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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 349 382
Rank change year-on-year -23 +33 +78
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse 10 8 20
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.067% 0.059% 0.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.34% 0.27% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 19
10th Percentile £213 £448 £523
25th Percentile £263 £473 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -16.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £488 £663 £750
90th Percentile £518 £730 £810
England median daily rate £400 £489 £625
% change year-on-year -18.16% -21.80% +13.64%

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 2,956 2,957 3,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.87% 21.67% 19.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,032 2,015 2,677
10th Percentile £351 £363 £381
25th Percentile £415 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £699 £678
90th Percentile £749 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -6.98% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 31 42
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.56 £28.60 £25.90
Median hourly rate £54.00 £42.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.06% -2.86% -1.27%
75th Percentile £76.88 £59.75 £54.03
90th Percentile £90.00 £78.75 £64.43
England median hourly rate £51.36 £41.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +23.76% -2.35% -25.26%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 -9 1 £475 -5.47% 1
East London - 1 £475 -
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 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (30.00%) GCP
5 2 (20.00%) AWS
5 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (20.00%) Serverless
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (40.00%) Power BI
3 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (20.00%) Spark SQL
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (20.00%) Tableau
4 2 (20.00%) Tableau Desktop
4 2 (20.00%) Tableau Server
5 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
5 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Tableau Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Test Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Kafka
1 2 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Pricing Data
2 1 (10.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (60.00%) Analytics
3 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (50.00%) ETL
4 4 (40.00%) Data Science
5 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Migration
5 3 (30.00%) Validation
5 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
6 2 (20.00%) AI
6 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
6 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
6 2 (20.00%) Data Security
6 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (20.00%) Scrum
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Bicep
3 2 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Databricks
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) SAP