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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 18 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 +5
Contract jobs citing SQL 30 15 27
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 7.04% 6.41% 8.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 50.00% 23.81% 29.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 20
10th Percentile £295 £185 £356
25th Percentile £306 £226 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £360 £476
Median % change year-on-year +21.53% -24.41% -12.61%
75th Percentile £479 £445 £563
90th Percentile £518 £538 £616
Wales median daily rate £447 £361 £450
% change year-on-year +23.74% -19.72% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £75.75 - -
25th Percentile £76.88 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £86.88 - -
90th Percentile £87.25 - -
Wales median hourly rate £82.50 - -

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 60 63 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 14.08% 26.92% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 41 70
10th Percentile £297 £200 £353
25th Percentile £363 £312 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £405 £470
Median % change year-on-year +8.02% -13.83% -6.00%
75th Percentile £497 £501 £550
90th Percentile £616 £588 £589
Wales median daily rate £425 £425 £463
% change year-on-year - -8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 7
10th Percentile £40.00 £21.27 £15.57
25th Percentile - £23.00 £17.96
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +122.39% +7.55%
75th Percentile £76.25 - £22.11
90th Percentile £86.25 £50.25 £35.75
Wales median hourly rate £50.00 £37.13 £20.24
% change year-on-year +34.68% +83.47% +7.55%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 +3 20 £395 +43.64% 26
Newport +8 9 £463 -17.78% 4
Monmouthshire - 1 - - 1
Gwent - 1 - - 3
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 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.67%) Apache
2 2 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (16.67%) GitHub
4 4 (13.33%) GCP
5 3 (10.00%) AWS
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (10.00%) PowerApps
6 2 (6.67%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Run
7 1 (3.33%) dbt
7 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) WAN
2 3 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (6.67%) Firewall
3 2 (6.67%) LAN
3 2 (6.67%) VSAN
4 1 (3.33%) GSM
4 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (23.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.67%) Big Data
4 2 (6.67%) BigQuery
4 2 (6.67%) MariaDB
4 2 (6.67%) Power BI
4 2 (6.67%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (3.33%) DB2
5 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.33%) Power Query
5 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.33%) Star Schema
5 1 (3.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) JMeter
2 3 (10.00%) MSTest
2 3 (10.00%) Selenium
2 3 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Military
2 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Administrator
2 5 (16.67%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Senior
3 4 (13.33%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (10.00%) Applications Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Lead
4 3 (10.00%) Power Apps Developer
5 2 (6.67%) .NET Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Automation Tester
5 2 (6.67%) Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Data Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Automation Tester
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Tester
5 2 (6.67%) Tester
6 1 (3.33%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) .NET
2 4 (13.33%) RESTful
2 4 (13.33%) Web Services
3 3 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 2 (6.67%) Apache Beam
4 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET
4 2 (6.67%) CSS
4 2 (6.67%) CSS3
4 2 (6.67%) HTML
4 2 (6.67%) HTML5
4 2 (6.67%) Jinja
4 2 (6.67%) jQuery
4 2 (6.67%) LDAP
5 1 (3.33%) Flask
5 1 (3.33%) Kafka
5 1 (3.33%) REST
5 1 (3.33%) Spring
5 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.33%) WebSockets
5 1 (3.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (13.33%) NHS
2 4 (13.33%) Operational Technology
2 4 (13.33%) SCADA
3 3 (10.00%) Low-Code
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (3.33%) Clustering
5 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Windows
2 6 (20.00%) Linux
3 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (30.00%) Agile
3 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (20.00%) DevOps
3 6 (20.00%) Microservices
3 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (16.67%) ETL
4 5 (16.67%) User Experience
5 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 4 (13.33%) Design Patterns
5 4 (13.33%) ITIL
5 4 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (10.00%) API Management
6 3 (10.00%) Architectural Design
6 3 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) C#
3 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.33%) Java
5 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.33%) Bash
6 1 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (10.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 3 (10.00%) QA
3 2 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (26.67%) Docker
2 6 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Check_MK
2 2 (6.67%) Nessus
2 2 (6.67%) vCenter Server
2 2 (6.67%) WSUS
3 1 (3.33%) Ansible
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (3.33%) SCCM
3 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) Cisco
3 3 (10.00%) Splunk
4 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
4 2 (6.67%) Google
4 2 (6.67%) Guidewire
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle
4 2 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.67%) Tenable
4 2 (6.67%) VMware
5 1 (3.33%) Confluent
5 1 (3.33%) Databricks
5 1 (3.33%) IBM
5 1 (3.33%) McAfee
5 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow