SQL Jobs in South Wales

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -29 +7 -13
Permanent jobs citing SQL 23 146 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 2.41% 9.26% 10.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.25% 34.60% 30.17%
Number of salaries quoted 21 90 82
10th Percentile £46,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £40,000 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,802 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.92% +1.78% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £52,422 £61,188
90th Percentile £82,500 £61,250 £67,500
Wales median annual salary £65,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +44.44% +12.50% -11.11%

All Programming Languages
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 126 422 411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 13.18% 26.78% 35.37%
Number of salaries quoted 111 307 206
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,117 £34,313
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £38,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £52,101 £51,302
Median % change year-on-year +19.00% +1.56% -2.28%
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £67,393
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,000 £77,500
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% +11.11% -10.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in South Wales

SQL
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for SQL in South Wales

SQL
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in South Wales over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in South Wales

SQL
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 within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 31 May 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 -6 12 £58,750 +23.68% 44
Newport -29 3 £69,000 +53.33% 1
Monmouthshire - 3 £65,000 -
Glamorgan -1 2 £65,500 - 32
Bridgend +12 1 £50,000 +37.08% 1
Gwent +4 1 £69,000 +100.00% 3
Neath Port Talbot +2 1 £60,000 +135.29% 1
SQL
Wales

SQL
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 (21.74%) Confluence
2 2 (8.70%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (4.35%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.35%) IIS
3 1 (4.35%) SAS
3 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) GitHub
4 5 (21.74%) AWS
4 5 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.35%) GCP
7 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (13.04%) Power BI
1 3 (13.04%) Redis
2 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.70%) Big Data
2 2 (8.70%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.70%) Data Mining
2 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (4.35%) Looker
3 1 (4.35%) Metadata
3 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Git
2 5 (21.74%) JIRA
3 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Senior
2 7 (30.43%) Senior Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Lead
4 3 (13.04%) Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Backend Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Backend Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Business Systems Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Junior
5 2 (8.70%) Junior Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Agile Scrum Master
6 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Pricing Data Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) .NET
1 3 (13.04%) Django
1 3 (13.04%) FastAPI
1 3 (13.04%) Flask
1 3 (13.04%) GraphQL
1 3 (13.04%) Keycloak
1 3 (13.04%) OAuth
1 3 (13.04%) pytest
1 3 (13.04%) RESTful
1 3 (13.04%) SQLAlchemy
1 3 (13.04%) WebSockets
2 2 (8.70%) CSS
2 2 (8.70%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.35%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) React
3 1 (4.35%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) Spring
3 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Data Structures
2 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
3 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.35%) Blog
4 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.35%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
2 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (30.43%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Agile
4 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
4 5 (21.74%) Data Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (17.39%) Coaching
5 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
5 4 (17.39%) Data Analysis
5 4 (17.39%) Data Management
5 4 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (17.39%) Data Science
5 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
5 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (17.39%) Scrum
6 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (13.04%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (13.04%) Data Governance
6 3 (13.04%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Python
2 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
2 3 (13.04%) R
3 2 (8.70%) C#
3 2 (8.70%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) VBA
4 1 (4.35%) C
4 1 (4.35%) C++
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) CSQA
5 1 (4.35%) DBS Check
5 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Docker
2 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (13.04%) Grafana
2 3 (13.04%) Prometheus
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Atlassian
2 2 (8.70%) Facebook
2 2 (8.70%) Pega
2 2 (8.70%) VMware
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Guidewire
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce