The first table below looks at the demand for Azure SQL Database skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Azure SQL Database over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
Rank 522 574 582
Rank change year-on-year
+52 +8
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 7 10 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.015% 0.017% 0.003%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.073% 0.090% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
Average daily rate £388 £350 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.78% +3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £310 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £469 £390 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £300 £338
% change year-on-year
+25.00% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
9589 11093 12450
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 20.67% 19.02% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5784 6372 6932
Average daily rate £388 £375 £394
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -4.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £258 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 268 387
Average hourly rate £25.60 £28.00 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% -9.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.34 £12.67 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £44.70 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%

Azure SQL Database
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Azure SQL Database within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Azure SQL Database Jobs Demand Trend

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database within the UK.

Azure SQL Database Daily Rate Trend

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Azure SQL Database within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Azure SQL Database Daily Rate Histogram

Azure SQL Database
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure SQL Database within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +43 7 £388 +10.78%
South East +10 4 £375 +25.00%
London +40 3 £450 +12.50%
Surrey +16 2 £200 -33.33%
Berkshire +8 1 £400 -
Guildford -10 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 £375 -

Azure SQL Database
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Azure SQL Database also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Azure SQL Database.

1 29 (100.00%) SQL
1 29 (100.00%) Windows Azure
2 21 (72.41%) Microsoft
3 20 (68.97%) Windows
4 19 (65.52%) C#
5 16 (55.17%) .NET
6 15 (51.72%) MVC
7 14 (48.28%) SQL Server
8 12 (41.38%) SQL Server 2008
8 12 (41.38%) PaaS
9 10 (34.48%) Multithreading
9 10 (34.48%) ASP.NET
10 8 (27.59%) Agile Software Development
10 8 (27.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (24.14%) TDD
11 7 (24.14%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (20.69%) Task Parallel Library
12 6 (20.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 6 (20.69%) Scrum
12 6 (20.69%) SQL Server 2005
12 6 (20.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (17.24%) IIS
13 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
13 5 (17.24%) MS Excel
13 5 (17.24%) SQL Server 2012
14 4 (13.79%) BDD
14 4 (13.79%) Kanban
14 4 (13.79%) HTML5
14 4 (13.79%) ADO.NET
14 4 (13.79%) CSS

Azure SQL Database
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Azure SQL Database also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Azure SQL Database. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (55.17%) .NET
2 10 (34.48%) ASP.NET
3 7 (24.14%) ASP.NET MVC
4 6 (20.69%) Task Parallel Library
5 4 (13.79%) HTML5
5 4 (13.79%) ADO.NET
5 4 (13.79%) CSS
5 4 (13.79%) WCF
6 3 (10.34%) WF
6 3 (10.34%) LINQ
6 3 (10.34%) .NET Framework
6 3 (10.34%) JSON
6 3 (10.34%) Lucene
6 3 (10.34%) Web Services
6 3 (10.34%) XML
6 3 (10.34%) XSL
6 3 (10.34%) XSLT
6 3 (10.34%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 3 (10.34%) LINQ to SQL
6 3 (10.34%) REST
Application Platforms
1 29 (100.00%) Windows Azure
2 5 (17.24%) IIS
3 2 (6.897%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.448%) CMS
4 1 (3.448%) Kentico
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.448%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (48.28%) SQL Server
2 12 (41.38%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (27.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (20.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 6 (20.69%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (20.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (17.24%) SQL Server 2012
6 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (10.34%) OLTP
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (6.897%) Hadoop
7 2 (6.897%) Big Data
7 2 (6.897%) OLAP
7 2 (6.897%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Moq
1 3 (10.34%) SpecFlow
1 3 (10.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (6.897%) Retail
1 2 (6.897%) Games
Job Titles
1 21 (72.41%) Developer
2 13 (44.83%) C# Developer
3 6 (20.69%) C# .NET Developer
3 6 (20.69%) DBA
4 5 (17.24%) .NET Developer
4 5 (17.24%) SQL DBA
5 4 (13.79%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (10.34%) Agile C# Developer
7 2 (6.897%) Web Developer
7 2 (6.897%) Business Developer
7 2 (6.897%) SQL Server DBA
7 2 (6.897%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (6.897%) Development DBA
8 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Development DBA
8 1 (3.448%) C# Application Developer
8 1 (3.448%) C# Web Developer
8 1 (3.448%) SQL Developer
8 1 (3.448%) Applications Developer
8 1 (3.448%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) PaaS
2 2 (6.897%) Visualisation
2 2 (6.897%) SaaS
3 1 (3.448%) FMCG
3 1 (3.448%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 20 (68.97%) Windows
2 3 (10.34%) Linux
2 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.448%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.448%) Android
3 1 (3.448%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) MVC
2 10 (34.48%) Multithreading
3 8 (27.59%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (24.14%) TDD
5 6 (20.69%) Scrum
6 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (13.79%) BDD
7 4 (13.79%) Kanban
8 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (10.34%) Workflow
8 3 (10.34%) MVVM
8 3 (10.34%) Unit Testing
9 2 (6.897%) Analytics
9 2 (6.897%) Business Analytics
9 2 (6.897%) Migration
10 1 (3.448%) Technical Architecture
10 1 (3.448%) Web Design
10 1 (3.448%) Stakeholder Management
10 1 (3.448%) Data Modelling
10 1 (3.448%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) SQL
2 19 (65.52%) C#
3 4 (13.79%) T-SQL
3 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (3.448%) MCITP
1 1 (3.448%) MCSE
1 1 (3.448%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Dublin Core
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 21 (72.41%) Microsoft
Guildford, South East
Our client a Global technology company is seeking a Business Intelligence Developer to be based in Guildford for an initial 12 month contract.Job Description:* Contribute to technical...
Volt
Rate: £44000.00 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Guildford, South East
The ideal candidate is someone who has proven experience in designing and implementing Business Intelligence Solutions from large volume/high velocity sources using Microsoft technologies.The role will...
Rate: £150 - £200 per annum + Negotiable
Posted: 23 May 2013