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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +11
Contract jobs citing SQL 11 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 8.40% 10.34% 12.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.83% 44.44% 36.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 17
10th Percentile £371 £301 £335
25th Percentile £375 £330 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.67% -16.67% +11.80%
75th Percentile £475 £400 £563
90th Percentile - - £568
East Midlands median daily rate £395 £400 £413
% change year-on-year -1.25% -3.03% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
75th Percentile £19.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +107.41%

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 23 27 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 17.56% 23.28% 34.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 52
10th Percentile £378 £302 £313
25th Percentile £419 £344 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £409 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% -9.11% +9.76%
75th Percentile £475 £505 £530
90th Percentile £488 £530 £559
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £445 £464
% change year-on-year -7.30% -4.08% +2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
75th Percentile £19.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £53.00
% change year-on-year -15.56% -57.55% +51.43%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

Job vacancy trend for SQL 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
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 15 September 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 -4 7 £450 +20.00% 25
Melton Mowbray - 1 £400 -
SQL
East Midlands

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Chatbot
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Power Platform
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
4 2 (18.18%) Azure App Service
4 2 (18.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Storage
4 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 2 (18.18%) IaaS
4 2 (18.18%) PaaS
4 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Power BI
2 3 (27.27%) Big Data
2 3 (27.27%) Hadoop
2 3 (27.27%) Tableau
3 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
3 2 (18.18%) Power Query
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Law
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (9.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Business Developer
3 1 (9.09%) C# Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Data Scientist
3 1 (9.09%) DBA
3 1 (9.09%) Junior
3 1 (9.09%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (9.09%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) Blazor
1 1 (9.09%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) EPoS
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
2 5 (45.45%) Visualisation
3 4 (36.36%) Data Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (18.18%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (18.18%) Data Management
5 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (18.18%) Exploratory Data Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Identity Management
5 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) RBAC
6 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) R
3 3 (27.27%) T-SQL
4 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
5 1 (9.09%) C#
5 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (9.09%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Google