Azure SQL Database Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 82 85 93
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -37
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 10 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.84% 0.097% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.41% 0.57% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £423 - £391
25th Percentile £480 £569 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £506
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +16.05% +6.58%
75th Percentile £519 £606 £578
90th Percentile £545 - £584
Berkshire median daily rate £506 £536 £506
% change year-on-year -5.59% +5.93% +6.58%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 185 175 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 15.61% 16.92% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 116 199
10th Percentile £350 £379 £350
25th Percentile £425 £453 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £595 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 1
10th Percentile - £53.10 -
25th Percentile £61.60 £61.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £64.55 £75.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.50% +235.56% -48.28%
75th Percentile £67.50 £79.19 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.30 £72.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -15.74% +223.33% -48.28%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Reading

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Reading

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in Reading

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Reading

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (90.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 9 (90.00%) Azure Functions
2 9 (90.00%) Serverless
3 5 (50.00%) Azure API Management
3 5 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 5 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (10.00%) PaaS
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) Power BI
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) Integration Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) XML
2 5 (50.00%) ARM Templates
3 3 (30.00%) .NET
3 3 (30.00%) JSON
3 3 (30.00%) OAuth
3 3 (30.00%) OpenID
3 3 (30.00%) REST
3 3 (30.00%) SOAP
4 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Smart Meter
2 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Application Security
1 5 (50.00%) B2C
1 5 (50.00%) Break/Fix
1 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (40.00%) ETL
2 4 (40.00%) ETL Development
2 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (30.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (30.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (30.00%) OO
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (30.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Graylog
1 1 (10.00%) Nagios
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Ab Initio
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk