Azure SQL Database Contracts in the City of London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 140 177
Rank change year-on-year +20 +37 -37
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 11 36 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.50% 0.97% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.27% 4.46% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 12
10th Percentile £440 £460 £491
25th Percentile £463 £503 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £525 £813 £641
90th Percentile - £826 £650
Central London median daily rate £500 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 485 807 947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.84% 21.84% 22.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 501 731
10th Percentile £405 £415 £425
25th Percentile £475 £505 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £702 £730 £700
90th Percentile £800 £788 £788
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
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% +158.00%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £71.20
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
% change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +178.48%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the City of London

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the City of London

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (54.55%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) CMS
2 1 (9.09%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) AWS
3 6 (54.55%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (54.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 6 (54.55%) Azure Functions
3 6 (54.55%) Azure Logic Apps
3 6 (54.55%) Azure Storage
3 6 (54.55%) Serverless
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (18.18%) Power Automate
4 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (9.09%) Azure API Management
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (9.09%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) MongoDB
2 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
3 2 (18.18%) Power BI
4 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 1 (9.09%) Parquet
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) JMeter
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Full Stack Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) Applications Manager
4 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 2 (18.18%) Data Manager
4 2 (18.18%) Report Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Sitecore Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) .NET
1 7 (63.64%) .NET Core
2 6 (54.55%) Blazor
3 1 (9.09%) Apache Avro
3 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) JSON Schema
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
3 1 (9.09%) MACH
3 1 (9.09%) Middleware
3 1 (9.09%) Next.js
3 1 (9.09%) Playwright
3 1 (9.09%) PySpark
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Native
1 6 (54.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) Full Stack Development
3 7 (63.64%) Microservices
3 7 (63.64%) SDLC
4 6 (54.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (54.55%) Data Development
4 6 (54.55%) Front End Development
4 6 (54.55%) Multithreading
4 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) API Management
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
5 2 (18.18%) Work Breakdown Structure
6 1 (9.09%) Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (81.82%) Python
3 7 (63.64%) T-SQL
4 6 (54.55%) C++
4 6 (54.55%) Go
4 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
4 6 (54.55%) PL/SQL
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (18.18%) R
6 1 (9.09%) C#
6 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PMO
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) MuleSoft
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Sitecore