Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 62 73
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 +37
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 4 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.63% 0.82% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.33% 3.94% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £356 £439 -
25th Percentile £357 £451 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £478 £475
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% +0.63% -20.83%
75th Percentile - £511 £488
90th Percentile - £527 -
Scotland median daily rate £358 £478 £475
% change year-on-year -25.10% +0.63% -20.83%

All Database & BI 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 120 127 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 18.90% 20.79% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 74 107
10th Percentile £375 £404 £413
25th Percentile £413 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £495 £511
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% -3.27% +4.87%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £575
90th Percentile £681 £638 £663
Scotland median daily rate £438 £453 £475
% change year-on-year -3.31% -4.74% -4.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 £26.32 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.35 -
Median % change year-on-year +91.96% - -
75th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 -
90th Percentile £65.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £23.05 £21.64
% change year-on-year +116.97% +6.49% -27.87%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Functions
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jasmine
1 2 (50.00%) Karma Test Runner
1 2 (50.00%) NUnit
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Database Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Database Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Core
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (75.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (75.00%) Entity Framework
2 3 (75.00%) LINQ
2 3 (75.00%) NgRx
3 2 (50.00%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 3 (75.00%) Micro Frontends
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) MVC
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Wealth Management
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle