SQL Server Jobs in South Wales

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 53 35
Rank change year-on-year +12 -18 -13
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 65 55 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 4.53% 4.82% 7.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 24.62% 21.32% 33.87%
Number of salaries quoted 58 43 89
10th Percentile £35,195 - £32,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £36,250 £36,115
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% -3.33% +23.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £66,750 £55,000
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £43,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +16.28% -4.44% +29.75%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South Wales

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 264 258 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 18.40% 22.59% 21.71%
Number of salaries quoted 133 143 215
10th Percentile £35,195 £35,185 £33,816
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +16.96%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,500 £77,500 £72,500
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% +14.46%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in South Wales

SQL Server
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in South Wales.

Salary trend for SQL Server in South Wales

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in South Wales over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in South Wales

SQL Server
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +17 40 £55,000 - 7
Bridgend -5 11 £36,476 +37.64% 1
Newport +7 7 £52,101 +15.78%
Glamorgan -4 3 - - 2
Rhondda Cynon Taff - 2 £32,500 -
Caerphilly +5 1 - -
SQL Server
Wales

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.62%) Umbraco
2 2 (3.08%) Apache
2 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.08%) Confluence
2 2 (3.08%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.08%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.54%) IIS
3 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (56.92%) Azure
2 13 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 7 (10.77%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (10.77%) SaaS
4 6 (9.23%) PaaS
5 5 (7.69%) AWS
5 5 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.69%) WhatsApp
6 4 (6.15%) iPaaS
7 3 (4.62%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.62%) GCP
8 2 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.08%) IaaS
9 1 (1.54%) Cloudflare
9 1 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.54%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.69%) DNS
1 5 (7.69%) Firewall
2 3 (4.62%) DHCP
3 2 (3.08%) SSL
3 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.54%) Broadband
4 1 (1.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.54%) RDBMS
1 14 (21.54%) Relational Database
2 12 (18.46%) Power BI
3 11 (16.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (12.31%) MySQL
4 8 (12.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (6.15%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (4.62%) MongoDB
7 3 (4.62%) Power Query
7 3 (4.62%) Tableau
8 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.08%) Redis
9 1 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.54%) CouchDB
9 1 (1.54%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (1.54%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (6.15%) JIRA
2 3 (4.62%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.08%) DBeaver
3 2 (3.08%) Git
3 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.08%) NUnit
3 2 (3.08%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.54%) GitKraken
4 1 (1.54%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (1.54%) ReSharper
General
1 19 (29.23%) Finance
2 13 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.92%) Local Government
4 10 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (15.38%) Police
5 8 (12.31%) Banking
6 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (9.23%) Welsh Language
7 5 (7.69%) Games
8 3 (4.62%) Advertising
9 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
9 2 (3.08%) Retail
10 1 (1.54%) Legal
10 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (46.15%) Developer
2 12 (18.46%) Analyst
3 9 (13.85%) Lead
4 8 (12.31%) C# Developer
5 7 (10.77%) .NET Developer
5 7 (10.77%) C# .NET Developer
5 7 (10.77%) Consultant
5 7 (10.77%) Lead Developer
6 6 (9.23%) Database Analyst
6 6 (9.23%) ICT Analyst
6 6 (9.23%) Integration Developer
6 6 (9.23%) Senior
7 5 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Games Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Applications Specialist
8 4 (6.15%) Database Specialist
8 4 (6.15%) ICT Specialist
8 4 (6.15%) Senior Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Senior Integration Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (38.46%) .NET
2 19 (29.23%) ASP.NET
2 19 (29.23%) HTML
3 14 (21.54%) CSS
4 11 (16.92%) .NET Core
5 9 (13.85%) RESTful
6 8 (12.31%) ASP.NET MVC
7 7 (10.77%) HTML5
8 6 (9.23%) AngularJS
9 5 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (7.69%) LINQ
10 4 (6.15%) Blazor
11 3 (4.62%) React
11 3 (4.62%) SOAP
11 3 (4.62%) Web Services
12 2 (3.08%) .NET Framework
12 2 (3.08%) ASP.NET Core
12 2 (3.08%) CSS3
12 2 (3.08%) jQuery
12 2 (3.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Data Structures
2 5 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.15%) Housing Association
3 4 (6.15%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.15%) Public Cloud
3 4 (6.15%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.08%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.08%) Replication
5 1 (1.54%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.54%) CCTV
5 1 (1.54%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Linux
1 5 (7.69%) Windows
1 5 (7.69%) Windows Server
2 3 (4.62%) VMS
3 2 (3.08%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.08%) Unix
4 1 (1.54%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (27.69%) Agile
2 17 (26.15%) Performance Tuning
3 15 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 13 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (18.46%) ETL
6 11 (16.92%) MVC
7 10 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
8 9 (13.85%) DevOps
8 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (13.85%) Software Architecture
9 8 (12.31%) ITIL
10 7 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (10.77%) Design Patterns
10 7 (10.77%) Process Improvement
10 7 (10.77%) Software Engineering
10 7 (10.77%) Translating Business Requirements
11 6 (9.23%) Code Optimisation
11 6 (9.23%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
11 6 (9.23%) Microservices
11 6 (9.23%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 36 (55.38%) SQL
2 28 (43.08%) C#
3 19 (29.23%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.23%) T-SQL
5 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.08%) C++
6 2 (3.08%) Java
6 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.54%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (26.15%) Degree
2 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.54%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.54%) MCSA
3 1 (1.54%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.54%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (9.23%) Docker
2 5 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (3.08%) Kibana
1 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.54%) Ansible
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.54%) Puppet
2 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (50.77%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.23%) Oracle
3 5 (7.69%) VMware
4 3 (4.62%) Veeam
5 2 (3.08%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.54%) Google
6 1 (1.54%) Sophos