SQL Job Trends in Wales

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 27 10
Rank change year-on-year +14 -17 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 192 46 132
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 7.22% 5.77% 8.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 46.38% 31.94% 33.00%
Number of salaries quoted 75 41 94
10th Percentile £35,583 £42,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,125 £48,750 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +35.29% +3.66%
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £53,438
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £60,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - - -4.17%

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 414 144 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 15.57% 18.07% 24.30%
Number of salaries quoted 263 130 312
10th Percentile £35,000 £43,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,682 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,625 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Wales

SQL
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Wales over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

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 12 August 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 +10 106 £60,000 +4.35% 57
West Wales -2 77 £60,000 +19.70% 9
North Wales - 8 £45,000 - 6
Dyfed - 1 £40,000 -
Mid Wales - 1 £40,000 -
SQL
UK

SQL
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 4 (2.08%) Apache
1 4 (2.08%) Confluence
1 4 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.04%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 66 (34.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 84 (43.75%) Azure
2 51 (26.56%) AWS
3 46 (23.96%) Power Platform
4 41 (21.35%) Azure AI
5 31 (16.15%) SaaS
6 22 (11.46%) Google Ads
6 22 (11.46%) Meta Ads
7 20 (10.42%) Stripe
8 18 (9.38%) GCP
9 12 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.60%) dbt
10 5 (2.60%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.08%) IaaS
11 4 (2.08%) PaaS
12 3 (1.56%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.56%) Prefect
13 2 (1.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (1.04%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.13%) Firewall
2 2 (1.04%) Intranet
3 1 (0.52%) Network Security
3 1 (0.52%) VLAN
3 1 (0.52%) VPN
3 1 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (41.67%) Tableau
2 45 (23.44%) Power BI
3 20 (10.42%) Metabase
4 19 (9.90%) MongoDB
5 17 (8.85%) Data Mining
6 16 (8.33%) Amazon QuickSight
6 16 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (4.69%) SQL Server
8 8 (4.17%) MySQL
9 6 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (3.13%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.60%) Data Lake
10 5 (2.60%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.08%) Ataccama
11 4 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (2.08%) IBM InfoSphere
11 4 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (2.08%) TIBCO EBX
12 3 (1.56%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.56%) Looker
Development Applications
1 12 (6.25%) Git
2 6 (3.13%) JIRA
3 4 (2.08%) Selenium
4 3 (1.56%) Bugzilla
4 3 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.56%) Postman
5 2 (1.04%) Bower
6 1 (0.52%) Gradle
6 1 (0.52%) JMeter
6 1 (0.52%) Maven
6 1 (0.52%) Moq
6 1 (0.52%) MSTest
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (34.90%) Finance
2 60 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 52 (27.08%) Marketing
4 33 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (10.94%) Retail
6 20 (10.42%) Legal
7 16 (8.33%) Back Office
8 9 (4.69%) Public Sector
9 7 (3.65%) Games
10 6 (3.13%) Welsh Language
11 4 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.52%) Automotive
13 1 (0.52%) Aviation
13 1 (0.52%) Banking
13 1 (0.52%) Electronics
13 1 (0.52%) Law
13 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (26.56%) Senior
2 44 (22.92%) Analyst
3 41 (21.35%) Junior
4 37 (19.27%) Data Analyst
5 36 (18.75%) Junior Analyst
5 36 (18.75%) Junior Data Analyst
6 22 (11.46%) Developer
6 22 (11.46%) Lead
7 16 (8.33%) Head of Business Intelligence
8 15 (7.81%) .NET Developer
9 14 (7.29%) Data Engineer
10 12 (6.25%) Technical Leader
11 9 (4.69%) Senior Data Engineer
12 6 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.13%) Marketing Manager
12 6 (3.13%) Product Manager
12 6 (3.13%) Product Marketing Manager
12 6 (3.13%) Senior Marketing Manager
12 6 (3.13%) Senior Product Manager
12 6 (3.13%) Senior Product Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.38%) RESTful
2 16 (8.33%) .NET
3 15 (7.81%) .NET Core
3 15 (7.81%) ASP.NET
3 15 (7.81%) ASP.NET Core
4 12 (6.25%) React
4 12 (6.25%) REST
5 10 (5.21%) ASP.NET Web API
6 9 (4.69%) Blazor
7 8 (4.17%) Vue
8 7 (3.65%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.65%) Entity Framework
8 7 (3.65%) Node.js
9 6 (3.13%) CSS
9 6 (3.13%) HTML
9 6 (3.13%) LINQ
10 5 (2.60%) .NET Framework
10 5 (2.60%) ML.NET
10 5 (2.60%) PyTorch
10 5 (2.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 67 (34.90%) Onboarding
2 9 (4.69%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.08%) Reference Data
4 3 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (1.56%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.56%) Replication
5 2 (1.04%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.04%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.04%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (0.52%) Acoustics
6 1 (0.52%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.52%) FMCG
6 1 (0.52%) iSeries
6 1 (0.52%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.29%) Linux
2 8 (4.17%) Unix
3 3 (1.56%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.56%) Windows
4 2 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (46.35%) Business Intelligence
2 78 (40.63%) AI
3 66 (34.38%) Data Analysis
4 64 (33.33%) E-Commerce
5 62 (32.29%) Actionable Insight
6 57 (29.69%) Mentoring
7 46 (23.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 44 (22.92%) Stakeholder Management
9 36 (18.75%) Analytics
10 34 (17.71%) CI/CD
11 31 (16.15%) Agile
11 31 (16.15%) DevOps
11 31 (16.15%) Test Automation
12 30 (15.63%) Machine Learning
13 28 (14.58%) B2B
13 28 (14.58%) Customer Segmentation
13 28 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (13.02%) Mathematics
15 24 (12.50%) Decision-Making
15 24 (12.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 105 (54.69%) Python
2 19 (9.90%) C#
3 15 (7.81%) Java
4 14 (7.29%) JavaScript
5 7 (3.65%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.56%) Bash
6 3 (1.56%) PHP
7 2 (1.04%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.52%) C++
8 1 (0.52%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.52%) XAML
Qualifications
1 36 (18.75%) Azure Certification
2 9 (4.69%) SC Cleared
2 9 (4.69%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.60%) Degree
4 4 (2.08%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.04%) HNC
5 2 (1.04%) HND
5 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.94%) GDPR
2 20 (10.42%) Actionable Recommendations
2 20 (10.42%) PCI DSS
3 10 (5.21%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.60%) QA
5 4 (2.08%) SLA
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (11.46%) Docker
2 3 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (10.94%) Terraform
2 8 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 93 (48.44%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.98%) Google
3 12 (6.25%) Informatica
4 6 (3.13%) Databricks
5 5 (2.60%) IBM
5 5 (2.60%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.08%) TIBCO
7 3 (1.56%) Cisco
7 3 (1.56%) Synology
7 3 (1.56%) Veeam
7 3 (1.56%) VMware
8 2 (1.04%) Meraki
8 2 (1.04%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.52%) Infor
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle