SQL Server Job Trends in West Wales

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 18 23
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -10
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 2 7 9
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 1.74% 6.48% 7.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 25.00% 77.78% 69.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £36,740 - £31,000
25th Percentile £39,350 £33,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,100 £37,500 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.27% -10.71% -16.00%
75th Percentile £52,250 £41,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £55,700 - -
Wales median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% +11.11%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
West Wales

SQL Server 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 West Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 8 9 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 6.96% 8.33% 11.02%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 13
10th Percentile £37,750 - -
25th Percentile £41,875 £33,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £43,302 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.24% -3.77% -7.22%
75th Percentile £57,125 £56,814 £63,750
90th Percentile £57,650 £63,226 £65,000
Wales median annual salary £53,750 £47,307 £47,500
% change year-on-year +13.62% -0.41% -2.06%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in West Wales

SQL Server
Salary Trend in West Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in West Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in West Wales over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in West Wales

SQL Server
Job Locations in West Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the West Wales region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Swansea +1 2 £45,100 +20.27%
SQL Server
Wales

SQL Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) Flutter
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
1 1 (50.00%) LESS
1 1 (50.00%) LINQ
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (50.00%) SEO
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Dart
1 1 (50.00%) Delphi
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle