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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 15 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 +4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 118 200 298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.04% 14.96% 16.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.43% 41.07% 39.21%
Number of salaries quoted 59 143 215
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,569
25th Percentile £35,625 £32,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,257 £44,033 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -11.94% +11.11%
75th Percentile £58,750 £58,125 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £65,985
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +6.98%

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 401 487 760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 23.93% 36.42% 41.69%
Number of salaries quoted 238 283 491
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,813 £35,625 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,210 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.61% -11.98% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,653
90th Percentile £73,299 £72,487 £72,500
UK median annual salary £61,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.38% +4.00% +8.70%

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 20 September 2024.

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 20 September 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
South Wales +9 84 £50,309 -2.88% 26
West Wales -5 26 £30,000 -31.59% 4
North Wales -7 6 £40,000 - 5
Mid Wales -2 1 - - 1
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 11 (9.32%) WebLogic
2 8 (6.78%) Oracle Service Bus
3 7 (5.93%) Confluence
4 3 (2.54%) Apache
5 2 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.69%) SAS
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.85%) CMS
6 1 (0.85%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (10.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (6.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (6.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.69%) PlanetPress Connect
3 1 (0.85%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.85%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
Cloud Services
1 41 (34.75%) Azure
2 20 (16.95%) AWS
3 14 (11.86%) GCP
4 10 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (7.63%) SaaS
6 7 (5.93%) GitHub
6 7 (5.93%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.54%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 3 (2.54%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.54%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.54%) CloudAMQP
9 3 (2.54%) dbt
9 3 (2.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.24%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (3.39%) HTTP
3 2 (1.69%) DHCP
3 2 (1.69%) DSL
3 2 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (26.27%) SQL Server
2 23 (19.49%) Oracle Database
3 15 (12.71%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (11.02%) Oracle Database 12c
5 11 (9.32%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (6.78%) Oracle Database 10g
6 8 (6.78%) Oracle Database 11g
6 8 (6.78%) VLDB
7 7 (5.93%) MongoDB
8 5 (4.24%) Power BI
8 5 (4.24%) Redis
8 5 (4.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (4.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (3.39%) Data Lake
9 4 (3.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (2.54%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.69%) Big Data
11 2 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (20.34%) Git
2 10 (8.47%) Oracle APEX
3 8 (6.78%) JIRA
4 4 (3.39%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.54%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.69%) GitLab
6 2 (1.69%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.69%) Postman
6 2 (1.69%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.85%) GitKraken
7 1 (0.85%) JetBrains Rider
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.85%) ReSharper
7 1 (0.85%) Selenium
7 1 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.85%) Visual LANSA
7 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 43 (36.44%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.19%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (9.32%) Finance
4 10 (8.47%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.93%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.39%) Retail
8 3 (2.54%) Banking
8 3 (2.54%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.54%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.69%) Welsh Language
10 1 (0.85%) Law
10 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (44.92%) Developer
2 29 (24.58%) Analyst
3 22 (18.64%) Senior
4 19 (16.10%) Support Analyst
5 18 (15.25%) Software Developer
6 14 (11.86%) Senior Developer
7 13 (11.02%) C# Developer
7 13 (11.02%) C# Software Developer
8 11 (9.32%) Applications Support
8 11 (9.32%) Applications Support Analyst
8 11 (9.32%) Lead
8 11 (9.32%) Oracle Developer
9 9 (7.63%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 8 (6.78%) Junior
10 8 (6.78%) Oracle Analyst
10 8 (6.78%) Oracle Support Analyst
10 8 (6.78%) SQL Analyst
10 8 (6.78%) SQL Developer
10 8 (6.78%) SQL Support Analyst
11 7 (5.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (22.03%) RESTful
2 23 (19.49%) .NET
3 14 (11.86%) AngularJS
3 14 (11.86%) JSON
4 11 (9.32%) React
4 11 (9.32%) Web Services
5 10 (8.47%) .NET Core
5 10 (8.47%) SOAP
5 10 (8.47%) Spring
5 10 (8.47%) Spring Boot
6 9 (7.63%) ASP.NET
6 9 (7.63%) XML
7 8 (6.78%) HTML
8 7 (5.93%) .NET Framework
8 7 (5.93%) CSS
8 7 (5.93%) Django
9 5 (4.24%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (3.39%) Entity Framework
10 4 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (3.39%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.24%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.39%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (3.39%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.39%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.54%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.54%) CCTV
3 3 (2.54%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.54%) Smart City
4 2 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.69%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.85%) AS400
5 1 (0.85%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.85%) IoT
5 1 (0.85%) NHS
5 1 (0.85%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.32%) Linux
1 11 (9.32%) Windows
2 10 (8.47%) Unix
3 8 (6.78%) Solaris
4 3 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.69%) Windows Vista
6 1 (0.85%) Android
6 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (16.95%) Artificial Intelligence
3 17 (14.41%) Mentoring
4 15 (12.71%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (12.71%) Computer Science
4 15 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (11.86%) Microservices
6 13 (11.02%) Agile
7 12 (10.17%) CI/CD
7 12 (10.17%) DevOps
8 11 (9.32%) Customer Service
8 11 (9.32%) Software Engineering
8 11 (9.32%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (8.47%) Coaching
9 10 (8.47%) Data Modelling
9 10 (8.47%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (8.47%) SOLID
10 9 (7.63%) Actionable Insight
10 9 (7.63%) Decision-Making
10 9 (7.63%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 38 (32.20%) C#
2 35 (29.66%) JavaScript
3 25 (21.19%) PL/SQL
4 20 (16.95%) Python
5 13 (11.02%) Java
6 4 (3.39%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.54%) C
7 3 (2.54%) C++
7 3 (2.54%) Go
7 3 (2.54%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.54%) Rust
7 3 (2.54%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.69%) R
8 2 (1.69%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 29 (24.58%) Degree
2 19 (16.10%) Security Cleared
3 15 (12.71%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.24%) A+ Certification
6 4 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (3.39%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.54%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.63%) QA
2 8 (6.78%) SLA
3 4 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.39%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.69%) GDPR
5 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (6.78%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (5.93%) Docker
3 3 (2.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (11.02%) Oracle RMAN
2 10 (8.47%) Data Guard
3 7 (5.93%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 5 (4.24%) Terraform
5 4 (3.39%) Grafana
5 4 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.54%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 2 (1.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (23.73%) Microsoft
2 27 (22.88%) Oracle
3 8 (6.78%) Remedy
3 8 (6.78%) Sun
4 7 (5.93%) Google
5 4 (3.39%) Databricks
5 4 (3.39%) Epicor
6 3 (2.54%) Splunk
6 3 (2.54%) Xamarin
7 2 (1.69%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.85%) IBM
8 1 (0.85%) IFS
8 1 (0.85%) LANSA
8 1 (0.85%) NEC
8 1 (0.85%) SAP
8 1 (0.85%) Talend