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 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 53 57
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 -26
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 14 31 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.86% 2.41% 4.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.88% 17.03% 22.36%
Number of salaries quoted 14 26 23
10th Percentile £49,000 £38,125 £32,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £59,375 £57,500
90th Percentile £61,750 £60,625 £63,250
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £44,500
% change year-on-year +22.22% +1.12% -1.11%

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 64 182 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 3.93% 14.17% 20.41%
Number of salaries quoted 56 88 104
10th Percentile £45,625 £31,250 £37,608
25th Percentile £52,500 £36,361 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -26.23% +22.00%
75th Percentile £68,531 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £65,766 £76,750
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -10.00% -

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 10 August 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 10 August 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
Bridgend +43 11 £55,000 +50.79%
Cardiff +6 2 £62,500 +38.89% 7
Glamorgan -17 1 £24,205 - 8
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 5 (35.71%) BizTalk Server
1 5 (35.71%) IIS
2 3 (21.43%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) Azure
2 11 (78.57%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) GitHub
3 5 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (7.14%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Octopus Deploy
1 10 (71.43%) TeamCity
2 5 (35.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (21.43%) Git
4 2 (14.29%) Artifactory
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Administrator
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) IT Administrator
2 1 (7.14%) IT Support
2 1 (7.14%) IT Systems Administrator
2 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Software Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (7.14%) Systems Support
2 1 (7.14%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (85.71%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.14%) MSMQ
2 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Hybrid Cloud
1 6 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Virtual Team
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 11 (78.57%) DevOps
3 10 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (71.43%) Software Delivery
4 6 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (28.57%) CRM
5 4 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Static Application Security Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Change Control
7 2 (14.29%) Change Management
7 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (14.29%) Server Management
7 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 9 (64.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) VB.NET
3 1 (7.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Terraform
2 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
3 4 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Pega
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
3 3 (21.43%) Guidewire
3 3 (21.43%) Salesforce