SQL Contracts in Swansea

SQL (Structured Query Language)
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Swansea 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 5 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing SQL 3 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swansea 15.79% 17.65% 2.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 42.86% 42.86% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £530 £235 -
25th Percentile £538 £301 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +13.33% -42.31%
75th Percentile - £463 £388
90th Percentile - £478 -
West Wales median daily rate £550 £425 £375
% change year-on-year +29.41% +13.33% -42.31%

All Programming Languages
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 7 7 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swansea 36.84% 41.18% 22.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 8
10th Percentile £322 £324 £406
25th Percentile £438 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% -12.16%
75th Percentile £538 £506 £539
90th Percentile £550 £525 £544
West Wales median daily rate £480 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +6.67% -7.69% -12.16%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Swansea

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Swansea

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Swansea

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Swansea

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Swansea

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swansea 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Handlebars
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) API Management
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks