SQL Server Jobs in South Wales

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 24 26
Rank change year-on-year -20 +2 +19
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 26 87 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 3.82% 10.05% 9.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.57% 39.01% 41.78%
Number of salaries quoted 16 47 80
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,239 £31,642
25th Percentile £41,098 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £52,500 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +19.32% -2.22%
75th Percentile £73,448 £68,750 £54,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,960 £62,515
Wales median annual salary £47,500 £51,051 £45,000
% change year-on-year -6.95% +13.45% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South Wales

SQL Server falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 140 223 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 20.59% 25.75% 22.55%
Number of salaries quoted 98 94 175
10th Percentile £23,750 £38,250 £31,642
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,344 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.54% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,438 £63,202
90th Percentile £73,295 £73,525 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £47,307 £47,500 £48,443
% change year-on-year -0.41% -1.95% -3.11%

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 16 January 2025.

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 16 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff -20 16 £55,000 +2.33%
Glamorgan +2 6 - -
Bridgend +12 2 £36,250 -42.00%
Newport -12 1 £52,500 +0.77%
Gwent - 1 £72,931 -
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 4 (15.38%) Umbraco
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.85%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
Cloud Services
1 19 (73.08%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) Power Platform
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (11.54%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (7.69%) PaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Power Automate
4 2 (7.69%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.85%) Azure API Management
5 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.85%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) LAN
1 1 (3.85%) VLAN
1 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 6 (23.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (19.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (11.54%) Data Lake
3 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.69%) Star Schema
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.85%) Power BI
5 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.69%) Electronics
5 1 (3.85%) Games
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) .NET Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Junior
2 7 (26.92%) Junior Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Senior .NET Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Administrator
4 3 (11.54%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (11.54%) Junior Front-End Developer (Junior Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (11.54%) Mid Level Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Junior .NET Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Software Manager
6 1 (3.85%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (69.23%) .NET
2 12 (46.15%) ASP.NET
3 9 (34.62%) HTML
4 8 (30.77%) CSS
5 6 (23.08%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (19.23%) AngularJS
6 5 (19.23%) React
7 4 (15.38%) .NET Framework
7 4 (15.38%) RESTful
8 3 (11.54%) .NET Core
8 3 (11.54%) Ajax
8 3 (11.54%) HTML5
8 3 (11.54%) jQuery
8 3 (11.54%) REST
8 3 (11.54%) Sass
8 3 (11.54%) SOAP
8 3 (11.54%) Web Services
9 2 (7.69%) Bootstrap
9 2 (7.69%) CSS3
9 2 (7.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Unix
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
1 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Agile
2 8 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (30.77%) MVC
3 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (23.08%) Design Patterns
3 6 (23.08%) OO
4 5 (19.23%) Web Development
5 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (15.38%) Data Analysis
5 4 (15.38%) ERP
5 4 (15.38%) Mobile Development
5 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (15.38%) Project Management
5 4 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 4 (15.38%) Web Design
6 3 (11.54%) CRM
6 3 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (11.54%) E-Commerce
6 3 (11.54%) OOP
6 3 (11.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (69.23%) C#
2 16 (61.54%) SQL
3 12 (46.15%) JavaScript
4 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.69%) C
5 2 (7.69%) C++
5 2 (7.69%) Python
5 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) ISO 13485
1 2 (7.69%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Ansible
1 1 (3.85%) Data Guard
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Epicor
3 2 (7.69%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) SAP