Azure SQL Database Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 6 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 309 373
Rank change year-on-year -25 +64 -37
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 56 124 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.54% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.15% 3.65% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 89 115
10th Percentile £359 £413 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £545 £636 £619
90th Percentile £599 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £539 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.05% +2.33% +7.50%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,600 3,399 5,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.35% 14.92% 17.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,830 2,424 3,854
10th Percentile £313 £336 £335
25th Percentile £397 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £672
UK median daily rate £525 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -4.11% -0.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 107 127
10th Percentile £13.67 £21.66 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.45%
75th Percentile £56.56 £73.73 £56.25
90th Percentile £72.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -33.33% +38.20% +61.03%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
South East +11 15 £513 -14.58% 29
North of England -16 14 £444 -21.18% 23
North West -13 12 £438 -24.50% 13
Midlands +10 10 £493 -1.50% 12
South West +8 9 £439 -25.24% 15
Scotland +28 7 £475 -2.56% 5
East Midlands +14 5 £463 -7.50% 4
West Midlands 0 5 £523 +7.18% 8
Yorkshire 0 2 £513 +7.89% 9
Wales +16 1 £388 +3.33% 1
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 56 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
2 24 (42.86%) Power Platform
3 15 (26.79%) Azure Functions
3 15 (26.79%) Azure Logic Apps
3 15 (26.79%) Serverless
4 14 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (21.43%) Entra ID
6 10 (17.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (12.50%) PaaS
9 6 (10.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (8.93%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (8.93%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (7.14%) Azure API Management
11 4 (7.14%) GitHub
12 3 (5.36%) Azure App Service
13 2 (3.57%) Azure AKS
13 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (3.57%) DNS
2 2 (3.57%) Network Security
3 1 (1.79%) Internet
3 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.79%) VPN
3 1 (1.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (41.07%) Power BI
1 23 (41.07%) SQL Server
2 10 (17.86%) Data Lake
3 6 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (8.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 3 (5.36%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.57%) Tableau
8 1 (1.79%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.79%) MySQL
8 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.79%) OLAP
8 1 (1.79%) OLAP Cube
8 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.79%) Redis
8 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Git
2 3 (5.36%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.57%) JIRA
3 2 (3.57%) Moq
3 2 (3.57%) NUnit
4 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.79%) Hudson
4 1 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.79%) Postman
4 1 (1.79%) SpecFlow
General
1 10 (17.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.14%) Finance
3 4 (7.14%) Local Government
3 4 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.79%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 18 (32.14%) Developer
2 16 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (19.64%) Data Engineer
4 10 (17.86%) Azure Data Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) DBA
6 6 (10.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 6 (10.71%) SQL DBA
7 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Integration Developer
8 4 (7.14%) Administrator
8 4 (7.14%) Analyst
8 4 (7.14%) Azure Developer
8 4 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) .NET Developer
9 3 (5.36%) Architect
9 3 (5.36%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Data Analyst
9 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Developer
9 3 (5.36%) Power BI Developer
10 2 (3.57%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 7 (12.50%) .NET
3 5 (8.93%) XML
4 4 (7.14%) .NET Framework
5 3 (5.36%) OAuth
5 3 (5.36%) OpenID
5 3 (5.36%) RESTful
5 3 (5.36%) SOAP
6 2 (3.57%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.57%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.57%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (3.57%) CSS
6 2 (3.57%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.57%) jQuery
6 2 (3.57%) JSON
6 2 (3.57%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.57%) WCF
6 2 (3.57%) Web Services
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Product Ownership
1 5 (8.93%) Smart Meter
2 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.57%) Replication
3 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.79%) Clustering
3 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.29%) VMS
2 7 (12.50%) Windows
3 5 (8.93%) Linux
4 4 (7.14%) Unix
5 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (39.29%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (30.36%) DevOps
3 15 (26.79%) Analytics
4 14 (25.00%) ETL
5 13 (23.21%) Migration
6 12 (21.43%) CI/CD
7 11 (19.64%) Data Modelling
7 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (16.07%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (14.29%) Scrum
10 7 (12.50%) Data Engineering
11 6 (10.71%) Containerisation
11 6 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (10.71%) Visualisation
12 5 (8.93%) Actionable Insight
12 5 (8.93%) B2C
12 5 (8.93%) ETL Development
12 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 4 (7.14%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 51 (91.07%) SQL
2 8 (14.29%) C#
2 8 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 4 (7.14%) T-SQL
4 3 (5.36%) Bicep
4 3 (5.36%) Python
5 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.79%) Java
6 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) Azure Certification
2 4 (7.14%) Degree
3 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) GDPR
2 2 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.57%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (19.64%) Active Directory
2 9 (16.07%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (8.93%) Terraform
3 2 (3.57%) Ansible
4 1 (1.79%) Grafana
4 1 (1.79%) Graylog
4 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.79%) Nagios
4 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.71%) CA
3 5 (8.93%) Ab Initio
4 4 (7.14%) Databricks
5 1 (1.79%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle
5 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.79%) Splunk