SQL Contracts in South Wales

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 13 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -2
Contract jobs citing SQL 26 51 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 7.67% 9.83% 10.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.08% 38.06% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 80
10th Percentile £356 £396 £379
25th Percentile £381 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -5.21% +24.12%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £615 £650 £653
Wales median daily rate £450 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% +18.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
Wales median hourly rate - - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Programming Languages
South Wales

SQL is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 96 134 292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 28.32% 25.82% 32.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 105 213
10th Percentile £325 £318 £365
25th Percentile £381 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +23.53%
75th Percentile £551 £625 £625
90th Percentile £600 £663 £685
Wales median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +21.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £15.51 £17.18 £18.45
25th Percentile £16.98 £17.48 £19.91
Median hourly rate £21.49 £18.82 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +14.19% -9.33% -17.00%
75th Percentile £24.96 £19.81 £22.88
90th Percentile £39.56 £19.91 £25.00
Wales median hourly rate £21.49 £18.82 £20.75
% change year-on-year +14.19% -9.33% -17.00%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 26 £540 +20.00% 26
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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) Power Platform
3 5 (19.23%) Power Automate
4 4 (15.38%) AWS
4 4 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (15.38%) Snowflake
5 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
1 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 7 (26.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 6 (23.08%) Power BI
3 5 (19.23%) Power Query
4 4 (15.38%) MySQL
4 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
4 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
5 3 (11.54%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (7.69%) Cucumber
2 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
2 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) JMeter
2 2 (7.69%) Postman
2 2 (7.69%) Selenium
3 1 (3.85%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) GitLab
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (3.85%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.85%) tSQLt
3 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.85%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 19 (73.08%) Developer
2 9 (34.62%) SQL Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Power BI Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Senior
4 5 (19.23%) Senior Developer
5 4 (15.38%) Senior Software Developer
5 4 (15.38%) Senior SQL Developer
5 4 (15.38%) Software Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (11.54%) PL/SQL Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Analyst
7 2 (7.69%) DBA
7 2 (7.69%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Full Stack PHP Developer
7 2 (7.69%) PHP Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Test Analyst
7 2 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Test Engineer
8 1 (3.85%) MySQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) .NET
2 2 (7.69%) Laravel
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (7.69%) React
2 2 (7.69%) XML
3 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.85%) CSS
3 1 (3.85%) FHIR
3 1 (3.85%) HTML
3 1 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) NHS
1 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Clustering
2 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Code
2 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Agile
1 6 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
3 4 (15.38%) DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) Scrum
4 3 (11.54%) Project Management
4 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
5 2 (7.69%) Analytics
5 2 (7.69%) BDD
5 2 (7.69%) Front End Development
5 2 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (7.69%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (3.85%) Conflict Resolution
6 1 (3.85%) Data Analytics
6 1 (3.85%) Defect Management
6 1 (3.85%) Mentoring
6 1 (3.85%) Performance Monitoring
6 1 (3.85%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (3.85%) SDLC
6 1 (3.85%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) T-SQL
2 5 (19.23%) PL/SQL
3 4 (15.38%) Python
4 3 (11.54%) Java
5 2 (7.69%) PHP
6 1 (3.85%) C#
6 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.85%) Degree
1 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
1 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Ansible
1 1 (3.85%) Grafana
1 1 (3.85%) Nagios
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle
1 5 (19.23%) RedGate
2 4 (15.38%) Databricks
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft