SQL Jobs in Wales

SQL (Structured Query Language)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for SQL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 13 6 13
Rank change year-on-year -7 +7 -10
Permanent jobs citing SQL 164 274 228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.92% 17.09% 14.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 41.31% 40.96% 30.52%
Number of salaries quoted 103 212 167
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,418 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £71,216 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +4.76%

All Programming Languages
Wales

SQL is in the Programming Languages 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 coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 397 669 747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 36.12% 41.73% 46.46%
Number of salaries quoted 222 432 570
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,938 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,538 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 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 -11 114 £45,250 -9.50% 49
West Wales +6 41 £45,000 -10.00% 25
Mid Wales -6 4 £35,250 -17.06%
North Wales -4 3 £40,000 -33.33% 6
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 9 (5.49%) SAS
2 4 (2.44%) Oracle Application Server
3 3 (1.83%) CMS
3 3 (1.83%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.22%) IIS
5 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.61%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (3.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (5.49%) Hyperion Planning
2 4 (2.44%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.22%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 57 (34.76%) Azure
2 37 (22.56%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (9.76%) AWS
4 8 (4.88%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.27%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (3.05%) GCP
6 5 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.44%) SaaS
8 2 (1.22%) GitHub
8 2 (1.22%) IaaS
8 2 (1.22%) IBM Cloud
8 2 (1.22%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.22%) PaaS
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.61%) npm
9 1 (0.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.88%) DNS
2 4 (2.44%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (2.44%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.44%) WAN
3 3 (1.83%) SMS
4 2 (1.22%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.22%) LAN
4 2 (1.22%) NAS
4 2 (1.22%) SAN
4 2 (1.22%) VLAN
4 2 (1.22%) VoIP
4 2 (1.22%) VPN
4 2 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.61%) ADSL
5 1 (0.61%) Firewall
5 1 (0.61%) Intranet
5 1 (0.61%) IPv4
5 1 (0.61%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.61%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (24.39%) SQL Server
2 12 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (7.32%) Oracle Database
3 10 (6.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (5.49%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (4.88%) MySQL
5 8 (4.88%) Oracle Database 11g
5 8 (4.88%) Power BI
6 7 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (4.27%) RDBMS
6 7 (4.27%) Redis
7 6 (3.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (3.05%) Big Data
8 5 (3.05%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.44%) Oracle Database 12c
9 4 (2.44%) Tableau
10 3 (1.83%) Data Vault
10 3 (1.83%) Power Query
11 2 (1.22%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 49 (29.88%) Git
2 16 (9.76%) Team Foundation Server
2 16 (9.76%) Visual Studio Team System
3 14 (8.54%) Visual Studio Code
4 10 (6.10%) JIRA
5 8 (4.88%) Visual Studio
6 7 (4.27%) MSBuild
7 6 (3.66%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (1.83%) Selenium
9 2 (1.22%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (1.22%) Maven
10 1 (0.61%) Bower
10 1 (0.61%) DBeaver
10 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.61%) JMeter
10 1 (0.61%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.61%) MSTest
10 1 (0.61%) PVCS
10 1 (0.61%) SpecFlow
General
1 43 (26.22%) Social Skills
2 35 (21.34%) Finance
3 20 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.71%) Law
5 10 (6.10%) Banking
6 8 (4.88%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.66%) Legal
8 5 (3.05%) Advertising
8 5 (3.05%) Manufacturing
8 5 (3.05%) Marketing
9 4 (2.44%) Retail
10 3 (1.83%) Back Office
10 3 (1.83%) Local Government
10 3 (1.83%) Police
11 2 (1.22%) Automotive
11 2 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.22%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (33.54%) Senior
2 54 (32.93%) Developer
3 35 (21.34%) Analyst
4 23 (14.02%) Senior Developer
5 22 (13.41%) Support Analyst
6 18 (10.98%) Applications Support
7 16 (9.76%) Applications Support Analyst
8 12 (7.32%) Consultant
9 11 (6.71%) .NET Developer
9 11 (6.71%) Lead
9 11 (6.71%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (6.10%) Data Engineer
11 9 (5.49%) Junior
11 9 (5.49%) Junior Developer
11 9 (5.49%) Oracle Consultant
12 8 (4.88%) Lead Developer
13 7 (4.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 6 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 6 (3.66%) Senior Analyst
14 6 (3.66%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (31.10%) .NET
2 26 (15.85%) Vue
3 23 (14.02%) ASP.NET
4 21 (12.80%) jQuery
5 20 (12.20%) CSS
5 20 (12.20%) HTML
6 16 (9.76%) .NET Framework
7 15 (9.15%) AngularJS
8 12 (7.32%) RESTful
9 11 (6.71%) JSON
10 10 (6.10%) ASP.NET MVC
10 10 (6.10%) XML
11 7 (4.27%) .NET Core
11 7 (4.27%) Web Services
12 6 (3.66%) SOAP
13 5 (3.05%) Laravel
14 3 (1.83%) Razor View Engine
14 3 (1.83%) Spring
15 2 (1.22%) WSH
15 2 (1.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.88%) Management Information System
1 8 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (2.44%) Credit Risk
2 4 (2.44%) Virtual Team
3 3 (1.83%) Clustering
3 3 (1.83%) Data Centre
3 3 (1.83%) Public Cloud
3 3 (1.83%) Replication
4 2 (1.22%) iSeries
4 2 (1.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.61%) CCTV
5 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.61%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.02%) Windows
2 7 (4.27%) Linux
3 6 (3.66%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.44%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.61%) CentOS
5 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (34.15%) DevOps
2 41 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (24.39%) Mentoring
4 37 (22.56%) Actionable Insight
5 35 (21.34%) Agile
6 25 (15.24%) Computer Science
7 22 (13.41%) Analytics
8 21 (12.80%) Project Management
9 20 (12.20%) CI/CD
9 20 (12.20%) User Stories
10 18 (10.98%) Acceptance Criteria
11 17 (10.37%) Customer Service
11 17 (10.37%) Service Delivery
11 17 (10.37%) Test Automation
12 16 (9.76%) ITIL
13 15 (9.15%) ETL
13 15 (9.15%) Migration
13 15 (9.15%) Resource Management
14 14 (8.54%) Business Intelligence
14 14 (8.54%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (36.59%) C#
2 26 (15.85%) JavaScript
3 21 (12.80%) Python
4 19 (11.59%) PL/SQL
5 12 (7.32%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.71%) C++
7 8 (4.88%) PowerShell
8 6 (3.66%) Java
9 5 (3.05%) R
10 3 (1.83%) Bash
11 2 (1.22%) Groovy
11 2 (1.22%) PHP
11 2 (1.22%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.22%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.22%) VBScript
12 1 (0.61%) Perl
12 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 49 (29.88%) Degree
2 24 (14.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (9.15%) DBS Check
4 14 (8.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (8.54%) Security Cleared
5 13 (7.93%) SC Cleared
6 11 (6.71%) Master's Degree
7 8 (4.88%) MCSA
7 8 (4.88%) MCSE
8 4 (2.44%) MCP
9 2 (1.22%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.61%) MCDBA
10 1 (0.61%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.32%) SLA
2 5 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 4 (2.44%) GDPR
4 1 (0.61%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 18 (10.98%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.05%) Docker
3 3 (1.83%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.61%) KVM
5 1 (0.61%) QEMU
5 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (2.44%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.44%) Terraform
2 2 (1.22%) Ansible
2 2 (1.22%) HAProxy
2 2 (1.22%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 42 (25.61%) Microsoft
2 30 (18.29%) Oracle
3 9 (5.49%) Hyperion
4 7 (4.27%) Databricks
5 6 (3.66%) NEC
6 4 (2.44%) IBM
6 4 (2.44%) VMware
7 3 (1.83%) Teradata
8 2 (1.22%) Barracuda Networks
8 2 (1.22%) Google
8 2 (1.22%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.22%) SAP
9 1 (0.61%) Citrix
9 1 (0.61%) Dell
9 1 (0.61%) HP
9 1 (0.61%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.61%) Serena
9 1 (0.61%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.61%) Veeam
9 1 (0.61%) Zend