Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
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 Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 101 105
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 +41
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 9 26 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.53% 1.24% 1.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.49% 5.94% 7.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 14
10th Percentile £392 £475 £436
25th Percentile £425 £534 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £551
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +17.91% -1.12%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £622
90th Percentile £763 - £681
Central London median daily rate £613 £613 £551
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -3.29%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 361 438 557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.37% 20.91% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 307 368
10th Percentile £384 £413 £377
25th Percentile £434 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +2.96%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £711
90th Percentile £778 £825 £800
Central London median daily rate £565 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.83% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £22.70 - £38.95
25th Percentile £32.00 £36.75 £40.38
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £40.25 £48.88
90th Percentile - - £51.05
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -20.00%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in the City of London

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in the City of London

Azure SQL Database
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Power Platform
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (22.22%) AWS
4 2 (22.22%) IaaS
4 2 (22.22%) PaaS
4 2 (22.22%) Power Automate
4 2 (22.22%) SaaS
4 2 (22.22%) Serverless
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (44.44%) Power BI
3 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (11.11%) Power Query
5 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Development Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Report Writer
4 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
3 1 (11.11%) ADO
3 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) Entity Framework
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) jQuery
3 1 (11.11%) Next.js
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) AIX
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Solaris
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) ETL
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Agile
5 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Data Management
5 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
5 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
5 1 (11.11%) MVC
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) VBA
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) Bicep
4 1 (11.11%) COBOL
4 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Istio
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) NetApp