SQL Server Contracts in Wales

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for SQL Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SQL Server over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 34 24
Rank change year-on-year +2 -10 +6
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 10 28 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.72% 4.61% 6.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 15.87% 35.44% 41.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 23 58
10th Percentile £294 £375 £412
25th Percentile £363 £419 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -4.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £623 £613 £638
90th Percentile £664 £660 £720
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -3.81% +2.44% +11.41%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 contract job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 63 79 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 17.17% 12.99% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 61 122
10th Percentile £353 £363 £401
25th Percentile £406 £438 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £504
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +9.11% +18.60%
75th Percentile £563 £650 £636
90th Percentile £661 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £549
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Wales

SQL Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Wales.

Daily rate trend for SQL Server in Wales

SQL Server
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Wales over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SQL Server in Wales

SQL Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SQL Server in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for SQL Server in Wales

SQL Server
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Wales region over the 6 months to 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +8 8 £491 -8.60% 12
West Wales +2 1 £425 - 7
SQL Server
UK

SQL Server
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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
1 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI
3 1 (10.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Burp Suite
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (10.00%) AppScan
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (10.00%) Subversion
2 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (10.00%) tSQLt
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Report Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior SQL Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (10.00%) FHIR
2 1 (10.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) NHS
2 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Clustering
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Application Security
2 2 (20.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (20.00%) OWASP
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) Scrum
2 2 (20.00%) Security Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (10.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (10.00%) OOP
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SANS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) HL7
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
1 2 (20.00%) Graylog
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Nagios
1 2 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) HP Fortify
2 1 (10.00%) Nessus
2 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (10.00%) Puppet
2 1 (10.00%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Checkmarx
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) New Relic
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) PagerDuty
3 1 (10.00%) Rackspace
3 1 (10.00%) RedGate
3 1 (10.00%) Veracode
3 1 (10.00%) VMware