SQL Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -5
Contract jobs citing SQL 17 7 15
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 12.41% 6.80% 9.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 60.71% 36.84% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 13
10th Percentile £303 £367 £292
25th Percentile £313 £367 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £386 £375
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +3.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £419 £408 £563
90th Percentile £546 £418 £671
East Midlands median daily rate £525 £396 £400
% change year-on-year +32.74% -1.13% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £20.97 - -
25th Percentile £21.68 £18.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £23.71 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.78% -30.91% -
75th Percentile £25.09 £19.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £25.41 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.71 £18.60 £27.50
% change year-on-year +27.46% -32.36% -28.09%

All Programming Languages
Leicestershire

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 28 19 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 20.44% 18.45% 25.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 30
10th Percentile £288 £367 £308
25th Percentile £313 £378 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £463 £419
Median % change year-on-year -15.14% +10.51% +4.30%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £600
90th Percentile £588 - £631
East Midlands median daily rate £500 £410 £425
% change year-on-year +21.95% -3.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £14.93 - -
25th Percentile £17.02 £18.50 £22.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -24.00% -62.96%
75th Percentile £24.56 £19.50 £28.13
90th Percentile £25.20 - £28.50
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.42 £18.60 £25.00
% change year-on-year +36.64% -25.60% -34.62%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

SQL job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 13 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Leicestershire

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing SQL

SQL
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 within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 13 May 2026. 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 +11 11 £325 -15.86% 13
Coalville - 1 £425 - 1
SQL
East Midlands

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Power Platform
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
3 2 (11.76%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Power BI
2 3 (17.65%) Tableau
3 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.76%) MySQL
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.88%) Data Mining
4 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Power Query
4 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Local Government
4 1 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
4 1 (5.88%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Data Scientist
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Accountant
4 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Systems Accountant
4 2 (11.76%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Database Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) DBA
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) ETL Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Power BI Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Project Accountant
5 1 (5.88%) Report Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared DBA
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) .NET
1 1 (5.88%) Blazor
1 1 (5.88%) CSS
1 1 (5.88%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.88%) Mashup
1 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Validation
2 6 (35.29%) Data Science
3 5 (29.41%) Migration
4 4 (23.53%) Analytics
4 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (23.53%) Data Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Data Migration
4 4 (23.53%) Data Validation
4 4 (23.53%) ERP
4 4 (23.53%) Process Improvement
4 4 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
5 3 (17.65%) ETL
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) Agile
6 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
6 2 (11.76%) Data Management
6 2 (11.76%) Mathematics
6 2 (11.76%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) R
3 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) ACCA
1 3 (17.65%) CIMA
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Databricks
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Civica
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) NetApp
3 1 (5.88%) Northgate