Azure SQL Database Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 299 316
Rank change year-on-year +28 +17 -70
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 81 174 345
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.54% 0.69% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.82% 3.63% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 118 254
10th Percentile £354 £421 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £29.50
Median hourly rate - £66.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% -49.23%
75th Percentile - £70.25 £36.50
90th Percentile - £71.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year - +100.00% -49.23%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,877 4,794 9,525
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.13% 19.03% 21.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,121 3,498 6,912
10th Percentile £356 £381 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £732
UK median daily rate £525 £542 £548
% change year-on-year -3.05% -1.23% +9.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 85 92
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.61 £43.50 £23.38
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +36.84% +41.79%
75th Percentile £63.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% +30.20% +66.79%

Azure SQL Database
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure SQL Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure SQL Database trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure SQL Database.

Azure SQL Database daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Azure SQL Database daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure SQL Database
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure SQL Database.

Azure SQL Database hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (6.17%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.47%) ArcGIS
2 2 (2.47%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) CMS
3 1 (1.23%) Drupal
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.23%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (100.00%) Azure
2 40 (49.38%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (48.15%) Azure Data Factory
4 33 (40.74%) Serverless
5 32 (39.51%) Azure Functions
6 28 (34.57%) Power Platform
7 23 (28.40%) Azure Logic Apps
8 19 (23.46%) Azure Service Bus
9 18 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 18 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 16 (19.75%) Azure API Management
11 15 (18.52%) Azure Key Vault
12 10 (12.35%) Azure Storage
12 10 (12.35%) PaaS
13 9 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (9.88%) PowerApps
15 6 (7.41%) Azure App Service
15 6 (7.41%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (7.41%) Entra ID
15 6 (7.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) Firewall
2 2 (2.47%) Network Security
2 2 (2.47%) VPN
3 1 (1.23%) DNS
3 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (41.98%) SQL Server
2 21 (25.93%) Power BI
3 14 (17.28%) Data Lake
4 11 (13.58%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (9.88%) NoSQL
6 6 (7.41%) Power Query
6 6 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (6.17%) Big Data
7 5 (6.17%) MongoDB
7 5 (6.17%) Relational Database
7 5 (6.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (4.94%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 4 (4.94%) OLTP
9 3 (3.70%) Parquet
9 3 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (2.47%) MariaDB
10 2 (2.47%) MySQL
10 2 (2.47%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (13.58%) Git
2 5 (6.17%) Visual Studio
3 4 (4.94%) Visual Studio Team System
4 2 (2.47%) JIRA
4 2 (2.47%) NUnit
4 2 (2.47%) Postman
5 1 (1.23%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.23%) Deequ
5 1 (1.23%) GitLab
5 1 (1.23%) Gradle
5 1 (1.23%) gulp
5 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.23%) Maven
5 1 (1.23%) Moq
5 1 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.23%) Travis CI
General
1 23 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.05%) Finance
3 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Banking
6 2 (2.47%) Marketing
7 1 (1.23%) Front Office
7 1 (1.23%) Law
7 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (37.04%) Developer
2 24 (29.63%) Data Engineer
3 21 (25.93%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (18.52%) Azure Data Engineer
5 11 (13.58%) Azure Developer
6 10 (12.35%) Architect
7 8 (9.88%) Lead
8 6 (7.41%) .NET Developer
8 6 (7.41%) Azure Architect
8 6 (7.41%) C# Developer
8 6 (7.41%) Integration Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (6.17%) DBA
9 5 (6.17%) Full Stack Developer
9 5 (6.17%) SQL Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Analyst
10 4 (4.94%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Power BI Developer
10 4 (4.94%) SQL DBA
11 3 (3.70%) Full Stack .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (32.10%) .NET
2 17 (20.99%) ARM Templates
3 13 (16.05%) .NET Core
4 9 (11.11%) JSON
4 9 (11.11%) REST
5 8 (9.88%) .NET Framework
6 7 (8.64%) XML
6 7 (8.64%) YAML
7 6 (7.41%) PySpark
7 6 (7.41%) SOAP
8 5 (6.17%) React
9 4 (4.94%) Swagger
10 3 (3.70%) ASP.NET
10 3 (3.70%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web API
10 3 (3.70%) Entity Framework
10 3 (3.70%) GraphQL
10 3 (3.70%) OAuth
10 3 (3.70%) OpenID
10 3 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.17%) Cloud Native
1 5 (6.17%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.47%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.47%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.23%) Clustering
4 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.23%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.23%) Replication
4 1 (1.23%) Smart Meter
4 1 (1.23%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.70%) Windows
2 1 (1.23%) Linux
2 1 (1.23%) Unix
2 1 (1.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (54.32%) DevOps
2 32 (39.51%) CI/CD
3 22 (27.16%) Agile
3 22 (27.16%) ETL
4 20 (24.69%) Business Intelligence
5 17 (20.99%) Analytics
5 17 (20.99%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (19.75%) Migration
7 15 (18.52%) Scrum
7 15 (18.52%) TDD
8 14 (17.28%) Microservices
9 13 (16.05%) Data Engineering
9 13 (16.05%) Data Modelling
10 12 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (14.81%) Test Automation
11 10 (12.35%) API Management
11 10 (12.35%) Data Pipeline
12 9 (11.11%) Data Migration
12 9 (11.11%) Unit Testing
13 8 (9.88%) OO
Programming Languages
1 71 (87.65%) SQL
2 31 (38.27%) C#
3 26 (32.10%) Python
4 21 (25.93%) PowerShell
5 9 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 8 (9.88%) Bicep
6 8 (9.88%) Scala
7 7 (8.64%) Java
8 5 (6.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (6.17%) T-SQL
9 4 (4.94%) PL/SQL
9 4 (4.94%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.70%) Go
11 2 (2.47%) C++
12 1 (1.23%) Bash
12 1 (1.23%) Groovy
12 1 (1.23%) PHP
12 1 (1.23%) R
12 1 (1.23%) Ruby
12 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 6 (7.41%) SC Cleared
2 6 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.17%) Degree
4 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.88%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.94%) QA
3 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.47%) WCAG
4 1 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (4.94%) Docker
1 4 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (27.16%) Terraform
2 8 (9.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.47%) Ansible
3 2 (2.47%) Grafana
3 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.47%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.23%) Graylog
4 1 (1.23%) Nagios
4 1 (1.23%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 17 (20.99%) Databricks
3 6 (7.41%) Oracle
4 2 (2.47%) Informatica
4 2 (2.47%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.47%) SAP
5 1 (1.23%) Ab Initio
5 1 (1.23%) CA
5 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.23%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.23%) Splunk