SQL Contracts in Wales

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 14 17
Rank change year-on-year -11 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL 17 33 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 5.76% 8.23% 8.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.67% 28.70% 34.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 33
10th Percentile £213 £356 £370
25th Percentile £309 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -6.76%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £625
90th Percentile £550 £611 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -6.98% - +2.38%

All Programming Languages
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 75 115 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 25.42% 28.68% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 88 124
10th Percentile £225 £325 £363
25th Percentile £355 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £543 £613
90th Percentile £588 £599 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile £20.12 £15.51 £17.18
25th Percentile £21.53 £16.98 £17.48
Median hourly rate £26.13 £21.49 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +21.60% +14.19% -9.33%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.96 £19.81
90th Percentile £47.63 £39.56 £19.91
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year +3.31% -0.33% +21.40%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Wales

SQL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for SQL in Wales

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Wales over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Wales

SQL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for SQL in Wales

SQL
Contract Job Locations in 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 Wales region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
South Wales -7 12 £363 -32.87% 32
West Wales 0 3 £550 +29.41%
SQL
UK

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Power Platform
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure API Management
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) Power BI
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.88%) MySQL
4 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (5.88%) Spark SQL
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (5.88%) SQLite
4 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Selenium
2 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.88%) tSQLt
General
1 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Data Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Data Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Database Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) DBA
3 1 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
3 1 (5.88%) QA Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) SQL DBA
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (5.88%) FHIR
2 1 (5.88%) Handlebars
2 1 (5.88%) PySpark
2 1 (5.88%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (5.88%) Web Services
2 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Clustering
1 1 (5.88%) IoT
1 1 (5.88%) NHS
1 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Visualisation
2 5 (29.41%) ETL
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
3 3 (17.65%) Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
3 3 (17.65%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
4 2 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.76%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
4 2 (11.76%) Database Tuning
4 2 (11.76%) Multithreading
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.76%) Scrum
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) API Management
5 1 (5.88%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) C#
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Ruby
2 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.88%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) HL7
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Firmware
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) Datix
2 1 (5.88%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) RedGate
2 1 (5.88%) VMware