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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 169 113 171
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 5.44% 12.05% 10.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.59% 45.02% 34.69%
Number of salaries quoted 112 103 105
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,319
25th Percentile £41,568 £47,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,788 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +20.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £89,815 £74,550 £75,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £48,004
% change year-on-year - +24.99% -8.56%

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 535 251 493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 17.21% 26.76% 29.43%
Number of salaries quoted 383 211 330
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,625 £51,250 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +20.54% -6.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%

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 September 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 5 (2.96%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.37%) IIS
2 4 (2.37%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.78%) CMS
4 2 (1.18%) Apache
4 2 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.18%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.59%) Confluence
5 1 (0.59%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 15 (8.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.96%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.78%) Shopify
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 57 (33.73%) AWS
2 54 (31.95%) Azure
3 36 (21.30%) Serverless
4 34 (20.12%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (17.16%) Amazon S3
6 28 (16.57%) Power Platform
7 27 (15.98%) GitHub
8 26 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
9 25 (14.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (13.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 23 (13.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (13.61%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (13.02%) AWS Step Functions
12 18 (10.65%) Datadog
13 14 (8.28%) GCP
13 14 (8.28%) SaaS
14 12 (7.10%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (5.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 9 (5.33%) Amazon EC2
17 7 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.37%) LAN
1 4 (2.37%) WAN
2 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.38%) Power BI
2 23 (13.61%) DynamoDB
3 21 (12.43%) NoSQL
4 19 (11.24%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (10.65%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (7.69%) SQL Server
7 10 (5.92%) BigQuery
8 9 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (5.33%) Relational Database
9 8 (4.73%) Tableau
10 7 (4.14%) Spark SQL
11 6 (3.55%) Metadata
11 6 (3.55%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.78%) Big Data
13 3 (1.78%) ClickHouse
13 3 (1.78%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.78%) MySQL
13 3 (1.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (16.57%) Git
2 11 (6.51%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.51%) JIRA
3 5 (2.96%) Cypress.io
3 5 (2.96%) GitLab
3 5 (2.96%) JMeter
3 5 (2.96%) Postman
4 4 (2.37%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.78%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 67 (39.64%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (13.61%) Finance
4 18 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.47%) Manufacturing
5 16 (9.47%) Retail
6 11 (6.51%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.96%) Legal
8 4 (2.37%) Banking
8 4 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.78%) Agriculture
9 3 (1.78%) Automotive
9 3 (1.78%) Games
10 2 (1.18%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.18%) Law
10 2 (1.18%) Marketing
11 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (26.04%) Developer
2 27 (15.98%) Data Engineer
2 27 (15.98%) Senior
3 26 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 25 (14.79%) Software Engineer
5 21 (12.43%) Lead
6 17 (10.06%) Analyst
7 16 (9.47%) AWS Developer
8 14 (8.28%) Graduate
9 12 (7.10%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 11 (6.51%) Consultant
11 10 (5.92%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (5.33%) Data Analyst
12 9 (5.33%) Senior Data Engineer
13 7 (4.14%) Architect
13 7 (4.14%) C# Software Engineer
13 7 (4.14%) Software Developer
14 6 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (3.55%) Senior Developer
15 5 (2.96%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (17.75%) AngularJS
2 28 (16.57%) Node.js
3 16 (9.47%) React
4 15 (8.88%) Spring
5 14 (8.28%) Spring Boot
6 12 (7.10%) .NET
7 11 (6.51%) RESTful
8 9 (5.33%) PySpark
9 8 (4.73%) CSS
9 8 (4.73%) HTML
9 8 (4.73%) Terraform
9 8 (4.73%) Vue
10 5 (2.96%) Gherkin
10 5 (2.96%) Playwright
10 5 (2.96%) REST
10 5 (2.96%) XML
11 4 (2.37%) ASP.NET
11 4 (2.37%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (2.37%) Web Services
12 3 (1.78%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.92%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.73%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.96%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.37%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.37%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.37%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.37%) Learning Management System
5 4 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.78%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.18%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.59%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.59%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.59%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.59%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.92%) Linux
2 6 (3.55%) Windows
3 4 (2.37%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (27.81%) CI/CD
2 44 (26.04%) Agile
3 40 (23.67%) DevOps
4 33 (19.53%) Software Engineering
5 32 (18.93%) Business Intelligence
6 30 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (17.16%) Analytics
7 29 (17.16%) Mentoring
8 28 (16.57%) ETL
9 27 (15.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (15.38%) Decision-Making
11 25 (14.79%) AI
12 24 (14.20%) Workflow
13 21 (12.43%) Technical Leadership
14 19 (11.24%) Data Pipeline
14 19 (11.24%) Full-Stack Development
15 18 (10.65%) Data Engineering
15 18 (10.65%) DevSecOps
16 16 (9.47%) Data Science
16 16 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (28.99%) Java
2 48 (28.40%) Python
3 31 (18.34%) JavaScript
3 31 (18.34%) TypeScript
4 29 (17.16%) C#
5 23 (13.61%) Kotlin
6 11 (6.51%) PL/SQL
7 8 (4.73%) Scala
8 7 (4.14%) C++
8 7 (4.14%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.55%) T-SQL
10 4 (2.37%) PHP
10 4 (2.37%) RPG
11 3 (1.78%) C
12 2 (1.18%) Bicep
12 2 (1.18%) R
12 2 (1.18%) RPG/400
13 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.59%) Perl
13 1 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (10.65%) Degree
2 10 (5.92%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.96%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.96%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.37%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.83%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.51%) QA
3 5 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.37%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.78%) SLA
6 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.18%) PMO
7 1 (0.59%) HL7
System Software
1 25 (14.79%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.37%) Ansible
3 2 (1.18%) Kibana
3 2 (1.18%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.18%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.10%) Oracle
3 7 (4.14%) SAP
4 6 (3.55%) Databricks
5 5 (2.96%) Sage
6 4 (2.37%) Google
6 4 (2.37%) IBM
7 3 (1.78%) Informatica
8 2 (1.18%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.18%) Cisco
8 2 (1.18%) ESRI
8 2 (1.18%) Foundry
8 2 (1.18%) VMware
8 2 (1.18%) Workday
9 1 (0.59%) Freshdesk
9 1 (0.59%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.59%) IFS
9 1 (0.59%) OutSystems
9 1 (0.59%) Rockwell
9 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow