SQL Job Trends in Newport

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newport requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 16 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +19
Permanent jobs citing SQL 16 2 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Newport 10.26% 3.28% 12.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 53.33% 20.00% 34.62%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 9
10th Percentile £33,400 £53,375 -
25th Percentile £35,000 £56,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £63,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.90% +41.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £45,000 £71,563 £52,101
90th Percentile £47,550 £75,125 £52,336
South Wales median annual salary £47,000 £52,750 £46,500
% change year-on-year -10.90% +13.44% +1.09%

All Programming Languages
Newport

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 Newport.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 30 10 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newport 19.23% 16.39% 36.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18 8 24
10th Percentile £28,025 £46,675 £42,500
25th Percentile £35,938 £46,938 £43,279
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £52,250 £51,051
Median % change year-on-year -20.57% +2.35% -15.97%
75th Percentile £51,250 £65,875 £57,874
90th Percentile £63,750 £85,825 £61,750
South Wales median annual salary £55,000 £48,750 £51,528
% change year-on-year +12.82% -5.39% +3.06%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Newport.

SQL job vacancy trend in Newport

SQL
Salary Trend in Newport

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Newport

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Newport over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Newport

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) ColdFusion
Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Azure AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Tableau
2 6 (37.50%) Power BI
3 2 (12.50%) Data Mining
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Selenium
1 3 (18.75%) SpecFlow
1 3 (18.75%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Analyst
1 6 (37.50%) Data Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Junior
2 5 (31.25%) Junior Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Junior Data Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Software Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Software Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Automation Tester
5 2 (12.50%) Tester
5 2 (12.50%) Trainee
6 1 (6.25%) IT Support
6 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior ColdFusion Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior SQL Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Web Services
2 5 (31.25%) RESTful
3 3 (18.75%) .NET
3 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
4 2 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) AI
2 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) BDD
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
4 3 (18.75%) OO
4 3 (18.75%) OOP
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (18.75%) Scrum
4 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Business Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
5 2 (12.50%) Data Science
5 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
5 2 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) VB.NET
4 1 (6.25%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Azure Certification
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle