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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 23 12
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 24 13 30
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 5.83% 5.04% 8.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.10% 20.31% 30.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 24
10th Percentile £270 £203 £356
25th Percentile £338 £253 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £361 £533
Median % change year-on-year +10.73% -32.16% +9.23%
75th Percentile £481 £538 £590
90th Percentile £495 £540 £619
Wales median daily rate £413 £413 £425
% change year-on-year - -2.94% -12.82%
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 63 64 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 15.29% 24.81% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 40 78
10th Percentile £289 £170 £325
25th Percentile £370 £296 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £403 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.59% -10.56% -4.26%
75th Percentile £501 £538 £551
90th Percentile £572 £554 £605
Wales median daily rate £425 £425 £450
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 6
10th Percentile £40.00 £20.12 £15.51
25th Percentile - £21.06 £16.98
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.00 £21.49
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% +7.05% +14.19%
75th Percentile £76.25 £45.00 £24.96
90th Percentile £86.25 £48.50 £39.56
Wales median hourly rate £50.00 £26.13 £21.49
% change year-on-year +91.39% +21.60% +14.19%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 0 15 £400 +25.98% 14
Newport +8 8 £463 -17.78% 10
Monmouthshire - 1 - - 2
Gwent - 1 - - 7
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 (8.33%) Apache
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (25.00%) GitHub
2 6 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Functions
4 2 (8.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (4.17%) dbt
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.17%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Serverless
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Firewall
1 2 (8.33%) LAN
1 2 (8.33%) VSAN
1 2 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (16.67%) Power BI
3 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.33%) Big Data
4 2 (8.33%) BigQuery
4 2 (8.33%) MariaDB
4 2 (8.33%) RDBMS
4 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (4.17%) DB2
5 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (4.17%) Power Query
5 1 (4.17%) Star Schema
5 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) JMeter
2 3 (12.50%) MSTest
2 3 (12.50%) Selenium
2 3 (12.50%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Military
2 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Billing
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Data Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) .NET Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Applications Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Automation Tester
4 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Data Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Power Apps Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Automation Tester
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Tester
4 2 (8.33%) Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) DBA
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) .NET
2 3 (12.50%) .NET Core
2 3 (12.50%) RESTful
2 3 (12.50%) Web Services
3 2 (8.33%) Apache Beam
3 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (8.33%) CSS
3 2 (8.33%) CSS3
3 2 (8.33%) HTML
3 2 (8.33%) HTML5
3 2 (8.33%) jQuery
3 2 (8.33%) LDAP
4 1 (4.17%) Jinja
4 1 (4.17%) Kafka
4 1 (4.17%) PySpark
4 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (8.33%) Low-Code
1 2 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Clustering
2 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Agile
1 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (25.00%) DevOps
3 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (20.83%) User Experience
4 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 4 (16.67%) ETL
4 4 (16.67%) Microservices
4 4 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (12.50%) API Management
5 3 (12.50%) Architectural Design
5 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (12.50%) Design Patterns
5 3 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 3 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) C#
1 8 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.50%) Java
3 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 3 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (12.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 2 (8.33%) QA
4 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Check_MK
2 2 (8.33%) Nessus
2 2 (8.33%) vCenter Server
2 2 (8.33%) WSUS
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (4.17%) SCCM
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Splunk
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco
3 2 (8.33%) Fortinet
3 2 (8.33%) Google
3 2 (8.33%) Guidewire
3 2 (8.33%) Oracle
3 2 (8.33%) Palo Alto
3 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.33%) Tenable
3 2 (8.33%) VMware
4 1 (4.17%) Confluent
4 1 (4.17%) Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) IBM
4 1 (4.17%) McAfee
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow