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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 13 16
Rank change year-on-year -34 +3 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 39 219 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 2.96% 9.17% 13.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.63% 36.14% 34.88%
Number of salaries quoted 37 158 165
10th Percentile £46,486 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £35,195 £31,569
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 £52,500
90th Percentile £80,250 £61,625 £67,070
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% +7.27%

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 189 606 645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.34% 25.38% 37.85%
Number of salaries quoted 165 455 315
10th Percentile £37,637 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £47,683 £41,250 £34,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £70,250 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £74,000
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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -35 20 £65,000 +39.47% 85
West Wales -8 4 £50,124 +11.39% 1
North Wales +3 1 £40,101 +0.25% 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 5 (12.82%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) Apache
2 2 (5.13%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.56%) IIS
3 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (76.92%) Azure
2 10 (25.64%) AWS
3 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (15.38%) GitHub
5 5 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.56%) GCP
8 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.90%) Network Security
2 4 (10.26%) Modbus
2 4 (10.26%) MQTT
2 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (43.59%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (35.90%) RDBMS
2 14 (35.90%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.69%) Power BI
3 3 (7.69%) Redis
4 2 (5.13%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (5.13%) Data Mining
4 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.56%) Big Data
5 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.56%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (2.56%) Metadata
5 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Git
2 6 (15.38%) JIRA
3 3 (7.69%) JMeter
3 3 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 2 (5.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.56%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.56%) Eclipse RCP
5 1 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.56%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (58.97%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Public Sector
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Finance
4 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (7.69%) Retail
5 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) Lead
2 13 (33.33%) Developer
2 13 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 11 (28.21%) Lead Software Engineer
4 10 (25.64%) Senior
5 9 (23.08%) Senior Developer
6 8 (20.51%) Software Team Leader
6 8 (20.51%) Team Leader
7 3 (7.69%) Analyst
7 3 (7.69%) Backend Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Junior
7 3 (7.69%) Performance Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Performance Test Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Senior Backend Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Senior Software Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Software Developer
7 3 (7.69%) Test Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (41.03%) .NET
2 3 (7.69%) Django
2 3 (7.69%) FastAPI
2 3 (7.69%) Flask
2 3 (7.69%) GraphQL
2 3 (7.69%) Keycloak
2 3 (7.69%) OAuth
2 3 (7.69%) pytest
2 3 (7.69%) RESTful
2 3 (7.69%) SQLAlchemy
2 3 (7.69%) WebSockets
3 2 (5.13%) CSS
3 2 (5.13%) HTML
3 2 (5.13%) Symfony
4 1 (2.56%) JSP
4 1 (2.56%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (2.56%) Middleware
4 1 (2.56%) Node.js
4 1 (2.56%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.77%) IoT
2 4 (10.26%) Device Driver
3 3 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.56%) Blog
5 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.56%) PMI
5 1 (2.56%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 18 (46.15%) Linux
1 18 (46.15%) Windows
2 17 (43.59%) Unix
3 2 (5.13%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (58.97%) Agile
2 21 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 18 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (43.59%) Mentoring
5 16 (41.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (35.90%) Software Engineering
6 14 (35.90%) Web Development
7 12 (30.77%) Product Strategy
7 12 (30.77%) Technical Debt
7 12 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
8 10 (25.64%) DevOps
9 7 (17.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (12.82%) Containerisation
10 5 (12.82%) Requirements Gathering
11 4 (10.26%) API Development
11 4 (10.26%) Coaching
11 4 (10.26%) Collaborative Culture
11 4 (10.26%) Computer Architecture
11 4 (10.26%) Data Analysis
11 4 (10.26%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) C#
2 11 (28.21%) Python
3 5 (12.82%) C
3 5 (12.82%) C++
4 4 (10.26%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.69%) Groovy
5 3 (7.69%) Java
6 2 (5.13%) PHP
6 2 (5.13%) R
6 2 (5.13%) VBA
7 1 (2.56%) Ada
7 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.56%) Rust
7 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Degree
2 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.56%) CSQA
6 1 (2.56%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.56%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Docker
2 4 (10.26%) Firmware
3 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) Kubernetes
2 6 (15.38%) Grafana
3 3 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 3 (7.69%) Terraform
4 2 (5.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.13%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.13%) Facebook
2 2 (5.13%) Pega
2 2 (5.13%) VMware
3 1 (2.56%) Databricks
3 1 (2.56%) Guidewire
3 1 (2.56%) JDA
3 1 (2.56%) RedPrairie
3 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow