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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 24 10 10
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 13.48% 7.63% 8.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 63.16% 40.00% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 8
10th Percentile - £371 £303
25th Percentile £313 £375 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £430 £388
Median % change year-on-year +2.91% +10.97% +7.64%
75th Percentile £613 £475 £400
90th Percentile £695 - £462
East Midlands median daily rate £465 £388 £425
% change year-on-year +20.00% -8.82% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.00 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £45.00 £19.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year +136.84% -60.87% -30.63%

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 38 25 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 21.35% 19.08% 21.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 21
10th Percentile £313 £380 £304
25th Percentile £324 £419 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £418
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% +10.65% -1.65%
75th Percentile £575 £481 £525
90th Percentile £649 £494 £530
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +15.85% -8.89% -5.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £45.00 £19.00 £35.53
% change year-on-year +136.84% -46.52% -32.96%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +9 22 £525 +16.67% 20
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 (4.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) AWS
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 4 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.17%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Senior
2 12 (50.00%) Developer
3 11 (45.83%) Senior Developer
4 10 (41.67%) Senior SQL Developer
4 10 (41.67%) SQL Developer
5 5 (20.83%) Accountant
6 4 (16.67%) Systems Accountant
7 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
7 2 (8.33%) Oracle Forms Developer
7 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
7 2 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Administrator
8 1 (4.17%) Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) Database Specialist
8 1 (4.17%) Databricks Data Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Databricks Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) ETL Analyst
8 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared DBA
8 1 (4.17%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Validation
2 8 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (25.00%) AI
3 6 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 6 (25.00%) Migration
3 6 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (20.83%) Data Engineering
4 5 (20.83%) Data Validation
4 5 (20.83%) ERP
4 5 (20.83%) ETL
4 5 (20.83%) Process Improvement
5 4 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 4 (16.67%) Data Management
5 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 4 (16.67%) Lakehouse
5 4 (16.67%) Wealth Management
6 3 (12.50%) Agile
7 2 (8.33%) DevOps
7 2 (8.33%) Machine Learning
7 2 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (8.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) ACCA
1 5 (20.83%) CIMA
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (62.50%) Databricks
2 8 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) NetApp