SQL Server Contracts in Cardiff

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 35 20
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 -7
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 9 9 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 4.23% 2.65% 6.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.36% 17.31% 40.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 32
10th Percentile £294 £383 £401
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -12.20% +28.13%
75th Percentile £623 £500 £688
90th Percentile £664 £650 £806
South Wales median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +29.41%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 55 52 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 25.82% 15.29% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 39 76
10th Percentile £381 £306 £374
25th Percentile £444 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £500 £456
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% +9.59% +8.96%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £652 £675 £721
South Wales median daily rate £515 £550 £502
% change year-on-year -6.36% +9.64% +18.03%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Cardiff

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Cardiff

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Cardiff over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Cardiff

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Cardiff

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) MySQL
1 4 (44.44%) Relational Database
2 3 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Burp Suite
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
2 1 (11.11%) AppScan
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (11.11%) Subversion
2 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (11.11%) tSQLt
2 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
1 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) DBA
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Junior Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Report Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior SQL Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (22.22%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (11.11%) FHIR
2 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (22.22%) NHS
3 1 (11.11%) Clustering
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Application Security
3 2 (22.22%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 2 (22.22%) Change Control
3 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) OWASP
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (11.11%) Health Informatics
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SANS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
1 3 (33.33%) Grafana
1 3 (33.33%) Nagios
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Graylog
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) HP Fortify
3 1 (11.11%) Nessus
3 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Checkmarx
2 2 (22.22%) Splunk
3 1 (11.11%) New Relic
3 1 (11.11%) PagerDuty
3 1 (11.11%) Rackspace
3 1 (11.11%) RedGate
3 1 (11.11%) Veracode
3 1 (11.11%) VMware