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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 15 13
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 23 4 14
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 14.94% 4.21% 9.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 67.65% 30.77% 30.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 12
10th Percentile £357 £361 £295
25th Percentile £386 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £373 £569
Median % change year-on-year +47.65% -34.51% +36.64%
75th Percentile £625 £387 £688
90th Percentile - £391 £744
East Midlands median daily rate £531 £391 £418
% change year-on-year +35.81% -6.35% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £20.97 - -
25th Percentile £21.68 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £23.71 - £27.50
75th Percentile £25.09 - £28.75
90th Percentile £25.41 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.71 £18.20 £22.28
% change year-on-year +30.26% -18.29% -55.45%

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 13 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 22.08% 13.68% 32.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 36
10th Percentile £355 £360 £300
25th Percentile £409 £364 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £425 £476
Median % change year-on-year +27.06% -10.76% +14.76%
75th Percentile £625 £488 £611
90th Percentile - £495 £688
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £415 £425
% change year-on-year +8.43% -2.35% -0.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £14.93 - -
25th Percentile £17.02 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -60.78%
75th Percentile £24.56 - £28.13
90th Percentile £25.20 - £28.50
East Midlands median hourly rate £42.71 £18.20 £25.00
% change year-on-year +134.66% -27.20% -50.00%

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 25 March 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 25 March 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 +11 17 £575 +51.82% 33
Coalville - 1 £425 - 1
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 (30.43%) CMS
2 5 (21.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (21.74%) Headless CMS
2 5 (21.74%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (21.74%) Umbraco
3 2 (8.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (4.35%) Apache
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) Power Platform
2 7 (30.43%) Kontent
3 5 (21.74%) Contentful
4 4 (17.39%) Azure
5 2 (8.70%) AWS
5 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) Power Automate
5 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.35%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) Power BI
2 3 (13.04%) Tableau
3 2 (8.70%) Data Mining
3 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.70%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.35%) Big Data
4 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.35%) Power Query
4 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) Spark SQL
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.35%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Git
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Local Government
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Publishing
4 1 (4.35%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) CMS Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Data Scientist
4 5 (21.74%) C# Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack C# Developer
4 5 (21.74%) React Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Analyst
5 4 (17.39%) Data Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior
6 2 (8.70%) Test Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Administrator
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Database Specialist
7 1 (4.35%) DBA
7 1 (4.35%) ETL Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Power BI Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared DBA
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) .NET
1 8 (34.78%) CSS
1 8 (34.78%) HTML
2 7 (30.43%) .NET Framework
2 7 (30.43%) AngularJS
2 7 (30.43%) ASP.NET
2 7 (30.43%) ASP.NET MVC
2 7 (30.43%) React
2 7 (30.43%) RESTful
3 1 (4.35%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Mashup
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (30.43%) AI
2 7 (30.43%) MVC
3 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (26.09%) Data Science
3 6 (26.09%) User Experience
4 5 (21.74%) Analytics
5 4 (17.39%) Validation
5 4 (17.39%) Visualisation
6 3 (13.04%) Actionable Insight
6 3 (13.04%) API Development
6 3 (13.04%) Data Engineering
6 3 (13.04%) Data Governance
6 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
6 3 (13.04%) Data Validation
6 3 (13.04%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
6 3 (13.04%) ETL
6 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.04%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) C#
2 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
3 7 (30.43%) R
4 3 (13.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) Data Quality
1 4 (17.39%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Ansible
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Adobe
1 5 (21.74%) Databricks
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
1 5 (21.74%) Sitecore
2 1 (4.35%) Civica
2 1 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) NetApp
2 1 (4.35%) Northgate
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle