Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in Derby

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 18 -
Rank change year-on-year -2 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 1.94% 1.14% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 30.00% 14.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Derbyshire median daily rate £525 £450 -
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

All Database & BI Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 10 7 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 6.45% 7.95% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £496 - £370
25th Percentile £508 £450 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £530 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% +24.71% -2.86%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £519
90th Percentile £602 £579 £587
Derbyshire median daily rate £438 £530 £425
% change year-on-year -17.45% +24.71% -5.56%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in Derby

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

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

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Storage
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Power Query
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Entity Framework
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
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