SQL Server Jobs in Wales

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 55 35
Rank change year-on-year +14 -20 -11
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 91 82 125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 4.52% 4.93% 6.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.89% 24.33% 32.38%
Number of salaries quoted 83 63 107
10th Percentile £35,195 £32,531 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £43,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -4.44% +29.75%
75th Percentile £65,000 £51,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £74,750 £62,750 £55,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% +5.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 Wales with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 315 337 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 15.63% 20.25% 20.38%
Number of salaries quoted 177 193 264
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £36,115
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% +14.46%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,775 £59,063
90th Percentile £71,723 £77,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Wales

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Wales

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Wales

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

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Wales

SQL Server
Job Locations in 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 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
South Wales +12 65 £50,000 +14.94% 9
West Wales +1 15 £46,750 +21.43% 3
North Wales +18 10 £42,500 +25.37% 2
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (3.30%) Umbraco
2 2 (2.20%) Apache
2 2 (2.20%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.20%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.20%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.10%) IIS
3 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (67.03%) Azure
2 13 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 11 (12.09%) AWS
3 11 (12.09%) SaaS
4 9 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (6.59%) PaaS
7 5 (5.49%) WhatsApp
8 4 (4.40%) iPaaS
9 3 (3.30%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.30%) GCP
10 2 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.20%) IaaS
11 1 (1.10%) Cloudflare
11 1 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.10%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.49%) DNS
1 5 (5.49%) Firewall
2 3 (3.30%) DHCP
3 2 (2.20%) SSL
3 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.10%) Broadband
4 1 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.38%) RDBMS
1 14 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 12 (13.19%) MySQL
2 12 (13.19%) Power BI
3 11 (12.09%) MongoDB
3 11 (12.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (9.89%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (8.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (6.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (5.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (3.30%) Big Data
8 3 (3.30%) Power Query
8 3 (3.30%) Tableau
9 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.20%) Redis
10 1 (1.10%) CouchDB
10 1 (1.10%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (1.10%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (4.40%) JIRA
1 4 (4.40%) Selenium
2 3 (3.30%) Git
2 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (3.30%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.20%) DBeaver
3 2 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.20%) NUnit
3 2 (2.20%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.10%) GitKraken
4 1 (1.10%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (1.10%) JMeter
4 1 (1.10%) ReSharper
General
1 28 (30.77%) Finance
2 14 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.09%) Local Government
4 10 (10.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (10.99%) Police
5 8 (8.79%) Banking
6 7 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (6.59%) Welsh Language
8 5 (5.49%) Games
8 5 (5.49%) Marketing
9 4 (4.40%) Telecoms
10 3 (3.30%) Advertising
10 3 (3.30%) Public Sector
11 2 (2.20%) Retail
12 1 (1.10%) Legal
Job Titles
1 45 (49.45%) Developer
2 16 (17.58%) .NET Developer
3 13 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 12 (13.19%) Analyst
4 12 (13.19%) C# .NET Developer
5 9 (9.89%) DBA
5 9 (9.89%) Lead
6 8 (8.79%) Senior
7 7 (7.69%) Consultant
7 7 (7.69%) Lead Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Database Analyst
8 6 (6.59%) ICT Analyst
8 6 (6.59%) Integration Developer
8 6 (6.59%) SQL DBA
9 5 (5.49%) Administrator
9 5 (5.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Games Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Applications Specialist
10 4 (4.40%) Database Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (43.96%) .NET
2 28 (30.77%) ASP.NET
3 25 (27.47%) .NET Core
4 24 (26.37%) HTML
5 19 (20.88%) CSS
6 17 (18.68%) ASP.NET MVC
7 16 (17.58%) AngularJS
8 13 (14.29%) React
9 11 (12.09%) HTML5
10 10 (10.99%) ASP.NET Web API
10 10 (10.99%) Entity Framework
10 10 (10.99%) RESTful
11 8 (8.79%) Blazor
12 7 (7.69%) .NET Framework
13 6 (6.59%) CSS3
13 6 (6.59%) Node.js
13 6 (6.59%) Vue
14 5 (5.49%) LINQ
15 3 (3.30%) SOAP
15 3 (3.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (6.59%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.49%) Replication
5 4 (4.40%) Clustering
5 4 (4.40%) Housing Association
5 4 (4.40%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.40%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.10%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.10%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.09%) Windows
2 8 (8.79%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.49%) Linux
4 3 (3.30%) VMS
5 2 (2.20%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.20%) Unix
6 1 (1.10%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (35.16%) Agile
2 20 (21.98%) MVC
2 20 (21.98%) Performance Tuning
3 16 (17.58%) Full Stack Development
4 15 (16.48%) Mentoring
4 15 (16.48%) TDD
5 13 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (14.29%) DevOps
5 13 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (13.19%) ETL
7 11 (12.09%) Microservices
7 11 (12.09%) Scrum
8 10 (10.99%) Capacity Planning
9 9 (9.89%) BDD
9 9 (9.89%) Clean Code
9 9 (9.89%) Software Architecture
10 8 (8.79%) ITIL
10 8 (8.79%) SOLID
11 7 (7.69%) CI/CD
11 7 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (56.04%) SQL
2 47 (51.65%) C#
3 33 (36.26%) JavaScript
4 8 (8.79%) TypeScript
5 7 (7.69%) Java
6 6 (6.59%) T-SQL
7 5 (5.49%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.20%) C++
9 1 (1.10%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (23.08%) Degree
2 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.10%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.10%) MCSA
4 1 (1.10%) MCSE
4 1 (1.10%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.58%) QA
2 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.10%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (6.59%) Docker
2 5 (5.49%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (3.30%) Perfmon
2 2 (2.20%) Kibana
2 2 (2.20%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.10%) Ansible
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.10%) Puppet
3 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.59%) Oracle
3 5 (5.49%) VMware
4 3 (3.30%) Veeam
5 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.10%) Google
6 1 (1.10%) Sophos