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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 20 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 12.66% 8.46% 8.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 58.82% 37.93% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 10
10th Percentile - £371 £286
25th Percentile £313 £375 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £400 £388
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.23% -7.74%
75th Percentile £555 £475 £400
90th Percentile £675 - £567
East Midlands median daily rate £515 £389 £400
% change year-on-year +32.48% -2.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
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 £45.00 £19.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +136.84% -30.91% -60.71%

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 34 29 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 21.52% 22.31% 23.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 26
10th Percentile - £375 £288
25th Percentile £313 £425 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £463 £409
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% +13.08% -1.45%
75th Percentile £538 £488 £525
90th Percentile £635 - £546
East Midlands median daily rate £495 £410 £435
% change year-on-year +20.73% -5.75% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £13.93 - -
25th Percentile £14.53 £18.50 £22.50
Median hourly rate £15.99 £19.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.86% -24.00% -
75th Percentile £16.98 £19.50 £28.13
90th Percentile £17.29 - £28.50
East Midlands median hourly rate £45.00 £19.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +136.84% -24.00% -52.38%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +4 15 £360 -14.03% 13
Coalville - 1 £425 -
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 1 (5.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Power BI
2 5 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (10.00%) MySQL
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (5.00%) Data Mining
5 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.00%) Tableau
5 1 (5.00%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Local Government
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Accountant
1 5 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Systems Accountant
3 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Forms Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Database Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Project Accountant
5 1 (5.00%) Report Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Oracle Forms Developer
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) Blazor
1 1 (5.00%) CSS
1 1 (5.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (5.00%) Mashup
1 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Validation
2 7 (35.00%) Data Engineering
2 7 (35.00%) Data Validation
2 7 (35.00%) Migration
2 7 (35.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (30.00%) Data Migration
3 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (30.00%) ERP
3 6 (30.00%) ETL
4 5 (25.00%) AI
4 5 (25.00%) Process Improvement
5 4 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 4 (20.00%) Data Management
5 4 (20.00%) Wealth Management
6 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (15.00%) DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) ACCA
1 5 (25.00%) CIMA
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Databricks
1 8 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Civica
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) NetApp
2 1 (5.00%) Northgate