 12 (6.12%) .NET Developer
11 12 (6.12%) Graduate
11 12 (6.12%) Senior Developer
11 12 (6.12%) SQL Developer
12 11 (5.61%) AWS Developer
12 11 (5.61%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (15.82%) React
2 28 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 25 (12.76%) .NET
4 22 (11.22%) Node.js
5 21 (10.71%) RESTful
5 21 (10.71%) Vue
6 15 (7.65%) ASP.NET
6 15 (7.65%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (6.63%) .NET Core
7 13 (6.63%) AWS CDK
7 13 (6.63%) Blazor
7 13 (6.63%) CSS
7 13 (6.63%) HTML
7 13 (6.63%) PySpark
7 13 (6.63%) Spring
8 10 (5.10%) Flask
9 8 (4.08%) Spring Boot
9 8 (4.08%) Web Services
10 7 (3.57%) Django
10 7 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.59%) Data Structures
2 9 (4.59%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.06%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.53%) PKI
6 2 (1.02%) DataPower
6 2 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.02%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.02%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.02%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.51%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.51%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.51%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.08%) Linux
2 1 (0.51%) Windows
2 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (31.12%) CI/CD
2 50 (25.51%) Agile
2 50 (25.51%) DevOps
3 49 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 45 (22.96%) Analytics
5 43 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (20.92%) AI
7 39 (19.90%) Mentoring
8 34 (17.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (15.31%) Data Analysis
10 26 (13.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (13.27%) Software Engineering
11 24 (12.24%) Decision-Making
12 23 (11.73%) Containerisation
13 22 (11.22%) Data Engineering
14 20 (10.20%) Data Governance
14 20 (10.20%) Data Pipeline
14 20 (10.20%) Microservices
15 19 (9.69%) Business Analysis
15 19 (9.69%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 82 (41.84%) Python
2 41 (20.92%) Java
3 25 (12.76%) TypeScript
4 22 (11.22%) C#
4 22 (11.22%) Kotlin
5 20 (10.20%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.08%) PL/SQL
7 7 (3.57%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.06%) C
8 6 (3.06%) C++
8 6 (3.06%) PHP
8 6 (3.06%) Scala
9 5 (2.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.53%) R
11 2 (1.02%) VBA
12 1 (0.51%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 22 (11.22%) Azure Certification
2 20 (10.20%) Degree
3 14 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.12%) Security Cleared
5 11 (5.61%) AWS Certified Developer
6 10 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (4.08%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.53%) IIBA
8 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.02%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.10%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.57%) GDPR
4 4 (2.04%) SLA
5 3 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.02%) WCAG
7 1 (0.51%) HL7
7 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 47 (23.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (13.27%) Terraform
2 4 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.02%) Ansible
3 2 (1.02%) Kibana
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 52 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.14%) Databricks
3 6 (3.06%) Oracle
4 4 (2.04%) Google
4 4 (2.04%) Palantir
5 2 (1.02%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.02%) IBM
5 2 (1.02%) IFS
5 2 (1.02%) SAP
6 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.51%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.51%) Rockwell