Azure SQL Database Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 384 401
Rank change year-on-year +14 +17 -98
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 165 299 431
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.45% 0.59% 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.68% 3.29% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 192 312
10th Percentile £400 £425 £393
25th Percentile £456 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +5.50%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £626
90th Percentile £738 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £522 £535 £534
% change year-on-year -2.38% +0.23% +6.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year - +100.00% -32.99%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,162 9,092 14,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.67% 17.99% 20.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,417 6,531 10,384
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 168 170
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £34.35 £22.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%
75th Percentile £56.74 £70.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +40 108 £575 +4.55% 56
South East +26 17 £513 -14.58% 19
North of England -11 11 £475 -15.63% 17
Midlands +16 10 £493 +3.68% 9
South West +21 8 £439 -25.24% 15
North West -17 8 £450 -22.35% 12
East Midlands +21 5 £463 -7.50% 3
West Midlands +20 5 £523 +18.75% 6
Yorkshire +7 3 £513 +7.89% 2
East of England +13 2 £550 +15.79% 17
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (5.45%) BizTalk Server
2 6 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.82%) Apache
3 3 (1.82%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.21%) CMS
4 2 (1.21%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.21%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.61%) Drupal
5 1 (0.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.82%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 165 (100.00%) Azure
2 62 (37.58%) Azure Data Factory
2 62 (37.58%) Azure DevOps
3 60 (36.36%) Power Platform
4 56 (33.94%) Serverless
5 54 (32.73%) Azure Functions
6 44 (26.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 38 (23.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 37 (22.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 34 (20.61%) Azure Service Bus
10 31 (18.79%) Azure API Management
10 31 (18.79%) Azure Storage
11 28 (16.97%) Azure Key Vault
11 28 (16.97%) PaaS
12 23 (13.94%) Entra ID
13 16 (9.70%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (8.48%) AWS
14 14 (8.48%) PowerApps
15 11 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
15 11 (6.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.67%) Firewall
2 4 (2.42%) VPN
3 3 (1.82%) DNS
4 2 (1.21%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.61%) Network Security
5 1 (0.61%) SAN
5 1 (0.61%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (30.30%) SQL Server
2 49 (29.70%) Power BI
3 39 (23.64%) Data Lake
4 31 (18.79%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (9.70%) NoSQL
6 13 (7.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (7.27%) MongoDB
8 11 (6.67%) Relational Database
8 11 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 9 (5.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 8 (4.85%) Big Data
11 7 (4.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 7 (4.24%) OLTP
11 7 (4.24%) Power Query
11 7 (4.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (3.64%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 5 (3.03%) Delta Lake
13 5 (3.03%) Parquet
14 4 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (2.42%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (13.94%) Git
2 12 (7.27%) Postman
3 9 (5.45%) Visual Studio
4 7 (4.24%) Visual Studio Team System
5 3 (1.82%) Deequ
5 3 (1.82%) NUnit
6 2 (1.21%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.21%) JIRA
6 2 (1.21%) Moq
6 2 (1.21%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.61%) ERwin
7 1 (0.61%) Hudson
7 1 (0.61%) JMeter
7 1 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.61%) Selenium
7 1 (0.61%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 35 (21.21%) Finance
2 32 (19.39%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.06%) Banking
5 7 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (4.24%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.42%) Back Office
6 4 (2.42%) Local Government
6 4 (2.42%) Marketing
