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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 20 13
Rank change year-on-year +12 -7 -3
Contract jobs citing SQL 43 26 45
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 12.99% 6.93% 11.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 52.44% 28.57% 45.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 30
10th Percentile £306 £161 £184
25th Percentile £391 £199 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £400 £225
Median % change year-on-year +13.13% +77.78% -59.09%
75th Percentile £548 £533 £514
90th Percentile £725 £554 £675
Wales median daily rate £465 £500 £225
% change year-on-year -7.00% +122.22% -58.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £24.27 - £21.73
25th Percentile £26.42 £20.12 £22.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.24 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year +48.26% -16.56% -
75th Percentile £31.88 £20.35 £25.44
90th Percentile £33.00 - £25.78
Wales median hourly rate £30.00 £20.24 £24.25
% change year-on-year +48.26% -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 82 91 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 24.77% 24.27% 25.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 51 73
10th Percentile £256 £168 £207
25th Percentile £363 £255 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% -22.73%
75th Percentile £515 £550 £551
90th Percentile £633 £575 £675
Wales median daily rate £459 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -8.25% +17.65% -22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 6
10th Percentile £24.27 £15.69 £23.63
25th Percentile £26.42 £20.12 £31.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.24 £51.75
Median % change year-on-year +48.26% -60.90% +173.02%
75th Percentile £31.88 £22.82 £55.25
90th Percentile £33.00 £26.38 -
Wales median hourly rate £30.25 £20.24 £51.75
% change year-on-year +49.49% -60.90% +173.02%

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 +4 31 £450 +12.50% 29
Newport +11 7 £700 - 24
Glamorgan - 4 - - 36
Torfaen - 1 £425 - 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 8 (18.60%) Oracle Service Bus
1 8 (18.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 8 (18.60%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 21 (48.84%) Azure
2 15 (34.88%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (32.56%) Power Platform
4 11 (25.58%) GitHub
5 6 (13.95%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (11.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (9.30%) GCP
7 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (4.65%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (2.33%) AWS
10 1 (2.33%) Azure App Service
10 1 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.33%) Cloud Functions
10 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) Power BI
2 8 (18.60%) Oracle Database
3 7 (16.28%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (13.95%) SQL Server
5 5 (11.63%) Data Lake
6 4 (9.30%) Metadata
6 4 (9.30%) Spotfire
6 4 (9.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (9.30%) Tableau
7 3 (6.98%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (6.98%) Relational Database
8 2 (4.65%) BigQuery
8 2 (4.65%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.33%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database 12c
9 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (2.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) JMeter
2 6 (13.95%) MSTest
2 6 (13.95%) Selenium
3 5 (11.63%) Visual Studio
4 4 (9.30%) Git
5 3 (6.98%) Cypress.io
5 3 (6.98%) JIRA
6 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.65%) GitLab
6 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (4.65%) Zephyr
7 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.33%) Postman
7 1 (2.33%) SoapUI
7 1 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 19 (44.19%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.23%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.95%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.30%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Finance
6 1 (2.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Senior
2 8 (18.60%) Consultant
2 8 (18.60%) Data Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Oracle Consultant
4 6 (13.95%) Automation Tester
4 6 (13.95%) Developer
4 6 (13.95%) Lead
4 6 (13.95%) Tester
5 5 (11.63%) Analyst
5 5 (11.63%) Data Analyst
5 5 (11.63%) Oracle SOA Consultant
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Automation Tester
5 5 (11.63%) Senior Tester
5 5 (11.63%) SOA Consultant
6 3 (6.98%) BPM Consultant
6 3 (6.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.65%) IT Consultant
7 2 (4.65%) Middleware Consultant
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Oracle Consultant
7 2 (4.65%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.26%) XML
2 9 (20.93%) SOAP
3 8 (18.60%) JSON
3 8 (18.60%) OAuth
3 8 (18.60%) OAuth2
3 8 (18.60%) OpenAPI
3 8 (18.60%) REST
3 8 (18.60%) Swagger
3 8 (18.60%) Web Services
3 8 (18.60%) XSD
4 7 (16.28%) .NET
5 4 (9.30%) PySpark
5 4 (9.30%) React
6 3 (6.98%) .NET Core
6 3 (6.98%) .NET Framework
6 3 (6.98%) Entity Framework
6 3 (6.98%) Jest
6 3 (6.98%) Next.js
6 3 (6.98%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (4.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Virtual Team
2 4 (9.30%) Algorithms
2 4 (9.30%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (9.30%) NHS
3 2 (4.65%) Client/Server
3 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.65%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Clustering
4 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.33%) Replication
4 1 (2.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
1 1 (2.33%) VMS
1 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (60.47%) DevOps
2 23 (53.49%) Agile
3 15 (34.88%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (25.58%) Test Automation
5 10 (23.26%) CI/CD
5 10 (23.26%) Data Modelling
5 10 (23.26%) ETL
6 9 (20.93%) API Design
6 9 (20.93%) Machine Learning
7 8 (18.60%) Analytics
7 8 (18.60%) API Management
7 8 (18.60%) BPEL
7 8 (18.60%) Non-Functional Testing
7 8 (18.60%) SDLC
7 8 (18.60%) SOA
7 8 (18.60%) Thought Leadership
7 8 (18.60%) Validation
8 7 (16.28%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (16.28%) Test Strategy
9 6 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 20 (46.51%) Python
2 10 (23.26%) JavaScript
2 10 (23.26%) PL/SQL
3 8 (18.60%) C#
4 7 (16.28%) T-SQL
5 5 (11.63%) R
6 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.65%) Java
8 1 (2.33%) Bash
8 1 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (18.60%) Degree
1 8 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) ISTQB
3 5 (11.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 4 (9.30%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 5 (11.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.98%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.98%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.98%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) WCAG
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) HL7
System Software
1 8 (18.60%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Terraform
2 1 (2.33%) Ansible
2 1 (2.33%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 13 (30.23%) Oracle
2 11 (25.58%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.30%) TIBCO
4 3 (6.98%) Databricks
5 2 (4.65%) Google
6 1 (2.33%) InterSystems
6 1 (2.33%) RedGate