SSDT Job Trends in Wales

Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring SSDT skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing SSDT 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.031% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.42% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - -
75th Percentile £63,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £62,500 £45,000 £44,175
% change year-on-year +38.89% +1.87% -11.65%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Wales

SSDT falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 239 77 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.49% 9.29% 11.81%
Number of salaries quoted 103 64 108
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,375 £23,750
25th Percentile £38,332 £46,745 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £47,307
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +16.26% -5.39%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,625 £62,813
90th Percentile £74,950 £73,750 £70,115
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year - -5.51% +1.60%

SSDT
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

SSDT job vacancy trend in Wales

SSDT
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SSDT.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing SSDT

SSDT
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SSDT within the Wales region over the 6 months to 19 September 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 - 1 £62,500 - 1
SSDT
UK

SSDT
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Flyway
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DBA
1 1 (100.00%) Senior SQL DBA
1 1 (100.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft