Azure SQL Database Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
London > Central London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 143 181
Rank change year-on-year +31 +38 -36
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 17 31 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.70% 0.80% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.19% 3.87% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 13
10th Percentile £450 £509 £492
25th Percentile £475 £531 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £725 £575
Median % change year-on-year -29.31% +26.09% -5.15%
75th Percentile £553 £816 £638
90th Percentile £619 £829 £650
London median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
London median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

Azure SQL Database 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 Central London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 533 801 992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.87% 20.77% 21.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 515 765
10th Percentile £404 £413 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £695 £725 £700
90th Percentile £785 £788 £800
London median daily rate £563 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -2.17% -1.71% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £43.13 £40.65
25th Percentile £46.75 £58.41 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +255.88%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £71.20
London median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +49.08%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Azure SQL Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Central London

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Central London

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in Central London

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure SQL Database within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 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
City of London +32 14 £513 -29.31% 7
West End of London - 2 - - 1
Azure SQL Database
London

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 6 (35.29%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (17.65%) Apache
2 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.88%) CMS
3 1 (5.88%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Primavera
2 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (52.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 8 (47.06%) AWS
4 7 (41.18%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (35.29%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (35.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (35.29%) Azure Functions
5 6 (35.29%) Azure Storage
5 6 (35.29%) Serverless
6 4 (23.53%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (23.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
8 2 (11.76%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (11.76%) GCP
8 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
8 2 (11.76%) PowerApps
9 1 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (5.88%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Data Lake
2 6 (35.29%) MongoDB
3 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
4 3 (17.65%) Parquet
4 3 (17.65%) Power BI
5 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
5 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
6 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.88%) Metadata
6 1 (5.88%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Deequ
1 2 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) JMeter
2 1 (5.88%) Postman
2 1 (5.88%) Selenium
2 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) Full Stack Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Data Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Applications Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Data Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Report Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Migration Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Sitecore Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) .NET
1 7 (41.18%) .NET Core
2 6 (35.29%) Blazor
3 3 (17.65%) Apache Avro
3 3 (17.65%) JSON
3 3 (17.65%) JSON Schema
3 3 (17.65%) PySpark
4 2 (11.76%) ARM Templates
4 2 (11.76%) Great Expectations
4 2 (11.76%) Kafka
4 2 (11.76%) Middleware
5 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.88%) MACH
5 1 (5.88%) Next.js
5 1 (5.88%) Playwright
5 1 (5.88%) REST
5 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Cloud Native
1 6 (35.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Agile
2 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 9 (52.94%) SDLC
4 8 (47.06%) Software Engineering
5 7 (41.18%) Full Stack Development
5 7 (41.18%) Microservices
6 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (35.29%) Data Development
6 6 (35.29%) Front End Development
6 6 (35.29%) Multithreading
7 5 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (23.53%) Analytics
8 4 (23.53%) Data Migration
8 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
8 4 (23.53%) ETL
8 4 (23.53%) Migration
8 4 (23.53%) Scrum
9 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
9 3 (17.65%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) SQL
2 12 (70.59%) Python
3 10 (58.82%) T-SQL
4 6 (35.29%) C++
4 6 (35.29%) Go
4 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
4 6 (35.29%) PL/SQL
5 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (11.76%) R
5 2 (11.76%) Scala
6 1 (5.88%) Bicep
6 1 (5.88%) C#
6 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) PMO
3 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle
2 6 (35.29%) MuleSoft
3 4 (23.53%) Databricks
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.76%) SAP
5 1 (5.88%) Sitecore