SQL Contracts in Cardiff

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South Wales > Cardiff

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 8 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 -8
Contract jobs citing SQL 27 44 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 12.80% 12.98% 10.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.93% 42.31% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 24 46
10th Percentile £356 £374 £363
25th Percentile £381 £411 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £463 £470
Median % change year-on-year +16.76% -1.60% +11.90%
75th Percentile £588 £565 £635
90th Percentile £615 £650 £688
South Wales median daily rate £540 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +8.00% -5.66% +24.71%

All Programming Languages
Cardiff

SQL is in the Programming Languages 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 coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 82 104 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 38.86% 30.68% 31.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 81 120
10th Percentile £361 £313 £363
25th Percentile £385 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +16.92%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £611
90th Percentile £603 £663 £701
South Wales median daily rate £470 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.05% -9.52% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £21.49 £18.82 £20.75
% change year-on-year +14.19% -9.33% -17.00%

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

SQL
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

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Cardiff over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Cardiff

SQL
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:

Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) Power Platform
3 5 (18.52%) Power Automate
4 4 (14.81%) AWS
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (14.81%) Snowflake
5 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 7 (25.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 6 (22.22%) Power BI
3 5 (18.52%) Power Query
4 4 (14.81%) MySQL
4 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
4 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (7.41%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (7.41%) Cucumber
2 2 (7.41%) Cypress.io
2 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) JMeter
2 2 (7.41%) Postman
2 2 (7.41%) Selenium
3 1 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (3.70%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.70%) tSQLt
3 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 20 (74.07%) Developer
2 9 (33.33%) SQL Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Power BI Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Senior
4 5 (18.52%) Senior Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Senior Software Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Senior SQL Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Software Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (11.11%) PL/SQL Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) DBA
7 2 (7.41%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Full Stack PHP Developer
7 2 (7.41%) PHP Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Test Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Test Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) .NET
2 2 (7.41%) Laravel
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (7.41%) React
2 2 (7.41%) XML
3 1 (3.70%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.70%) CSS
3 1 (3.70%) FHIR
3 1 (3.70%) HTML
3 1 (3.70%) Vue
3 1 (3.70%) Xamarin.iOS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) NHS
1 2 (7.41%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Clustering
2 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.70%) Legacy Code
2 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Windows
3 1 (3.70%) Android
3 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (22.22%) Agile
1 6 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
3 4 (14.81%) DevOps
3 4 (14.81%) Scrum
4 3 (11.11%) Project Management
4 3 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 2 (7.41%) Analytics
5 2 (7.41%) BDD
5 2 (7.41%) Front End Development
5 2 (7.41%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (7.41%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (7.41%) OO
5 2 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (7.41%) SOLID
6 1 (3.70%) Change Control
6 1 (3.70%) Data Analytics
6 1 (3.70%) High Availability
6 1 (3.70%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (3.70%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) T-SQL
2 5 (18.52%) PL/SQL
3 4 (14.81%) Python
4 3 (11.11%) Java
5 2 (7.41%) C#
5 2 (7.41%) PHP
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.70%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.70%) Degree
1 1 (3.70%) ISTQB
1 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Ansible
1 1 (3.70%) Grafana
1 1 (3.70%) Nagios
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
1 5 (18.52%) RedGate
2 4 (14.81%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) Xamarin