Azure SQL Database Contracts in Leicester

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicester requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 17 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 2.25% 0.95% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.67% 5.88% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £310 -
Median % change year-on-year +45.16% - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £450 £310 -
% change year-on-year +45.16% - -

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 12 17 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 13.48% 16.19% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 23
10th Percentile £373 £279 £325
25th Percentile £381 £292 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -13.89% -
75th Percentile £475 £419 £563
90th Percentile £483 £474 £603
Leicestershire median daily rate £425 £388 £438
% change year-on-year +9.68% -11.43% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.06
Median hourly rate - - £20.32
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.38%
75th Percentile - - £21.58
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median hourly rate £19.00 - £20.32
% change year-on-year - - +9.84%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Leicester

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Leicester.

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Leicester

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 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