Azure SQL Database Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 113 113
Rank change year-on-year +38 0 +13
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 18 11 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.53% 0.55% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.78% 4.35% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 2
10th Percentile - £424 £493
25th Percentile £413 £485 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £536
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -5.59% +5.93%
75th Percentile £581 £533 £576
90th Percentile £588 £541 £594
South East median daily rate £533 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +3.90% -14.58% +15.66%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

Azure SQL Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 167 253 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.24% 12.75% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 138 185
10th Percentile £406 £313 £340
25th Percentile £457 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £663 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 8
10th Percentile - £19.00 £44.10
25th Percentile £32.05 £38.32 £53.25
Median hourly rate £47.90 £61.00 £72.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.48% -16.15% +223.33%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.60 £79.19
90th Percentile - £67.50 -
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Berkshire

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Berkshire

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in Berkshire

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Berkshire

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wokingham - 7 £425 -
Reading +26 5 £525 +5.00% 10
Windsor - 5 £575 -
Maidenhead - 1 £500 -
Azure SQL Database
South East

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (55.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (50.00%) Azure AKS
5 8 (44.44%) IaaS
5 8 (44.44%) PaaS
6 7 (38.89%) Azure Storage
7 4 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
8 3 (16.67%) Azure API Management
8 3 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
8 3 (16.67%) Serverless
9 2 (11.11%) Azure App Service
9 2 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (11.11%) Azure Table
9 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) Big Data
2 3 (16.67%) Power BI
3 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (5.56%) Apache Hive
4 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.56%) HBase
4 1 (5.56%) HDInsight
4 1 (5.56%) Impala
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Parquet
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Electronics
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Marketing
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Site Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Data Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Automation Tester
5 2 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Data Migration Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Migration Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Test Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Tester
5 2 (11.11%) Test Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) ADO
1 5 (27.78%) PySpark
2 4 (22.22%) .NET
2 4 (22.22%) .NET Core
2 4 (22.22%) ARM Templates
3 3 (16.67%) JSON
3 3 (16.67%) OAuth
3 3 (16.67%) OpenID
3 3 (16.67%) SAML
4 2 (11.11%) Gherkin
4 2 (11.11%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
5 1 (5.56%) Entity Framework
5 1 (5.56%) Kafka
5 1 (5.56%) React
5 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 2 (11.11%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) IoT
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (5.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (38.89%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (38.89%) Migration
4 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (27.78%) Analytics
5 5 (27.78%) Data Migration
6 4 (22.22%) Agile
6 4 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (16.67%) API Management
7 3 (16.67%) ETL
7 3 (16.67%) Identity Management
7 3 (16.67%) RBAC
7 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (11.11%) High Availability
8 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (11.11%) Process Improvement
8 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (50.00%) Python
3 7 (38.89%) C#
3 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
4 6 (33.33%) Bicep
5 4 (22.22%) Bash
6 2 (11.11%) Java
6 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Flume
3 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 2 (11.11%) Grafana
4 2 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Databricks
3 2 (11.11%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) Google
4 1 (5.56%) StreamSets