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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 8 12
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 176 133 238
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 6.52% 14.52% 11.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.09% 46.83% 38.20%
Number of salaries quoted 120 113 188
10th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £48,507
Median % change year-on-year - +23.69% -4.89%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,565 £79,500 £77,375
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £45,840
% change year-on-year -4.17% +30.89% -10.99%

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 585 284 623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 21.68% 31.00% 29.03%
Number of salaries quoted 437 238 506
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +22.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £82,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +15.38% -8.37%

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 18 July 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 (3.41%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.84%) IIS
3 4 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.70%) Apache
4 3 (1.70%) CMS
4 3 (1.70%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 34 (19.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.27%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (2.27%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (1.70%) Shopify
3 2 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 77 (43.75%) Azure
2 57 (32.39%) AWS
3 42 (23.86%) Power Platform
4 33 (18.75%) Serverless
5 29 (16.48%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (15.34%) Amazon S3
6 27 (15.34%) GitHub
7 26 (14.77%) Amazon ECS
8 25 (14.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (13.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 24 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (11.93%) AWS Step Functions
11 16 (9.09%) Azure AI
12 15 (8.52%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (7.95%) GCP
14 13 (7.39%) Datadog
14 13 (7.39%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (4.55%) SaaS
17 7 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) LAN
1 2 (1.14%) WAN
2 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (23.30%) Power BI
2 27 (15.34%) NoSQL
2 27 (15.34%) Tableau
3 24 (13.64%) Amazon Athena
3 24 (13.64%) DynamoDB
4 19 (10.80%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (6.82%) BigQuery
6 10 (5.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (5.68%) SQL Server
7 6 (3.41%) Data Mining
7 6 (3.41%) Metadata
7 6 (3.41%) Spark SQL
8 5 (2.84%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (2.27%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.27%) MySQL
9 4 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (2.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (16.48%) Git
2 10 (5.68%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.27%) JIRA
3 4 (2.27%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (1.70%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 66 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (15.91%) Finance
3 16 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.41%) Legal
5 5 (2.84%) Agriculture
5 5 (2.84%) Automotive
5 5 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.14%) Games
7 2 (1.14%) Retail
8 1 (0.57%) Banking
8 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.57%) Law
8 1 (0.57%) Marketing
8 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (31.25%) Developer
2 38 (21.59%) Analyst
3 29 (16.48%) Java Developer
4 26 (14.77%) Data Analyst
4 26 (14.77%) Senior
5 24 (13.64%) Software Engineer
6 22 (12.50%) Data Engineer
6 22 (12.50%) Lead
7 15 (8.52%) Full-Stack Developer
7 15 (8.52%) Junior
7 15 (8.52%) Junior Analyst
7 15 (8.52%) Junior Data Analyst
8 12 (6.82%) AWS Developer
8 12 (6.82%) SQL Developer
9 8 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
10 7 (3.98%) C# Software Engineer
10 7 (3.98%) Graduate
10 7 (3.98%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (3.98%) Senior Developer
10 7 (3.98%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.89%) AngularJS
2 31 (17.61%) Node.js
3 22 (12.50%) React
4 18 (10.23%) Vue
5 14 (7.95%) Spring
6 13 (7.39%) .NET
6 13 (7.39%) Spring Boot
7 11 (6.25%) CSS
7 11 (6.25%) HTML
8 10 (5.68%) PySpark
9 9 (5.11%) RESTful
10 6 (3.41%) Web Services
11 4 (2.27%) ASP.NET
11 4 (2.27%) ASP.NET Core
11 4 (2.27%) REST
12 3 (1.70%) Entity Framework
12 3 (1.70%) Flask
12 3 (1.70%) OAuth
12 3 (1.70%) OAuth2
12 3 (1.70%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 7 (3.98%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.98%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.84%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.27%) Learning Management System
6 3 (1.70%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.70%) PKI
7 2 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.14%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.57%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.57%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 1 (0.57%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.57%) SCADA
8 1 (0.57%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.70%) Windows
2 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.57%) Linux
3 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (25.57%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 43 (24.43%) Agile
4 41 (23.30%) DevOps
5 37 (21.02%) Mentoring
6 32 (18.18%) AI
6 32 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 29 (16.48%) Analytics
8 27 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (12.50%) Data Analysis
10 22 (12.50%) Workflow
11 21 (11.93%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (11.93%) DevSecOps
11 21 (11.93%) ETL
11 21 (11.93%) Full-Stack Development
12 20 (11.36%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (9.66%) Data Engineering
14 16 (9.09%) Data Modelling
14 16 (9.09%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 61 (34.66%) Python
2 48 (27.27%) Java
3 36 (20.45%) C#
4 30 (17.05%) TypeScript
5 26 (14.77%) JavaScript
5 26 (14.77%) Kotlin
6 7 (3.98%) PL/SQL
7 6 (3.41%) PHP
7 6 (3.41%) Scala
7 6 (3.41%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.70%) R
9 2 (1.14%) C++
9 2 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.14%) VBA
10 1 (0.57%) Bicep
10 1 (0.57%) C
10 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (10.23%) Degree
2 16 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 11 (6.25%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.27%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.57%) IIBA
8 1 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.93%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.41%) QA
3 4 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.27%) SLA
4 3 (1.70%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.14%) GDPR
5 2 (1.14%) PMO
6 1 (0.57%) HL7
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (14.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (5.11%) Terraform
2 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.70%) Ansible
4 2 (1.14%) Kibana
4 2 (1.14%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (21.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.55%) Oracle
3 7 (3.98%) Databricks
4 6 (3.41%) Google
5 4 (2.27%) SAP
6 3 (1.70%) Informatica
7 2 (1.14%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.14%) Foundry
7 2 (1.14%) IBM
7 2 (1.14%) IFS
7 2 (1.14%) Workday
8 1 (0.57%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.57%) Cisco
8 1 (0.57%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.57%) Rockwell
8 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.57%) VMware