SQL Contracts in Cardiff

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 11 8
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing SQL 9 26 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 5.63% 12.26% 13.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.95% 32.10% 43.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 25
10th Percentile £193 £356 £378
25th Percentile £231 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £540 £450
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +20.00% -4.26%
75th Percentile £400 £588 £565
90th Percentile £464 £615 £650
South Wales median daily rate £363 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -32.87% +8.00% -8.47%

All Programming Languages
Cardiff

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 41 81 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 25.63% 38.21% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 69 80
10th Percentile £231 £361 £313
25th Percentile £319 £385 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £456 £551 £578
90th Percentile £550 £603 £664
South Wales median daily rate £415 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -11.70% -1.05% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 -
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £23.00 £21.49 £18.82
% change year-on-year +7.05% +14.19% -9.33%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Cardiff

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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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Power BI
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (11.11%) MySQL
4 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (11.11%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
2 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (11.11%) tSQLt
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Data Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Database Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) QA Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Qlik Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Qlik Sense Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (11.11%) FHIR
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) ETL
1 5 (55.56%) Visualisation
2 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (22.22%) Database Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) API Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Smoke Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (11.11%) R
2 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) HL7
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Datix
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) RedGate
1 1 (11.11%) VMware