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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 15 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 164 237 326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 8.50% 13.86% 16.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.24% 39.90% 40.20%
Number of salaries quoted 111 167 237
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,441
25th Percentile £34,500 £31,785 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +24.44%
75th Percentile £52,718 £56,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £63,750
UK median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +6.19% +7.62%

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 479 594 811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 24.83% 34.74% 41.40%
Number of salaries quoted 354 319 559
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -13.33% +23.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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 +6 113 £46,604 -2.91% 19
West Wales -4 35 £40,808 +5.99% 4
North Wales +8 11 £40,000 - 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 27 (16.46%) WebLogic
2 24 (14.63%) Oracle Service Bus
3 8 (4.88%) SharePoint
4 6 (3.66%) Confluence
5 3 (1.83%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.83%) SAS
6 2 (1.22%) Apache
6 2 (1.22%) Apache Spark
6 2 (1.22%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.61%) CMS
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.61%) Umbraco
Applications
1 38 (23.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (18.90%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (14.63%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 24 (14.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.61%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 58 (35.37%) Azure
2 24 (14.63%) AWS
3 18 (10.98%) Power Platform
4 14 (8.54%) GCP
5 8 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (3.66%) PowerApps
7 5 (3.05%) SaaS
8 4 (2.44%) GitHub
8 4 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.44%) WhatsApp
9 2 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (1.22%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (1.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.22%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.22%) dbt
9 2 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.22%) iPaaS
9 2 (1.22%) PaaS
9 2 (1.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.44%) Firewall
2 3 (1.83%) Bluetooth
2 3 (1.83%) HTTP
2 3 (1.83%) Internet
2 3 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.22%) DSL
4 1 (0.61%) Broadband
4 1 (0.61%) DHCP
4 1 (0.61%) DNS
4 1 (0.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (24.39%) Oracle Database
1 40 (24.39%) SQL Server
2 26 (15.85%) Oracle Database 11g
3 24 (14.63%) Oracle Database 10g
3 24 (14.63%) VLDB
4 17 (10.37%) Power BI
5 16 (9.76%) Relational Database
6 14 (8.54%) Oracle Database 12c
6 14 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (6.71%) RDBMS
8 9 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (4.27%) MySQL
10 5 (3.05%) Big Data
10 5 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (3.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (3.05%) Tableau
11 4 (2.44%) MongoDB
11 4 (2.44%) QlikView
12 3 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.83%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 24 (14.63%) Git
2 13 (7.93%) Selenium
3 11 (6.71%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.10%) Oracle APEX
5 9 (5.49%) JIRA
6 5 (3.05%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (1.83%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (1.83%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (1.83%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (1.22%) DBeaver
8 2 (1.22%) GitKraken
8 2 (1.22%) JetBrains Rider
8 2 (1.22%) NUnit
8 2 (1.22%) Postman
8 2 (1.22%) ReSharper
8 2 (1.22%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.61%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.61%) JMeter
9 1 (0.61%) Visual LANSA
General
1 40 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
2 36 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 25 (15.24%) Finance
4 9 (5.49%) Games
4 9 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.66%) Local Government
5 6 (3.66%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.05%) Police
6 5 (3.05%) Welsh Language
7 3 (1.83%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.22%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.22%) Retail
9 1 (0.61%) Marketing
9 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (45.73%) Developer
2 45 (27.44%) Analyst
3 30 (18.29%) SQL Analyst
4 27 (16.46%) Support Analyst
5 26 (15.85%) SQL Support Analyst
6 25 (15.24%) Applications Support
7 24 (14.63%) Applications Support Analyst
7 24 (14.63%) Oracle Analyst
7 24 (14.63%) Oracle Support Analyst
7 24 (14.63%) Senior
8 19 (11.59%) Senior Developer
8 19 (11.59%) Software Developer
9 15 (9.15%) DBA
10 14 (8.54%) C# Developer
11 13 (7.93%) C# Software Developer
12 12 (7.32%) Lead
13 11 (6.71%) Oracle Developer
14 10 (6.10%) Senior Oracle Developer
15 9 (5.49%) SQL DBA
15 9 (5.49%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (21.34%) .NET
2 20 (12.20%) React
3 18 (10.98%) RESTful
4 17 (10.37%) AngularJS
5 16 (9.76%) REST
6 14 (8.54%) Web Services
7 13 (7.93%) .NET Core
7 13 (7.93%) HTML
7 13 (7.93%) JSON
8 12 (7.32%) CSS
8 12 (7.32%) SOAP
9 11 (6.71%) Spring
9 11 (6.71%) Spring Boot
10 10 (6.10%) XML
11 9 (5.49%) .NET Framework
12 8 (4.88%) Vue
13 6 (3.66%) ASP.NET
13 6 (3.66%) HTML5
14 4 (2.44%) Entity Framework
15 3 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.49%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.27%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.44%) Clustering
5 4 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.44%) Housing Association
6 3 (1.83%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.83%) Raspberry Pi
6 3 (1.83%) Replication
7 2 (1.22%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.22%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.22%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.22%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.61%) AS400
8 1 (0.61%) IoT
8 1 (0.61%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.73%) Linux
2 29 (17.68%) Unix
3 24 (14.63%) Solaris
4 22 (13.41%) Windows
5 10 (6.10%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.83%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.61%) Android
7 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.61%) VMS
7 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (21.34%) Performance Tuning
2 33 (20.12%) Actionable Insight
2 33 (20.12%) Capacity Planning
3 32 (19.51%) Artificial Intelligence
4 31 (18.90%) Agile
4 31 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (17.07%) Incident Management
6 24 (14.63%) Capacity Management
6 24 (14.63%) ITSM
6 24 (14.63%) Performance Monitoring
6 24 (14.63%) Release Management
7 20 (12.20%) Test Automation
8 19 (11.59%) Roadmaps
9 17 (10.37%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (10.37%) Mentoring
10 16 (9.76%) Scrum
11 15 (9.15%) Software Engineering
12 14 (8.54%) DevOps
12 14 (8.54%) Fintech
13 13 (7.93%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 53 (32.32%) C#
2 44 (26.83%) PL/SQL
3 37 (22.56%) JavaScript
4 16 (9.76%) Java
4 16 (9.76%) TypeScript
5 10 (6.10%) Python
6 7 (4.27%) PowerShell
7 6 (3.66%) C++
7 6 (3.66%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.83%) R
8 3 (1.83%) VB
9 2 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.61%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 54 (32.93%) Degree
2 34 (20.73%) SC Cleared
2 34 (20.73%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.83%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.61%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (14.63%) SLA
2 14 (8.54%) QA
3 6 (3.66%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.05%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (14.63%) Oracle RAC
2 15 (9.15%) Docker
3 5 (3.05%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (16.46%) Oracle RMAN
2 24 (14.63%) Data Guard
3 5 (3.05%) Terraform
4 3 (1.83%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 3 (1.83%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (1.83%) Perfmon
5 2 (1.22%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.61%) Grafana
6 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 58 (35.37%) Oracle
2 36 (21.95%) Microsoft
3 24 (14.63%) Remedy
3 24 (14.63%) Sun
4 7 (4.27%) VMware
5 4 (2.44%) Meraki
5 4 (2.44%) Veeam
6 3 (1.83%) Google
6 3 (1.83%) Xamarin
7 2 (1.22%) Databricks
7 2 (1.22%) IBM
7 2 (1.22%) Splunk
8 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.61%) Dell
8 1 (0.61%) HP
8 1 (0.61%) IFS
8 1 (0.61%) LANSA
8 1 (0.61%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.61%) NEC
8 1 (0.61%) Talend