SQL Jobs in Leicester

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicester requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 11 11
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 40 80 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 26.67% 12.90% 20.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 78.43% 43.01% 43.75%
Number of salaries quoted 31 49 57
10th Percentile £41,500 £35,000 £28,850
25th Percentile £44,250 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% +5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £56,250 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £48,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year +14.12% +6.25% -5.33%

All Programming Languages
Leicester

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 51 186 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 34.00% 30.00% 46.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42 115 102
10th Percentile £41,600 £36,250 £29,775
25th Percentile £46,375 £42,500 £35,476
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £60,938 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,000 £75,000 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £47,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% +1.06% -6.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Leicester

SQL
Salary Trend in Leicester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in Leicester.

Salary trend for SQL in Leicester

SQL
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Leicester over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Leicester

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 4 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 31 (77.50%) Azure
2 16 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.50%) AWS
4 5 (12.50%) IaaS
4 5 (12.50%) PaaS
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (7.50%) PowerApps
5 3 (7.50%) SaaS
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Functions
6 2 (5.00%) Power Automate
6 2 (5.00%) Serverless
7 1 (2.50%) Azure AI
7 1 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) DNS
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
1 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.50%) VPN
1 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (42.50%) SQL Server
2 16 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 15 (37.50%) Data Lake
4 14 (35.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (32.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (27.50%) Power BI
7 4 (10.00%) Power Query
7 4 (10.00%) PowerPivot
8 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) GitLab
3 1 (2.50%) Maven
3 1 (2.50%) Selenium
3 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (42.50%) Analytical Skills
1 17 (42.50%) Law
2 14 (35.00%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (7.50%) Marketing
3 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Automotive
4 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Legal
4 2 (5.00%) Military
4 2 (5.00%) Publishing
4 2 (5.00%) Retail
5 1 (2.50%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Developer
2 10 (25.00%) DBA
3 8 (20.00%) Administrator
3 8 (20.00%) SQL DBA
4 4 (10.00%) Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Applications Support
4 4 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) .NET Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Data Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Data Science Manager
5 3 (7.50%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 3 (7.50%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) SQL Developer
6 2 (5.00%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.00%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Insight Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Lead
6 2 (5.00%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.00%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) .NET
2 7 (17.50%) REST
3 5 (12.50%) SOAP
4 4 (10.00%) PySpark
4 4 (10.00%) YAML
5 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET
5 3 (7.50%) WPF
6 2 (5.00%) HTML
6 2 (5.00%) React
7 1 (2.50%) Blazor
7 1 (2.50%) CSS
7 1 (2.50%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.50%) JPA
7 1 (2.50%) Kafka
7 1 (2.50%) Middleware
7 1 (2.50%) Next.js
7 1 (2.50%) Redux
7 1 (2.50%) Spring
7 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
7 1 (2.50%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.00%) FMCG
3 2 (5.00%) Legacy Code
3 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Analytics
2 13 (32.50%) Data Analysis
3 11 (27.50%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
5 9 (22.50%) DevOps
5 9 (22.50%) ETL
6 8 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (15.00%) CRM
7 6 (15.00%) Process Improvement
8 5 (12.50%) Agile
8 5 (12.50%) Customer Experience
8 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (12.50%) Machine Learning
8 5 (12.50%) SDLC
9 4 (10.00%) Application Security
9 4 (10.00%) Data Analytics
9 4 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 17 (42.50%) T-SQL
2 12 (30.00%) C#
3 9 (22.50%) Python
4 4 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.00%) Java
5 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (5.00%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.50%) Bicep
6 1 (2.50%) C
6 1 (2.50%) C++
6 1 (2.50%) Dart
6 1 (2.50%) MATLAB
6 1 (2.50%) PHP
6 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.50%) R
6 1 (2.50%) Ruby
6 1 (2.50%) Rust
6 1 (2.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (27.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.00%) Databricks
3 6 (15.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.50%) Meraki
4 1 (2.50%) SnapLogic
4 1 (2.50%) Solace