SQL Contract Job Trends in South Wales

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 10 25
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 -9
Contract jobs citing SQL 28 30 20
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 5.82% 11.36% 5.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 47.46% 45.45% 24.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 14
10th Percentile £306 £280 £161
25th Percentile £354 £363 £178
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £448 £388
Median % change year-on-year +4.47% +15.48% -18.42%
75th Percentile £528 £520 £545
90th Percentile £675 £638 £576
Wales median daily rate £475 £448 £500
% change year-on-year +6.15% -10.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.12
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.84 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +12.87% -16.56%
75th Percentile - - £20.35
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median hourly rate £22.00 £22.84 £20.24
% change year-on-year -3.68% +12.87% -16.56%

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 59 66 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 12.27% 25.00% 23.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 49 50
10th Percentile £306 £256 £209
25th Percentile £425 £305 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £410 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -18.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £600 £488 £550
90th Percentile £663 £600 £553
Wales median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.12
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.84 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +12.87% -46.75%
75th Percentile - - £20.76
90th Percentile - - £31.53
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £22.84 £20.24
% change year-on-year -1.49% +12.87% -46.75%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

SQL job vacancy trend in South Wales

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in South Wales over the 6 months to 21 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in South Wales

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing SQL

SQL
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 within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 21 September 2026. 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 -5 24 £468 +3.89% 60
Newport -7 4 - - 10
SQL
Wales

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.14%) Apache
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (7.14%) Confluence
1 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 10 (35.71%) Power Platform
3 7 (25.00%) GCP
4 5 (17.86%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (17.86%) GitHub
5 4 (14.29%) Cloud Run
5 4 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (10.71%) AWS
6 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Databricks
7 2 (7.14%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (7.14%) PowerApps
8 1 (3.57%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (3.57%) Dagster
8 1 (3.57%) dbt
8 1 (3.57%) IaaS
8 1 (3.57%) Prefect
8 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) WAN
2 3 (10.71%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (3.57%) GSM
3 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (35.71%) SQL Server
3 5 (17.86%) Power BI
4 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (10.71%) BigQuery
5 3 (10.71%) Oracle Database
5 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (7.14%) Big Data
6 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
6 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
6 2 (7.14%) RDBMS
6 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.57%) Metadata
7 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Military
3 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Administrator
2 4 (14.29%) Java Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Senior
2 4 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 4 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (10.71%) Databricks Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) DBA
3 3 (10.71%) Developer
3 3 (10.71%) GCP Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (10.71%) SQL DBA
4 2 (7.14%) Applications Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) GCP Software Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Power Apps Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Flask
1 4 (14.29%) Jinja
1 4 (14.29%) RESTful
1 4 (14.29%) Spring
1 4 (14.29%) Spring Boot
1 4 (14.29%) Web Services
2 2 (7.14%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Beam
2 2 (7.14%) REST
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
1 5 (17.86%) NHS
2 4 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 4 (14.29%) Operational Technology
2 4 (14.29%) SCADA
3 2 (7.14%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Linux
2 4 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (28.57%) Agile
2 8 (28.57%) Analytics
2 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 8 (28.57%) Migration
3 7 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (21.43%) Data Engineering
4 6 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 6 (21.43%) ETL
4 6 (21.43%) Microservices
4 6 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (17.86%) Translating Business Requirements
6 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (14.29%) Data Integration
6 4 (14.29%) Database Migration
6 4 (14.29%) ITIL
6 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Statistics
6 4 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) Java
3 3 (10.71%) PL/SQL
3 3 (10.71%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.57%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.71%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Data Guard
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Databricks
3 4 (14.29%) Cisco
4 3 (10.71%) Oracle
5 2 (7.14%) Google
5 2 (7.14%) Guidewire
5 2 (7.14%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.57%) Remedy
6 1 (3.57%) Salesforce