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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 37 22
Rank change year-on-year +14 -15 -9
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 12 9 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 5.41% 2.61% 7.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.00% 17.65% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 33
10th Percentile £196 £383 £403
25th Percentile £356 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £510
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -11.76% +27.50%
75th Percentile £634 £500 £688
90th Percentile £679 £650 £800
South Wales median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -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 60 51 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 27.03% 14.78% 17.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 36 79
10th Percentile £376 £297 £375
25th Percentile £420 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +8.11% +10.78%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £665 £675 £716
South Wales median daily rate £515 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% +17.65%

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 19 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) VPN
2 4 (33.33%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) MySQL
1 7 (58.33%) Relational Database
2 6 (50.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
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 4 (33.33%) DBA
2 3 (25.00%) Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) SQL DBA
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (8.33%) Junior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior SQL Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) 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 6 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) 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 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Change Control
3 4 (33.33%) Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) Application Security
4 2 (16.67%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) OWASP
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (8.33%) Conflict Resolution
5 1 (8.33%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
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%) 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 5 (41.67%) 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 6 (50.00%) Ansible
1 6 (50.00%) Grafana
1 6 (50.00%) Nagios
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Graylog
2 4 (33.33%) 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 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Splunk
3 2 (16.67%) Checkmarx
4 1 (8.33%) New Relic
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