SQL Contracts in Wales

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 14 16 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -4
Contract jobs citing SQL 33 53 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 8.21% 8.36% 10.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.70% 33.97% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 32 90
10th Percentile £356 £401 £363
25th Percentile £381 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% +18.86%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £625
90th Percentile £611 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £538 £538 £525
% change year-on-year - +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £50.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -15.00% +40.85% +31.48%

All Programming Languages
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 Wales with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 115 156 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 28.61% 24.61% 31.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 126 232
10th Percentile £325 £341 £364
25th Percentile £381 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +21.39%
75th Percentile £543 £613 £625
90th Percentile £599 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
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
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +0.83% +20.00% +14.29%

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 26 April 2024.

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 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
South Wales -3 26 £540 +8.00% 34
West Wales - 3 £425 - 6
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:

Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (51.52%) Azure
2 8 (24.24%) Power Platform
3 7 (21.21%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (18.18%) Power Automate
5 4 (12.12%) AWS
5 4 (12.12%) Snowflake
6 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.03%) GitHub
7 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
1 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Power BI
1 7 (21.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 7 (21.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 6 (18.18%) Power Query
2 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 5 (15.15%) Relational Database
4 4 (12.12%) MySQL
5 3 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (6.06%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
2 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
2 2 (6.06%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) JMeter
2 2 (6.06%) Postman
2 2 (6.06%) Selenium
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (3.03%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.03%) tSQLt
3 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.03%) Marketing
2 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.03%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 22 (66.67%) Developer
2 10 (30.30%) SQL Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 7 (21.21%) Power BI Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Consultant
4 5 (15.15%) Senior
4 5 (15.15%) Senior Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Software Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior SQL Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Software Developer
6 3 (9.09%) CRM Consultant
6 3 (9.09%) Data Consultant
6 3 (9.09%) Data Migration Consultant
6 3 (9.09%) DBA
6 3 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
6 3 (9.09%) Microsoft CRM Consultant
6 3 (9.09%) Migration Consultant
6 3 (9.09%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (9.09%) PHP Developer
6 3 (9.09%) PL/SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) .NET
2 3 (9.09%) React
3 2 (6.06%) CSS
3 2 (6.06%) HTML
3 2 (6.06%) Laravel
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (6.06%) XML
4 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.03%) ASP.NET
4 1 (3.03%) FHIR
4 1 (3.03%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (3.03%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) NHS
2 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Clustering
3 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Code
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.21%) Agile
1 7 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
3 4 (12.12%) DevOps
3 4 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (12.12%) Scrum
4 3 (9.09%) CRM
4 3 (9.09%) Data Mapping
4 3 (9.09%) Data Migration
4 3 (9.09%) Migration
4 3 (9.09%) Project Management
4 3 (9.09%) Test Automation
5 2 (6.06%) Analytics
5 2 (6.06%) BDD
5 2 (6.06%) Front End Development
5 2 (6.06%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (6.06%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (3.03%) Conflict Resolution
6 1 (3.03%) Mentoring
6 1 (3.03%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) T-SQL
2 5 (15.15%) PL/SQL
3 4 (12.12%) Java
3 4 (12.12%) Python
4 3 (9.09%) PHP
5 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) C#
6 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.03%) Ruby
6 1 (3.03%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.03%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Ansible
1 1 (3.03%) Grafana
1 1 (3.03%) Nagios
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) Oracle
3 5 (15.15%) RedGate
4 4 (12.12%) Databricks