SQL Server Contracts in South Wales

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 35 27
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 10 22 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.90% 4.17% 6.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.87% 30.14% 41.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 52
10th Percentile £308 £410 £413
25th Percentile £369 £425 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £611 £581 £638
90th Percentile £659 £650 £710
Wales median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +29.41%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 63 73 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 18.26% 13.85% 15.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 56 111
10th Percentile £376 £344 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £625
90th Percentile £646 £672 £688
Wales median daily rate £504 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.05% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.39%
Wales median hourly rate - - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.39%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in South Wales

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in South Wales

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in South Wales over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in South Wales

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in South Wales

SQL Server
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 SQL Server within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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 +15 10 £550 +22.22% 8
SQL Server
Wales

SQL Server
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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MySQL
1 5 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (40.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (10.00%) AppScan
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (10.00%) Subversion
2 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (10.00%) tSQLt
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) DBA
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Senior
1 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior SQL Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (10.00%) FHIR
3 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) NHS
3 1 (10.00%) Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Change Control
2 3 (30.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Application Security
3 2 (20.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) OWASP
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SANS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Ansible
1 4 (40.00%) Grafana
1 4 (40.00%) Nagios
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 3 (30.00%) Graylog
2 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (10.00%) HP Fortify
4 1 (10.00%) Nessus
4 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (10.00%) Puppet
4 1 (10.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Splunk
3 2 (20.00%) Checkmarx
4 1 (10.00%) New Relic
4 1 (10.00%) PagerDuty
4 1 (10.00%) Rackspace
4 1 (10.00%) RedGate
4 1 (10.00%) Veracode
4 1 (10.00%) VMware