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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -12 +4 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 184 132 262
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 7.17% 16.71% 12.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.24% 47.31% 42.05%
Number of salaries quoted 113 110 224
10th Percentile £33,250 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,688 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,250 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +18.28% -4.89%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,400 £93,778 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £49,827
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.37% -3.25%

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 589 279 623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 22.94% 35.32% 29.48%
Number of salaries quoted 428 231 523
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,703 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,125 £69,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £58,619 £51,528
% change year-on-year +10.89% +13.76% -10.39%

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 20 May 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 10 (5.43%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.72%) Apache
2 5 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.17%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.09%) IIS
4 2 (1.09%) JBoss
4 2 (1.09%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 43 (23.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.17%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.17%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 82 (44.57%) Azure
2 67 (36.41%) AWS
3 44 (23.91%) Power Platform
3 44 (23.91%) Serverless
4 39 (21.20%) AWS Lambda
5 37 (20.11%) Amazon S3
5 37 (20.11%) GitHub
6 32 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 32 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (15.76%) AWS Step Functions
8 25 (13.59%) Amazon ECS
9 23 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 21 (11.41%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (10.87%) Azure AI
12 14 (7.61%) GCP
13 12 (6.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (5.98%) Datadog
15 10 (5.43%) SaaS
16 9 (4.89%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (23.37%) Power BI
2 40 (21.74%) Tableau
3 36 (19.57%) NoSQL
4 32 (17.39%) DynamoDB
5 23 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
6 16 (8.70%) SQL Server
7 13 (7.07%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (4.89%) BigQuery
8 9 (4.89%) Data Mining
9 8 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (3.80%) Spark SQL
11 6 (3.26%) Metadata
12 5 (2.72%) Data Lake
12 5 (2.72%) MongoDB
12 5 (2.72%) MySQL
12 5 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (2.17%) Relational Database
14 3 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 33 (17.93%) Git
2 11 (5.98%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.17%) JIRA
3 4 (2.17%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 72 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 34 (18.48%) Finance
3 27 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.61%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.26%) Legal
6 5 (2.72%) Agriculture
6 5 (2.72%) Automotive
7 4 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.17%) Retail
8 3 (1.63%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.54%) Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Games
Job Titles
1 65 (35.33%) Developer
2 47 (25.54%) Analyst
3 35 (19.02%) Data Analyst
4 30 (16.30%) Senior
5 27 (14.67%) Java Developer
6 22 (11.96%) Data Engineer
7 21 (11.41%) Junior
8 20 (10.87%) Junior Analyst
8 20 (10.87%) Junior Data Analyst
8 20 (10.87%) Lead
9 19 (10.33%) Software Engineer
10 13 (7.07%) SQL Developer
11 11 (5.98%) AWS Developer
11 11 (5.98%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (5.98%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.89%) .NET Developer
12 9 (4.89%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (4.89%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (4.89%) Trainee Analyst
12 9 (4.89%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.93%) AngularJS
2 26 (14.13%) Node.js
3 25 (13.59%) React
4 22 (11.96%) .NET
5 20 (10.87%) Vue
6 18 (9.78%) RESTful
7 12 (6.52%) PySpark
7 12 (6.52%) Spring
8 10 (5.43%) .NET Core
8 10 (5.43%) ASP.NET
8 10 (5.43%) ASP.NET Core
8 10 (5.43%) Blazor
8 10 (5.43%) CSS
8 10 (5.43%) HTML
9 9 (4.89%) AWS CDK
10 8 (4.35%) Web Services
11 7 (3.80%) REST
11 7 (3.80%) Spring Boot
12 5 (2.72%) Flask
13 4 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.78%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.43%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.89%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.63%) PKI
6 2 (1.09%) DataPower
6 2 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.09%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.09%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.54%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.54%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.54%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.54%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.54%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.63%) Linux
2 1 (0.54%) Windows
2 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (29.35%) CI/CD
2 47 (25.54%) Agile
2 47 (25.54%) Business Intelligence
3 46 (25.00%) DevOps
4 36 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (19.02%) AI
5 35 (19.02%) Analytics
5 35 (19.02%) Mentoring
6 29 (15.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (13.59%) Software Engineering
8 24 (13.04%) Data Analysis
9 20 (10.87%) DevSecOps
10 19 (10.33%) Data Engineering
10 19 (10.33%) Decision-Making
10 19 (10.33%) ETL
11 18 (9.78%) Data Governance
11 18 (9.78%) Data Pipeline
11 18 (9.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (9.24%) Containerisation
12 17 (9.24%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 69 (37.50%) Python
2 47 (25.54%) Java
3 30 (16.30%) TypeScript
4 28 (15.22%) C#
5 25 (13.59%) Kotlin
6 19 (10.33%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.35%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.80%) T-SQL
9 6 (3.26%) PHP
9 6 (3.26%) Scala
10 3 (1.63%) C++
10 3 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.09%) C
11 2 (1.09%) R
11 2 (1.09%) VBA
12 1 (0.54%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 21 (11.41%) Azure Certification
2 19 (10.33%) Degree
3 12 (6.52%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.43%) AWS Certification
5 8 (4.35%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.80%) AWS Certified Developer
6 7 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.63%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.63%) IIBA
7 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.41%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.80%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.26%) GDPR
4 4 (2.17%) SLA
5 3 (1.63%) QA
6 2 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.54%) HL7
7 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (20.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (9.24%) Terraform
2 2 (1.09%) Ansible
2 2 (1.09%) Kibana
2 2 (1.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 42 (22.83%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.43%) Databricks
3 8 (4.35%) Oracle
4 5 (2.72%) Google
5 2 (1.09%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.09%) IBM
5 2 (1.09%) IFS
5 2 (1.09%) Palantir
5 2 (1.09%) SAP
6 1 (0.54%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.54%) Informatica
6 1 (0.54%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.54%) Rockwell