Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 2.38% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £450 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 9 15 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 10.71% 20.55% 23.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 26
10th Percentile - £317 £363
25th Percentile £425 £343 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £506 £600 £563
90th Percentile £563 £660 £575
Leicestershire median daily rate £450 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +21.21%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in Leicester

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

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

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 2 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform