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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 148 119 219
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 11.12% 11.72% 15.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.54% 36.28% 39.53%
Number of salaries quoted 106 71 156
10th Percentile £32,000 £25,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,750 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,500 £77,500 £90,625
West Yorkshire median annual salary £56,250 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +18.42% -17.39% +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 384 328 554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.85% 32.32% 39.97%
Number of salaries quoted 297 201 427
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £38,350
25th Percentile £41,163 £43,750 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £61,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.82% -4.35% -

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 12 January 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 18 (12.16%) Apache Spark
2 10 (6.76%) Apache
3 4 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.70%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.35%) CMS
4 2 (1.35%) Confluence
4 2 (1.35%) JBoss
4 2 (1.35%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 31 (20.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 66 (44.59%) Azure
2 63 (42.57%) AWS
3 41 (27.70%) Serverless
4 32 (21.62%) GitHub
5 27 (18.24%) Amazon S3
5 27 (18.24%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (14.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (13.51%) AWS Step Functions
8 19 (12.84%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (12.84%) GitHub Actions
8 19 (12.84%) Power Platform
9 17 (11.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (10.81%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (9.46%) Amazon EventBridge
12 10 (6.76%) GCP
13 8 (5.41%) SaaS
14 7 (4.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (4.73%) dbt
14 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Purview
15 5 (3.38%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.35%) AMQP
1 2 (1.35%) Intranet
2 1 (0.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (17.57%) Tableau
2 22 (14.86%) NoSQL
3 21 (14.19%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (14.19%) SQL Server
4 19 (12.84%) Power BI
5 18 (12.16%) DynamoDB
6 14 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (8.78%) Data Lake
8 12 (8.11%) Data Mining
9 11 (7.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (5.41%) Metadata
11 7 (4.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 6 (4.05%) MySQL
12 6 (4.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (3.38%) MongoDB
13 5 (3.38%) OLAP
14 4 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (2.70%) BigQuery
14 4 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (17.57%) Git
2 8 (5.41%) JIRA
3 2 (1.35%) Jenkins
General
1 60 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.57%) Finance
3 25 (16.89%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (11.49%) Retail
5 13 (8.78%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.08%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (5.41%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.73%) Legal
9 6 (4.05%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.35%) Back Office
10 2 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.35%) Law
11 1 (0.68%) Billing
11 1 (0.68%) Games
11 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (33.11%) Developer
2 31 (20.95%) Data Engineer
2 31 (20.95%) Senior
3 28 (18.92%) Analyst
4 23 (15.54%) Data Analyst
5 17 (11.49%) Senior Data Engineer
6 15 (10.14%) Software Engineer
7 13 (8.78%) .NET Developer
8 12 (8.11%) Trainee
8 12 (8.11%) Trainee Analyst
8 12 (8.11%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 11 (7.43%) Graduate
9 11 (7.43%) Python Developer
10 10 (6.76%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 9 (6.08%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (6.08%) Logistics Engineer
12 8 (5.41%) AWS Developer
12 8 (5.41%) Data Manager
12 8 (5.41%) Lead
12 8 (5.41%) Software Engineering Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.27%) React
2 25 (16.89%) .NET
3 15 (10.14%) ASP.NET
3 15 (10.14%) ASP.NET Core
3 15 (10.14%) RESTful
4 14 (9.46%) Blazor
5 13 (8.78%) .NET Core
5 13 (8.78%) AWS CDK
5 13 (8.78%) CSS
5 13 (8.78%) Django
5 13 (8.78%) FastAPI
5 13 (8.78%) Flask
5 13 (8.78%) HTML
5 13 (8.78%) Vue
6 10 (6.76%) PySpark
7 8 (5.41%) Spring
8 7 (4.73%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.38%) Hibernate
9 5 (3.38%) Node.js
10 4 (2.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.76%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.41%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.03%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.03%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.35%) DataPower
6 2 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.35%) IoT
6 2 (1.35%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.35%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.68%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.68%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.78%) Linux
2 5 (3.38%) Windows
3 2 (1.35%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.68%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (41.22%) CI/CD
2 52 (35.14%) DevOps
3 49 (33.11%) Agile
4 47 (31.76%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (27.03%) Mentoring
6 39 (26.35%) Analytics
7 32 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (20.95%) Data Pipeline
9 30 (20.27%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (20.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (19.59%) Data Engineering
11 24 (16.22%) ETL
11 24 (16.22%) Migration
12 23 (15.54%) Containerisation
12 23 (15.54%) Data Analysis
12 23 (15.54%) Data Modelling
12 23 (15.54%) Software Engineering
13 22 (14.86%) AI
14 19 (12.84%) Microservices
15 17 (11.49%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 83 (56.08%) Python
2 26 (17.57%) Java
3 21 (14.19%) JavaScript
4 13 (8.78%) C#
5 12 (8.11%) T-SQL
6 10 (6.76%) PL/SQL
6 10 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.41%) C
7 8 (5.41%) C++
8 6 (4.05%) Scala
9 4 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (2.70%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.03%) PHP
11 2 (1.35%) R
12 1 (0.68%) Delphi
12 1 (0.68%) Perl
12 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (10.81%) Degree
2 14 (9.46%) AWS Certification
3 11 (7.43%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (6.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.05%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.05%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.38%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.03%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.35%) IIBA
9 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.68%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.78%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.70%) GDPR
4 2 (1.35%) WCAG
5 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 45 (30.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (20.27%) Terraform
2 12 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.68%) Ansible
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 24 (16.22%) Databricks
3 7 (4.73%) Oracle
4 5 (3.38%) Palantir
5 3 (2.03%) Google
6 1 (0.68%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.68%) VMware