Azure SQL Database Contracts in Wales

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 59 73
Rank change year-on-year +18 +14 -11
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.54% 0.16% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.90% 1.22% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £436 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +31.67% -11.76% +6.92%
75th Percentile £548 £388 £438
90th Percentile £579 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 69 82 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 18.50% 13.36% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 62 122
10th Percentile £357 £364 £401
25th Percentile £409 £444 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £504
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +9.11% +12.01%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £636
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.46%
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +66.79%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Wales

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Wales

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Wales over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in Wales

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 10 May 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 Wales - 2 £494 - 2
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle