SQL Contracts in South Wales

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL 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 22 15 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 0
Contract jobs citing SQL 12 26 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 4.92% 7.74% 10.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.34% 27.37% 38.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 30
10th Percentile £200 £356 £396
25th Percentile £247 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -32.87% +8.00% -8.47%
75th Percentile £491 £588 £625
90th Percentile £538 £615 £650
Wales median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -6.76%

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 95 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 24.18% 28.27% 26.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 76 102
10th Percentile £216 £338 £328
25th Percentile £322 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £551 £625
90th Percentile £588 £600 £663
Wales median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 2
10th Percentile £20.12 £15.51 £17.18
25th Percentile £21.06 £16.98 £17.48
Median hourly rate £23.00 £21.49 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +7.05% +14.19% -9.33%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.96 £19.81
90th Percentile £48.50 £39.56 £19.91
Wales median hourly rate £26.13 £21.49 £18.82
% change year-on-year +21.60% +14.19% -9.33%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in South Wales

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in South Wales

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in South Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in South Wales

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in South Wales

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 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 -10 9 £360 -33.33% 98
Newport - 2 £563 - 65
Bridgend - 1 £238 - 3
SQL
Wales

SQL
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 7 (58.33%) Power Platform
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Power BI
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (8.33%) MySQL
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (8.33%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
2 1 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (8.33%) tSQLt
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Data Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Database Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) DBA
4 1 (8.33%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) QA Automation Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Qlik Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Qlik Sense Developer
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (8.33%) FHIR
2 1 (8.33%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Clustering
1 1 (8.33%) NHS
1 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) ETL
1 5 (41.67%) Visualisation
2 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (16.67%) Database Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) Multithreading
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) OO
5 1 (8.33%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) HL7
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Datix
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle
1 1 (8.33%) RedGate
1 1 (8.33%) VMware