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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 8 10
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 179 130 271
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 6.72% 16.43% 12.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.54% 47.97% 41.50%
Number of salaries quoted 116 110 226
10th Percentile £34,125 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,313 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £47,529
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +20.98% -5.07%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,188 £63,750
90th Percentile £84,375 £93,778 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% -7.77%

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 606 271 653
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 22.74% 34.26% 29.13%
Number of salaries quoted 447 224 540
10th Percentile £39,000 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £79,063 £69,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,625 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -9.13%

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 5 June 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 7 (3.91%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.79%) Apache
2 5 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.23%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.12%) IIS
5 1 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 40 (22.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.23%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 72 (40.22%) Azure
2 64 (35.75%) AWS
3 43 (24.02%) Power Platform
4 42 (23.46%) Serverless
5 37 (20.67%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (19.55%) Amazon S3
7 34 (18.99%) GitHub
8 30 (16.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (16.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 27 (15.08%) Amazon ECS
9 27 (15.08%) AWS Step Functions
10 25 (13.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 17 (9.50%) Azure AI
11 17 (9.50%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (7.82%) Azure Data Factory
13 12 (6.70%) Datadog
13 12 (6.70%) GCP
14 10 (5.59%) SaaS
15 9 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (5.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (23.46%) Power BI
2 35 (19.55%) NoSQL
2 35 (19.55%) Tableau
3 30 (16.76%) DynamoDB
4 25 (13.97%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (8.38%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (6.70%) SQL Server
7 9 (5.03%) BigQuery
7 9 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (4.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (4.47%) Data Mining
9 7 (3.91%) Spark SQL
10 6 (3.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (2.79%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.79%) Metadata
11 5 (2.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (2.23%) MongoDB
12 4 (2.23%) MySQL
12 4 (2.23%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (2.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (16.76%) Git
2 12 (6.70%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.23%) JIRA
3 4 (2.23%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 66 (36.87%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.44%) Finance
3 29 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.26%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.35%) Legal
6 5 (2.79%) Agriculture
6 5 (2.79%) Automotive
6 5 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.68%) Retail
8 2 (1.12%) Games
8 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.56%) Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (33.52%) Developer
2 44 (24.58%) Analyst
3 32 (17.88%) Data Analyst
4 30 (16.76%) Senior
5 29 (16.20%) Java Developer
6 23 (12.85%) Software Engineer
7 22 (12.29%) Data Engineer
8 20 (11.17%) Lead
9 17 (9.50%) Junior
9 17 (9.50%) Junior Analyst
9 17 (9.50%) Junior Data Analyst
10 12 (6.70%) SQL Developer
11 11 (6.15%) AWS Developer
11 11 (6.15%) Senior Developer
12 10 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (5.03%) Senior Java Developer
14 8 (4.47%) Python Developer
14 8 (4.47%) Trainee
14 8 (4.47%) Trainee Analyst
14 8 (4.47%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.55%) AngularJS
2 29 (16.20%) Node.js
3 24 (13.41%) React
4 20 (11.17%) Vue
5 15 (8.38%) .NET
6 14 (7.82%) RESTful
7 11 (6.15%) PySpark
7 11 (6.15%) Spring
8 10 (5.59%) CSS
8 10 (5.59%) HTML
9 9 (5.03%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.35%) .NET Core
10 6 (3.35%) ASP.NET
10 6 (3.35%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (3.35%) Blazor
10 6 (3.35%) Web Services
11 5 (2.79%) AWS CDK
11 5 (2.79%) Flask
12 4 (2.23%) REST
13 3 (1.68%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.26%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.15%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.59%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.79%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.68%) PKI
7 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.12%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.12%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.12%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.12%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.56%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.56%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 1 (0.56%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.49%) CI/CD
2 45 (25.14%) Business Intelligence
2 45 (25.14%) DevOps
3 44 (24.58%) Agile
4 37 (20.67%) Mentoring
5 33 (18.44%) Analytics
6 32 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (16.76%) AI
7 30 (16.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (16.20%) Software Engineering
9 25 (13.97%) Data Analysis
10 22 (12.29%) DevSecOps
11 21 (11.73%) ETL
12 20 (11.17%) Data Pipeline
13 19 (10.61%) Decision-Making
14 18 (10.06%) Continuous Integration
14 18 (10.06%) Data Engineering
14 18 (10.06%) Workflow
15 17 (9.50%) Full-Stack Development
15 17 (9.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 66 (36.87%) Python
2 48 (26.82%) Java
3 31 (17.32%) C#
4 30 (16.76%) TypeScript
5 27 (15.08%) Kotlin
6 24 (13.41%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.47%) T-SQL
8 7 (3.91%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.79%) Scala
10 4 (2.23%) PHP
11 3 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.12%) C++
12 2 (1.12%) R
12 2 (1.12%) VBA
13 1 (0.56%) Bicep
13 1 (0.56%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (11.17%) Degree
2 18 (10.06%) Azure Certification
3 13 (7.26%) Security Cleared
4 9 (5.03%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.35%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.23%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.68%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.68%) IIBA
7 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.85%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.91%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.79%) GDPR
4 4 (2.23%) QA
4 4 (2.23%) SLA
5 2 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) HL7
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (19.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (7.82%) Terraform
2 2 (1.12%) Ansible
2 2 (1.12%) Kibana
2 2 (1.12%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 39 (21.79%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.91%) Databricks
3 6 (3.35%) Oracle
4 5 (2.79%) Google
5 2 (1.12%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.12%) IBM
5 2 (1.12%) IFS
5 2 (1.12%) Informatica
5 2 (1.12%) SAP
6 1 (0.56%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.56%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.56%) Rockwell
6 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow