Azure SQL Data Warehouse Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Azure SQL Data Warehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 - 125
Rank change year-on-year - - +32
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% - 0.097%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.74% - 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £521
25th Percentile £413 - £565
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £664
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.68%
75th Percentile £470 - £775
90th Percentile £490 - £828
Central London median daily rate £438 - £664
% change year-on-year - - +20.68%

All Database & BI Skills
City of London

Azure SQL Data Warehouse 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 403 399 448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.74% 22.52% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 262 323
10th Percentile £360 £404 £401
25th Percentile £463 £442 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £668 £679 £725
90th Percentile £763 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £572 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.13% -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £25.80 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.59% - -
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £31.76 £78.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year -25.59% - -

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse job vacancy trend in the City of London

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Stack
3 1 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Star Schema
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (33.33%) Power Query
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (33.33%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Wealth Management
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica