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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -25 +5 -9
Permanent jobs citing SQL 28 147 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 3.66% 10.05% 11.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.37% 35.25% 31.79%
Number of salaries quoted 25 93 78
10th Percentile £31,550 £31,750 £34,538
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £44,875
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% +0.28% -0.28%
75th Percentile £71,000 £52,936 £57,823
90th Percentile £82,500 £66,250 £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 131 417 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 17.15% 28.50% 34.61%
Number of salaries quoted 117 305 202
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,195 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,101 £50,119
Median % change year-on-year +15.16% +3.95% +0.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £64,813
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £77,375
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +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 12 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 12 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 -5 14 £57,500 +21.05% 37
Monmouthshire - 5 £65,000 -
Bridgend +11 3 £37,500 +2.81% 2
Newport -23 3 £69,000 +53.33% 7
Gwent +3 2 £51,500 +49.28% 1
Glamorgan 0 1 £68,500 - 30
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 7 (25.00%) Confluence
2 2 (7.14%) Apache
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.57%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (3.57%) IIS
3 1 (3.57%) SAS
3 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (28.57%) GitHub
3 6 (21.43%) AWS
3 6 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.57%) GCP
6 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (17.86%) Redis
3 3 (10.71%) Power BI
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (7.14%) Big Data
4 2 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 2 (7.14%) Data Mining
4 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.14%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (7.14%) Looker
4 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.57%) Metadata
5 1 (3.57%) Mixpanel
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Git
2 7 (25.00%) JIRA
3 5 (17.86%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (17.86%) Finance
4 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Retail
6 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Developer
2 10 (35.71%) Senior
3 9 (32.14%) Senior Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Backend Developer
4 5 (17.86%) Senior Backend Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Analyst
6 3 (10.71%) Junior
6 3 (10.71%) Junior Developer
6 3 (10.71%) Lead
7 2 (7.14%) Business Systems Analyst
7 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (7.14%) Systems Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) Data Manager
8 1 (3.57%) Data Scientist
8 1 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.57%) IT Support
8 1 (3.57%) Pricing Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) Product Analyst
8 1 (3.57%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 1 (3.57%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) RESTful
2 5 (17.86%) CSS
2 5 (17.86%) Django
2 5 (17.86%) FastAPI
2 5 (17.86%) Flask
2 5 (17.86%) GraphQL
2 5 (17.86%) HTML
2 5 (17.86%) Keycloak
2 5 (17.86%) OAuth
2 5 (17.86%) pytest
2 5 (17.86%) SQLAlchemy
2 5 (17.86%) WebSockets
3 4 (14.29%) .NET
4 3 (10.71%) SOAP
4 3 (10.71%) Web Services
5 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.14%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (7.14%) Node.js
5 2 (7.14%) React
5 2 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Onboarding
2 4 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.57%) Blog
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
2 9 (32.14%) Agile
3 8 (28.57%) DevOps
4 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (21.43%) Scrum
5 5 (17.86%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (17.86%) Data Engineering
5 5 (17.86%) Front End Development
6 4 (14.29%) Customer Service
6 4 (14.29%) Data Analysis
6 4 (14.29%) Data Management
6 4 (14.29%) Data Science
6 4 (14.29%) OOP
7 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
7 3 (10.71%) CRM
7 3 (10.71%) Data Governance
7 3 (10.71%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
3 3 (10.71%) C#
3 3 (10.71%) R
4 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.14%) VBA
5 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (17.86%) Degree
3 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.57%) CSQA
4 1 (3.57%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Accessibility
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 5 (17.86%) Grafana
2 5 (17.86%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.14%) Terraform
4 1 (3.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 2 (7.14%) Facebook
3 1 (3.57%) Amplitude
3 1 (3.57%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Guidewire
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) Pega
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.57%) VMware