SQL Job Trends in Leicester

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 6 4
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 30 35 77
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 8.96% 18.62% 25.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 61.22% 46.67% 50.66%
Number of salaries quoted 23 28 68
10th Percentile £37,200 £32,125 £30,713
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £55,750
90th Percentile £68,700 £62,500 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,390 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.80% -10.53% +5.56%

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 49 75 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 14.63% 39.89% 50.33%
Number of salaries quoted 41 45 137
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% +8.99%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

SQL job vacancy trend in Leicester

SQL
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Leicester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Leicester over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Leicester

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 (3.33%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Sage 200
1 2 (6.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (16.67%) Azure AI
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) IaaS
5 1 (3.33%) npm
5 1 (3.33%) NuGet
5 1 (3.33%) PaaS
5 1 (3.33%) SaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Serverless
5 1 (3.33%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) SQL Server
2 10 (33.33%) Tableau
3 8 (26.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (23.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (23.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (20.00%) Data Lake
5 6 (20.00%) Power BI
6 3 (10.00%) BigQuery
6 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (6.67%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (6.67%) Data Mining
8 1 (3.33%) Looker
8 1 (3.33%) MySQL
8 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 11 (36.67%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Finance
4 6 (20.00%) Law
5 3 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Aerospace
6 2 (6.67%) Electronics
6 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.67%) Retail
7 1 (3.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Analyst
2 9 (30.00%) Data Analyst
3 8 (26.67%) DBA
4 7 (23.33%) SQL DBA
5 5 (16.67%) Junior
5 5 (16.67%) Junior Analyst
5 5 (16.67%) Junior Data Analyst
5 5 (16.67%) Senior
6 4 (13.33%) Administrator
6 4 (13.33%) Developer
7 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Data Quality Analyst
7 3 (10.00%) Quality Analyst
8 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Business Systems Analyst
8 2 (6.67%) Sage 200 Support
8 2 (6.67%) Sage Support
8 2 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (6.67%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.33%) CSS
2 1 (3.33%) CSS3
2 1 (3.33%) DirectX
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
2 1 (3.33%) HTML5
2 1 (3.33%) jQuery
2 1 (3.33%) Laravel
2 1 (3.33%) Node.js
2 1 (3.33%) OpenGL
2 1 (3.33%) React
2 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.33%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Analytics
2 7 (23.33%) AI
2 7 (23.33%) Data Analysis
2 7 (23.33%) ETL
2 7 (23.33%) Reverse Engineering
3 6 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (20.00%) Migration
3 6 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
4 5 (16.67%) Data Management
4 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (16.67%) Validation
5 4 (13.33%) Mathematics
5 4 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (10.00%) Data Validation
6 3 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (10.00%) Statistical Modelling
6 3 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) T-SQL
3 2 (6.67%) C#
3 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.33%) Bash
4 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) Sage
2 2 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks