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 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 19 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 -1
Contract jobs citing SQL 33 19 37
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 8.07% 7.04% 10.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 44.00% 24.36% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 29
10th Percentile £289 £187 £204
25th Percentile £400 £231 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £363 £390
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -7.05% -17.89%
75th Percentile £502 £500 £563
90th Percentile £729 £539 £616
Wales median daily rate £436 £400 £390
% change year-on-year +9.00% +2.56% -17.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £30.38 - -
25th Percentile £30.94 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
75th Percentile £85.63 - -
90th Percentile £86.75 - -
Wales median hourly rate £56.25 - -

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 75 78 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 18.34% 28.89% 26.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 46 75
10th Percentile £289 £168 £210
25th Percentile £400 £283 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -2.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £532 £548 £545
90th Percentile £713 £588 £609
Wales median daily rate £425 £450 £438
% change year-on-year -5.56% +2.86% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 7
10th Percentile £30.00 £15.20 £15.57
25th Percentile £30.94 £20.12 £18.14
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% +2.22% +29.68%
75th Percentile £58.75 £35.75 £39.56
90th Percentile £85.75 £45.00 £54.35
Wales median hourly rate £50.00 £24.09 £22.50
% change year-on-year +107.56% +7.07% +29.68%

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 22 March 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in South Wales

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SQL in South Wales over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

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 22 March 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 -10 16 £400 +11.11% 18
Newport +11 14 £575 +2.22% 10
Glamorgan - 2 - - 15
Monmouthshire - 1 - -
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 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) Azure
2 15 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (39.39%) GitHub
4 12 (36.36%) Power Platform
5 6 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (9.09%) AWS
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (9.09%) GCP
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (3.03%) Azure App Service
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.03%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
1 2 (6.06%) LAN
1 2 (6.06%) VSAN
1 2 (6.06%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (18.18%) Power BI
3 3 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.09%) Tableau
4 2 (6.06%) MariaDB
4 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.06%) Spotfire
5 1 (3.03%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.03%) DB2
5 1 (3.03%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.03%) Power Query
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (30.30%) JMeter
2 9 (27.27%) MSTest
2 9 (27.27%) Selenium
3 8 (24.24%) Visual Studio
4 4 (12.12%) JIRA
5 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.03%) Git
5 1 (3.03%) GitLab
5 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (3.03%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Military
4 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.03%) Billing
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Senior
2 8 (24.24%) Automation Tester
2 8 (24.24%) Tester
3 7 (21.21%) Senior Automation Tester
3 7 (21.21%) Senior Tester
4 5 (15.15%) Data Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
6 2 (6.06%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Data Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Data Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) DBA
7 1 (3.03%) Administrator
7 1 (3.03%) Applications Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (27.27%) Web Services
2 6 (18.18%) .NET
3 3 (9.09%) .NET Core
3 3 (9.09%) RESTful
4 2 (6.06%) ASP.NET
4 2 (6.06%) CSS
4 2 (6.06%) CSS3
4 2 (6.06%) HTML
4 2 (6.06%) HTML5
4 2 (6.06%) jQuery
4 2 (6.06%) LDAP
4 2 (6.06%) PySpark
4 2 (6.06%) YAML
5 1 (3.03%) ADO
5 1 (3.03%) Jinja
5 1 (3.03%) Kafka
5 1 (3.03%) Node.js
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (3.03%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
1 2 (6.06%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (6.06%) NHS
2 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) Clustering
2 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.03%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) DevOps
2 14 (42.42%) Agile
3 11 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 10 (30.30%) Non-Functional Testing
5 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (24.24%) Architectural Design
6 8 (24.24%) Data Modelling
6 8 (24.24%) Design Patterns
6 8 (24.24%) Test Strategy
7 7 (21.21%) Machine Learning
7 7 (21.21%) Unit Testing
8 6 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
8 6 (18.18%) AI
8 6 (18.18%) Analytics
8 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
9 5 (15.15%) Project Delivery
9 5 (15.15%) User Experience
10 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
10 4 (12.12%) Microservices
10 4 (12.12%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (48.48%) Python
2 14 (42.42%) C#
3 11 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.06%) Bash
5 2 (6.06%) Java
5 2 (6.06%) R
6 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) Security Cleared
2 9 (27.27%) Degree
3 8 (24.24%) ISTQB
3 8 (24.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
5 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
6 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
6 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
7 1 (3.03%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (30.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (24.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 3 (9.09%) Data Quality
4 2 (6.06%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (6.06%) QA
5 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) Ansible
3 2 (6.06%) Check_MK
3 2 (6.06%) Nessus
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 2 (6.06%) vCenter Server
3 2 (6.06%) WSUS
4 1 (3.03%) Data Guard
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (3.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle
3 3 (9.09%) Splunk
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco
4 2 (6.06%) Fortinet
4 2 (6.06%) Google
4 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
4 2 (6.06%) Tenable
4 2 (6.06%) TIBCO
4 2 (6.06%) VMware
5 1 (3.03%) Confluent
5 1 (3.03%) Databricks
5 1 (3.03%) IBM
5 1 (3.03%) McAfee
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow