Azure SQL Database Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 101 121
Rank change year-on-year +18 +20 -35
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 11 15 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.76% 0.82% 0.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.35% 5.17% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 22
10th Percentile £348 - £364
25th Percentile £350 £463 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -13.64% +40.58%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £663
90th Percentile £648 £673 £700
North West median daily rate £438 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -23.91% +4.55% +30.18%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 253 290 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 17.45% 15.86% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 215 432
10th Percentile £370 £343 £316
25th Percentile £413 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% +16.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £680 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £489 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.95% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 11
10th Percentile £35.45 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £55.25 £39.70 £14.25
Median hourly rate £68.75 £65.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +348.28% -21.56%
75th Percentile £74.63 - £31.25
90th Percentile £78.45 £66.00 £56.25
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £49.57 £23.70
% change year-on-year -14.26% +109.16% +0.98%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Manchester

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Manchester

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Manchester over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in Manchester

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
3 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure App Service
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Power BI
2 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
3 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Data Integration Developer
4 2 (18.18%) DBA
4 2 (18.18%) Integration Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (18.18%) SQL DBA
4 2 (18.18%) SSIS Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Principal Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Analytics
1 4 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) ETL
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Data Extraction
3 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
3 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Optimisation
3 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
4 1 (9.09%) Architectural Design
4 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) Observability
4 1 (9.09%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Bicep
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft