SQL Jobs in Leeds

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 130 268 518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 16.82% 11.40% 18.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.62% 39.41% 40.37%
Number of salaries quoted 109 223 320
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,500 £32,725
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,557 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.91% -4.89% -
75th Percentile £72,750 £63,750 £67,178
90th Percentile £93,778 £87,500 £77,715
West Yorkshire median annual salary £54,228 £48,507 £51,500
% change year-on-year +11.79% -5.81% +8.42%

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 273 680 1,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 35.32% 28.92% 44.67%
Number of salaries quoted 223 532 799
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £69,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,772 £85,000 £90,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £51,528 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.44% -10.39% +9.52%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Leeds

SQL
Salary Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in Leeds.

Salary trend for SQL in Leeds

SQL
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Leeds over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Leeds

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (8.46%) Apache Spark
2 10 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 9 (6.92%) Confluence
4 7 (5.38%) Apache
5 4 (3.08%) SAS
6 2 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.54%) SugarCRM
7 1 (0.77%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (43.85%) Azure
2 33 (25.38%) AWS
3 29 (22.31%) GCP
4 24 (18.46%) Power Platform
5 15 (11.54%) Serverless
6 11 (8.46%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (6.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (6.15%) Amazon S3
8 8 (6.15%) Power Automate
8 8 (6.15%) SaaS
9 7 (5.38%) Snowflake
10 6 (4.62%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (3.85%) dbt
11 5 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.08%) Azure Stack
12 4 (3.08%) GitHub
12 4 (3.08%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
1 10 (7.69%) Wireless
2 3 (2.31%) DNS
3 2 (1.54%) Firewall
3 2 (1.54%) VPN
4 1 (0.77%) Network Security
4 1 (0.77%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.77%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (26.15%) SQL Server
2 22 (16.92%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (16.15%) Power BI
4 19 (14.62%) NoSQL
5 14 (10.77%) MySQL
6 13 (10.00%) MongoDB
7 10 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (6.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (6.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (6.15%) Big Data
9 8 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (6.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (3.85%) Tableau
11 4 (3.08%) Biml
11 4 (3.08%) Data Lake
11 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 4 (3.08%) Power Query
11 4 (3.08%) Redis
11 4 (3.08%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (14.62%) JIRA
2 15 (11.54%) Git
3 6 (4.62%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (3.85%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.31%) GitLab
5 3 (2.31%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.31%) Maven
5 3 (2.31%) Selenium
6 2 (1.54%) JUnit
6 2 (1.54%) Mocha
6 2 (1.54%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.77%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.77%) Gradle
7 1 (0.77%) Postman
7 1 (0.77%) SoapUI
General
1 36 (27.69%) Finance
2 34 (26.15%) Social Skills
3 30 (23.08%) Banking
4 15 (11.54%) Law
5 14 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.15%) Marketing
7 7 (5.38%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.31%) Back Office
9 3 (2.31%) Retail
10 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.54%) Legal
10 2 (1.54%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (23.08%) Analyst
2 27 (20.77%) Senior
3 25 (19.23%) Developer
4 24 (18.46%) Lead
5 23 (17.69%) Data Engineer
6 17 (13.08%) Software Engineer
7 14 (10.77%) Support Analyst
8 11 (8.46%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (7.69%) SQL Developer
10 9 (6.92%) Data Analyst
11 8 (6.15%) Applications Support
11 8 (6.15%) IT Analyst
11 8 (6.15%) IT Support
11 8 (6.15%) IT Support Analyst
12 7 (5.38%) .NET Software Engineer
12 7 (5.38%) 2nd Line Support
12 7 (5.38%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
12 7 (5.38%) Lead Software Engineer
13 6 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
14 5 (3.85%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.54%) Node.js
2 13 (10.00%) .NET
2 13 (10.00%) React
3 8 (6.15%) AngularJS
3 8 (6.15%) Express.js
3 8 (6.15%) Kafka
4 7 (5.38%) Vue
5 6 (4.62%) REST
6 5 (3.85%) HTML
6 5 (3.85%) RESTful
7 4 (3.08%) .NET Framework
7 4 (3.08%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.31%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.31%) Plotly
8 3 (2.31%) PyTorch
8 3 (2.31%) scikit-learn
8 3 (2.31%) Spring
8 3 (2.31%) TensorFlow
9 2 (1.54%) Hibernate
9 2 (1.54%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (9.23%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.38%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.62%) Credit Risk
5 4 (3.08%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.08%) Market Risk
6 3 (2.31%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.31%) Clustering
6 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.31%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.31%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.77%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.77%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.77%) NHS
8 1 (0.77%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.54%) Linux
2 13 (10.00%) Windows
2 13 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (7.69%) Mac OS X
3 10 (7.69%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.54%) Unix
4 2 (1.54%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (26.92%) CI/CD
2 31 (23.85%) Analytics
3 30 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (22.31%) Agile
5 27 (20.77%) Data Pipeline
6 24 (18.46%) Mentoring
7 22 (16.92%) Business Intelligence
7 22 (16.92%) Software Engineering
8 21 (16.15%) DevOps
8 21 (16.15%) ETL
8 21 (16.15%) Visualisation
9 20 (15.38%) Data Engineering
10 18 (13.85%) Data Science
11 17 (13.08%) Data Modelling
12 14 (10.77%) Microservices
12 14 (10.77%) Roadmaps
13 13 (10.00%) Migration
13 13 (10.00%) Test Automation
14 12 (9.23%) Data Security
15 11 (8.46%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 52 (40.00%) Python
2 20 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 18 (13.85%) T-SQL
4 15 (11.54%) C#
5 12 (9.23%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.46%) Java
7 6 (4.62%) PL/SQL
7 6 (4.62%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (3.85%) R
9 4 (3.08%) PHP
9 4 (3.08%) Scala
10 3 (2.31%) Go
11 1 (0.77%) Bash
11 1 (0.77%) Bicep
11 1 (0.77%) Perl
Qualifications
1 31 (23.85%) Degree
2 13 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (7.69%) CCNP
3 10 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 10 (7.69%) MCSA
4 9 (6.92%) DBS Check
5 6 (4.62%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.62%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.62%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.62%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.54%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.54%) MCITP
7 2 (1.54%) MCSE
8 1 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.15%) QA
3 4 (3.08%) Basel II
3 4 (3.08%) Basel III
3 4 (3.08%) Dodd-Frank
3 4 (3.08%) GDPR
3 4 (3.08%) IFRS
3 4 (3.08%) IFRS 9
3 4 (3.08%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.31%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (2.31%) NIST
4 3 (2.31%) SLA
5 2 (1.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (13.08%) Docker
2 12 (9.23%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.31%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (13.08%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.62%) Terraform
3 3 (2.31%) Ansible
3 3 (2.31%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.54%) Grafana
4 2 (1.54%) Istio
4 2 (1.54%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (18.46%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.31%) Databricks
3 11 (8.46%) Cisco
3 11 (8.46%) Oracle
4 6 (4.62%) Google
5 4 (3.08%) Palantir
6 3 (2.31%) VMware
7 2 (1.54%) Intapp
7 2 (1.54%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.54%) Sage
7 2 (1.54%) SAP
7 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.77%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.77%) iManage
8 1 (0.77%) Meraki