SQL Contracts in South Wales

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 20 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -15
Contract jobs citing SQL 15 20 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 6.05% 5.60% 5.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.00% 22.73% 28.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 11
10th Percentile £226 £368 £425
25th Percentile £356 £385 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -22.57% +2.73%
75th Percentile £510 £563 £631
90th Percentile £538 - £650
Wales median daily rate £425 £456 £550
% change year-on-year -6.85% -17.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £21.73
25th Percentile - £20.12 £22.44
Median hourly rate - £20.24 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year - -16.56% -
75th Percentile - £20.35 £25.44
90th Percentile - - £25.78
Wales median hourly rate - £20.24 £24.25
% change year-on-year - -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 60 88 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 24.19% 24.65% 20.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 64 68
10th Percentile £256 £364 £313
25th Percentile £305 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.20% -1.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £483 £550 £627
90th Percentile £561 £563 £650
Wales median daily rate £425 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -13.27% +0.51% -11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 4
10th Percentile £27.40 £15.69 £17.58
25th Percentile £34.00 £20.12 £18.49
Median hourly rate £45.00 £20.24 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +122.39% -3.62% +10.76%
75th Percentile - £20.47 £24.31
90th Percentile - £29.75 £25.33
Wales median hourly rate £37.13 £20.24 £21.00
% change year-on-year +83.47% -3.62% +10.76%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in South Wales

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for SQL in South Wales

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in South Wales over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in South Wales

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend 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 2 July 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 10 £369 -15.71% 123
Newport +11 2 £563 - 49
Torfaen - 1 £425 - 3
Glamorgan - 1 - - 49
SQL
Wales

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (13.33%) WebLogic
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Power BI
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.67%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (6.67%) Metadata
4 1 (6.67%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (6.67%) Spotfire
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Postman
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
2 1 (6.67%) SoapUI
2 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
2 1 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Data Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.67%) QA Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Oracle Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) SOA Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) .NET
1 4 (26.67%) XML
2 3 (20.00%) SOAP
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) OAuth
3 2 (13.33%) OAuth2
3 2 (13.33%) OpenAPI
3 2 (13.33%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) Swagger
3 2 (13.33%) Web Services
3 2 (13.33%) XSD
4 1 (6.67%) Anaconda
4 1 (6.67%) FHIR
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) NHS
1 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) VMS
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) Visualisation
3 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Scrum
3 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) API Management
4 2 (13.33%) BPEL
4 2 (13.33%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (13.33%) Data Science
4 2 (13.33%) ETL
4 2 (13.33%) Machine Learning
4 2 (13.33%) Mathematics
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (13.33%) SOA
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
3 2 (13.33%) R
4 1 (6.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) HL7
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Datix
2 1 (6.67%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) InterSystems
2 1 (6.67%) RedGate
2 1 (6.67%) TIBCO