Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Liverpool requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Liverpool 1.08% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 21.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £407 - -
25th Percentile £408 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 - -
75th Percentile £433 - -
90th Percentile £436 - -
Merseyside median daily rate £419 £525 -
% change year-on-year -20.24% - -

All Database & BI Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 14 27 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 5.02% 20.30% 15.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 23
10th Percentile £313 £174 £115
25th Percentile £400 £463 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £375
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +46.67% -23.47%
75th Percentile £500 £638 £484
90th Percentile £678 £663 £509
Merseyside median daily rate £438 £545 £375
% change year-on-year -19.72% +45.33% -25.00%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

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

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Munging
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft