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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 9 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 22 8 22
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 13.84% 9.52% 13.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 70.97% 61.54% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 17
10th Percentile £425 £333 £300
25th Percentile £500 £344 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £360 £525
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -31.43% +33.76%
75th Percentile £625 £441 £675
90th Percentile - £552 £713
East Midlands median daily rate £468 £393 £425
% change year-on-year +19.11% -7.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £15.17 - -
25th Percentile £17.17 - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 - -
75th Percentile £24.56 - -
90th Percentile £25.20 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £12.92 £19.99
% change year-on-year +70.28% -35.38% -49.81%

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 31 13 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 19.50% 15.48% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 46
10th Percentile £407 £321 £306
25th Percentile £438 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £525 £530
90th Percentile £648 £545 £650
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £420 £450
% change year-on-year +6.43% -6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £15.17 - -
25th Percentile £17.17 - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 - £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.16%
75th Percentile £24.56 - -
90th Percentile £25.20 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.71 £17.71 £41.75
% change year-on-year +33.87% -57.58% -16.50%

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 11 January 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Leicestershire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 11 January 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 +5 17 £600 +66.67% 22
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 7 (31.82%) CMS
2 5 (22.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (22.73%) Headless CMS
2 5 (22.73%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (22.73%) Umbraco
3 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
4 1 (4.55%) Apache
4 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
4 1 (4.55%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) Power Platform
2 7 (31.82%) Kontent
3 5 (22.73%) Contentful
4 3 (13.64%) AWS
4 3 (13.64%) Azure
4 3 (13.64%) PowerApps
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) Power BI
2 3 (13.64%) Big Data
2 3 (13.64%) Data Mining
2 3 (13.64%) Hadoop
2 3 (13.64%) Tableau
3 2 (9.09%) Power Query
4 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.55%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle APEX
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Retail
5 1 (4.55%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Publishing
5 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) CMS Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (27.27%) Data Scientist
4 5 (22.73%) C# Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Data Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 5 (22.73%) React Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior
6 1 (4.55%) Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Data Analytics Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) IT Support
6 1 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Junior Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) .NET
1 7 (31.82%) .NET Framework
1 7 (31.82%) AngularJS
1 7 (31.82%) ASP.NET
1 7 (31.82%) ASP.NET MVC
1 7 (31.82%) CSS
1 7 (31.82%) HTML
1 7 (31.82%) React
1 7 (31.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Mobile App
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (31.82%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (31.82%) MVC
2 7 (31.82%) Visualisation
3 6 (27.27%) AI
3 6 (27.27%) Data Science
4 5 (22.73%) Data Analysis
4 5 (22.73%) Data Modelling
4 5 (22.73%) User Experience
5 4 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (18.18%) Analytics
5 4 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) Process Improvement
5 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (13.64%) Data Cleansing
6 3 (13.64%) Decision-Making
6 3 (13.64%) Exploratory Data Analysis
7 2 (9.09%) Mobile First
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Python
2 10 (45.45%) R
3 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 7 (31.82%) C#
5 2 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Adobe
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
1 5 (22.73%) Sitecore
2 3 (13.64%) Databricks
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle