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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 302 333
Rank change year-on-year -91 +31 +71
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 135 238 261
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.75% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.62% 4.17% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 176 153
10th Percentile £379 £310 £407
25th Percentile £413 £439 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £641 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -8.26% -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 5,162 5,713 6,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.17% 17.99% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,553 3,875 4,793
10th Percentile £337 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -
75th Percentile £626 £663 £663
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £528 £535
% change year-on-year -5.21% -1.40% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 82 145
10th Percentile £18.97 £17.50 £18.84
25th Percentile £29.00 £22.10 £25.38
Median hourly rate £42.00 £34.47 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.85% -31.75% +1.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.20 £69.28 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £30.40 £50.00
% change year-on-year +32.38% -39.20% +8.70%

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 22 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 22 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 -92 66 £533 -7.39% 98
Midlands -24 20 £450 -18.18% 33
South East +12 18 £425 -19.05% 64
North of England -26 14 £450 +1.98% 51
West Midlands -21 12 £488 -13.33% 17
North West -11 9 £450 +2.86% 31
East Midlands -10 7 £450 - 15
Yorkshire -20 4 £525 +7.14% 14
South West +13 3 £520 +6.67% 13
North East - 1 £375 - 6
East of England - 1 £505 - 26
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 3 (2.22%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.48%) ArcGIS
2 2 (1.48%) Confluence
3 1 (0.74%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.48%) Trello
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (4.44%) SAP PM
2 3 (2.22%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 135 (100.00%) Azure
2 61 (45.19%) Azure Data Factory
3 46 (34.07%) Power Platform
4 40 (29.63%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (27.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 23 (17.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 22 (16.30%) GitHub
7 22 (16.30%) Serverless
8 20 (14.81%) Azure AKS
9 19 (14.07%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (14.07%) PaaS
10 17 (12.59%) Azure Storage
11 16 (11.85%) Azure Functions
11 16 (11.85%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
12 15 (11.11%) IaaS
13 11 (8.15%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (7.41%) AWS
14 10 (7.41%) Entra ID
15 9 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.70%) Firewall
2 4 (2.96%) HTTP
3 3 (2.22%) VPN
4 2 (1.48%) DNS
5 1 (0.74%) NAS
5 1 (0.74%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 44 (32.59%) Power BI
3 32 (23.70%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (21.48%) Data Lake
5 13 (9.63%) NoSQL
6 12 (8.89%) Delta Lake
7 9 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (5.93%) Relational Database
9 7 (5.19%) GIS
9 7 (5.19%) Power Query
9 7 (5.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (4.44%) Oracle Database
11 5 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (2.96%) Big Data
12 4 (2.96%) Metadata
12 4 (2.96%) MongoDB
12 4 (2.96%) MySQL
12 4 (2.96%) Tableau
13 3 (2.22%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 10 (7.41%) Git
2 4 (2.96%) SonarQube
3 3 (2.22%) ERwin
3 3 (2.22%) JIRA
4 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.74%) GitLab
5 1 (0.74%) Poetry
5 1 (0.74%) Postman
5 1 (0.74%) Pylint
5 1 (0.74%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (34.81%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.00%) Finance
3 15 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.37%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.96%) Banking
7 3 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.48%) Billing
8 2 (1.48%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.74%) Advertising
9 1 (0.74%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.74%) Automotive
9 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.74%) Legal
9 1 (0.74%) Local Government
9 1 (0.74%) Marketing
9 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (28.89%) Developer
2 34 (25.19%) Azure Engineer
3 26 (19.26%) Data Engineer
4 19 (14.07%) Architect
5 15 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (9.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 13 (9.63%) Data Architect
6 13 (9.63%) Senior
7 12 (8.89%) Azure Data Engineer
8 11 (8.15%) Azure Architect
8 11 (8.15%) Site Engineer
8 11 (8.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 10 (7.41%) DBA
9 10 (7.41%) Senior Developer
10 9 (6.67%) .NET Developer
11 8 (5.93%) Azure Data Architect
11 8 (5.93%) Azure Developer
12 6 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (3.70%) Lead
13 5 (3.70%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.56%) .NET
2 15 (11.11%) .NET Core
3 14 (10.37%) ADO
4 11 (8.15%) PySpark
5 10 (7.41%) ARM Templates
5 10 (7.41%) React
6 9 (6.67%) Kafka
7 8 (5.93%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.19%) JSON
9 6 (4.44%) Node.js
10 5 (3.70%) Express.js
10 5 (3.70%) RESTful
10 5 (3.70%) SOAP
10 5 (3.70%) WebSockets
11 4 (2.96%) CSS
11 4 (2.96%) HTML
11 4 (2.96%) pytest
11 4 (2.96%) SignalR
12 3 (2.22%) FastAPI
12 3 (2.22%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (5.93%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (5.93%) IoT
4 7 (5.19%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.44%) SCADA
6 5 (3.70%) Replication
7 4 (2.96%) Clustering
8 3 (2.22%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.48%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.48%) FMCG
9 2 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.48%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.74%) Life Science
10 1 (0.74%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.74%) Social Media
10 1 (0.74%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.44%) VMS
2 3 (2.22%) Windows
3 2 (1.48%) Linux
4 1 (0.74%) AIX
4 1 (0.74%) Solaris
4 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (45.19%) DevOps
2 54 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 45 (33.33%) Analytics
3 45 (33.33%) ETL
4 44 (32.59%) Business Intelligence
5 35 (25.93%) Data Modelling
5 35 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 34 (25.19%) Migration
7 28 (20.74%) Data Governance
8 25 (18.52%) Agile
9 24 (17.78%) Performance Tuning
10 20 (14.81%) RBAC
11 19 (14.07%) Data Engineering
11 19 (14.07%) Data Pipeline
12 18 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (11.85%) Data Integration
13 16 (11.85%) Data Management
13 16 (11.85%) Validation
14 15 (11.11%) AI
14 15 (11.11%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 133 (98.52%) SQL
2 45 (33.33%) Python
3 26 (19.26%) C#
4 19 (14.07%) T-SQL
5 17 (12.59%) Bicep
5 17 (12.59%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (6.67%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.44%) Bash
8 6 (4.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (3.70%) Java
9 5 (3.70%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.96%) VBA
11 2 (1.48%) Scala
12 1 (0.74%) COBOL
12 1 (0.74%) Korn
12 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.74%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.85%) Azure Certification
4 15 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (3.70%) CTC Cleared
6 4 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.96%) Degree
7 3 (2.22%) MCSE
8 2 (1.48%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.48%) OCP
8 2 (1.48%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.74%) MCSA
9 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.74%) PMP
9 1 (0.74%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.63%) GDPR
3 8 (5.93%) QA
4 4 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.22%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.74%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.93%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.44%) Docker
3 2 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (24.44%) Terraform
2 18 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.70%) Grafana
3 5 (3.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.74%) Ansible
4 1 (0.74%) Istio
Vendors
1 59 (43.70%) Microsoft
2 36 (26.67%) Databricks
3 12 (8.89%) Oracle
4 8 (5.93%) SAP
5 6 (4.44%) Informatica
6 3 (2.22%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.48%) Google
7 2 (1.48%) Qualtrics
7 2 (1.48%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.48%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.74%) ESRI
8 1 (0.74%) NetApp