SQL Jobs in Wales

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -20 +2 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 51 213 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 4.81% 10.45% 13.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.17% 37.70% 35.15%
Number of salaries quoted 47 156 154
10th Percentile £36,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £46,368 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £78,750 £52,500 £52,868
90th Percentile £80,250 £65,000 £66,449
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,098
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.93% +7.45%

All Programming Languages
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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 211 565 623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 19.89% 27.71% 37.71%
Number of salaries quoted 181 428 303
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £74,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Wales

SQL
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for SQL in Wales

SQL
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Wales over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL in Wales

SQL
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 within the Wales region over the 6 months to 15 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
South Wales -26 27 £61,250 +36.11% 67
West Wales -9 5 £50,124 +11.39% 3
North Wales -4 2 £40,101 +0.25% 2
SQL
UK

SQL
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 6 (11.76%) Confluence
2 3 (5.88%) Apache
3 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.96%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.96%) IIS
4 1 (1.96%) SAS
4 1 (1.96%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (70.59%) Azure
2 13 (25.49%) AWS
3 7 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (13.73%) GitHub
4 6 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 5 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.96%) GCP
7 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (31.37%) Network Security
2 4 (7.84%) Modbus
2 4 (7.84%) MQTT
2 4 (7.84%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (43.14%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (31.37%) RDBMS
2 16 (31.37%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.80%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.84%) Power BI
4 4 (7.84%) Redis
5 2 (3.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.92%) Big Data
5 2 (3.92%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (3.92%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.92%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.92%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (3.92%) Looker
5 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.96%) Metadata
6 1 (1.96%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (21.57%) Git
2 7 (13.73%) JIRA
3 4 (7.84%) JMeter
3 4 (7.84%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.96%) Appium
4 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.96%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.96%) Eclipse RCP
4 1 (1.96%) Maven
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.96%) Postman
4 1 (1.96%) Selenium
4 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 27 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.76%) Finance
4 4 (7.84%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (7.84%) Retail
5 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (41.18%) Developer
2 14 (27.45%) Lead
3 13 (25.49%) Software Engineer
4 12 (23.53%) Senior
5 11 (21.57%) Lead Software Engineer
6 10 (19.61%) Senior Developer
7 8 (15.69%) Software Team Leader
7 8 (15.69%) Team Leader
8 6 (11.76%) Analyst
9 4 (7.84%) Backend Developer
9 4 (7.84%) Junior
9 4 (7.84%) Senior Backend Developer
9 4 (7.84%) Software Developer
10 3 (5.88%) Junior Developer
10 3 (5.88%) Performance Engineer
10 3 (5.88%) Performance Test Engineer
10 3 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (5.88%) Test Engineer
11 2 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
11 2 (3.92%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (39.22%) .NET
2 7 (13.73%) RESTful
3 6 (11.76%) CSS
3 6 (11.76%) HTML
4 4 (7.84%) Django
4 4 (7.84%) FastAPI
4 4 (7.84%) Flask
4 4 (7.84%) GraphQL
4 4 (7.84%) Keycloak
4 4 (7.84%) OAuth
4 4 (7.84%) pytest
4 4 (7.84%) SQLAlchemy
4 4 (7.84%) Symfony
4 4 (7.84%) Web Services
4 4 (7.84%) WebSockets
5 3 (5.88%) SOAP
6 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.92%) Lambda Expressions
6 2 (3.92%) Node.js
6 2 (3.92%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.53%) IoT
2 5 (9.80%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.84%) Device Driver
3 4 (7.84%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.96%) Blog
6 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.96%) PMI
6 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (39.22%) Linux
1 20 (39.22%) Windows
2 19 (37.25%) Unix
3 2 (3.92%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.96%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (60.78%) Agile
2 22 (43.14%) CI/CD
2 22 (43.14%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (31.37%) Mentoring
4 16 (31.37%) Web Development
5 13 (25.49%) Product Strategy
5 13 (25.49%) Software Engineering
6 12 (23.53%) Technical Debt
6 12 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
7 11 (21.57%) DevOps
8 8 (15.69%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (15.69%) Customer Service
9 6 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
9 6 (11.76%) Scrum
10 5 (9.80%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (9.80%) Data Analysis
10 5 (9.80%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 17 (33.33%) C#
2 14 (27.45%) Python
3 6 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.84%) C
4 4 (7.84%) C++
4 4 (7.84%) PHP
4 4 (7.84%) TypeScript
5 3 (5.88%) Groovy
5 3 (5.88%) R
6 2 (3.92%) Java
6 2 (3.92%) VBA
7 1 (1.96%) Ada
7 1 (1.96%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.96%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (13.73%) Degree
2 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 5 (9.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.92%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.96%) CSQA
5 1 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.96%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) QA
2 3 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (17.65%) Docker
2 4 (7.84%) Firmware
3 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (13.73%) Grafana
1 7 (13.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.84%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.92%) Terraform
4 1 (1.96%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (21.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.92%) Atlassian
2 2 (3.92%) Facebook
3 1 (1.96%) Amplitude
3 1 (1.96%) Databricks
3 1 (1.96%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.96%) JDA
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle
3 1 (1.96%) Pega
3 1 (1.96%) RedPrairie
3 1 (1.96%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.96%) VMware