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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 24 14
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 26 14 28
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 6.33% 5.58% 8.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 40.00% 21.88% 28.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 22
10th Percentile £280 £206 £357
25th Percentile £306 £260 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £363 £533
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -31.92% +6.50%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £581
90th Percentile £493 £540 £614
Wales median daily rate £400 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -15.00%
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 65 64 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 15.82% 25.50% 28.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 40 77
10th Percentile £289 £228 £325
25th Percentile £366 £322 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £501 £538 £551
90th Percentile £571 £554 £600
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 24 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 24 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 -1 17 £390 +8.33% 12
Newport +8 8 £463 -17.78% 4
Monmouthshire - 1 - - 2
Gwent - 1 - - 5
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 3 (11.54%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.69%) Apache
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) Power Platform
3 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (23.08%) GitHub
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (11.54%) GCP
4 3 (11.54%) PowerApps
5 2 (7.69%) AWS
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (3.85%) dbt
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.85%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) WAN
2 2 (7.69%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) LAN
2 2 (7.69%) VSAN
3 1 (3.85%) GSM
3 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (15.38%) Power BI
3 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
3 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.69%) Big Data
4 2 (7.69%) BigQuery
4 2 (7.69%) MariaDB
4 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (3.85%) DB2
5 1 (3.85%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.85%) Power Query
5 1 (3.85%) Star Schema
5 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) JIRA
2 3 (11.54%) JMeter
2 3 (11.54%) MSTest
2 3 (11.54%) Selenium
2 3 (11.54%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Finance
2 2 (7.69%) Military
2 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.85%) Billing
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Data Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 3 (11.54%) Applications Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Lead
3 3 (11.54%) Power Apps Developer
4 2 (7.69%) .NET Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Administrator
4 2 (7.69%) Automation Tester
4 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Data Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Automation Tester
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Tester
4 2 (7.69%) Tester
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) .NET
2 3 (11.54%) .NET Core
2 3 (11.54%) RESTful
2 3 (11.54%) Web Services
3 2 (7.69%) Apache Beam
3 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET
3 2 (7.69%) CSS
3 2 (7.69%) CSS3
3 2 (7.69%) HTML
3 2 (7.69%) HTML5
3 2 (7.69%) jQuery
3 2 (7.69%) LDAP
4 1 (3.85%) Jinja
4 1 (3.85%) Kafka
4 1 (3.85%) PySpark
4 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Low-Code
1 3 (11.54%) NHS
2 2 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.85%) SCADA
3 1 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Windows
2 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Agile
2 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (23.08%) DevOps
3 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (19.23%) User Experience
5 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 4 (15.38%) ETL
5 4 (15.38%) Microservices
5 4 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (11.54%) API Management
6 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
6 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
6 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
6 3 (11.54%) Design Patterns
6 3 (11.54%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
6 3 (11.54%) Test Strategy
6 3 (11.54%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) C#
1 8 (30.77%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.54%) Java
3 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 3 (11.54%) ISTQB
2 3 (11.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (11.54%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 2 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.69%) QA
4 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Check_MK
2 2 (7.69%) Nessus
2 2 (7.69%) vCenter Server
2 2 (7.69%) WSUS
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (3.85%) SCCM
3 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Cisco
2 3 (11.54%) Splunk
3 2 (7.69%) Fortinet
3 2 (7.69%) Google
3 2 (7.69%) Guidewire
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle
3 2 (7.69%) Palo Alto
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 2 (7.69%) Tenable
3 2 (7.69%) VMware
4 1 (3.85%) Confluent
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) McAfee
4 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow