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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +8
Contract jobs citing SQL 17 11 24
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 11.89% 10.38% 13.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 62.96% 47.83% 41.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 19
10th Percentile £374 £319 £310
25th Percentile £406 £338 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.33% -16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £400 £563
90th Percentile £625 £490 £590
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £14.31 - -
25th Percentile £15.01 - -
Median hourly rate £16.42 - -
75th Percentile £18.09 - -
90th Percentile £18.93 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £16.42 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +255.96%

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 27 23 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 18.88% 21.70% 32.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 51
10th Percentile £380 £308 £300
25th Percentile £425 £325 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -11.11% +8.43%
75th Percentile £509 £525 £530
90th Percentile £565 £530 £563
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £425 £474
% change year-on-year -2.94% -10.29% +5.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £14.31 - -
25th Percentile £15.01 - -
Median hourly rate £16.42 - £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +202.70%
75th Percentile £18.09 - -
90th Percentile £18.93 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £16.42 £22.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -27.02% -57.55% +169.51%

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 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 12 £550 +46.67% 18
Melton Mowbray - 1 £400 -
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 4 (23.53%) CMS
2 2 (11.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Headless CMS
2 2 (11.76%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (11.76%) Umbraco
3 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Chatbot
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Power Platform
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Kontent
4 3 (17.65%) AWS
5 2 (11.76%) Azure App Service
5 2 (11.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Storage
5 2 (11.76%) Contentful
5 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
5 2 (11.76%) IaaS
5 2 (11.76%) PaaS
5 2 (11.76%) PowerApps
6 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Power BI
2 3 (17.65%) Big Data
2 3 (17.65%) Data Mining
2 3 (17.65%) Hadoop
3 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.76%) Tableau
4 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.88%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
4 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) CMS Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (17.65%) C# Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 2 (11.76%) React Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analytics Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Data Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Support
5 1 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) .NET
2 4 (23.53%) .NET Framework
2 4 (23.53%) AngularJS
2 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET
2 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (23.53%) CSS
2 4 (23.53%) HTML
2 4 (23.53%) React
2 4 (23.53%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) Blazor
3 1 (5.88%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Mobile App
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.88%) EPoS
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Visualisation
2 5 (29.41%) Data Analysis
2 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
2 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (23.53%) MVC
3 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (17.65%) Exploratory Data Analysis
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) Process Improvement
5 2 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (11.76%) Analytics
5 2 (11.76%) API Development
5 2 (11.76%) API Integration
5 2 (11.76%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.76%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (11.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) C#
3 4 (23.53%) R
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Adobe
2 2 (11.76%) Sitecore
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle