Azure SQL Database Contracts in England

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK > England

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 350 373
Rank change year-on-year -13 +23 +53
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 136 211 291
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.52% 0.56% 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.83% 3.22% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 161 182
10th Percentile £405 £375 £425
25th Percentile £443 £439 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% -2.27% +2.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £54.35
25th Percentile - - £59.00
Median hourly rate - - £68.50
75th Percentile - - £70.88
90th Percentile - - £71.25
UK median hourly rate - - £66.00

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,804 6,558 8,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.40% 17.55% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,326 4,727 5,816
10th Percentile £357 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 139 151
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.88 £20.62 £32.30
Median hourly rate £33.94 £40.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% -30.43% +52.12%
75th Percentile £61.25 £51.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £71.70 £83.00
UK median hourly rate £34.99 £39.25 £56.95
% change year-on-year -10.85% -31.08% +50.66%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in England.

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
London -30 75 £571 +3.86% 144
South East +40 19 £425 -18.27% 40
Midlands +20 17 £430 -7.03% 31
West Midlands +13 11 £375 -22.48% 19
North of England +5 11 £525 +17.98% 68
North West +4 8 £488 +11.43% 42
South West +31 6 £500 +13.84% 15
East Midlands +3 5 £450 -2.70% 11
Yorkshire +6 3 £525 +2.44% 17
East of England - 3 £576 - 27
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.41%) Apache
3 5 (3.68%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (2.94%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.21%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.47%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.74%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.41%) SAP PM
2 2 (1.47%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.74%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 136 (100.00%) Azure
2 56 (41.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 51 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (28.68%) Power Platform
5 25 (18.38%) PaaS
6 23 (16.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 23 (16.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (16.91%) IaaS
7 22 (16.18%) Azure AKS
7 22 (16.18%) Serverless
8 19 (13.97%) Azure Storage
9 17 (12.50%) Entra ID
9 17 (12.50%) SaaS
10 14 (10.29%) AWS
10 14 (10.29%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (9.56%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (8.09%) Azure Logic Apps
12 11 (8.09%) GitHub
13 10 (7.35%) Azure Functions
13 10 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.94%) Firewall
1 4 (2.94%) SSH
2 3 (2.21%) DNS
3 2 (1.47%) Network Security
3 2 (1.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 36 (26.47%) Power BI
3 22 (16.18%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (13.97%) Data Lake
5 18 (13.24%) Delta Lake
6 12 (8.82%) NoSQL
7 9 (6.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (5.15%) GIS
9 6 (4.41%) Apache Hive
9 6 (4.41%) Oracle Database
9 6 (4.41%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.68%) MongoDB
10 5 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (2.94%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (2.21%) Big Data
12 3 (2.21%) Metadata
13 2 (1.47%) Data Mining
13 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 10 (7.35%) Git
2 7 (5.15%) JIRA
3 6 (4.41%) ERwin
4 4 (2.94%) RStudio
5 2 (1.47%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.74%) JBehave
6 1 (0.74%) JUnit
6 1 (0.74%) Postman
6 1 (0.74%) Selenium
6 1 (0.74%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.44%) Finance
3 17 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (5.15%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.21%) Banking
6 3 (2.21%) Retail
7 2 (1.47%) Front Office
7 2 (1.47%) Local Government
7 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Billing
8 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.74%) Legal
8 1 (0.74%) Military
8 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (22.79%) Architect
2 30 (22.06%) Azure Engineer
2 30 (22.06%) Developer
3 29 (21.32%) Data Engineer
4 22 (16.18%) Senior
5 19 (13.97%) Azure Architect
6 18 (13.24%) Data Architect
7 15 (11.03%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (10.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 13 (9.56%) .NET Developer
10 12 (8.82%) Senior Developer
11 10 (7.35%) Site Engineer
11 10 (7.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (6.62%) Azure Data Engineer
12 9 (6.62%) Senior .NET Developer
13 8 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
14 7 (5.15%) Azure Data Architect
14 7 (5.15%) DBA
15 6 (4.41%) Analyst
15 6 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (22.79%) .NET
2 26 (19.12%) .NET Core
3 14 (10.29%) ARM Templates
4 13 (9.56%) ADO
5 11 (8.09%) PySpark
6 9 (6.62%) AngularJS
6 9 (6.62%) Kafka
7 8 (5.88%) React
8 7 (5.15%) JSON
8 7 (5.15%) RESTful
9 6 (4.41%) pydantic
9 6 (4.41%) SOAP
9 6 (4.41%) YAML
10 5 (3.68%) .NET Framework
10 5 (3.68%) CSS
10 5 (3.68%) Entity Framework
10 5 (3.68%) HTML
10 5 (3.68%) OAuth
11 4 (2.94%) ASP.NET
11 4 (2.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.82%) Legacy Systems
2 11 (8.09%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.35%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (6.62%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (5.88%) IoT
6 7 (5.15%) Data Structures
7 6 (4.41%) Reference Data
7 6 (4.41%) SCADA
8 5 (3.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.94%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.94%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.94%) Replication
10 3 (2.21%) Reinsurance
10 3 (2.21%) TWAP
10 3 (2.21%) VWAP
11 2 (1.47%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.47%) NHS
12 1 (0.74%) Clustering
12 1 (0.74%) Life Science
12 1 (0.74%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.62%) Linux
2 8 (5.88%) Windows
3 4 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.21%) VMS
5 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (49.26%) DevOps
2 44 (32.35%) CI/CD
3 39 (28.68%) Analytics
3 39 (28.68%) ETL
4 35 (25.74%) Agile
5 32 (23.53%) Migration
6 30 (22.06%) Business Intelligence
6 30 (22.06%) Data Modelling
7 27 (19.85%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (15.44%) Data Governance
10 18 (13.24%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (12.50%) Data Engineering
11 17 (12.50%) Data Management
11 17 (12.50%) High Availability
12 16 (11.76%) Data Integration
13 15 (11.03%) Data Architecture
14 14 (10.29%) Performance Tuning
15 13 (9.56%) Data Migration
16 12 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 131 (96.32%) SQL
2 48 (35.29%) Python
3 36 (26.47%) C#
4 22 (16.18%) Bicep
5 20 (14.71%) PowerShell
6 15 (11.03%) T-SQL
7 13 (9.56%) Bash
7 13 (9.56%) Java
8 12 (8.82%) JavaScript
9 6 (4.41%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (4.41%) Scala
10 4 (2.94%) VBA
11 3 (2.21%) C++
11 3 (2.21%) Go
11 3 (2.21%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.74%) Korn
13 1 (0.74%) R
13 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (13.24%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (10.29%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.82%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.68%) Degree
5 3 (2.21%) MCSE
6 2 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.74%) CITP
7 1 (0.74%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.74%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.18%) GDPR
2 17 (12.50%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.94%) QA
4 4 (2.94%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.47%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.74%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.74%) GxP
System Software
1 13 (9.56%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.09%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.68%) Docker
4 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (22.79%) Terraform
2 21 (15.44%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.41%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.68%) Grafana
5 2 (1.47%) Puppet
6 1 (0.74%) Istio
Vendors
1 59 (43.38%) Microsoft
2 40 (29.41%) Databricks
3 10 (7.35%) Oracle
4 8 (5.88%) Informatica
5 7 (5.15%) SAP
6 3 (2.21%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.47%) Google
7 2 (1.47%) IBM
7 2 (1.47%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.74%) ESRI
8 1 (0.74%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.74%) Splunk
8 1 (0.74%) Talend
8 1 (0.74%) TOWER Software