Azure SQL Database Contracts in London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 330 371
Rank change year-on-year +43 +41 -129
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 106 172 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.59% 0.63% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.78% 3.07% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 107 189
10th Percentile £437 £433 £409
25th Percentile £475 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £688 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £710 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate - £52.50 -

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,812 5,610 8,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.33% 20.64% 21.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,809 4,082 6,278
10th Percentile £377 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £475 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -1.71% +11.43%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 52 37
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.59 £25.81 £34.00
Median hourly rate £49.25 £53.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.37% +2.38% +50.52%
75th Percentile £54.34 £74.31 £68.75
90th Percentile £64.14 £88.30 £81.25
England median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.92% +41.18% +70.00%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in London

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in London

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in London

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in London

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 25 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
Central London +29 17 £500 -20.00% 7
South London - 2 £475 -
West London - 1 £530 - 2
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 9 (8.49%) BizTalk Server
2 6 (5.66%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.94%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.94%) CMS
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.94%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.83%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 106 (100.00%) Azure
2 44 (41.51%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (36.79%) Azure Data Factory
4 37 (34.91%) Power Platform
5 34 (32.08%) Serverless
6 32 (30.19%) Azure Functions
7 28 (26.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 28 (26.42%) Azure Logic Apps
8 27 (25.47%) Azure Storage
8 27 (25.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 26 (24.53%) Azure Service Bus
10 23 (21.70%) Azure API Management
11 20 (18.87%) Azure Key Vault
12 18 (16.98%) PaaS
13 13 (12.26%) Entra ID
13 13 (12.26%) PowerApps
14 11 (10.38%) AWS
15 10 (9.43%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (9.43%) Power Automate
16 9 (8.49%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) DNS
1 1 (0.94%) Firewall
1 1 (0.94%) SAN
1 1 (0.94%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (28.30%) SQL Server
2 28 (26.42%) Data Lake
2 28 (26.42%) Power BI
3 27 (25.47%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (11.32%) MongoDB
4 12 (11.32%) NoSQL
5 9 (8.49%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 9 (8.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 8 (7.55%) Big Data
7 7 (6.60%) Power Query
7 7 (6.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (5.66%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 6 (5.66%) OLTP
8 6 (5.66%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.72%) Delta Lake
9 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 5 (4.72%) Parquet
10 4 (3.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (2.83%) Data Mart
12 2 (1.89%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (16.98%) Git
2 10 (9.43%) Postman
3 6 (5.66%) Visual Studio Team System
4 4 (3.77%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.83%) Deequ
6 2 (1.89%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.94%) ERwin
7 1 (0.94%) JMeter
7 1 (0.94%) NUnit
7 1 (0.94%) Selenium
7 1 (0.94%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 28 (26.42%) Finance
2 23 (21.70%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.43%) Banking
4 7 (6.60%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.77%) Back Office
6 4 (3.77%) Marketing
7 3 (2.83%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.89%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.94%) Front Office
9 1 (0.94%) Law
9 1 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 38 (35.85%) Developer
2 30 (28.30%) Azure Engineer
2 30 (28.30%) Data Engineer
3 18 (16.98%) Azure Data Engineer
4 15 (14.15%) Lead
5 10 (9.43%) Azure Developer
5 10 (9.43%) Full Stack Developer
6 9 (8.49%) Senior
7 7 (6.60%) Architect
7 7 (6.60%) Azure Architect
7 7 (6.60%) Python Developer
7 7 (6.60%) SQL Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Analyst
8 6 (5.66%) Data Analyst
8 6 (5.66%) Lead Data Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.72%) C# Developer
9 5 (4.72%) DBA
9 5 (4.72%) Lead Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (35.85%) .NET
2 21 (19.81%) .NET Core
3 16 (15.09%) Web Services
4 15 (14.15%) JSON
5 14 (13.21%) ARM Templates
6 12 (11.32%) REST
7 11 (10.38%) PySpark
7 11 (10.38%) Swagger
8 10 (9.43%) XML
9 9 (8.49%) Blazor
9 9 (8.49%) YAML
10 8 (7.55%) SOAP
11 6 (5.66%) .NET Framework
11 6 (5.66%) GraphQL
12 5 (4.72%) Kafka
13 4 (3.77%) Apache Avro
13 4 (3.77%) JSON Schema
13 4 (3.77%) React
14 3 (2.83%) Middleware
14 3 (2.83%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.26%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.55%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.83%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.89%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.89%) Wiki
7 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.94%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.94%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.94%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.94%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.26%) Windows
2 4 (3.77%) Unix
3 3 (2.83%) Linux
3 3 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.89%) VMS
5 1 (0.94%) CentOS
5 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (47.17%) Agile
2 47 (44.34%) DevOps
3 43 (40.57%) CI/CD
4 34 (32.08%) ETL
5 30 (28.30%) Data Modelling
6 29 (27.36%) Business Intelligence
6 29 (27.36%) TDD
7 26 (24.53%) Software Engineering
8 25 (23.58%) API Management
9 23 (21.70%) Analytics
10 20 (18.87%) Migration
11 19 (17.92%) Data Engineering
11 19 (17.92%) Microservices
12 18 (16.98%) Scrum
13 17 (16.04%) SDLC
14 15 (14.15%) Continuous Integration
15 14 (13.21%) Data Migration
15 14 (13.21%) Full Stack Development
16 13 (12.26%) Data Integration
16 13 (12.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 100 (94.34%) SQL
2 51 (48.11%) Python
3 33 (31.13%) C#
3 33 (31.13%) PowerShell
4 21 (19.81%) T-SQL
5 13 (12.26%) JavaScript
6 12 (11.32%) Java
7 10 (9.43%) C++
8 9 (8.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (8.49%) Go
8 9 (8.49%) PL/SQL
9 7 (6.60%) Scala
10 6 (5.66%) Bicep
11 3 (2.83%) R
12 2 (1.89%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.94%) Bash
13 1 (0.94%) Perl
13 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.94%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (6.60%) Azure Certification
2 3 (2.83%) CIMA
2 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (2.83%) Degree
2 3 (2.83%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.83%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.92%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.83%) PMO
3 2 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.89%) QA
3 2 (1.89%) WCAG
4 1 (0.94%) IFRS
System Software
1 12 (11.32%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.66%) Docker
3 4 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (18.87%) Terraform
2 13 (12.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.89%) Ansible
3 2 (1.89%) Grafana
3 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.89%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.94%) Puppet
4 1 (0.94%) yum
Vendors
1 49 (46.23%) Microsoft
2 26 (24.53%) Databricks
3 14 (13.21%) Oracle
4 9 (8.49%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.77%) SAP
6 2 (1.89%) New Relic
6 2 (1.89%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.94%) Cisco
7 1 (0.94%) Informatica
7 1 (0.94%) Nintex
7 1 (0.94%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.94%) Virgin Media