Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 56 69
Rank change year-on-year -18 +13 +33
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 3 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.41% 0.66% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.10% 3.88% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £394 £407 £430
25th Percentile £422 £416 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -6.32% -20.90%
75th Percentile £534 £486 £513
90th Percentile £566 £504 £520
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £445 £475
% change year-on-year +6.74% -6.32% -20.90%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 143 103 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 19.46% 17.02% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 61 83
10th Percentile £385 £356 £303
25th Percentile £449 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -6.10%
75th Percentile £607 £648 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £509 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.75% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £19.28 £19.82
25th Percentile - £20.44 £20.38
Median hourly rate - £23.25 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +9.10% -
75th Percentile - £26.44 £21.64
90th Percentile - £27.83 £21.84
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £27.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year - +29.05% -

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in Leeds

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Leeds over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in Leeds

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AI
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Power Query
2 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Data Sharing
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Memory Management
3 1 (33.33%) Presales
3 1 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAI