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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 99 116
Rank change year-on-year +4 +17 -33
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 8 18 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.52% 0.95% 0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.08% 5.96% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 23
10th Percentile £344 - £366
25th Percentile £350 £463 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +30.95%
75th Percentile £534 £625 £663
90th Percentile £613 £668 £700
North West median daily rate £450 £583 £550
% change year-on-year -22.78% +5.95% +29.41%

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 260 302 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 16.93% 15.89% 20.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 226 437
10th Percentile £363 £351 £323
25th Percentile £413 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -0.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £595
90th Percentile £688 £650 £675
North West median daily rate £490 £490 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 11
10th Percentile £35.45 £35.92 -
25th Percentile £55.25 £40.00 £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 £65.80 £56.25
North West median hourly rate £43.62 £47.29 £31.00
% change year-on-year -7.75% +52.53% +32.08%

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 26 April 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 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (25.00%) DBA
2 2 (25.00%) Power BI Developer
2 2 (25.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Extraction
1 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) ETL
1 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
1 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (12.50%) Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
2 1 (12.50%) Data Security
2 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (12.50%) Observability
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (12.50%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft