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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 150 125 241
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 10.53% 12.30% 15.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.88% 38.58% 41.55%
Number of salaries quoted 105 75 178
10th Percentile £32,000 £25,313 £32,224
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,625 £72,433
90th Percentile £84,400 £87,000 £89,875
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% +10.00%

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 396 324 580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 27.79% 31.89% 37.69%
Number of salaries quoted 301 195 451
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £56,318
% change year-on-year +13.64% -2.34% -2.06%

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 January 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 18 (12.00%) Apache Spark
2 10 (6.67%) Apache
3 4 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.33%) CMS
4 2 (1.33%) Confluence
4 2 (1.33%) JBoss
4 2 (1.33%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (21.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 66 (44.00%) AWS
1 66 (44.00%) Azure
2 45 (30.00%) Serverless
3 36 (24.00%) GitHub
4 31 (20.67%) Amazon S3
4 31 (20.67%) AWS Lambda
5 26 (17.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 24 (16.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 21 (14.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (14.00%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (14.00%) Power Platform
8 20 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (10.67%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (9.33%) Amazon EventBridge
11 11 (7.33%) GCP
12 9 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (6.00%) SaaS
13 8 (5.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 7 (4.67%) dbt
14 7 (4.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.33%) Intranet
2 1 (0.67%) Firewall
2 1 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (18.00%) Tableau
2 25 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 22 (14.67%) DynamoDB
4 21 (14.00%) Power BI
4 21 (14.00%) SQL Server
5 18 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (8.67%) Data Lake
8 12 (8.00%) Data Mining
9 10 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (5.33%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (5.33%) Metadata
11 6 (4.00%) MySQL
11 6 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (3.33%) MongoDB
13 4 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.67%) Data Vault
13 4 (2.67%) OLAP
13 4 (2.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (20.67%) Git
2 7 (4.67%) JIRA
3 4 (2.67%) Jenkins
General
1 62 (41.33%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.67%) Finance
3 25 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.67%) Retail
5 13 (8.67%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (5.33%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.00%) Legal
9 5 (3.33%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.33%) Back Office
11 1 (0.67%) Billing
11 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Games
11 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (34.00%) Developer
2 30 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 30 (20.00%) Senior
3 28 (18.67%) Analyst
4 24 (16.00%) Data Analyst
5 16 (10.67%) Software Engineer
6 15 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (8.67%) .NET Developer
8 12 (8.00%) Trainee
8 12 (8.00%) Trainee Analyst
8 12 (8.00%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 11 (7.33%) Graduate
9 11 (7.33%) Python Developer
10 10 (6.67%) AWS Developer
10 10 (6.67%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 10 (6.67%) Java Developer
11 9 (6.00%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (6.00%) Logistics Engineer
11 9 (6.00%) Senior Developer
12 8 (5.33%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (19.33%) React
2 26 (17.33%) .NET
3 16 (10.67%) RESTful
4 15 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 15 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (9.33%) Blazor
5 14 (9.33%) Vue
6 13 (8.67%) .NET Core
6 13 (8.67%) AWS CDK
6 13 (8.67%) CSS
6 13 (8.67%) Django
6 13 (8.67%) FastAPI
6 13 (8.67%) Flask
6 13 (8.67%) HTML
7 12 (8.00%) AngularJS
8 11 (7.33%) PySpark
9 9 (6.00%) Node.js
10 6 (4.00%) Spring
11 5 (3.33%) Hibernate
12 4 (2.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (15.33%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.33%) Driving Licence
4 5 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.00%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.33%) DataPower
6 2 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.33%) IoT
6 2 (1.33%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.33%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.33%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.67%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.67%) NHS
7 1 (0.67%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.67%) Linux
2 5 (3.33%) Windows
3 2 (1.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (40.67%) CI/CD
2 55 (36.67%) DevOps
3 50 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (31.33%) Agile
5 41 (27.33%) Analytics
6 39 (26.00%) Mentoring
7 32 (21.33%) Business Intelligence
7 32 (21.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (20.00%) Data Engineering
8 30 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
9 24 (16.00%) AI
10 23 (15.33%) Data Analysis
10 23 (15.33%) ETL
10 23 (15.33%) Software Engineering
11 22 (14.67%) Containerisation
11 22 (14.67%) Data Modelling
11 22 (14.67%) Migration
12 19 (12.67%) Data Governance
13 18 (12.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 82 (54.67%) Python
2 28 (18.67%) Java
3 20 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 14 (9.33%) C#
5 13 (8.67%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.33%) T-SQL
7 10 (6.67%) PL/SQL
8 8 (5.33%) C
8 8 (5.33%) C++
8 8 (5.33%) Kotlin
9 6 (4.00%) Scala
10 4 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (2.00%) PHP
12 2 (1.33%) R
13 1 (0.67%) Delphi
13 1 (0.67%) Perl
13 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (10.67%) Degree
2 14 (9.33%) AWS Certification
3 11 (7.33%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.33%) Security Cleared
6 7 (4.67%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.33%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.00%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.33%) IIBA
10 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.67%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.33%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.67%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.33%) GDPR
4 2 (1.33%) WCAG
5 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.67%) QA
System Software
1 47 (31.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (20.00%) Terraform
2 10 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.67%) Ansible
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (24.67%) Microsoft
2 24 (16.00%) Databricks
3 7 (4.67%) Oracle
4 5 (3.33%) Palantir
5 3 (2.00%) Google
6 1 (0.67%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.67%) VMware