SQL Contracts in Leicestershire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 10 10
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +8
Contract jobs citing SQL 10 12 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 8.20% 8.11% 14.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.00% 32.43% 36.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 25
10th Percentile £367 £286 £318
25th Percentile £369 £323 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £388 £413
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% -6.06% +16.20%
75th Percentile £463 £400 £450
90th Percentile £475 £567 £533
East Midlands median daily rate £380 £400 £400
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.00 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% - -
75th Percentile £19.50 £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £24.62 £60.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% -58.98% +71.43%

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 25 37 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 20.49% 25.00% 39.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 69
10th Percentile £367 £288 £313
25th Percentile £397 £325 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £418 £415
Median % change year-on-year +10.65% +0.72% +3.75%
75th Percentile £481 £530 £450
90th Percentile £488 £601 £510
East Midlands median daily rate £400 £425 £431
% change year-on-year -5.88% -1.45% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.00 £25.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% - -
75th Percentile £19.50 £28.13 -
90th Percentile - £28.50 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £25.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -24.00% -52.38% +50.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Leicestershire

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Leicestershire

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Leicestershire

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 6 July 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 -3 7 £419 +8.06% 34
Melton Mowbray - 1 £400 -
SQL
East Midlands

SQL
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (20.00%) Azure App Service
4 2 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Storage
4 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (20.00%) IaaS
4 2 (20.00%) PaaS
5 1 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
5 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
1 3 (30.00%) Tableau
2 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data
3 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (10.00%) Power Query
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Business Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 1 (10.00%) DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Junior Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) Blazor
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) EPoS
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) ETL
2 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) RBAC
3 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Data Management
4 1 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) PLM
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) R
4 1 (10.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Google