Azure SQL Data Warehouse Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Azure SQL Data Warehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 344 378
Rank change year-on-year -48 +34 +47
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse 13 3 17
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.073% 0.024% 0.096%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.40% 0.11% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 14
10th Percentile £213 £655 £580
25th Percentile £363 £663 £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% - +22.73%
75th Percentile £484 £688 £769
90th Percentile £600 £695 £835
England median daily rate £425 £475 £650
% change year-on-year -10.53% -26.92% +26.83%

All Database & BI Skills
London

Azure SQL Data Warehouse 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,268 2,780 3,846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.38% 22.31% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,229 1,961 2,845
10th Percentile £363 £375 £376
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -1.33% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 31 36
10th Percentile £18.44 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £27.07 £27.46 £25.59
Median hourly rate £48.25 £38.11 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.61% -23.78% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62.06 £56.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £77.50 £66.02
England median hourly rate £47.54 £32.05 £40.00
% change year-on-year +48.33% -19.88% -30.43%

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Azure SQL Data Warehouse job vacancy trend in London

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in London

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse within the London region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Central London - 3 £425 -
West London - 2 £375 -
Azure SQL Data Warehouse
England

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (92.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 9 (69.23%) Power Platform
4 8 (61.54%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (38.46%) Serverless
6 3 (23.08%) Azure Functions
6 3 (23.08%) Azure Key Vault
6 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
8 1 (7.69%) AWS
8 1 (7.69%) Azure Stack
8 1 (7.69%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (53.85%) Data Lake
2 7 (53.85%) Power BI
3 6 (46.15%) SQL Server
4 5 (38.46%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (38.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (30.77%) Star Schema
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
6 2 (15.38%) Spark SQL
7 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
7 1 (7.69%) Power Query
7 1 (7.69%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Law
3 1 (7.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Data Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Senior
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Data Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Data Migration Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Power BI Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Business Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) Kafka
2 2 (15.38%) PySpark
3 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Replication
2 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) ETL
2 7 (53.85%) Analytics
2 7 (53.85%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (53.85%) Data Pipeline
2 7 (53.85%) Dimensional Modelling
3 6 (46.15%) AI
3 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
3 6 (46.15%) DevOps
4 5 (38.46%) Data Architecture
4 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (38.46%) RBAC
4 5 (38.46%) Validation
4 5 (38.46%) Wealth Management
5 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) Data Governance
5 4 (30.77%) Data Transformation
5 4 (30.77%) Kimball Methodology
6 3 (23.08%) Asset Management
6 3 (23.08%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Bicep
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Postgraduate
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) PMO
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Informatica
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) SAP