6 4 (2.42%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.21%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.21%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.21%) Retail
8 1 (0.61%) Automotive
8 1 (0.61%) Front Office
8 1 (0.61%) Law
8 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 56 (33.94%) Developer
2 44 (26.67%) Azure Engineer
3 39 (23.64%) Data Engineer
4 25 (15.15%) Azure Data Engineer
5 18 (10.91%) Lead
6 15 (9.09%) Azure Developer
7 13 (7.88%) Architect
8 12 (7.27%) Full Stack Developer
9 11 (6.67%) Analyst
9 11 (6.67%) Data Analyst
9 11 (6.67%) Senior
9 11 (6.67%) SQL Developer
10 10 (6.06%) DBA
11 8 (4.85%) Azure Architect
11 8 (4.85%) C# Developer
11 8 (4.85%) Lead Developer
11 8 (4.85%) Python Developer
11 8 (4.85%) Senior Developer
12 7 (4.24%) Integration Engineer
13 6 (3.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (27.88%) .NET
2 23 (13.94%) .NET Core
3 21 (12.73%) ARM Templates
4 19 (11.52%) JSON
5 17 (10.30%) XML
6 16 (9.70%) Web Services
7 15 (9.09%) REST
8 13 (7.88%) Swagger
9 12 (7.27%) PySpark
10 11 (6.67%) SOAP
11 9 (5.45%) Blazor
11 9 (5.45%) YAML
12 8 (4.85%) .NET Framework
13 6 (3.64%) GraphQL
13 6 (3.64%) OAuth
13 6 (3.64%) OpenID
14 5 (3.03%) Kafka
15 4 (2.42%) Apache Avro
15 4 (2.42%) JSON Schema
15 4 (2.42%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.03%) Smart Meter
6 3 (1.82%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.21%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.21%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.21%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.21%) Replication
7 2 (1.21%) Wiki
8 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.61%) Clustering
8 1 (0.61%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.61%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.33%) Windows
2 10 (6.06%) VMS
3 9 (5.45%) Linux
4 8 (4.85%) Unix
5 4 (2.42%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.61%) CentOS
6 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (40.61%) DevOps
2 57 (34.55%) CI/CD
3 55 (33.33%) Agile
4 49 (29.70%) Business Intelligence
5 46 (27.88%) ETL
6 43 (26.06%) Data Modelling
7 39 (23.64%) Analytics
8 35 (21.21%) Migration
9 34 (20.61%) TDD
10 32 (19.39%) API Management
11 27 (16.36%) Scrum
12 26 (15.76%) Software Engineering
13 24 (14.55%) Data Engineering
14 23 (13.94%) Microservices
15 19 (11.52%) SDLC
16 18 (10.91%) Full Stack Development
16 18 (10.91%) Infrastructure as Code
16 18 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
17 17 (10.30%) Data Migration
17 17 (10.30%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 154 (93.33%) SQL
2 58 (35.15%) Python
3 47 (28.48%) C#
4 43 (26.06%) PowerShell
5 24 (14.55%) T-SQL
6 15 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 13 (7.88%) Java
8 10 (6.06%) Bicep
8 10 (6.06%) C++
8 10 (6.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (5.45%) Go
9 9 (5.45%) PL/SQL
10 7 (4.24%) Scala
11 3 (1.82%) R
12 2 (1.21%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.61%) Bash
13 1 (0.61%) Perl
13 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 10 (6.06%) SC Cleared
2 10 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.64%) Degree
4 3 (1.82%) CIMA
4 3 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (12.73%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.42%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.42%) GDPR
2 4 (2.42%) QA
2 4 (2.42%) WCAG
3 3 (1.82%) PMO
4 1 (0.61%) IFRS
System Software
1 21 (12.73%) Active Directory
2 15 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (5.45%) Docker
4 1 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 30 (18.18%) Terraform
2 17 (10.30%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.24%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (3.03%) Ansible
5 4 (2.42%) Grafana
5 4 (2.42%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.21%) Graylog
6 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.21%) Nagios
7 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.61%) Puppet
7 1 (0.61%) yum
Vendors
1 74 (44.85%) Microsoft
2 31 (18.79%) Databricks
3 14 (8.48%) Oracle
4 9 (5.45%) MuleSoft
5 6 (3.64%) CA
6 5 (3.03%) Ab Initio
7 4 (2.42%) SAP
8 2 (1.21%) New Relic
8 2 (1.21%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.21%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.21%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.21%) Splunk
9 1 (0.61%) Cisco
9 1 (0.61%) Informatica
9 1 (0.61%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.61%) Nintex
9 1 (0.61%) Virgin Media