Azure SQL Database Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 116 115 138
Rank change year-on-year -1 +23 +46
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 13 18 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.65% 0.74% 0.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.05% 3.40% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 9
10th Percentile £509 £450 £495
25th Percentile £525 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £513 £675
Median % change year-on-year +24.88% -24.07% +17.39%
75th Percentile £680 £553 £813
90th Percentile £751 £619 £828
London median daily rate £580 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +0.87% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate - - £52.50

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 426 530 808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 21.33% 21.67% 20.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 360 520
10th Percentile £404 £411 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £685 £696 £725
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
London median daily rate £552 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.17% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £30.18 - £43.13
25th Percentile £31.85 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +38.99%
75th Percentile £67.34 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.94 - -
London median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Central London

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Central London

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in Central London

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London 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
City of London +7 13 £640 +24.88% 5
Azure SQL Database
London

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (30.77%) Apache
1 4 (30.77%) Apache Spark
1 4 (30.77%) Jupyter
2 1 (7.69%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Power Platform
3 4 (30.77%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (30.77%) Serverless
4 3 (23.08%) AWS
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (15.38%) Azure AKS
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (15.38%) Entra ID
5 2 (15.38%) GCP
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (15.38%) IaaS
5 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (15.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Power BI
2 5 (38.46%) Delta Lake
2 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
3 4 (30.77%) Apache Hive
4 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
6 1 (7.69%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (7.69%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (7.69%) Metadata
6 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
6 1 (7.69%) Parquet
6 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
6 1 (7.69%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
1 4 (30.77%) RStudio
2 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
2 1 (7.69%) JBehave
2 1 (7.69%) JUnit
2 1 (7.69%) Postman
2 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Algorithm Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Migration Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Modeller
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) PySpark
2 4 (30.77%) JSON
2 4 (30.77%) pydantic
2 4 (30.77%) YAML
3 2 (15.38%) ARM Templates
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (7.69%) .NET
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.69%) Blazor
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) Pandas
4 1 (7.69%) pytest
4 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (30.77%) Data Structures
2 4 (30.77%) Reference Data
3 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (15.38%) Reinsurance
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Windows
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Data Pipeline
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Data Ingestion
3 5 (38.46%) Data Security
4 4 (30.77%) Analytics
4 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
4 4 (30.77%) ETL
4 4 (30.77%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 2 (15.38%) Data Validation
6 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) TDD
6 2 (15.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (61.54%) Python
3 4 (30.77%) Bash
3 4 (30.77%) Scala
4 3 (23.08%) T-SQL
5 2 (15.38%) Bicep
5 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
6 1 (7.69%) C#
6 1 (7.69%) C++
6 1 (7.69%) Go
6 1 (7.69%) Java
6 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) GDPR
2 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
3 2 (15.38%) SOC 2
4 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Databricks
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Informatica
3 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) SAP