Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 286 226
Rank change year-on-year -52 -60 +84
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 99 80 168
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 0.59% 1.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.75% 2.74% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 59 127
10th Percentile £425 £406 £310
25th Percentile £471 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £647 £639 £675
90th Percentile £750 £725 £730
England median daily rate £525 £500 £539
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.19% -6.30%

All Database & BI Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,596 2,922 3,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.84% 21.43% 23.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,424 2,057 2,869
10th Percentile £363 £382 £363
25th Percentile £437 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 23
10th Percentile £18.23 £25.01 £36.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £30.54 £41.88
Median hourly rate £39.50 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +3.96% -15.83%
75th Percentile £56.63 £63.75 £60.02
90th Percentile £60.75 £87.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £38.50 £34.82 £37.50
% change year-on-year +10.58% -7.16% -31.82%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in London

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in London over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in London

Azure SQL Database
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Azure SQL Database
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 Database within the London region over the 6 months to 1 August 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 -8 17 £500 -19.39% 32
West London -16 1 £550 - 4
North London - 1 £650 -
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
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 13 (13.13%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (100.00%) Azure
2 47 (47.47%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (40.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 35 (35.35%) Power Platform
5 31 (31.31%) Azure Data Factory
6 30 (30.30%) GitHub
7 16 (16.16%) Azure Monitor
8 15 (15.15%) Entra ID
9 14 (14.14%) Serverless
10 12 (12.12%) Azure Functions
10 12 (12.12%) Azure Key Vault
11 11 (11.11%) PowerApps
12 9 (9.09%) PaaS
13 8 (8.08%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (8.08%) IaaS
14 7 (7.07%) SaaS
15 6 (6.06%) Azure Storage
16 5 (5.05%) Azure App Service
16 5 (5.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 5 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) DNS
1 5 (5.05%) Network Security
2 3 (3.03%) Firewall
2 3 (3.03%) VPN
3 1 (1.01%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (35.35%) SQL Server
2 33 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 25 (25.25%) Power BI
4 21 (21.21%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (14.14%) Star Schema
6 8 (8.08%) Delta Lake
7 7 (7.07%) Power Query
7 7 (7.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (7.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (5.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 5 (5.05%) Metadata
8 5 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (5.05%) Relational Database
9 4 (4.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (4.04%) NoSQL
9 4 (4.04%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (4.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (3.03%) MySQL
10 3 (3.03%) OLAP
11 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 20 (20.20%) Git
2 6 (6.06%) Visual Studio
3 4 (4.04%) JetBrains Rider
4 2 (2.02%) Jasmine
4 2 (2.02%) JUnit
4 2 (2.02%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.01%) ERwin
5 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
General
1 35 (35.35%) Finance
2 24 (24.24%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.11%) Banking
4 8 (8.08%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.06%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.04%) Retail
7 3 (3.03%) Local Government
8 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.01%) Marketing
9 1 (1.01%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (31.31%) Developer
2 30 (30.30%) Data Engineer
3 22 (22.22%) Architect
4 20 (20.20%) Senior
5 12 (12.12%) Data Architect
6 10 (10.10%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (9.09%) Informatica Engineer
8 8 (8.08%) Azure Architect
8 8 (8.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 8 (8.08%) Power BI Developer
8 8 (8.08%) Senior Data Engineer
8 8 (8.08%) Senior Developer
9 7 (7.07%) Angular Developer
10 6 (6.06%) .NET Developer
10 6 (6.06%) Azure Data Architect
10 6 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.06%) SQL Developer
11 5 (5.05%) DBA
11 5 (5.05%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.19%) .NET
2 15 (15.15%) REST
3 9 (9.09%) CSS
3 9 (9.09%) HTML
4 8 (8.08%) AngularJS
4 8 (8.08%) PySpark
4 8 (8.08%) React
5 6 (6.06%) .NET Core
5 6 (6.06%) OAuth
6 5 (5.05%) .NET Framework
6 5 (5.05%) OAuth2
6 5 (5.05%) RESTful
7 4 (4.04%) CSS3
7 4 (4.04%) Entity Framework
7 4 (4.04%) HTML5
7 4 (4.04%) JSON
7 4 (4.04%) Middleware
8 3 (3.03%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.03%) Web Services
8 3 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.17%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.09%) Replication
3 5 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.02%) Clustering
5 2 (2.02%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.02%) Reinsurance
5 2 (2.02%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.01%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.01%) NHS
6 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.01%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.03%) Windows
2 2 (2.02%) VMS
3 1 (1.01%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (58.59%) DevOps
2 45 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 37 (37.37%) Analytics
3 37 (37.37%) Data Modelling
4 32 (32.32%) ETL
5 27 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
6 24 (24.24%) Business Intelligence
6 24 (24.24%) Data Engineering
7 21 (21.21%) Agile
7 21 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (18.18%) Data Governance
8 18 (18.18%) Migration
8 18 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
9 15 (15.15%) AI
10 14 (14.14%) Data Architecture
11 13 (13.13%) High Availability
11 13 (13.13%) Validation
12 12 (12.12%) Dimensional Modelling
12 12 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (12.12%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 99 (100.00%) SQL
2 19 (19.19%) Python
3 15 (15.15%) C#
4 14 (14.14%) TypeScript
5 11 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 10 (10.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (10.10%) T-SQL
7 6 (6.06%) Bicep
7 6 (6.06%) Scala
8 4 (4.04%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.03%) Bash
9 3 (3.03%) Java
10 1 (1.01%) C
10 1 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 23 (23.23%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.07%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.03%) Degree
5 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.01%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.16%) Data Quality
2 15 (15.15%) QA
3 5 (5.05%) GDPR
4 4 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (3.03%) NIST
6 2 (2.02%) NCSC
7 1 (1.01%) IFRS
7 1 (1.01%) IFRS 17
7 1 (1.01%) IFRS 9
7 1 (1.01%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (7.07%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.06%) Docker
3 2 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (23.23%) Terraform
2 7 (7.07%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.01%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (56.57%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.18%) Databricks
3 11 (11.11%) Informatica
4 3 (3.03%) Oracle
5 1 (1.01%) Foundry
5 1 (1.01%) Google
5 1 (1.01%) IBM
5 1 (1.01%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud