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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 151 118 219
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 11.06% 11.61% 15.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.52% 36.31% 39.67%
Number of salaries quoted 109 71 155
10th Percentile £32,000 £25,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,125 £42,500
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 £83,800 £80,000 £91,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +21.05% -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 392 325 552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 28.72% 31.99% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 302 199 424
10th Percentile £28,300 £31,250 £38,050
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -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 14 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 19 (12.58%) Apache Spark
2 11 (7.28%) Apache
3 5 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.65%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.32%) CMS
5 2 (1.32%) Confluence
5 2 (1.32%) JBoss
5 2 (1.32%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 31 (20.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 67 (44.37%) Azure
2 65 (43.05%) AWS
3 42 (27.81%) Serverless
4 33 (21.85%) GitHub
5 28 (18.54%) Amazon S3
5 28 (18.54%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (15.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (13.91%) AWS Step Functions
8 20 (13.25%) Power Platform
9 19 (12.58%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (12.58%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (11.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (10.60%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (9.27%) Amazon EventBridge
13 12 (7.95%) GCP
14 9 (5.96%) SaaS
15 8 (5.30%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (5.30%) dbt
16 7 (4.64%) Microsoft Purview
17 6 (3.97%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) AMQP
1 2 (1.32%) Intranet
2 1 (0.66%) Firewall
2 1 (0.66%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (17.88%) Tableau
2 24 (15.89%) NoSQL
3 22 (14.57%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (13.91%) SQL Server
5 20 (13.25%) Power BI
6 19 (12.58%) DynamoDB
7 14 (9.27%) Data Lake
7 14 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (7.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (7.95%) Data Mining
9 8 (5.30%) Metadata
10 7 (4.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 6 (3.97%) MySQL
11 6 (3.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (3.31%) BigQuery
12 5 (3.31%) MongoDB
12 5 (3.31%) OLAP
13 4 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.65%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 27 (17.88%) Git
2 8 (5.30%) JIRA
3 3 (1.99%) Jenkins
General
1 61 (40.40%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (17.22%) Finance
3 17 (11.26%) Retail
4 13 (8.61%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.96%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (5.30%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.64%) Legal
8 6 (3.97%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.32%) Back Office
9 2 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.32%) Law
10 1 (0.66%) Billing
10 1 (0.66%) Games
10 1 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (33.11%) Developer
2 33 (21.85%) Senior
3 32 (21.19%) Data Engineer
4 28 (18.54%) Analyst
5 23 (15.23%) Data Analyst
6 18 (11.92%) Senior Data Engineer
7 16 (10.60%) Software Engineer
8 13 (8.61%) .NET Developer
9 12 (7.95%) Trainee
9 12 (7.95%) Trainee Analyst
9 12 (7.95%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 11 (7.28%) Graduate
10 11 (7.28%) Python Developer
11 10 (6.62%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 9 (5.96%) Linux Engineer
12 9 (5.96%) Logistics Engineer
13 8 (5.30%) AWS Developer
13 8 (5.30%) Data Manager
13 8 (5.30%) Lead
13 8 (5.30%) Software Engineering Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (19.87%) React
2 25 (16.56%) .NET
3 16 (10.60%) RESTful
4 15 (9.93%) ASP.NET
4 15 (9.93%) ASP.NET Core
5 14 (9.27%) Blazor
6 13 (8.61%) .NET Core
6 13 (8.61%) AWS CDK
6 13 (8.61%) CSS
6 13 (8.61%) Django
6 13 (8.61%) FastAPI
6 13 (8.61%) Flask
6 13 (8.61%) HTML
6 13 (8.61%) Vue
7 10 (6.62%) PySpark
8 8 (5.30%) AngularJS
8 8 (5.30%) Spring
9 6 (3.97%) Node.js
10 5 (3.31%) Hibernate
11 4 (2.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.56%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.62%) Data Structures
3 8 (5.30%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.99%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.99%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.99%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.32%) DataPower
6 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.32%) IoT
6 2 (1.32%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.32%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.66%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.66%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.66%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.61%) Linux
2 5 (3.31%) Windows
3 2 (1.32%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.66%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (41.72%) CI/CD
2 54 (35.76%) DevOps
3 50 (33.11%) Agile
4 49 (32.45%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (27.15%) Mentoring
6 40 (26.49%) Analytics
7 32 (21.19%) Data Pipeline
7 32 (21.19%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (20.53%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (19.87%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (19.87%) Data Engineering
10 25 (16.56%) ETL
11 24 (15.89%) Containerisation
11 24 (15.89%) Migration
11 24 (15.89%) Software Engineering
12 23 (15.23%) AI
12 23 (15.23%) Data Analysis
12 23 (15.23%) Data Modelling
13 20 (13.25%) Microservices
14 18 (11.92%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 85 (56.29%) Python
2 28 (18.54%) Java
3 21 (13.91%) JavaScript
4 13 (8.61%) C#
5 12 (7.95%) T-SQL
6 10 (6.62%) PL/SQL
6 10 (6.62%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.30%) C
7 8 (5.30%) C++
8 6 (3.97%) Scala
9 5 (3.31%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.99%) PHP
12 2 (1.32%) R
13 1 (0.66%) Delphi
13 1 (0.66%) Perl
13 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (10.60%) Degree
2 14 (9.27%) AWS Certification
3 11 (7.28%) AWS Certified Developer
4 9 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.97%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.97%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.31%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.99%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.32%) IIBA
9 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.27%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.65%) GDPR
4 2 (1.32%) WCAG
5 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 46 (30.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (19.87%) Terraform
2 12 (7.95%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.66%) Ansible
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.66%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (23.84%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.89%) Databricks
3 7 (4.64%) Oracle
4 5 (3.31%) Palantir
5 4 (2.65%) Google
6 1 (0.66%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.66%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.66%) VMware