SQL Server Contracts in Leicestershire

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 25 9
Rank change year-on-year +7 -16 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 1 2 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 0.99% 1.25% 18.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.09% 11.11% 60.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 30
10th Percentile - £276 £313
25th Percentile £368 £278 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £300 £375
Median % change year-on-year +28.33% -20.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £403 £322 £447
90th Percentile - £324 £450
East Midlands median daily rate £385 £482 £400
% change year-on-year -20.12% +20.50% -11.11%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Leicestershire

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 11 18 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 10.89% 11.25% 29.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 44
10th Percentile £372 £288 £313
25th Percentile £378 £323 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £388 £423
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -8.28% +5.63%
75th Percentile £450 £647 £450
90th Percentile £473 £731 £484
East Midlands median daily rate £453 £419 £425
% change year-on-year +8.18% -1.47% -4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - £19.06
Median hourly rate £19.00 - £20.32
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.53%
75th Percentile £19.50 - £21.58
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £14.00 £23.40
% change year-on-year +35.71% -40.17% -33.14%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Leicestershire

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Leicestershire.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Leicestershire

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Leicestershire.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Leicestershire

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicester 0 1 £385 +28.33% 13
SQL Server
East Midlands

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Blazor
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft