Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 33 34
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 +12
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.80% 0.43% 1.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.71% 1.72% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £405 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -28.70% +2.22% -17.88%
75th Percentile £415 £588 £620
90th Percentile - - £655
South Wales median daily rate £410 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -28.70% +2.22% -7.22%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 35 58 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 14.06% 25.00% 31.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 45 60
10th Percentile £304 £167 £206
25th Percentile £363 £213 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £410
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.90% -18.00%
75th Percentile £503 £550 £538
90th Percentile £693 £620 £680
South Wales median daily rate £450 £488 £400
% change year-on-year -7.69% +21.88% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £17.85
25th Percentile - - £19.13
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile - - £24.88
90th Percentile - - £25.55
South Wales median hourly rate £31.25 £25.84 £22.50
% change year-on-year +20.94% +14.84% +25.00%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft