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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 -8
Permanent jobs citing SQL 164 110 164
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 5.25% 11.59% 10.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.36% 43.65% 34.97%
Number of salaries quoted 113 100 98
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,968 £37,101
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,938 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% +20.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £75,250 £75,375
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £48,507
% change year-on-year - +23.69% -7.61%

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 523 252 469
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 16.74% 26.55% 29.09%
Number of salaries quoted 373 211 306
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +18.42% -5.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,938
90th Percentile £99,000 £85,000 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -7.60%

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 3 October 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 6 (3.66%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.44%) IIS
2 4 (2.44%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (1.83%) CMS
3 3 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.22%) Apache
4 2 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.22%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.61%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 14 (8.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (3.66%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (3.05%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.83%) Shopify
4 2 (1.22%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 54 (32.93%) AWS
2 53 (32.32%) Azure
3 32 (19.51%) Serverless
4 30 (18.29%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (16.46%) Amazon S3
5 27 (16.46%) Power Platform
6 26 (15.85%) GitHub
7 23 (14.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (13.41%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (13.41%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (12.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 21 (12.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (12.80%) AWS Step Functions
10 17 (10.37%) Datadog
11 16 (9.76%) GCP
12 15 (9.15%) SaaS
13 12 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (6.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.44%) LAN
1 4 (2.44%) WAN
2 1 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (15.24%) Power BI
2 21 (12.80%) DynamoDB
3 20 (12.20%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (12.20%) NoSQL
4 17 (10.37%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (9.15%) SQL Server
6 10 (6.10%) BigQuery
7 9 (5.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (5.49%) Spark SQL
8 8 (4.88%) Relational Database
9 7 (4.27%) Metadata
10 6 (3.66%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (3.05%) Tableau
12 4 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.83%) Big Data
13 3 (1.83%) ClickHouse
13 3 (1.83%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.83%) MySQL
13 3 (1.83%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (17.07%) Git
2 10 (6.10%) JIRA
3 9 (5.49%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.05%) Cypress.io
4 5 (3.05%) GitLab
4 5 (3.05%) JMeter
4 5 (3.05%) Postman
5 4 (2.44%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (1.83%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 64 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.68%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (12.20%) Finance
4 16 (9.76%) Manufacturing
4 16 (9.76%) Retail
5 15 (9.15%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.71%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.05%) Legal
8 4 (2.44%) Banking
8 4 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.83%) Agriculture
9 3 (1.83%) Automotive
9 3 (1.83%) Games
10 2 (1.22%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.22%) Law
10 2 (1.22%) Marketing
11 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (24.39%) Developer
2 29 (17.68%) Data Engineer
3 25 (15.24%) Senior
3 25 (15.24%) Software Engineer
4 22 (13.41%) Java Developer
4 22 (13.41%) Lead
5 15 (9.15%) Analyst
5 15 (9.15%) AWS Developer
6 14 (8.54%) Graduate
7 12 (7.32%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 11 (6.71%) Consultant
9 9 (5.49%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (4.88%) Data Analyst
10 8 (4.88%) Software Developer
11 7 (4.27%) C# Software Engineer
11 7 (4.27%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.27%) SQL Developer
12 6 (3.66%) Architect
12 6 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (3.05%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.46%) AngularJS
2 26 (15.85%) Node.js
3 14 (8.54%) React
4 13 (7.93%) Spring
5 12 (7.32%) .NET
5 12 (7.32%) Spring Boot
6 10 (6.10%) PySpark
7 9 (5.49%) RESTful
8 7 (4.27%) Terraform
9 6 (3.66%) CSS
9 6 (3.66%) HTML
9 6 (3.66%) Vue
10 5 (3.05%) Gherkin
10 5 (3.05%) Playwright
11 4 (2.44%) ASP.NET
11 4 (2.44%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (2.44%) XML
12 3 (1.83%) Entity Framework
13 2 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
13 2 (1.22%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.10%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.27%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.05%) e-Learning
4 5 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.44%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.44%) Learning Management System
5 4 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.83%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.61%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.61%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.61%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.61%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.10%) Linux
2 7 (4.27%) Windows
3 4 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (1.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (28.66%) CI/CD
2 40 (24.39%) Agile
3 37 (22.56%) DevOps
4 34 (20.73%) Software Engineering
5 32 (19.51%) ETL
6 31 (18.90%) Analytics
6 31 (18.90%) Business Intelligence
7 30 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (16.46%) Decision-Making
8 27 (16.46%) Mentoring
9 24 (14.63%) AI
10 23 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (13.41%) Workflow
12 21 (12.80%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (12.20%) Data Engineering
13 20 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
14 17 (10.37%) Computer Science
14 17 (10.37%) DevSecOps
15 16 (9.76%) Data Modelling
15 16 (9.76%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 46 (28.05%) Python
2 45 (27.44%) Java
3 30 (18.29%) JavaScript
4 29 (17.68%) C#
4 29 (17.68%) TypeScript
5 21 (12.80%) Kotlin
6 9 (5.49%) PL/SQL
7 8 (4.88%) PowerShell
7 8 (4.88%) Scala
8 7 (4.27%) C++
9 6 (3.66%) T-SQL
10 5 (3.05%) RPG
11 4 (2.44%) PHP
12 3 (1.83%) C
12 3 (1.83%) RPG/400
13 2 (1.22%) Bicep
14 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.61%) Perl
14 1 (0.61%) R
14 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (10.37%) Degree
2 7 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (4.27%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.05%) DBS Check
3 5 (3.05%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.44%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (1.83%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.20%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.71%) QA
3 5 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (2.44%) SLA
5 2 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.22%) PMO
6 1 (0.61%) HL7
System Software
1 22 (13.41%) Docker
2 3 (1.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.83%) Ansible
2 3 (1.83%) Progress Chef
2 3 (1.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.10%) Oracle
3 7 (4.27%) SAP
4 6 (3.66%) Databricks
5 5 (3.05%) Sage
6 4 (2.44%) Foundry
6 4 (2.44%) Google
7 3 (1.83%) Cisco
7 3 (1.83%) Informatica
7 3 (1.83%) VMware
8 2 (1.22%) ESRI
8 2 (1.22%) IBM
8 2 (1.22%) Palantir
8 2 (1.22%) Workday
9 1 (0.61%) Freshdesk
9 1 (0.61%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.61%) IFS
9 1 (0.61%) OutSystems
9 1 (0.61%) Rockwell
9 1 (0.61%) ServiceNow