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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 6 9
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 183 140 256
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 7.56% 18.16% 12.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.16% 48.11% 41.90%
Number of salaries quoted 114 117 219
10th Percentile £32,000 £26,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,475 £36,250 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year - +20.91% -4.89%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £65,625
90th Percentile £82,350 £93,778 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £53,864 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.11% +7.73% -1.96%

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 569 291 611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 23.50% 37.74% 29.23%
Number of salaries quoted 414 240 515
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,738 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £69,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £84,964
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £52,014
% change year-on-year +13.04% +10.55% -9.54%

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 8 May 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 10 (5.46%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.73%) Apache
4 4 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.09%) CMS
5 2 (1.09%) IIS
5 2 (1.09%) JBoss
5 2 (1.09%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.09%) WebSphere
Applications
1 44 (24.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.19%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 83 (45.36%) Azure
2 65 (35.52%) AWS
3 44 (24.04%) Serverless
4 42 (22.95%) Power Platform
5 39 (21.31%) AWS Lambda
6 37 (20.22%) Amazon S3
6 37 (20.22%) GitHub
7 31 (16.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 31 (16.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (15.30%) AWS Step Functions
9 23 (12.57%) Amazon ECS
10 21 (11.48%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 21 (11.48%) Azure AI
10 21 (11.48%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (6.56%) GCP
12 11 (6.01%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (5.46%) Amazon EventBridge
13 10 (5.46%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (5.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.09%) Intranet
2 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (22.95%) Tableau
2 41 (22.40%) Power BI
3 34 (18.58%) NoSQL
4 31 (16.94%) DynamoDB
5 21 (11.48%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (8.20%) SQL Server
7 13 (7.10%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (6.01%) Data Mining
10 8 (4.37%) Metadata
11 7 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (3.83%) BigQuery
11 7 (3.83%) Spark SQL
12 5 (2.73%) Data Lake
13 4 (2.19%) MongoDB
13 4 (2.19%) MySQL
13 4 (2.19%) Relational Database
13 4 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (1.64%) ClickHouse
14 3 (1.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (16.39%) Git
2 11 (6.01%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.19%) JIRA
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 74 (40.44%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.67%) Finance
3 26 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.65%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.37%) Legal
5 8 (4.37%) Retail
6 6 (3.28%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.73%) Agriculture
7 5 (2.73%) Automotive
7 5 (2.73%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Games
9 1 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (36.07%) Developer
2 49 (26.78%) Analyst
3 37 (20.22%) Data Analyst
4 30 (16.39%) Senior
5 26 (14.21%) Java Developer
6 23 (12.57%) Data Engineer
7 22 (12.02%) Junior
8 21 (11.48%) Junior Analyst
8 21 (11.48%) Junior Data Analyst
9 19 (10.38%) Lead
9 19 (10.38%) Software Engineer
10 12 (6.56%) Senior Developer
10 12 (6.56%) SQL Developer
11 11 (6.01%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (6.01%) Trainee
11 11 (6.01%) Trainee Analyst
11 11 (6.01%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 10 (5.46%) AWS Developer
12 10 (5.46%) Lead Data Engineer
12 10 (5.46%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (16.94%) AngularJS
2 25 (13.66%) React
3 23 (12.57%) Node.js
4 22 (12.02%) .NET
5 20 (10.93%) Vue
6 18 (9.84%) RESTful
7 14 (7.65%) PySpark
8 13 (7.10%) Spring
9 12 (6.56%) ASP.NET
9 12 (6.56%) ASP.NET Core
10 11 (6.01%) CSS
10 11 (6.01%) HTML
11 10 (5.46%) .NET Core
11 10 (5.46%) AWS CDK
11 10 (5.46%) Blazor
12 8 (4.37%) Spring Boot
12 8 (4.37%) Web Services
13 7 (3.83%) REST
14 5 (2.73%) Flask
14 5 (2.73%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.93%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.37%) Data Structures
2 8 (4.37%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.73%) Driving Licence
4 3 (1.64%) PKI
5 2 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.09%) DataPower
5 2 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.09%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.55%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.55%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (0.55%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.55%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.28%) Linux
2 1 (0.55%) Windows
2 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (30.05%) CI/CD
2 45 (24.59%) Agile
2 45 (24.59%) Business Intelligence
2 45 (24.59%) DevOps
3 40 (21.86%) AI
4 38 (20.77%) Analytics
5 37 (20.22%) Mentoring
6 35 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (13.11%) Data Analysis
8 24 (13.11%) Software Engineering
9 19 (10.38%) Computer Science
9 19 (10.38%) Containerisation
9 19 (10.38%) Data Engineering
9 19 (10.38%) Decision-Making
9 19 (10.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (9.84%) Data Governance
10 18 (9.84%) Data Pipeline
10 18 (9.84%) DevSecOps
11 17 (9.29%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 73 (39.89%) Python
2 43 (23.50%) Java
3 28 (15.30%) TypeScript
4 25 (13.66%) C#
5 23 (12.57%) Kotlin
6 19 (10.38%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.92%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.83%) T-SQL
9 6 (3.28%) PHP
10 5 (2.73%) C
10 5 (2.73%) C++
10 5 (2.73%) Scala
11 3 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.64%) R
12 2 (1.09%) VBA
13 1 (0.55%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 22 (12.02%) Azure Certification
2 20 (10.93%) Degree
3 12 (6.56%) Security Cleared
4 11 (6.01%) AWS Certification
5 10 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.37%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (4.37%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.64%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.64%) IIBA
7 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.38%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.28%) GDPR
4 4 (2.19%) SLA
5 2 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.09%) WCAG
6 1 (0.55%) HL7
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) QA
System Software
1 38 (20.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (9.84%) Terraform
2 4 (2.19%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.09%) Ansible
3 2 (1.09%) Kibana
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 47 (25.68%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.56%) Databricks
3 6 (3.28%) Oracle
4 4 (2.19%) Google
5 2 (1.09%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.09%) IBM
5 2 (1.09%) IFS
5 2 (1.09%) Palantir
5 2 (1.09%) SAP
6 1 (0.55%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.55%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.55%) Rockwell