SQL Jobs in Cardiff

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 14 67 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 7.41% 9.96% 13.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.73% 28.51% 36.71%
Number of salaries quoted 13 58 53
10th Percentile £39,250 £40,000 £33,975
25th Percentile £49,000 £41,563 £35,427
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £58,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £86,500 £72,433 £67,500
South Wales median annual salary £65,000 £45,000 £44,708
% change year-on-year +44.44% +0.65% -0.65%

All Programming Languages
Cardiff

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 59 235 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 31.22% 34.92% 36.64%
Number of salaries quoted 54 220 146
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,149 £42,750 £40,869
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,815 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £60,000 £52,101 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.16% +4.20% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Cardiff

SQL
Salary Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in Cardiff.

Salary trend for SQL in Cardiff

SQL
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Cardiff over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Cardiff

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (14.29%) Apache
1 2 (14.29%) Apache Spark
1 2 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 2 (14.29%) Big Data
1 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (14.29%) Electronic Patient Records
1 2 (14.29%) Looker
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Metadata
2 1 (7.14%) Mixpanel
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Business Systems Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Scientist
4 1 (7.14%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Pricing Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Scientist
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) CSS
1 3 (21.43%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (14.29%) Node.js
2 2 (14.29%) React
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.14%) JSON
3 1 (7.14%) PySpark
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
3 1 (7.14%) SOAP
3 1 (7.14%) Web Services
3 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Agile
1 4 (28.57%) Data Science
2 3 (21.43%) Analytics
2 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
2 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (21.43%) Data Transformation
2 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
2 3 (21.43%) TDD
3 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
3 2 (14.29%) Data Stewardship
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (14.29%) Functional Programming
3 2 (14.29%) MapReduce
3 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 2 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) R
3 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.14%) Amplitude
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle