Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 300 329
Rank change year-on-year -86 +29 +93
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 134 233 273
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.72% 0.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.63% 3.93% 3.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 172 163
10th Percentile £376 £310 £408
25th Percentile £413 £429 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £589 £675 £650
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -12.84% -0.91% -

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 5,099 5,922 6,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.20% 18.25% 16.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,494 4,037 4,895
10th Percentile £338 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £638 £673 £663
90th Percentile £750 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 84 145
10th Percentile £20.91 £17.50 £20.35
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.30 £30.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -28.57% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £78.45
UK median hourly rate £39.48 £35.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +12.80% -33.33% +5.64%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in England

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

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 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure SQL Database.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure SQL Database

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 October 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 -85 67 £550 -3.72% 75
South East +11 20 £425 -19.05% 43
Midlands -10 20 £450 -18.18% 23
North of England -16 14 £450 +2.86% 36
West Midlands -7 12 £488 -15.22% 12
North West -13 9 £450 +2.86% 19
East Midlands -4 7 £450 +18.42% 11
Yorkshire -21 4 £525 +7.14% 11
South West +16 2 £520 +6.67% 10
North East - 1 £375 - 6
East of England - 1 £505 - 27
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.22%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.99%) Apache
3 3 (2.24%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.49%) Confluence
4 2 (1.49%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.49%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.75%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.75%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.49%) Trello
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (4.48%) SAP PM
2 3 (2.24%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 134 (100.00%) Azure
2 62 (46.27%) Azure Data Factory
3 49 (36.57%) Power Platform
4 45 (33.58%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (26.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (17.16%) Azure AKS
6 23 (17.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 21 (15.67%) PaaS
8 20 (14.93%) Azure Storage
8 20 (14.93%) Serverless
9 19 (14.18%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (12.69%) IaaS
11 16 (11.94%) GitHub
12 13 (9.70%) Azure Functions
12 13 (9.70%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (8.21%) AWS
14 10 (7.46%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (7.46%) Azure Service Bus
14 10 (7.46%) Entra ID
15 9 (6.72%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.73%) Firewall
2 3 (2.24%) VPN
3 2 (1.49%) DNS
3 2 (1.49%) SSH
4 1 (0.75%) NAS
4 1 (0.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (35.82%) Power BI
2 43 (32.09%) SQL Server
3 33 (24.63%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (21.64%) Data Lake
5 14 (10.45%) Delta Lake
6 12 (8.96%) NoSQL
7 9 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (5.97%) Relational Database
8 8 (5.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (5.22%) GIS
10 6 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (4.48%) Oracle Database
10 6 (4.48%) Power Query
11 5 (3.73%) Big Data
11 5 (3.73%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (2.99%) Apache Hive
12 4 (2.99%) MongoDB
12 4 (2.99%) MySQL
12 4 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (2.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (10.45%) Git
2 7 (5.22%) JIRA
3 4 (2.99%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.24%) ERwin
5 2 (1.49%) RStudio
6 1 (0.75%) GitLab
6 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.75%) Poetry
6 1 (0.75%) Postman
6 1 (0.75%) Pylint
6 1 (0.75%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.40%) Finance
3 19 (14.18%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.24%) Banking
6 3 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.75%) Advertising
8 1 (0.75%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.75%) Automotive
8 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.75%) Legal
8 1 (0.75%) Local Government
8 1 (0.75%) Marketing
8 1 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (27.61%) Azure Engineer
2 33 (24.63%) Developer
3 29 (21.64%) Data Engineer
4 18 (13.43%) Architect
5 17 (12.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (11.94%) Senior
7 15 (11.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 14 (10.45%) Site Engineer
8 14 (10.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 12 (8.96%) Azure Data Engineer
9 12 (8.96%) Data Architect
9 12 (8.96%) Senior Developer
10 10 (7.46%) Azure Architect
11 9 (6.72%) .NET Developer
11 9 (6.72%) DBA
12 7 (5.22%) Azure Data Architect
12 7 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (5.22%) Senior .NET Developer
13 6 (4.48%) Azure Developer
14 5 (3.73%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.67%) .NET
2 18 (13.43%) .NET Core
3 16 (11.94%) ADO
4 14 (10.45%) PySpark
5 12 (8.96%) ARM Templates
6 10 (7.46%) React
7 9 (6.72%) Kafka
8 5 (3.73%) JSON
8 5 (3.73%) SOAP
8 5 (3.73%) YAML
9 4 (2.99%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.99%) CSS
9 4 (2.99%) HTML
9 4 (2.99%) pydantic
9 4 (2.99%) pytest
9 4 (2.99%) RESTful
10 3 (2.24%) FastAPI
10 3 (2.24%) REST
11 2 (1.49%) Swagger
11 2 (1.49%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.21%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.72%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (5.97%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (5.97%) IoT
4 7 (5.22%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.48%) SCADA
6 5 (3.73%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.73%) Replication
7 4 (2.99%) Clustering
7 4 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.99%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.49%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.49%) FMCG
8 2 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.49%) Life Science
8 2 (1.49%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.49%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.73%) VMS
2 4 (2.99%) Linux
3 2 (1.49%) Windows
4 1 (0.75%) AIX
4 1 (0.75%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (48.51%) DevOps
2 51 (38.06%) CI/CD
3 47 (35.07%) ETL
4 46 (34.33%) Analytics
5 44 (32.84%) Business Intelligence
6 36 (26.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (26.12%) Data Modelling
8 31 (23.13%) Migration
9 28 (20.90%) Data Governance
10 27 (20.15%) Agile
11 25 (18.66%) Performance Tuning
12 22 (16.42%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (14.93%) Data Engineering
13 20 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (12.69%) Data Integration
15 16 (11.94%) Data Management
16 15 (11.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 14 (10.45%) Artificial Intelligence
17 14 (10.45%) High Availability
17 14 (10.45%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 132 (98.51%) SQL
2 50 (37.31%) Python
3 28 (20.90%) C#
4 19 (14.18%) Bicep
4 19 (14.18%) T-SQL
5 16 (11.94%) PowerShell
6 11 (8.21%) Bash
7 8 (5.97%) JavaScript
8 7 (5.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (4.48%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (4.48%) Scala
10 5 (3.73%) Java
11 4 (2.99%) VBA
12 1 (0.75%) COBOL
12 1 (0.75%) Korn
12 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.75%) R
12 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (15.67%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.69%) Azure Certification
4 16 (11.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.99%) Degree
6 3 (2.24%) MCSE
7 2 (1.49%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.49%) OCP
7 2 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.75%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.75%) MCSA
8 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.75%) PMP
8 1 (0.75%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.69%) GDPR
2 15 (11.19%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.22%) QA
4 5 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.24%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.75%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.75%) GxP
6 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (5.97%) Docker
2 7 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (26.12%) Terraform
2 23 (17.16%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.48%) Grafana
3 6 (4.48%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.75%) Ansible
4 1 (0.75%) Istio
Vendors
1 59 (44.03%) Microsoft
2 36 (26.87%) Databricks
3 12 (8.96%) Oracle
4 8 (5.97%) SAP
5 6 (4.48%) Informatica
6 3 (2.24%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.49%) Google
7 2 (1.49%) Qualtrics
7 2 (1.49%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.49%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.75%) ESRI
8 1 (0.75%) NetApp