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 6 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 25 27 44
Rank change year-on-year +2 +17 -25
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 102 147 104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 9.17% 9.06% 6.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 37.50% 39.73% 25.24%
Number of salaries quoted 52 119 76
10th Percentile £31,400 £31,642 £32,873
25th Percentile £41,566 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +20.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £59,375 £50,000
90th Percentile £72,433 £62,500 £55,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -

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 272 370 412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 24.46% 22.80% 25.81%
Number of salaries quoted 143 266 237
10th Percentile £23,750 £31,673 £32,898
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,688 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +7.78% -
75th Percentile £65,384 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,487 £70,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £58,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% +6.36%

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 6 December 2023.

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 6 December 2023. 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 +3 95 £52,500 +16.67% 21
West Wales -15 6 £32,500 -35.00% 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 24 (23.53%) IIS
2 23 (22.55%) WebLogic
3 8 (7.84%) Confluence
3 8 (7.84%) Tomcat
3 8 (7.84%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.98%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.98%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.96%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 51 (50.00%) Azure
2 18 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
2 18 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 13 (12.75%) AWS
3 13 (12.75%) SaaS
4 8 (7.84%) GCP
5 7 (6.86%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.98%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.98%) IaaS
7 1 (0.98%) PaaS
7 1 (0.98%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.84%) DNS
1 8 (7.84%) SSL
1 8 (7.84%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.98%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (23.53%) Elasticsearch
2 18 (17.65%) Power BI
3 12 (11.76%) MySQL
4 9 (8.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (8.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (7.84%) Redis
6 7 (6.86%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (5.88%) RDBMS
7 6 (5.88%) Relational Database
8 5 (4.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (4.90%) Tableau
9 3 (2.94%) Power Query
10 1 (0.98%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.98%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (38.24%) JIRA
2 23 (22.55%) GitLab
2 23 (22.55%) Sonatype Nexus
3 17 (16.67%) Git
4 14 (13.73%) Visual Studio Code
5 7 (6.86%) MSBuild
5 7 (6.86%) Visual Studio
6 4 (3.92%) Selenium
7 1 (0.98%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 44 (43.14%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.73%) Finance
4 8 (7.84%) Banking
5 4 (3.92%) Law
5 4 (3.92%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.94%) Advertising
6 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.94%) Legal
6 3 (2.94%) Local Government
6 3 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.94%) Police
Job Titles
1 45 (44.12%) Analyst
2 40 (39.22%) Support Analyst
3 39 (38.24%) Applications Support
3 39 (38.24%) Applications Support Analyst
4 19 (18.63%) Developer
5 14 (13.73%) Senior
6 11 (10.78%) Full Stack Developer
7 9 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (8.82%) Support Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) .NET Software Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.86%) Senior Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Senior Full Stack Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Software Developer
12 4 (3.92%) C# Developer
12 4 (3.92%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 4 (3.92%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (58.82%) .NET
2 27 (26.47%) ASP.NET
3 23 (22.55%) J2EE
3 23 (22.55%) Java EE
3 23 (22.55%) Spring
4 19 (18.63%) CSS
4 19 (18.63%) HTML
5 16 (15.69%) ASP.NET MVC
6 12 (11.76%) .NET Framework
6 12 (11.76%) Blazor
7 9 (8.82%) RESTful
8 7 (6.86%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.92%) .NET Core
9 4 (3.92%) React
9 4 (3.92%) Vue
10 3 (2.94%) ASP.NET Core
10 3 (2.94%) CSS3
10 3 (2.94%) HTML5
11 2 (1.96%) WSH
12 1 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.82%) Public Cloud
2 5 (4.90%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.92%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.94%) Clustering
4 3 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.94%) Replication
5 1 (0.98%) CCTV
5 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.98%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 32 (31.37%) Unix
2 30 (29.41%) Windows
3 23 (22.55%) Android
4 10 (9.80%) Linux
5 3 (2.94%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.98%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (48.04%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (40.20%) Actionable Insight
3 32 (31.37%) ITIL
4 27 (26.47%) Customer Service
4 27 (26.47%) DevOps
5 26 (25.49%) Containerisation
5 26 (25.49%) Mentoring
6 23 (22.55%) Agile
6 23 (22.55%) Enterprise Architecture
6 23 (22.55%) Impact Assessments
6 23 (22.55%) Incident Management
6 23 (22.55%) Information Management
6 23 (22.55%) Systems Analysis
7 19 (18.63%) MVC
8 15 (14.71%) Service Delivery
9 14 (13.73%) Client Onboarding
10 12 (11.76%) Service Management
11 11 (10.78%) Full Stack Development
11 11 (10.78%) Scrum
12 10 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 63 (61.76%) C#
2 40 (39.22%) SQL
3 28 (27.45%) Java
3 28 (27.45%) PowerShell
4 13 (12.75%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.94%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.96%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.96%) VBScript
7 1 (0.98%) C
7 1 (0.98%) C++
7 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (28.43%) SC Cleared
1 29 (28.43%) Security Cleared
2 20 (19.61%) Degree
3 11 (10.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.92%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.92%) MCSA
5 4 (3.92%) MCSE
6 3 (2.94%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.98%) MCDBA
7 1 (0.98%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (34.31%) SLA
2 5 (4.90%) QA
3 2 (1.96%) GDPR
4 1 (0.98%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 13 (12.75%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.92%) Docker
3 3 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (22.55%) AirWatch
1 23 (22.55%) OpenSSO
1 23 (22.55%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.98%) Ansible
2 1 (0.98%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (0.98%) Puppet
2 1 (0.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (53.92%) Microsoft
2 25 (24.51%) Oracle
3 8 (7.84%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.94%) VMware
5 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.98%) Veeam
5 1 (0.98%) Xamarin