Azure SQL Database Contracts in Buckinghamshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire 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 36 49 72
Rank change year-on-year +13 +23 -3
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 2 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.85% 1.05% 0.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.77% 7.46% 6.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £541 £445 £573
25th Percentile £541 £494 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £544 £625 £625
90th Percentile £545 - -
South East median daily rate £533 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +3.90% -14.58% +15.66%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 53 67 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 22.46% 14.08% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 40 101
10th Percentile £306 £350 £363
25th Percentile £338 £397 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -12.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £550 £491 £625
90th Percentile £638 £613 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.61 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £23.82 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% - -
75th Percentile £39.13 £33.95 -
90th Percentile £47.90 £51.08 -
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 Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Buckinghamshire

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Buckinghamshire

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire 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
Milton Keynes +10 2 £543 -9.58% 9
Azure SQL Database
South East

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft