SQL Server Contracts in Wales

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 33 27
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 12 29 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.94% 4.52% 6.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.00% 34.52% 40.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 25 56
10th Percentile £322 £385 £411
25th Percentile £375 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £599 £588 £638
90th Percentile £655 £658 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.44% +13.89%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Wales

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 75 84 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 18.38% 13.10% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 65 121
10th Percentile £307 £368 £381
25th Percentile £401 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £563 £650 £625
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £547 £540
% change year-on-year -4.02% +1.30% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.39%
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Wales

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Wales.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Wales

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Wales over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Wales

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Wales

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Wales region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
South Wales +4 10 £550 +4.76% 10
West Wales - 1 £425 - 3
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
4 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) VPN
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) MySQL
1 5 (41.67%) Relational Database
2 4 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (8.33%) Power BI
4 1 (8.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Burp Suite
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (8.33%) AppScan
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (8.33%) Subversion
2 1 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (8.33%) tSQLt
2 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (8.33%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) DBA
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Developer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior SQL Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (8.33%) FHIR
3 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 3 (25.00%) NHS
3 1 (8.33%) Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Linux
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Change Control
2 3 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) Application Security
3 2 (16.67%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) OWASP
3 2 (16.67%) Scrum
3 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) SOLID
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) PHP
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SANS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
1 4 (33.33%) Grafana
1 4 (33.33%) Nagios
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Graylog
2 3 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (8.33%) HP Fortify
4 1 (8.33%) Nessus
4 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (8.33%) Puppet
4 1 (8.33%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Splunk
3 2 (16.67%) Checkmarx
4 1 (8.33%) New Relic
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) PagerDuty
4 1 (8.33%) Rackspace
4 1 (8.33%) RedGate
4 1 (8.33%) Veracode
4 1 (8.33%) VMware