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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 12 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 149 143 219
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 12.74% 11.64% 15.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.33% 36.67% 37.89%
Number of salaries quoted 118 85 146
10th Percentile £34,100 £34,300 £31,125
25th Percentile £41,185 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,500 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% -1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,991 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,500 £77,500 £88,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £58,750 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +17.50% -13.04% +15.00%

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 352 390 578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 30.09% 31.76% 42.19%
Number of salaries quoted 285 245 442
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £37,850
25th Percentile £42,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £76,438
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £86,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £61,500 £55,000 £59,763
% change year-on-year +11.82% -7.97% +8.66%

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 7 December 2025.

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 20 (13.42%) Apache Spark
2 11 (7.38%) Apache
3 4 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.68%) Confluence
4 2 (1.34%) CMS
4 2 (1.34%) JBoss
4 2 (1.34%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.34%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.34%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.67%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 25 (16.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 72 (48.32%) Azure
2 65 (43.62%) AWS
3 31 (20.81%) Serverless
4 23 (15.44%) GitHub
5 19 (12.75%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (12.08%) Amazon S3
7 15 (10.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (10.07%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (9.40%) Power Platform
9 12 (8.05%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (7.38%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (7.38%) AWS Step Functions
11 10 (6.71%) GCP
12 9 (6.04%) Amazon EventBridge
13 8 (5.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (4.70%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (4.70%) dbt
14 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (4.70%) SaaS
15 4 (2.68%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.34%) AMQP
1 2 (1.34%) Intranet
2 1 (0.67%) Firewall
2 1 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.11%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (14.77%) Tableau
3 17 (11.41%) NoSQL
4 16 (10.74%) SQL Server
5 14 (9.40%) Data Lake
5 14 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (9.40%) Power BI
6 12 (8.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (6.71%) Data Mining
7 10 (6.71%) DynamoDB
7 10 (6.71%) MongoDB
8 9 (6.04%) Metadata
9 8 (5.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 7 (4.70%) Relational Database
11 6 (4.03%) MySQL
11 6 (4.03%) OLAP
12 5 (3.36%) BigQuery
13 4 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.68%) Data Vault
13 4 (2.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (11.41%) Git
2 11 (7.38%) JIRA
3 1 (0.67%) MLflow
General
1 55 (36.91%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.11%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (13.42%) Finance
4 15 (10.07%) Retail
5 13 (8.72%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.37%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (5.37%) Tech for Good
7 7 (4.70%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.36%) Legal
9 3 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.34%) Back Office
10 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.34%) Law
11 1 (0.67%) Billing
11 1 (0.67%) Marketing
11 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (30.20%) Developer
2 33 (22.15%) Data Engineer
3 30 (20.13%) Senior
4 26 (17.45%) Analyst
5 19 (12.75%) Data Analyst
5 19 (12.75%) Senior Data Engineer
6 15 (10.07%) Lead
6 15 (10.07%) Software Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Data Manager
7 10 (6.71%) Graduate
7 10 (6.71%) Software Developer
7 10 (6.71%) Trainee
7 10 (6.71%) Trainee Analyst
7 10 (6.71%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 9 (6.04%) Engineering Manager
8 9 (6.04%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) Python Developer
9 8 (5.37%) .NET Developer
9 8 (5.37%) Linux Engineer
9 8 (5.37%) Logistics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (16.78%) React
2 23 (15.44%) .NET
3 12 (8.05%) CSS
3 12 (8.05%) HTML
4 11 (7.38%) ASP.NET
4 11 (7.38%) Django
4 11 (7.38%) FastAPI
4 11 (7.38%) Flask
4 11 (7.38%) RESTful
4 11 (7.38%) Vue
5 10 (6.71%) ASP.NET Core
5 10 (6.71%) AWS CDK
5 10 (6.71%) PySpark
6 9 (6.04%) .NET Core
6 9 (6.04%) Blazor
7 7 (4.70%) Spring
8 6 (4.03%) Node.js
9 5 (3.36%) Hibernate
10 4 (2.68%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.42%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.04%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.70%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.70%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.01%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.34%) DataPower
6 2 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.34%) IoT
6 2 (1.34%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.34%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.67%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.05%) Linux
2 5 (3.36%) Windows
3 2 (1.34%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.67%) Android
4 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (41.61%) CI/CD
2 52 (34.90%) Mentoring
3 47 (31.54%) Agile
3 47 (31.54%) DevOps
3 47 (31.54%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (24.83%) Data Pipeline
5 35 (23.49%) Analytics
6 34 (22.82%) Data Engineering
7 28 (18.79%) Business Intelligence
7 28 (18.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (17.45%) ETL
8 26 (17.45%) Migration
9 25 (16.78%) Data Modelling
10 24 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (16.11%) Software Engineering
11 20 (13.42%) AI
11 20 (13.42%) Data Analysis
12 19 (12.75%) Containerisation
13 18 (12.08%) Data Security
14 17 (11.41%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 88 (59.06%) Python
2 25 (16.78%) Java
2 25 (16.78%) JavaScript
3 16 (10.74%) C#
4 11 (7.38%) T-SQL
5 9 (6.04%) PL/SQL
6 8 (5.37%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.70%) C
7 7 (4.70%) C++
8 5 (3.36%) Scala
9 3 (2.01%) PHP
10 2 (1.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.34%) R
11 1 (0.67%) Delphi
11 1 (0.67%) Perl
11 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (8.72%) Degree
2 9 (6.04%) AWS Certification
2 9 (6.04%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.37%) AWS Certified Developer
3 8 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (5.37%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.36%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.01%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.67%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.71%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.03%) QA
3 3 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.34%) GDPR
4 2 (1.34%) WCAG
5 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 34 (22.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (17.45%) Terraform
2 13 (8.72%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.67%) Ansible
3 1 (0.67%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (21.48%) Databricks
2 31 (20.81%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.70%) Oracle
4 5 (3.36%) Palantir
5 3 (2.01%) Google
6 1 (0.67%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.67%) ESRI
6 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.67%) VMware