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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 18 11
Rank change year-on-year +8 -7 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 41 27 52
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 11.36% 7.28% 13.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.07% 29.35% 47.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 23 35
10th Percentile £363 £161 £186
25th Percentile £401 £184 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £275 £325
Median % change year-on-year +69.09% -15.38% -40.91%
75th Percentile £583 £471 £563
90th Percentile £725 £548 £653
Wales median daily rate £475 £438 £338
% change year-on-year +8.57% +29.63% -35.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £24.99 - £21.73
25th Percentile £28.21 £20.12 £22.44
Median hourly rate £31.25 £20.24 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year +54.44% -16.56% -
75th Percentile £46.56 £20.35 £25.44
90th Percentile £69.63 - £25.78
Wales median hourly rate £31.25 £20.24 £24.25
% change year-on-year +54.44% -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 89 92 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 24.65% 24.80% 28.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 53 79
10th Percentile £257 £162 £204
25th Percentile £367 £210 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -19.05%
75th Percentile £527 £544 £557
90th Percentile £634 £570 £675
Wales median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% -19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 8
10th Percentile £25.70 £16.19 £24.13
25th Percentile - £20.12 £25.84
Median hourly rate £30.00 £20.24 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +48.26% -60.52% +184.72%
75th Percentile £33.75 £22.00 £55.25
90th Percentile £64.50 £26.25 -
Wales median hourly rate £30.25 £20.24 £51.25
% change year-on-year +49.49% -60.52% +184.72%

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 December 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in South Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in South Wales over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 6 December 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 +3 28 £455 +65.45% 22
Newport +12 7 £700 - 17
Glamorgan - 4 - - 22
Monmouthshire - 1 - - 4
Gwent - 1 - - 14
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 (19.51%) Oracle Service Bus
1 8 (19.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 8 (19.51%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (14.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (19.51%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 19 (46.34%) Azure
2 14 (34.15%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (31.71%) Power Platform
4 10 (24.39%) GitHub
5 6 (14.63%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (12.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (9.76%) GCP
7 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (2.44%) AWS
10 1 (2.44%) Azure App Service
10 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.44%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Firewall
1 1 (2.44%) LAN
1 1 (2.44%) VSAN
1 1 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.51%) Oracle Database
1 8 (19.51%) Power BI
2 7 (17.07%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (12.20%) Data Lake
4 4 (9.76%) Metadata
4 4 (9.76%) Spotfire
4 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
4 4 (9.76%) Tableau
5 3 (7.32%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.88%) BigQuery
6 2 (4.88%) RDBMS
6 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.44%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (2.44%) MariaDB
7 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (2.44%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.44%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 8 (19.51%) JMeter
2 6 (14.63%) MSTest
2 6 (14.63%) Selenium
3 5 (12.20%) Visual Studio
4 4 (9.76%) JIRA
5 3 (7.32%) Cypress.io
5 3 (7.32%) Git
6 2 (4.88%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.88%) GitLab
6 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.88%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 13 (31.71%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.76%) Manufacturing
5 3 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Finance
6 1 (2.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (19.51%) Consultant
1 8 (19.51%) Data Engineer
1 8 (19.51%) Senior
2 7 (17.07%) Oracle Consultant
3 6 (14.63%) Automation Tester
3 6 (14.63%) Lead
3 6 (14.63%) Tester
4 5 (12.20%) Analyst
4 5 (12.20%) Data Analyst
4 5 (12.20%) Oracle SOA Consultant
4 5 (12.20%) Senior Automation Tester
4 5 (12.20%) Senior Tester
4 5 (12.20%) SOA Consultant
5 4 (9.76%) Developer
6 3 (7.32%) BPM Consultant
6 3 (7.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Middleware Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) Oracle Middleware Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) Product Owner
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.51%) JSON
1 8 (19.51%) OAuth
1 8 (19.51%) OAuth2
1 8 (19.51%) OpenAPI
1 8 (19.51%) REST
1 8 (19.51%) SOAP
1 8 (19.51%) Swagger
1 8 (19.51%) XML
1 8 (19.51%) XSD
2 7 (17.07%) .NET
3 6 (14.63%) Web Services
4 4 (9.76%) PySpark
4 4 (9.76%) React
5 3 (7.32%) .NET Core
5 3 (7.32%) .NET Framework
5 3 (7.32%) Entity Framework
5 3 (7.32%) Jest
5 3 (7.32%) Next.js
5 3 (7.32%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (4.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Virtual Team
2 4 (9.76%) Algorithms
2 4 (9.76%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.32%) NHS
4 2 (4.88%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.44%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Reference Data
5 1 (2.44%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
1 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (60.98%) DevOps
2 22 (53.66%) Agile
3 15 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (26.83%) Test Automation
5 10 (24.39%) Data Modelling
5 10 (24.39%) ETL
6 9 (21.95%) API Design
6 9 (21.95%) CI/CD
7 8 (19.51%) Analytics
7 8 (19.51%) API Management
7 8 (19.51%) BPEL
7 8 (19.51%) Machine Learning
7 8 (19.51%) Non-Functional Testing
7 8 (19.51%) SDLC
7 8 (19.51%) SOA
7 8 (19.51%) Thought Leadership
7 8 (19.51%) Validation
8 7 (17.07%) Test Strategy
9 6 (14.63%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) Python
2 10 (24.39%) JavaScript
2 10 (24.39%) PL/SQL
3 8 (19.51%) C#
4 5 (12.20%) R
4 5 (12.20%) T-SQL
5 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.88%) Java
6 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.44%) Bash
7 1 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.44%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.51%) Degree
3 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
4 5 (12.20%) ISTQB
4 5 (12.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (9.76%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (12.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 3 (7.32%) Accessibility
3 3 (7.32%) Data Quality
3 3 (7.32%) QA
3 3 (7.32%) WCAG
4 1 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (17.07%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) Terraform
2 1 (2.44%) Ansible
2 1 (2.44%) Check_MK
2 1 (2.44%) Data Guard
2 1 (2.44%) Nessus
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (2.44%) vCenter Server
2 1 (2.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Oracle
2 10 (24.39%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.76%) TIBCO
4 3 (7.32%) Databricks
5 2 (4.88%) Google
6 1 (2.44%) Cisco
6 1 (2.44%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.44%) InterSystems
6 1 (2.44%) McAfee
6 1 (2.44%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.44%) Splunk
6 1 (2.44%) Tenable
6 1 (2.44%) VMware