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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 358 379
Rank change year-on-year -77 +21 +36
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse 15 10 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.074% 0.075% 0.069%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.41% 0.36% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 8
10th Percentile - £266 £410
25th Percentile £413 £339 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £563
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -28.89% -10.36%
75th Percentile £501 £592 £634
90th Percentile £550 £756 £731
England median daily rate £468 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +16.88% -15.79% -24.30%

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 3,671 2,815 3,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.20% 21.15% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,498 1,954 2,696
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £437 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £505 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -0.98% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 39 23
10th Percentile £18.48 £28.26 £25.10
25th Percentile £25.25 £33.56 £36.25
Median hourly rate £34.03 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.18% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £54.69 £69.75 £60.02
90th Percentile £60.63 £87.50 £79.75
England median hourly rate £38.50 £40.25 £34.47
% change year-on-year -4.34% +16.77% -37.34%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 - 4 £438 -
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 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (73.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 10 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (40.00%) Power Platform
5 4 (26.67%) Serverless
5 4 (26.67%) Snowflake
6 3 (20.00%) Azure Functions
6 3 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (6.67%) AWS
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Databricks
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Stack
8 1 (6.67%) Fivetran
8 1 (6.67%) GCP
8 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (46.67%) Data Lake
3 5 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (26.67%) Power BI
4 4 (26.67%) Star Schema
5 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (13.33%) Power Query
6 2 (13.33%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
7 1 (6.67%) Metadata
7 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
7 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
7 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
7 1 (6.67%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Front Office
3 1 (6.67%) Law
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Data Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
3 3 (20.00%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Data Architect
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Platform Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Insurance Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) REST
2 3 (20.00%) YAML
3 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (6.67%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (20.00%) Replication
2 2 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Analytics
2 9 (60.00%) ETL
3 8 (53.33%) Data Engineering
4 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
4 7 (46.67%) Data Modelling
4 7 (46.67%) DevOps
4 7 (46.67%) Wealth Management
5 6 (40.00%) Asset Management
5 6 (40.00%) Data Governance
5 6 (40.00%) Data Transformation
5 6 (40.00%) Dimensional Modelling
6 5 (33.33%) AI
6 5 (33.33%) Data Architecture
6 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (33.33%) Lakehouse
7 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (26.67%) Kimball Methodology
8 3 (20.00%) Master Data Management
8 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
8 3 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (13.33%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Bicep
3 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Databricks
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Informatica