Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 - 96
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.069% - 0.066%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.68% - 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - £650
South East median daily rate £475 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -12.84% +3.81% -12.50%

All Database & BI Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 147 67 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 10.19% 9.41% 6.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 41 60
10th Percentile £311 £356 £424
25th Percentile £365 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £491 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% -10.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £697
90th Percentile £662 £688 £825
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 8
10th Percentile - - £56.00
25th Percentile £12.29 - £76.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 - £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +39.13%
75th Percentile £40.00 - £84.45
90th Percentile £43.77 - -
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £42.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -12.94% -29.17% +14.29%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 3 March 2026. 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
Fleet - 1 £447 -
Azure SQL Database
South East

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 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