SQL Jobs in Leicestershire

SQL (Structured Query Language)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 4 11
Rank change year-on-year -18 +7 +4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 54 192 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 7.74% 16.68% 19.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 39.42% 56.14% 44.77%
Number of salaries quoted 37 99 80
10th Percentile £38,869 £26,750 £13,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% +6.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £50,375 £52,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £56,250 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £44,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.74% -11.00% +5.26%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 137 342 344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 19.63% 29.71% 43.22%
Number of salaries quoted 66 204 143
10th Percentile £40,184 £30,200 £25,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £71,500
East Midlands median annual salary £47,683 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.63% -4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for SQL in Leicestershire

SQL
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Leicestershire

SQL
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicester +11 39 £48,500 +7.78% 28
Market Harborough +1 4 £60,000 +140.00% 2
Coalville 0 3 £39,919 +17.41% 8
Wigston +2 1 - -
Hinckley -29 1 - -
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 6 (11.11%) Confluence
2 4 (7.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.85%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 40 (74.07%) Azure
2 22 (40.74%) Power Platform
3 10 (18.52%) AWS
4 8 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (11.11%) GCP
6 5 (9.26%) IaaS
6 5 (9.26%) PaaS
7 4 (7.41%) Power Automate
7 4 (7.41%) PowerApps
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Functions
8 3 (5.56%) SaaS
8 3 (5.56%) Serverless
9 1 (1.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (1.85%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) DNS
1 1 (1.85%) Firewall
1 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
1 1 (1.85%) VPN
1 1 (1.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (40.74%) SQL Server
2 17 (31.48%) Power BI
3 16 (29.63%) Data Lake
3 16 (29.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 14 (25.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 12 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (7.41%) Power Query
6 4 (7.41%) PowerPivot
7 3 (5.56%) Tableau
8 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.85%) MySQL
8 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) JIRA
2 6 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 6 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 6 (11.11%) GitLab
2 6 (11.11%) Maven
2 6 (11.11%) Selenium
2 6 (11.11%) SonarQube
2 6 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (7.41%) Git
3 4 (7.41%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.70%) Subversion
5 1 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 22 (40.74%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (38.89%) Finance
3 17 (31.48%) Law
4 8 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (14.81%) Social Skills
5 6 (11.11%) Banking
5 6 (11.11%) Retail
6 4 (7.41%) Marketing
7 3 (5.56%) Social Housing
8 2 (3.70%) Automotive
8 2 (3.70%) Legal
8 2 (3.70%) Military
8 2 (3.70%) Publishing
9 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (29.63%) Developer
2 10 (18.52%) DBA
3 8 (14.81%) Administrator
3 8 (14.81%) Software Engineer
3 8 (14.81%) SQL DBA
4 7 (12.96%) Analyst
5 6 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Data Analyst
7 4 (7.41%) Applications Support
7 4 (7.41%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Data Manager
8 3 (5.56%) Data Science Manager
8 3 (5.56%) Insight Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) Lead
8 3 (5.56%) Senior
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.56%) SQL Developer
9 2 (3.70%) .NET Developer
9 2 (3.70%) Lead Software Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (24.07%) .NET
2 9 (16.67%) HTML
3 8 (14.81%) CSS
4 7 (12.96%) React
5 6 (11.11%) Hibernate
5 6 (11.11%) JPA
5 6 (11.11%) Kafka
5 6 (11.11%) Redux
5 6 (11.11%) REST
5 6 (11.11%) Spring
5 6 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 5 (9.26%) ASP.NET
6 5 (9.26%) SOAP
7 4 (7.41%) PySpark
7 4 (7.41%) YAML
8 3 (5.56%) .NET Core
8 3 (5.56%) .NET Framework
8 3 (5.56%) Entity Framework
8 3 (5.56%) jQuery
9 2 (3.70%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Data Structures
2 8 (14.81%) Product Ownership
3 6 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.70%) FMCG
4 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.85%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.85%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.85%) NHS
5 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.85%) Android
1 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.33%) Analytics
1 18 (33.33%) DevOps
2 17 (31.48%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (29.63%) Data Analysis
4 12 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (20.37%) Agile
6 10 (18.52%) Reverse Engineering
7 9 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (16.67%) ETL
7 9 (16.67%) Software Engineering
8 8 (14.81%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (14.81%) SDLC
9 7 (12.96%) CI/CD
9 7 (12.96%) CRM
9 7 (12.96%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (12.96%) Test Automation
10 6 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (11.11%) Containerisation
10 6 (11.11%) TDD
10 6 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (29.63%) C#
2 15 (27.78%) T-SQL
3 11 (20.37%) JavaScript
4 9 (16.67%) Python
5 7 (12.96%) Java
6 4 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.70%) R
7 2 (3.70%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.70%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.85%) Bicep
8 1 (1.85%) C
8 1 (1.85%) C++
8 1 (1.85%) Dart
8 1 (1.85%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.85%) PHP
8 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.85%) Ruby
8 1 (1.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 8 (14.81%) QA
3 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (12.96%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 10 (18.52%) Databricks
3 6 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 6 (11.11%) Solace
4 1 (1.85%) Meraki
4 1 (1.85%) SnapLogic