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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 243 249
Rank change year-on-year -40 +6 +87
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 103 127 147
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 0.89% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.47% 4.12% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 88 85
10th Percentile £400 £310 £403
25th Percentile £458 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% -1.82%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £650
90th Percentile £646 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.50 -
England median hourly rate - £60.50 -

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 2,967 3,079 3,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.61% 21.61% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,066 2,115 2,503
10th Percentile £360 £363 £382
25th Percentile £415 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £570
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £696 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 35
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £22.30
25th Percentile £29.72 £26.21 £35.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £70.50 £59.50 £59.38
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £64.52
England median hourly rate £54.70 £42.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +30.24% -9.05% -16.04%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -13 11 £588 -3.29% 46
South London - 1 £500 -
West London - 1 - - 3
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 30 (29.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.97%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.97%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.97%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 103 (100.00%) Azure
2 59 (57.28%) Azure Data Factory
3 33 (32.04%) Power Platform
4 30 (29.13%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (28.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 21 (20.39%) Serverless
7 17 (16.50%) Azure Functions
8 15 (14.56%) Azure Key Vault
8 15 (14.56%) GitHub
9 14 (13.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 13 (12.62%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (11.65%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (11.65%) Entra ID
12 11 (10.68%) Azure AKS
13 8 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (7.77%) PaaS
14 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (5.83%) Snowflake
15 5 (4.85%) Azure Event Grid
15 5 (4.85%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.91%) Firewall
1 3 (2.91%) Network Security
2 1 (0.97%) HTTP
2 1 (0.97%) NAS
2 1 (0.97%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (48.54%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (31.07%) Power BI
3 29 (28.16%) Data Lake
4 28 (27.18%) NoSQL
5 27 (26.21%) SQL Server
6 13 (12.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (7.77%) Metadata
8 7 (6.80%) Tableau
9 5 (4.85%) Big Data
9 5 (4.85%) Relational Database
9 5 (4.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (3.88%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (3.88%) Power Query
10 4 (3.88%) Spark SQL
11 3 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (2.91%) MySQL
11 3 (2.91%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (1.94%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (1.94%) QlikView
12 2 (1.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (31.07%) Git
2 7 (6.80%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.97%) GitLab
3 1 (0.97%) JIRA
3 1 (0.97%) Postman
3 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.33%) Finance
3 13 (12.62%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.77%) Banking
5 2 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.94%) Military
5 2 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (38.83%) Data Engineer
2 30 (29.13%) Azure Engineer
3 26 (25.24%) Azure Data Engineer
4 22 (21.36%) Developer
5 16 (15.53%) Architect
6 13 (12.62%) Senior
7 12 (11.65%) Azure Developer
8 11 (10.68%) Azure Architect
9 9 (8.74%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (7.77%) Technical Architect
11 7 (6.80%) .NET Developer
12 5 (4.85%) Data Architect
12 5 (4.85%) DBA
12 5 (4.85%) SQL DBA
13 4 (3.88%) Azure Data Architect
13 4 (3.88%) Lead
14 3 (2.91%) Backend Developer
14 3 (2.91%) Python Engineer
14 3 (2.91%) Snowflake Developer
14 3 (2.91%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (30.10%) PySpark
2 16 (15.53%) .NET
3 11 (10.68%) .NET Core
4 10 (9.71%) Kafka
5 8 (7.77%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.85%) React
7 4 (3.88%) ARM Templates
7 4 (3.88%) Node.js
7 4 (3.88%) YAML
8 3 (2.91%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.91%) RESTful
8 3 (2.91%) Spring
8 3 (2.91%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.94%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.94%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.94%) FastAPI
9 2 (1.94%) Next.js
9 2 (1.94%) PyTorch
9 2 (1.94%) TensorFlow
9 2 (1.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.88%) AI Agents
3 3 (2.91%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.94%) Clustering
4 2 (1.94%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.97%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.97%) IoT
5 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.97%) Life Science
5 1 (0.97%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.97%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.94%) Windows
2 1 (0.97%) AIX
2 1 (0.97%) Linux
2 1 (0.97%) Solaris
2 1 (0.97%) VMS
2 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (55.34%) Data Modelling
2 42 (40.78%) Data Governance
3 41 (39.81%) CI/CD
3 41 (39.81%) Data Pipeline
4 39 (37.86%) DevOps
5 38 (36.89%) Analytics
6 37 (35.92%) Agile
6 37 (35.92%) Data Integration
7 36 (34.95%) Data Engineering
8 32 (31.07%) Business Intelligence
8 32 (31.07%) Data Architecture
9 31 (30.10%) ETL
10 27 (26.21%) Integration Patterns
11 19 (18.45%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (17.48%) Migration
13 17 (16.50%) Microservices
14 16 (15.53%) RBAC
15 13 (12.62%) Containerisation
15 13 (12.62%) Visualisation
16 12 (11.65%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 102 (99.03%) SQL
2 45 (43.69%) Python
3 27 (26.21%) Scala
4 13 (12.62%) Bicep
4 13 (12.62%) C#
5 7 (6.80%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.83%) T-SQL
6 6 (5.83%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (4.85%) Java
7 5 (4.85%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.94%) R
9 1 (0.97%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.97%) COBOL
9 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.97%) VBA
Qualifications
1 45 (43.69%) Security Cleared
2 40 (38.83%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.56%) Azure Certification
4 7 (6.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.88%) Degree
6 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.97%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.97%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.97%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (34.95%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.85%) GDPR
2 5 (4.85%) QA
3 3 (2.91%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (14.56%) Docker
2 11 (10.68%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (18.45%) Terraform
2 12 (11.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (43.69%) Databricks
2 37 (35.92%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.88%) OpenAI
3 4 (3.88%) Oracle
3 4 (3.88%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.91%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.94%) Palo Alto
5 2 (1.94%) SAP
6 1 (0.97%) NetApp