Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
North West > Cheshire
The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 | 57 | - | 49 |
| Rank change year-on-year | - | - | +6 |
| Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database | 1 | 0 | 14 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire | 0.22% | - | 2.64% |
| As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category | 1.33% | - | 15.56% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | £558 |
| 25th Percentile | - | - | £563 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £320 | - | £580 |
| Median % change year-on-year | - | - | -10.85% |
| 75th Percentile | - | - | £586 |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | £589 |
| North West median daily rate | £475 | £450 | £580 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.56% | -22.35% | +5.36% |
All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire
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 Cheshire.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills | 75 | 91 | 90 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire | 16.70% | 18.06% | 16.98% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 60 | 68 | 63 |
| 10th Percentile | £334 | £363 | £330 |
| 25th Percentile | £365 | £419 | £413 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £426 | £489 | £450 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -12.88% | +8.67% | +8.56% |
| 75th Percentile | £575 | £566 | £586 |
| 90th Percentile | £643 | £610 | £679 |
| North West median daily rate | £475 | £489 | £490 |
| % change year-on-year | -2.86% | -0.20% | -2.00% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 10th Percentile | £33.82 | £27.63 | - |
| 25th Percentile | £39.85 | £41.25 | - |
| Median hourly rate | £49.90 | £42.50 | £40.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +17.41% | +6.25% | +29.03% |
| 75th Percentile | £59.95 | £43.75 | - |
| 90th Percentile | £65.98 | - | - |
| North West median hourly rate | £25.43 | £42.50 | £47.29 |
| % change year-on-year | -40.16% | -10.12% | +60.29% |
Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire
Job postings citing Azure SQL Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.
Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Cheshire.
Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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: