Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 64 58
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +8
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 4 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.44% 0.17% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.03% 0.90% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £481 - -
25th Percentile £509 £538 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +43.75% -37.25%
75th Percentile £585 £613 £436
90th Percentile £603 - £443
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £488 £563
% change year-on-year +2.56% -13.33% +7.14%

All Database & BI Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 132 111 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.49% 19.07% 18.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 74 99
10th Percentile £391 £198 £339
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.47% -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £611 £531 £638
90th Percentile £714 £613 £715
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £494
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.27% -3.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £36.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.40 £34.43 £34.47
% change year-on-year -29.13% -0.10% +22.46%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure SQL Database relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Azure SQL Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Birmingham over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in Birmingham

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) dbt
3 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) API Integration
3 1 (25.00%) CAD
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Database Security
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO 22301
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle