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 22 March 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 11 12
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 -3
Permanent jobs citing SQL 66 228 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.78% 12.39% 13.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.82% 38.97% 33.69%
Number of salaries quoted 58 168 156
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £35,688 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% +8.43% -7.78%
75th Percentile £75,875 £53,750 £52,941
90th Percentile £79,125 £70,000 £67,070
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% +8.23%

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 229 585 650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 27.00% 31.79% 38.58%
Number of salaries quoted 172 427 324
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,521
25th Percentile £41,594 £41,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,062 £50,000 £46,774
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% +6.90% -6.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,250 £62,938
90th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £75,875
UK median annual salary £60,639 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.06% -7.69% +5.69%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 -15 37 £65,000 +44.44% 33
West Wales -11 8 £49,104 +9.12% 1
North Wales +2 3 £40,101 +28.32% 4
Dyfed - 1 £75,000 -
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 13 (19.70%) Confluence
2 3 (4.55%) Apache
3 2 (3.03%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.52%) SAS
4 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (69.70%) Azure
2 15 (22.73%) AWS
2 15 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (19.70%) GitHub
4 11 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (7.58%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (3.03%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.03%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.52%) GCP
8 1 (1.52%) IaaS
8 1 (1.52%) PaaS
8 1 (1.52%) Serverless
8 1 (1.52%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.52%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (24.24%) Network Security
2 4 (6.06%) Modbus
2 4 (6.06%) MQTT
2 4 (6.06%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.52%) LAN
3 1 (1.52%) VLAN
3 1 (1.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (24.24%) RDBMS
2 16 (24.24%) Relational Database
3 11 (16.67%) Redis
4 7 (10.61%) SQL Server
5 4 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.03%) Big Data
7 2 (3.03%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.03%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (3.03%) Looker
7 2 (3.03%) MySQL
7 2 (3.03%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.03%) Oracle Database
7 2 (3.03%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (3.03%) Power BI
8 1 (1.52%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 18 (27.27%) Git
2 14 (21.21%) JIRA
3 11 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 6 (9.09%) JMeter
5 2 (3.03%) Appium
5 2 (3.03%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.03%) Maven
5 2 (3.03%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (3.03%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (3.03%) Postman
5 2 (3.03%) Selenium
6 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.52%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.52%) Eclipse RCP
6 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (57.58%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.76%) Public Sector
3 11 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.58%) Finance
5 4 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.06%) Retail
6 1 (1.52%) Legal
6 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (45.45%) Developer
2 22 (33.33%) Senior
3 18 (27.27%) Senior Developer
4 13 (19.70%) Lead
4 13 (19.70%) Software Engineer
5 11 (16.67%) Backend Developer
5 11 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
5 11 (16.67%) Senior Backend Developer
6 9 (13.64%) Analyst
7 8 (12.12%) Software Team Leader
7 8 (12.12%) Team Leader
8 4 (6.06%) Performance Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Performance Test Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Software Developer
8 4 (6.06%) Test Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Junior
9 3 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (31.82%) .NET
2 16 (24.24%) RESTful
3 11 (16.67%) Django
3 11 (16.67%) FastAPI
3 11 (16.67%) Flask
3 11 (16.67%) GraphQL
3 11 (16.67%) Keycloak
3 11 (16.67%) OAuth
3 11 (16.67%) pytest
3 11 (16.67%) SQLAlchemy
3 11 (16.67%) WebSockets
4 8 (12.12%) CSS
4 8 (12.12%) HTML
5 7 (10.61%) Web Services
6 5 (7.58%) SOAP
7 4 (6.06%) Symfony
8 3 (4.55%) ASP.NET
8 3 (4.55%) REST
9 2 (3.03%) Gherkin
9 2 (3.03%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.18%) IoT
2 11 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.06%) Device Driver
3 4 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.03%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.52%) Blog
6 1 (1.52%) CCTV
6 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.52%) PMI
6 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) Smart City
6 1 (1.52%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 21 (31.82%) Linux
2 20 (30.30%) Unix
2 20 (30.30%) Windows
3 3 (4.55%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.52%) VMS
4 1 (1.52%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (57.58%) Agile
2 32 (48.48%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 20 (30.30%) DevOps
5 19 (28.79%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (25.76%) Mentoring
7 16 (24.24%) Web Development
8 13 (19.70%) Product Strategy
8 13 (19.70%) Software Engineering
9 12 (18.18%) Technical Debt
9 12 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 11 (16.67%) Front End Development
11 9 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (13.64%) Customer Service
12 8 (12.12%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
13 7 (10.61%) Scrum
13 7 (10.61%) Test Scripting
14 6 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.30%) Python
2 19 (28.79%) C#
3 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.58%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.06%) C
5 4 (6.06%) C++
5 4 (6.06%) Groovy
5 4 (6.06%) PHP
6 3 (4.55%) Java
7 2 (3.03%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.03%) R
8 1 (1.52%) Ada
8 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.52%) Rust
8 1 (1.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (12.12%) Degree
4 3 (4.55%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (3.03%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.52%) CSQA
6 1 (1.52%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) QA
2 3 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (22.73%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) Firmware
3 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (22.73%) Grafana
2 13 (19.70%) Kubernetes
3 11 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.03%) Terraform
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.03%) Atlassian
2 2 (3.03%) Oracle
3 1 (1.52%) Amplitude
3 1 (1.52%) Epicor
3 1 (1.52%) JDA
3 1 (1.52%) PagerDuty
3 1 (1.52%) RedPrairie
3 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow