Azure SQL Database Contracts in Edinburgh

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 60 70 104
Rank change year-on-year +10 +34 +19
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 7 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.12% 0.25% 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.86% 1.37% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile £439 - £435
25th Percentile £450 £419 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £438 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -27.08% +45.45%
75th Percentile £486 £456 £613
90th Percentile £517 - £630
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -2.63% -20.83% +45.45%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 144 146 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.04% 17.91% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 106 256
10th Percentile £413 £381 £402
25th Percentile £450 £431 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £497 £489
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +1.64% -2.20%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £544
90th Percentile £612 £669 £625
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.32 - -
Median hourly rate £27.35 - -
75th Percentile £28.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Edinburgh

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Edinburgh

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (28.57%) Power Automate
3 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle Database
2 3 (42.86%) RDBMS
2 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) MariaDB
3 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 2 (28.57%) MySQL
3 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (28.57%) Power Query
3 2 (28.57%) Redis
4 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) DBA
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) SQL DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) ARM Templates
1 2 (28.57%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (28.57%) Low-Code
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (14.29%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Analytics
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Database Security
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Data Management
2 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Kanban
2 2 (28.57%) Log Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Optimisation
2 2 (28.57%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
3 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) PL/SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) Bicep
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Progress Chef
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks