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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 187 137 271
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 9.65% 17.84% 13.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.95% 44.92% 44.87%
Number of salaries quoted 124 109 218
10th Percentile £32,000 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £74,063 £73,886 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,200 £93,778 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £49,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.16% -1.00% -

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 535 305 604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 27.61% 39.71% 30.05%
Number of salaries quoted 405 243 492
10th Percentile £31,550 £27,775 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,500 £93,778 £84,842
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -8.70%

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 31 March 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 12 (6.42%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.74%) Apache
3 6 (3.21%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.07%) CMS
5 2 (1.07%) JBoss
5 2 (1.07%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.07%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.53%) Confluence
6 1 (0.53%) IIS
Applications
1 48 (25.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.14%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.53%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 76 (40.64%) AWS
2 74 (39.57%) Azure
3 56 (29.95%) Serverless
4 46 (24.60%) GitHub
5 41 (21.93%) Amazon S3
5 41 (21.93%) AWS Lambda
6 38 (20.32%) Power Platform
7 33 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 32 (17.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 30 (16.04%) AWS Step Functions
10 23 (12.30%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (10.70%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (10.16%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 17 (9.09%) Azure AI
14 16 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (7.49%) Amazon EventBridge
15 14 (7.49%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
17 10 (5.35%) GCP
18 8 (4.28%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.07%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (22.99%) Tableau
2 38 (20.32%) Power BI
3 35 (18.72%) NoSQL
4 33 (17.65%) DynamoDB
5 20 (10.70%) SQL Server
6 19 (10.16%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (8.56%) Data Mining
7 16 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (7.49%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (5.35%) Data Lake
10 8 (4.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (4.28%) Metadata
11 7 (3.74%) MySQL
11 7 (3.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (3.21%) MongoDB
13 5 (2.67%) BigQuery
14 4 (2.14%) Spark SQL
15 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (1.60%) Looker
15 3 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (16.58%) Git
2 9 (4.81%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.14%) JIRA
4 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 77 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 41 (21.93%) Finance
3 30 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.95%) Retail
6 9 (4.81%) Legal
7 8 (4.28%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (3.74%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.14%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.07%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.07%) Automotive
11 1 (0.53%) Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Billing
11 1 (0.53%) Games
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 73 (39.04%) Developer
2 50 (26.74%) Analyst
3 40 (21.39%) Data Analyst
4 34 (18.18%) Senior
5 28 (14.97%) Data Engineer
6 23 (12.30%) Java Developer
7 19 (10.16%) Junior
7 19 (10.16%) Software Engineer
8 17 (9.09%) Junior Analyst
8 17 (9.09%) Junior Data Analyst
9 16 (8.56%) Trainee
9 16 (8.56%) Trainee Analyst
9 16 (8.56%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 15 (8.02%) Python Developer
10 15 (8.02%) Senior Developer
11 12 (6.42%) .NET Developer
11 12 (6.42%) Graduate
11 12 (6.42%) Lead
12 11 (5.88%) AWS Developer
12 11 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.58%) React
2 23 (12.30%) .NET
3 22 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 21 (11.23%) Node.js
4 21 (11.23%) Vue
5 18 (9.63%) CSS
5 18 (9.63%) HTML
6 17 (9.09%) RESTful
7 16 (8.56%) Flask
8 15 (8.02%) ASP.NET
8 15 (8.02%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (6.95%) .NET Core
9 13 (6.95%) AWS CDK
9 13 (6.95%) Blazor
9 13 (6.95%) Django
9 13 (6.95%) FastAPI
9 13 (6.95%) PySpark
10 11 (5.88%) Spring
11 7 (3.74%) Spring Boot
12 6 (3.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.95%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.28%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.74%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.60%) PKI
6 2 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.07%) DataPower
6 2 (1.07%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.07%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.53%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.53%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.53%) NHS
7 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.53%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.53%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.81%) Linux
2 1 (0.53%) Windows
2 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (33.16%) CI/CD
2 50 (26.74%) Agile
3 48 (25.67%) DevOps
4 46 (24.60%) Analytics
4 46 (24.60%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
5 44 (23.53%) Mentoring
6 38 (20.32%) AI
7 34 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (18.18%) Data Analysis
8 33 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (14.44%) Containerisation
10 26 (13.90%) Software Engineering
11 24 (12.83%) Data Engineering
12 21 (11.23%) Data Pipeline
12 21 (11.23%) Decision-Making
13 19 (10.16%) Business Analysis
13 19 (10.16%) ETL
13 19 (10.16%) Test Automation
14 18 (9.63%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 86 (45.99%) Python
2 39 (20.86%) Java
3 23 (12.30%) JavaScript
4 21 (11.23%) Kotlin
4 21 (11.23%) TypeScript
5 16 (8.56%) C#
6 8 (4.28%) T-SQL
7 7 (3.74%) C
7 7 (3.74%) C++
7 7 (3.74%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (2.67%) PHP
8 5 (2.67%) Scala
9 3 (1.60%) R
10 2 (1.07%) VBA
11 1 (0.53%) Delphi
11 1 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (9.63%) Azure Certification
2 15 (8.02%) Degree
3 14 (7.49%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.88%) AWS Certified Developer
5 9 (4.81%) Security Cleared
6 7 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.74%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.60%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.60%) IIBA
7 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.53%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.28%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.74%) GDPR
4 2 (1.07%) SLA
4 2 (1.07%) WCAG
5 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 52 (27.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (16.58%) Terraform
2 5 (2.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 50 (26.74%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.63%) Databricks
3 4 (2.14%) Google
3 4 (2.14%) Oracle
3 4 (2.14%) Palantir
4 2 (1.07%) SAP
5 1 (0.53%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.53%) IFS