SQL Server Job Trends in Wales

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 36 23
Rank change year-on-year -16 -13 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 21 41 78
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.98% 4.53% 8.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 23.33% 24.85% 39.80%
Number of salaries quoted 19 23 59
10th Percentile £36,800 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,200 £38,884 £41,783
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,307 £52,101
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% -9.20% +15.78%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £58,150 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -1.62%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 90 165 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 8.51% 18.23% 22.58%
Number of salaries quoted 54 114 144
10th Percentile £38,825 £23,750 £23,750
25th Percentile £46,745 £31,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,154 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.17% -2.83% -2.06%
75th Percentile £61,122 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £74,144 £72,433
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SQL Server relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Wales

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Wales over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

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 3 January 2026. 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 -9 19 £55,000 +13.04% 10
West Wales -1 2 £45,100 +20.27%
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (4.76%) IIS
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (80.95%) Azure
2 14 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 2 (9.52%) AWS
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.76%) Google Analytics
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) DHCP
2 1 (4.76%) NetScaler
2 1 (4.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (19.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (14.29%) Power BI
4 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (4.76%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Octopus Deploy
1 12 (57.14%) TeamCity
2 3 (14.29%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (9.52%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.76%) GitLab
4 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.76%) JUnit
4 1 (4.76%) Moq
4 1 (4.76%) Selenium
General
1 14 (66.67%) Finance
2 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Billing
4 1 (4.76%) Law
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Business Manager
5 1 (4.76%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.76%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) ICT Officer
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Insight Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Insight Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Power BI Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (76.19%) .NET
2 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (9.52%) CSS
2 2 (9.52%) HTML
2 2 (9.52%) HTML5
3 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.76%) Ajax
3 1 (4.76%) Django
3 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.76%) Flask
3 1 (4.76%) Flutter
3 1 (4.76%) jQuery
3 1 (4.76%) LINQ
3 1 (4.76%) OAuth
3 1 (4.76%) OpenID
3 1 (4.76%) pytest
3 1 (4.76%) Spring
3 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (61.90%) Legacy Systems
2 12 (57.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (52.38%) Virtual Team
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
5 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
5 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
1 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) CI/CD
1 16 (76.19%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (71.43%) DevOps
3 12 (57.14%) AI
3 12 (57.14%) Software Delivery
4 3 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (14.29%) Analytics
4 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 3 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (9.52%) Change Control
5 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
5 2 (9.52%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (9.52%) Process Improvement
5 2 (9.52%) Software Engineering
5 2 (9.52%) Visual Analytics
5 2 (9.52%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) SQL
2 12 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 3 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (9.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) Dart
5 1 (4.76%) Delphi
5 1 (4.76%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) Python
5 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.76%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
1 1 (4.76%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) Pega
3 1 (4.76%) VMware