SQL Server Jobs in Wales

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 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 50 69 39
Rank change year-on-year +19 -30 -10
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 78 64 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 3.76% 3.83% 6.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.00% 18.93% 32.97%
Number of salaries quoted 71 49 102
10th Percentile £35,195 £32,700 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £34,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% +23.19%
75th Percentile £59,375 £50,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £59,750 £54,875
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -0.90% +2.78% +8.00%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 300 338 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 14.47% 20.20% 18.76%
Number of salaries quoted 164 183 239
10th Percentile £31,625 £30,754 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,804 £48,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.76% +6.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £58,750 £68,263 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,875 £75,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Wales

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Wales

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

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Wales

SQL Server
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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +14 55 £50,000 +15.61% 12
West Wales +7 13 £51,000 +32.47% 7
North Wales +17 10 £42,500 - 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.56%) Apache
2 2 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.56%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (65.38%) Azure
2 10 (12.82%) AWS
2 10 (12.82%) Power Platform
3 7 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (7.69%) SaaS
5 5 (6.41%) PaaS
5 5 (6.41%) WhatsApp
6 4 (5.13%) iPaaS
6 4 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.85%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.28%) GCP
9 1 (1.28%) GitHub
9 1 (1.28%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.13%) Firewall
2 3 (3.85%) DHCP
2 3 (3.85%) DNS
3 1 (1.28%) Broadband
3 1 (1.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.95%) RDBMS
1 14 (17.95%) Relational Database
2 10 (12.82%) MongoDB
2 10 (12.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (11.54%) Power BI
4 8 (10.26%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (10.26%) MySQL
5 7 (8.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 6 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (5.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (3.85%) Big Data
9 3 (3.85%) Power Query
10 2 (2.56%) Tableau
11 1 (1.28%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (1.28%) CouchDB
11 1 (1.28%) Data Mining
11 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
11 1 (1.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (3.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 3 (3.85%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.56%) DBeaver
2 2 (2.56%) Git
2 2 (2.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.56%) JIRA
2 2 (2.56%) NUnit
2 2 (2.56%) Selenium
2 2 (2.56%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.28%) GitKraken
3 1 (1.28%) JetBrains Rider
3 1 (1.28%) JMeter
3 1 (1.28%) ReSharper
General
1 24 (30.77%) Finance
2 13 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.10%) Local Government
4 10 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (12.82%) Police
5 6 (7.69%) Banking
5 6 (7.69%) Welsh Language
6 5 (6.41%) Games
6 5 (6.41%) Marketing
7 4 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.85%) Advertising
8 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.56%) Retail
9 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 43 (55.13%) Developer
2 16 (20.51%) .NET Developer
3 13 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 12 (15.38%) Analyst
4 12 (15.38%) C# .NET Developer
5 9 (11.54%) DBA
6 8 (10.26%) Lead
7 7 (8.97%) Lead Developer
8 6 (7.69%) Consultant
8 6 (7.69%) Database Analyst
8 6 (7.69%) ICT Analyst
8 6 (7.69%) Integration Developer
8 6 (7.69%) SQL DBA
9 5 (6.41%) Administrator
9 5 (6.41%) Games Developer
9 5 (6.41%) Senior
10 4 (5.13%) Applications Specialist
10 4 (5.13%) Database Specialist
10 4 (5.13%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (44.87%) .NET
2 25 (32.05%) .NET Core
2 25 (32.05%) ASP.NET
3 20 (25.64%) HTML
4 16 (20.51%) AngularJS
5 15 (19.23%) CSS
6 14 (17.95%) ASP.NET MVC
7 13 (16.67%) React
8 11 (14.10%) HTML5
9 10 (12.82%) ASP.NET Web API
9 10 (12.82%) Entity Framework
10 9 (11.54%) RESTful
11 6 (7.69%) .NET Framework
11 6 (7.69%) CSS3
11 6 (7.69%) Node.js
11 6 (7.69%) Vue
12 5 (6.41%) Blazor
12 5 (6.41%) LINQ
13 3 (3.85%) SOAP
13 3 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.97%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 6 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.41%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (6.41%) Replication
4 4 (5.13%) Clustering
4 4 (5.13%) Housing Association
4 4 (5.13%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.28%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.28%) CCTV
6 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.54%) Windows
2 6 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.85%) VMS
4 1 (1.28%) Linux
4 1 (1.28%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.28%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (34.62%) Agile
2 20 (25.64%) Performance Tuning
3 17 (21.79%) MVC
4 15 (19.23%) Full Stack Development
4 15 (19.23%) TDD
5 12 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (14.10%) ETL
6 11 (14.10%) Mentoring
6 11 (14.10%) Microservices
7 10 (12.82%) Capacity Planning
7 10 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (12.82%) Scrum
8 9 (11.54%) BDD
8 9 (11.54%) Clean Code
8 9 (11.54%) Software Architecture
9 8 (10.26%) DevOps
9 8 (10.26%) ITIL
9 8 (10.26%) SOLID
10 7 (8.97%) Process Improvement
10 7 (8.97%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 49 (62.82%) SQL
2 40 (51.28%) C#
3 30 (38.46%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.26%) TypeScript
5 6 (7.69%) T-SQL
6 5 (6.41%) Java
7 3 (3.85%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.28%) C++
Qualifications
1 18 (23.08%) Degree
2 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.28%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.95%) QA
2 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (6.41%) Docker
2 3 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (3.85%) Perfmon
2 2 (2.56%) Kibana
2 2 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 41 (52.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.69%) Oracle
3 2 (2.56%) Veeam
3 2 (2.56%) VMware
4 1 (1.28%) Google
4 1 (1.28%) Sophos