SQL Server Jobs in South Wales

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 69 40
Rank change year-on-year +17 -29 -16
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 55 42 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 3.51% 3.60% 6.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.32% 15.73% 33.90%
Number of salaries quoted 50 29 81
10th Percentile £35,195 £36,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,875 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £64,500 £55,000
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £43,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +16.28% +1.18% +16.44%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South Wales

SQL Server is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 258 267 295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 16.46% 22.90% 19.13%
Number of salaries quoted 125 131 180
10th Percentile £35,195 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £36,115
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +3.77%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,000 £77,500 £72,500
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £49,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year +0.50% +10.56% +5.88%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in South Wales

SQL Server
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in South Wales.

Salary trend for SQL Server in South Wales

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in South Wales over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in South Wales

SQL Server
Job Locations in South 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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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
Cardiff +20 33 £56,250 +5.63% 4
Bridgend +3 10 £36,476 +37.64%
Newport +12 6 £52,101 +9.69%
Glamorgan -2 3 - - 3
Rhondda Cynon Taff +4 2 £32,500 -2.99%
SQL Server
Wales

SQL Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.64%) Apache
2 2 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.64%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (49.09%) Azure
2 9 (16.36%) Power Platform
3 5 (9.09%) AWS
3 5 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (9.09%) PaaS
4 4 (7.27%) iPaaS
4 4 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.27%) SaaS
4 4 (7.27%) WhatsApp
5 3 (5.45%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.82%) GCP
7 1 (1.82%) GitHub
7 1 (1.82%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) Firewall
2 3 (5.45%) DHCP
2 3 (5.45%) DNS
3 1 (1.82%) Broadband
3 1 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.45%) RDBMS
1 14 (25.45%) Relational Database
2 9 (16.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 8 (14.55%) Power BI
4 6 (10.91%) MySQL
4 6 (10.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (5.45%) Power Query
6 3 (5.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.82%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.82%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.82%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (1.82%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.82%) Redis
8 1 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.64%) DBeaver
2 2 (3.64%) Git
2 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.64%) JIRA
2 2 (3.64%) NUnit
2 2 (3.64%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.82%) GitKraken
3 1 (1.82%) JetBrains Rider
3 1 (1.82%) ReSharper
General
1 17 (30.91%) Finance
2 12 (21.82%) Social Skills
3 11 (20.00%) Local Government
4 10 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (18.18%) Police
5 6 (10.91%) Banking
5 6 (10.91%) Welsh Language
6 5 (9.09%) Games
7 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (5.45%) Advertising
9 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
9 2 (3.64%) Retail
10 1 (1.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (50.91%) Developer
2 11 (20.00%) Analyst
3 8 (14.55%) C# Developer
3 8 (14.55%) Lead
4 7 (12.73%) .NET Developer
4 7 (12.73%) C# .NET Developer
4 7 (12.73%) Lead Developer
5 6 (10.91%) Consultant
5 6 (10.91%) Database Analyst
5 6 (10.91%) ICT Analyst
5 6 (10.91%) Integration Developer
6 5 (9.09%) Games Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Applications Specialist
7 4 (7.27%) Database Specialist
7 4 (7.27%) ICT Specialist
7 4 (7.27%) Senior
7 4 (7.27%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Senior Integration Developer
7 4 (7.27%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.45%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (41.82%) .NET
2 18 (32.73%) ASP.NET
3 16 (29.09%) HTML
4 11 (20.00%) .NET Core
4 11 (20.00%) CSS
5 9 (16.36%) RESTful
6 7 (12.73%) HTML5
7 6 (10.91%) AngularJS
8 5 (9.09%) ASP.NET MVC
8 5 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (9.09%) LINQ
9 3 (5.45%) React
9 3 (5.45%) SOAP
9 3 (5.45%) Web Services
10 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (3.64%) CSS3
10 2 (3.64%) jQuery
10 2 (3.64%) Kafka
10 2 (3.64%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 1 (1.82%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Data Structures
2 5 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.27%) Housing Association
3 4 (7.27%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.64%) Replication
5 1 (1.82%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.82%) Clustering
5 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) VMS
1 3 (5.45%) Windows
1 3 (5.45%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.82%) Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.82%) Windows 10
2 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (30.91%) Performance Tuning
2 16 (29.09%) Agile
3 11 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 10 (18.18%) Capacity Planning
4 10 (18.18%) ETL
5 9 (16.36%) Software Architecture
6 8 (14.55%) MVC
7 7 (12.73%) Design Patterns
7 7 (12.73%) ITIL
7 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (12.73%) Translating Business Requirements
8 6 (10.91%) CI/CD
8 6 (10.91%) Code Optimisation
8 6 (10.91%) DevOps
8 6 (10.91%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
8 6 (10.91%) Full Stack Development
8 6 (10.91%) Microservices
8 6 (10.91%) Performance Analysis
8 6 (10.91%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 33 (60.00%) SQL
2 26 (47.27%) C#
3 16 (29.09%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.09%) T-SQL
5 3 (5.45%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.64%) Java
6 2 (3.64%) Python
7 1 (1.82%) C++
Qualifications
1 15 (27.27%) Degree
2 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.82%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (9.09%) Docker
2 3 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (3.64%) Kibana
1 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 34 (61.82%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.91%) Oracle
3 2 (3.64%) Veeam
3 2 (3.64%) VMware
4 1 (1.82%) Google
4 1 (1.82%) Sophos