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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 186 130 263
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 7.12% 16.93% 12.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.37% 48.33% 41.48%
Number of salaries quoted 117 110 223
10th Percentile £33,250 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,563 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +20.91% -4.89%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,938 £64,375
90th Percentile £84,250 £93,778 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £54,228 £48,507
% change year-on-year +6.03% +11.79% -5.81%

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 593 269 634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 22.71% 35.03% 29.26%
Number of salaries quoted 435 223 531
10th Percentile £35,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £69,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,772 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £51,528
% change year-on-year +8.33% +16.44% -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 26 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 (5.38%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.69%) Apache
2 5 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.15%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.08%) IIS
4 2 (1.08%) JBoss
4 2 (1.08%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 43 (23.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.15%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.15%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 81 (43.55%) Azure
2 67 (36.02%) AWS
3 46 (24.73%) Power Platform
4 44 (23.66%) Serverless
5 39 (20.97%) AWS Lambda
6 37 (19.89%) Amazon S3
6 37 (19.89%) GitHub
7 32 (17.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 32 (17.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (15.59%) AWS Step Functions
9 26 (13.98%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (12.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 20 (10.75%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (10.22%) Azure AI
13 14 (7.53%) GCP
14 13 (6.99%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
16 11 (5.91%) Datadog
17 10 (5.38%) SaaS
18 9 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (24.19%) Power BI
2 39 (20.97%) Tableau
3 37 (19.89%) NoSQL
4 32 (17.20%) DynamoDB
5 24 (12.90%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (8.06%) SQL Server
7 13 (6.99%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (4.84%) BigQuery
9 9 (4.84%) Data Mining
10 8 (4.30%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (3.76%) Metadata
11 7 (3.76%) Spark SQL
12 6 (3.23%) MongoDB
12 6 (3.23%) MySQL
12 6 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (2.69%) Data Lake
13 5 (2.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (2.15%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (2.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 33 (17.74%) Git
2 12 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.15%) JIRA
3 4 (2.15%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 71 (38.17%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.82%) Finance
3 29 (15.59%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.23%) Legal
6 5 (2.69%) Agriculture
6 5 (2.69%) Automotive
6 5 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.15%) Retail
8 3 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.54%) Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.54%) Games
10 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (33.87%) Developer
2 47 (25.27%) Analyst
3 35 (18.82%) Data Analyst
4 31 (16.67%) Senior
5 28 (15.05%) Java Developer
6 23 (12.37%) Data Engineer
7 21 (11.29%) Lead
8 20 (10.75%) Junior
8 20 (10.75%) Software Engineer
9 19 (10.22%) Junior Analyst
9 19 (10.22%) Junior Data Analyst
10 12 (6.45%) SQL Developer
11 11 (5.91%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (5.91%) Senior Developer
12 10 (5.38%) AWS Developer
13 9 (4.84%) Lead Data Engineer
13 9 (4.84%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (4.84%) Trainee
13 9 (4.84%) Trainee Analyst
13 9 (4.84%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (18.28%) AngularJS
2 28 (15.05%) Node.js
3 24 (12.90%) React
4 20 (10.75%) .NET
4 20 (10.75%) Vue
5 18 (9.68%) RESTful
6 13 (6.99%) Spring
7 12 (6.45%) PySpark
8 10 (5.38%) CSS
8 10 (5.38%) HTML
9 9 (4.84%) .NET Core
9 9 (4.84%) ASP.NET
9 9 (4.84%) ASP.NET Core
9 9 (4.84%) Blazor
10 8 (4.30%) AWS CDK
10 8 (4.30%) Spring Boot
10 8 (4.30%) Web Services
11 6 (3.23%) REST
12 5 (2.69%) Flask
13 4 (2.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.14%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.91%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.38%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.61%) PKI
6 2 (1.08%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.08%) DataPower
6 2 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.08%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.08%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.08%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.08%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.54%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.54%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.54%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.54%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (29.57%) CI/CD
2 49 (26.34%) Business Intelligence
3 48 (25.81%) DevOps
4 47 (25.27%) Agile
5 37 (19.89%) Analytics
6 36 (19.35%) Mentoring
6 36 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (18.82%) AI
8 31 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (13.98%) Data Analysis
10 25 (13.44%) Software Engineering
11 21 (11.29%) DevSecOps
11 21 (11.29%) ETL
12 20 (10.75%) Decision-Making
13 19 (10.22%) Data Engineering
13 19 (10.22%) Data Governance
13 19 (10.22%) Data Pipeline
14 18 (9.68%) Infrastructure as Code
15 17 (9.14%) Containerisation
15 17 (9.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 71 (38.17%) Python
2 50 (26.88%) Java
3 30 (16.13%) TypeScript
4 27 (14.52%) C#
5 26 (13.98%) Kotlin
6 20 (10.75%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.30%) PL/SQL
7 8 (4.30%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.23%) Scala
9 4 (2.15%) PHP
10 3 (1.61%) C++
10 3 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.08%) C
11 2 (1.08%) R
11 2 (1.08%) VBA
12 1 (0.54%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 21 (11.29%) Degree
2 20 (10.75%) Azure Certification
3 12 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.84%) AWS Certification
5 8 (4.30%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.23%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (2.15%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.61%) IIBA
9 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.08%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.54%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.83%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.76%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.23%) GDPR
4 4 (2.15%) QA
4 4 (2.15%) SLA
5 2 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.54%) HL7
6 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (19.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (9.14%) Terraform
2 2 (1.08%) Ansible
2 2 (1.08%) Kibana
2 2 (1.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 43 (23.12%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.38%) Databricks
3 8 (4.30%) Oracle
4 5 (2.69%) Google
5 2 (1.08%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.08%) IBM
5 2 (1.08%) IFS
5 2 (1.08%) Informatica
5 2 (1.08%) Palantir
5 2 (1.08%) SAP
6 1 (0.54%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.54%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.54%) Rockwell
6 1 (0.54%) ServiceNow