Azure SQL Database Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 112 124
Rank change year-on-year +40 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 4 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.43% 0.10% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.05% 1.72% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £435 - £343
25th Percentile £488 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £576 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.64% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £663 - £513
90th Percentile £716 - £528
England median daily rate £525 £525 £545
% change year-on-year - -3.67% +2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate - - £60.50

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 131 116 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.94% 6.06% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 74 166
10th Percentile £327 £303 £243
25th Percentile £419 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £631 £553 £598
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 17
10th Percentile £19.84 £13.38 £21.00
25th Percentile £31.64 £16.94 £35.00
Median hourly rate £49.00 £24.84 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.26% -60.57% +80.00%
75th Percentile £65.63 £31.69 £65.75
90th Percentile £77.38 £34.25 £69.10
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -26.82% +29.41%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Azure SQL Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the East of England

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the East of England

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in the East of England

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 3 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
Cambridgeshire - 3 £400 - 3
Suffolk -11 1 £751 +36.55% 4
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) IaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (25.00%) PaaS
4 1 (25.00%) SaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (25.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Data Integration
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Mapping
2 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) ERP
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (25.00%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft