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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 -9
Permanent jobs citing SQL 172 119 166
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 5.65% 13.08% 9.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.45% 46.67% 32.11%
Number of salaries quoted 119 104 117
10th Percentile £33,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,591 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% +20.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £68,113
90th Percentile £88,518 £72,750 £76,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £48,004
% change year-on-year -4.17% +24.99% -6.79%

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 530 255 517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 17.40% 28.02% 28.87%
Number of salaries quoted 385 210 376
10th Percentile £39,400 £34,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -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 5 September 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 5 (2.91%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.33%) IIS
3 3 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.74%) CMS
4 2 (1.16%) Apache
4 2 (1.16%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.58%) Confluence
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 21 (12.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.91%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.33%) NetSuite
3 3 (1.74%) Shopify
4 2 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.16%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 65 (37.79%) Azure
2 58 (33.72%) AWS
3 36 (20.93%) Serverless
4 33 (19.19%) Power Platform
5 31 (18.02%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (15.70%) Amazon ECS
7 26 (15.12%) Amazon S3
7 26 (15.12%) GitHub
8 24 (13.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 24 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (12.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (12.21%) AWS Step Functions
11 16 (9.30%) Datadog
11 16 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (8.14%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (8.14%) GCP
13 12 (6.98%) SaaS
14 11 (6.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 10 (5.81%) Azure AI
16 7 (4.07%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.33%) LAN
1 4 (2.33%) WAN
2 1 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (18.02%) Power BI
2 24 (13.95%) DynamoDB
3 21 (12.21%) Amazon Athena
3 21 (12.21%) NoSQL
4 18 (10.47%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (6.98%) Tableau
6 10 (5.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (5.81%) BigQuery
6 10 (5.81%) SQL Server
7 8 (4.65%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.65%) Spark SQL
8 6 (3.49%) Metadata
9 5 (2.91%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (1.74%) Big Data
10 3 (1.74%) ClickHouse
10 3 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.74%) MySQL
10 3 (1.74%) Redis
10 3 (1.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 27 (15.70%) Git
2 7 (4.07%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.91%) JIRA
4 4 (2.33%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.74%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 65 (37.79%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (12.21%) Finance
4 16 (9.30%) Manufacturing
5 15 (8.72%) Public Sector
6 14 (8.14%) Retail
7 11 (6.40%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.91%) Agriculture
8 5 (2.91%) Automotive
8 5 (2.91%) Legal
9 4 (2.33%) Banking
9 4 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.74%) Games
11 2 (1.16%) Law
11 2 (1.16%) Marketing
12 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.58%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.58%) Local Government
12 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (27.91%) Developer
2 29 (16.86%) Data Engineer
2 29 (16.86%) Software Engineer
3 27 (15.70%) Java Developer
3 27 (15.70%) Senior
4 21 (12.21%) Lead
5 19 (11.05%) Analyst
6 15 (8.72%) Full-Stack Developer
6 15 (8.72%) Graduate
7 14 (8.14%) AWS Developer
8 13 (7.56%) Data Analyst
9 12 (6.98%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 9 (5.23%) Junior
10 9 (5.23%) Junior Analyst
10 9 (5.23%) Junior Data Analyst
11 8 (4.65%) Consultant
11 8 (4.65%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (4.07%) C# Software Engineer
12 7 (4.07%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (4.07%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (19.19%) AngularJS
2 29 (16.86%) Node.js
3 20 (11.63%) React
4 16 (9.30%) Vue
5 15 (8.72%) Spring
6 14 (8.14%) Spring Boot
7 13 (7.56%) .NET
7 13 (7.56%) PySpark
8 12 (6.98%) CSS
8 12 (6.98%) HTML
8 12 (6.98%) Terraform
9 7 (4.07%) RESTful
10 4 (2.33%) ASP.NET
10 4 (2.33%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (2.33%) REST
10 4 (2.33%) XML
11 3 (1.74%) Entity Framework
11 3 (1.74%) Flask
11 3 (1.74%) OAuth2
11 3 (1.74%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.40%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.07%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.91%) e-Learning
5 4 (2.33%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.33%) Learning Management System
5 4 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.74%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.74%) PKI
6 3 (1.74%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.16%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.16%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.58%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.58%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.81%) Linux
2 6 (3.49%) Windows
3 4 (2.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (27.33%) Agile
1 47 (27.33%) CI/CD
2 41 (23.84%) DevOps
3 38 (22.09%) Software Engineering
4 35 (20.35%) Business Intelligence
5 34 (19.77%) Mentoring
6 30 (17.44%) AI
7 29 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (14.53%) Analytics
9 25 (14.53%) ETL
10 24 (13.95%) Full-Stack Development
11 22 (12.79%) Decision-Making
12 21 (12.21%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (11.63%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (11.63%) Workflow
14 19 (11.05%) Data Engineering
15 18 (10.47%) DevSecOps
16 17 (9.88%) Data Analysis
16 17 (9.88%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 53 (30.81%) Python
2 50 (29.07%) Java
3 35 (20.35%) C#
4 32 (18.60%) JavaScript
5 30 (17.44%) TypeScript
6 24 (13.95%) Kotlin
7 10 (5.81%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.65%) Scala
9 7 (4.07%) C++
9 7 (4.07%) T-SQL
10 6 (3.49%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.91%) PHP
12 3 (1.74%) C
12 3 (1.74%) RPG
12 3 (1.74%) VBA
13 2 (1.16%) Bicep
13 2 (1.16%) R
14 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.58%) Perl
14 1 (0.58%) RPG/400
Qualifications
1 17 (9.88%) Degree
2 10 (5.81%) Azure Certification
3 9 (5.23%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.07%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.91%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.63%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.07%) QA
3 5 (2.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.16%) PMO
5 2 (1.16%) SLA
6 1 (0.58%) HL7
System Software
1 27 (15.70%) Docker
2 2 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (2.33%) Ansible
3 2 (1.16%) Kibana
3 2 (1.16%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.16%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (15.70%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.23%) Oracle
3 8 (4.65%) SAP
4 7 (4.07%) Databricks
5 4 (2.33%) Google
5 4 (2.33%) IBM
5 4 (2.33%) Sage
6 3 (1.74%) Informatica
7 2 (1.16%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.16%) Cisco
7 2 (1.16%) Foundry
7 2 (1.16%) VMware
7 2 (1.16%) Workday
8 1 (0.58%) Duck Creek
8 1 (0.58%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.58%) IFS
8 1 (0.58%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (0.58%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.58%) Rockwell
8 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow