Senior SQL Developer Contracts in South Wales

Senior SQL Developer
Wales > South Wales

The median Senior SQL Developer daily rate in South Wales is £183, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 33 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior SQL Developer 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.43% 1.30% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 1.46% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £616 -
25th Percentile £181 £616 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £183 £618 -
Median % change year-on-year -70.45% - -
75th Percentile £184 £619 -
90th Percentile - £620 -
Wales median daily rate £183 £618 -
% change year-on-year -70.45% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Wales. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in South Wales with a recognized job title 225 274 473
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.15% 88.96% 94.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 195 366
10th Percentile £160 £160 £190
25th Percentile £253 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £480 £550 £586
90th Percentile £625 £633 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 26
10th Percentile £14.86 £11.68 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.63 £14.99 £16.98
Median hourly rate £25.00 £21.49 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% +18.44% -8.89%
75th Percentile £44.06 £61.56 £21.50
90th Percentile £47.63 £87.80 £49.38
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £18.14
% change year-on-year +18.42% +4.74% -8.89%

Senior SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings that featured Senior SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Senior SQL Developer in South Wales

Senior SQL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior SQL Developer in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Senior SQL Developer in South Wales

Senior SQL Developer
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior SQL Developer within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 23 May 2025. 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
Cardiff -1 1 £183 -70.45% 2
Senior SQL Developer
Wales

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, Senior SQL Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Wales region featuring Senior SQL Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) HL7
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) RedGate
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FHIR
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) HL7
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) RedGate