Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in Fleet

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
Hampshire > Fleet

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Fleet requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 9 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Fleet 4.00% 16.67% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.67% 75.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% - -
Hampshire median daily rate £375 £575 £640
% change year-on-year -34.78% -10.16% +2.40%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Fleet

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 Fleet.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Fleet 24.00% 22.22% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile - £493 -
25th Percentile £402 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £400
Median % change year-on-year -26.17% +43.75% -
75th Percentile £448 £588 -
90th Percentile £449 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.56%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Fleet

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Fleet

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

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Database Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) OCP
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle