SQL Server Contracts in South Wales

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server 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 31 31 37
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -13
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 3 9 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.23% 2.68% 4.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.64% 15.00% 27.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 17
10th Percentile £186 £294 £408
25th Percentile £215 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -52.17% +9.52% -6.67%
75th Percentile £366 £623 £575
90th Percentile £414 £664 £650
Wales median daily rate £275 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -45.00% -4.76% -4.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South Wales

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 22 60 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 9.02% 17.86% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 51 57
10th Percentile £193 £381 £348
25th Percentile £204 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £247 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% -6.36% +6.80%
75th Percentile £377 £581 £650
90th Percentile £538 £646 £671
Wales median daily rate £275 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -46.21% -2.62% +2.44%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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 3 £275 -52.17% 26
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) tSQLt
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (33.33%) FHIR
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Database Security
2 1 (33.33%) Database Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) R
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) HL7
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) RedGate