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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 23 15
Rank change year-on-year +14 -8 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 29 20 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 11.15% 5.80% 9.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 45.31% 25.00% 37.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 26
10th Percentile £280 £161 £193
25th Percentile £363 £178 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £388 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.48% -18.42% -13.64%
75th Percentile £520 £545 £565
90th Percentile £638 £576 £663
Wales median daily rate £448 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -10.50% +8.11% -15.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £21.73
25th Percentile - £20.12 £22.44
Median hourly rate £22.84 £20.24 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.87% -16.56% -
75th Percentile - £20.35 £25.44
90th Percentile - - £25.78
Wales median hourly rate £22.84 £20.24 £24.25
% change year-on-year +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 64 80 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 24.62% 23.19% 26.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 48 78
10th Percentile £256 £207 £246
25th Percentile £305 £375 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £495 £469
Median % change year-on-year -17.17% +5.60% -14.77%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £584
90th Percentile £600 £558 £666
Wales median daily rate £450 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.11% -15.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 6
10th Percentile - - £19.11
25th Percentile - £20.12 £22.44
Median hourly rate £22.84 £20.24 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.87% -46.75% +90.86%
75th Percentile - £20.76 £54.56
90th Percentile - £31.53 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £22.84 £20.24 £38.00
% change year-on-year +12.87% -46.75% +90.86%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 +5 25 £450 +16.13% 19
Glamorgan - 2 - - 30
Newport +11 1 - - 4
Torfaen - 1 £425 - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (27.59%) Oracle Service Bus
1 8 (27.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 8 (27.59%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (20.69%) Power Platform
3 4 (13.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (6.90%) GCP
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) Oracle Database
2 6 (20.69%) Power BI
2 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
3 4 (13.79%) Data Lake
3 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (13.79%) Metadata
3 4 (13.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (6.90%) Spotfire
4 2 (6.90%) Tableau
5 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.45%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.45%) Power Query
5 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Cypress.io
1 3 (10.34%) Git
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
2 1 (3.45%) Postman
2 1 (3.45%) SoapUI
2 1 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 11 (37.93%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Consultant
2 7 (24.14%) Oracle Consultant
3 6 (20.69%) Data Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Lead
4 5 (17.24%) Oracle SOA Consultant
4 5 (17.24%) SOA Consultant
5 4 (13.79%) Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) BPM Consultant
6 3 (10.34%) Data Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Senior
7 2 (6.90%) IT Consultant
7 2 (6.90%) Lead Consultant
7 2 (6.90%) Middleware Consultant
7 2 (6.90%) Oracle Middleware Consultant
7 2 (6.90%) Product Owner
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Oracle Consultant
7 2 (6.90%) SQL Developer
8 1 (3.45%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) XML
2 9 (31.03%) SOAP
3 8 (27.59%) JSON
3 8 (27.59%) OAuth
3 8 (27.59%) OAuth2
3 8 (27.59%) OpenAPI
3 8 (27.59%) REST
3 8 (27.59%) Swagger
3 8 (27.59%) XSD
4 6 (20.69%) .NET
5 3 (10.34%) .NET Core
5 3 (10.34%) .NET Framework
5 3 (10.34%) Entity Framework
5 3 (10.34%) Jest
5 3 (10.34%) Next.js
5 3 (10.34%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (10.34%) React
6 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
6 2 (6.90%) Flutter
6 2 (6.90%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Virtual Team
2 3 (10.34%) NHS
3 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Client/Server
3 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.45%) Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.45%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.45%) Replication
4 1 (3.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) VMS
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) DevOps
2 12 (41.38%) Agile
3 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (31.03%) API Design
5 8 (27.59%) API Management
5 8 (27.59%) BPEL
5 8 (27.59%) ETL
5 8 (27.59%) SDLC
5 8 (27.59%) SOA
5 8 (27.59%) Thought Leadership
5 8 (27.59%) Validation
6 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
7 5 (17.24%) Data Modelling
8 4 (13.79%) Analytics
8 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (13.79%) Data Science
8 4 (13.79%) Performance Optimisation
8 4 (13.79%) Visualisation
9 3 (10.34%) Case Management
9 3 (10.34%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) Python
2 9 (31.03%) PL/SQL
3 6 (20.69%) T-SQL
4 4 (13.79%) R
5 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 2 (6.90%) C#
7 1 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (3.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) Degree
1 2 (6.90%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Accessibility
1 3 (10.34%) WCAG
2 2 (6.90%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Oracle
2 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) Databricks
4 2 (6.90%) TIBCO
5 1 (3.45%) Google
5 1 (3.45%) InterSystems
5 1 (3.45%) RedGate