Azure SQL Database Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.09% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
East of England median daily rate £576 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +4.64% +15.79% +5.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 24 35 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 8.70% 7.07% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 44
10th Percentile £389 - £275
25th Percentile £413 £405 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.74% +5.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £538
90th Percentile £575 £575 £600
East of England median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £17.95 £26.16 -
25th Percentile £18.16 £27.64 £25.56
Median hourly rate £19.15 £30.09 £26.11
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +15.24% +102.40%
75th Percentile £20.76 £32.55 £26.67
90th Percentile £21.36 £34.02 -
East of England median hourly rate £49.00 £25.18 £64.25
% change year-on-year +94.60% -60.81% +83.57%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Cambridgeshire

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Cambridgeshire

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire 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
Peterborough - 2 - - 8
Cambridge - 1 £400 - 11
Azure SQL Database
East of England

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) API Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Mapping
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) DataOps
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft