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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 209 260
Rank change year-on-year -95 +51 +86
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 84 175 166
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 1.11% 0.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.86% 5.18% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 128 90
10th Percentile £402 £310 £400
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £558
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +3.14% +6.19%
75th Percentile £590 £675 £664
90th Percentile £665 £700 £738
England median daily rate £500 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.50 -
England median hourly rate - £60.50 -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 2,940 3,380 3,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.80% 21.49% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,050 2,374 2,719
10th Percentile £363 £360 £381
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £652 £700 £685
90th Percentile £781 £838 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 22 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.81 £20.13
25th Percentile £31.12 £36.25 £35.06
Median hourly rate £49.50 £42.75 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -6.10% -17.22%
75th Percentile £68.69 £53.75 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £76.95 £78.00
England median hourly rate £44.25 £33.93 £47.90
% change year-on-year +30.42% -29.16% -0.10%

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 £613 - 67
South London - 1 £500 -
West London - 1 - - 2
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 9 (10.71%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.19%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.19%) CICS
2 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 84 (100.00%) Azure
2 41 (48.81%) Azure Data Factory
3 26 (30.95%) Power Platform
4 24 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 16 (19.05%) Serverless
6 14 (16.67%) Azure Functions
6 14 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 13 (15.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 13 (15.48%) Azure Key Vault
8 12 (14.29%) Azure AKS
8 12 (14.29%) GitHub
9 11 (13.10%) Entra ID
10 10 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (8.33%) PaaS
13 6 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (5.95%) Azure Event Grid
14 5 (5.95%) Power Automate
14 5 (5.95%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) Network Security
2 1 (1.19%) Firewall
2 1 (1.19%) HTTP
2 1 (1.19%) NAS
2 1 (1.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (36.90%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (28.57%) Data Lake
2 24 (28.57%) Power BI
3 22 (26.19%) SQL Server
4 14 (16.67%) NoSQL
5 6 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (4.76%) Power Query
6 4 (4.76%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.57%) Big Data
7 3 (3.57%) Metadata
7 3 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (3.57%) Star Schema
7 3 (3.57%) Tableau
8 2 (2.38%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (2.38%) Data Vault
8 2 (2.38%) MySQL
8 2 (2.38%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 14 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (3.57%) ERwin
2 3 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.38%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.19%) GitLab
4 1 (1.19%) JIRA
4 1 (1.19%) Postman
4 1 (1.19%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (34.52%) Social Skills
2 27 (32.14%) Finance
3 13 (15.48%) Public Sector
4 12 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (8.33%) Banking
7 2 (2.38%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Legal
8 1 (1.19%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 29 (34.52%) Developer
2 19 (22.62%) Data Engineer
3 18 (21.43%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (17.86%) Architect
5 12 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
6 11 (13.10%) Azure Developer
7 9 (10.71%) Azure Architect
7 9 (10.71%) Data Architect
8 8 (9.52%) .NET Developer
9 7 (8.33%) Azure Data Architect
9 7 (8.33%) DBA
10 6 (7.14%) Senior
10 6 (7.14%) SQL DBA
11 5 (5.95%) Senior Developer
12 4 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (4.76%) Lead
12 4 (4.76%) SC Cleared DBA
12 4 (4.76%) Technical Architect
12 4 (4.76%) Tester
13 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (22.62%) .NET
2 14 (16.67%) PySpark
3 13 (15.48%) .NET Core
4 11 (13.10%) React
5 9 (10.71%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.95%) SOAP
7 4 (4.76%) Node.js
7 4 (4.76%) RESTful
8 3 (3.57%) .NET Framework
8 3 (3.57%) ADO
8 3 (3.57%) ARM Templates
8 3 (3.57%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.57%) Next.js
8 3 (3.57%) Spring
8 3 (3.57%) Spring Boot
8 3 (3.57%) YAML
9 2 (2.38%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (2.38%) CSS
9 2 (2.38%) FastAPI
9 2 (2.38%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.76%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.38%) Clustering
5 2 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.19%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.19%) Life Science
6 1 (1.19%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.19%) NHS
6 1 (1.19%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.19%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.57%) Windows
2 2 (2.38%) Linux
2 2 (2.38%) VMS
3 1 (1.19%) AIX
3 1 (1.19%) Solaris
3 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (40.48%) Analytics
1 34 (40.48%) DevOps
2 33 (39.29%) Data Modelling
3 31 (36.90%) CI/CD
4 26 (30.95%) ETL
5 24 (28.57%) Agile
5 24 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
6 22 (26.19%) Data Governance
7 19 (22.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (21.43%) Migration
9 17 (20.24%) Data Architecture
9 17 (20.24%) Data Engineering
9 17 (20.24%) Data Integration
10 12 (14.29%) Containerisation
10 12 (14.29%) Data Science
10 12 (14.29%) Microservices
11 11 (13.10%) Integration Patterns
11 11 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (13.10%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 83 (98.81%) SQL
2 38 (45.24%) Python
3 23 (27.38%) C#
4 12 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 12 (14.29%) T-SQL
5 9 (10.71%) Scala
6 8 (9.52%) Bicep
6 8 (9.52%) Java
7 6 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (7.14%) PowerShell
7 6 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.57%) VBA
9 2 (2.38%) Bash
10 1 (1.19%) COBOL
10 1 (1.19%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.19%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 27 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.71%) Azure Certification
4 7 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.57%) Degree
6 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.19%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.19%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.19%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.19%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.95%) GDPR
2 5 (5.95%) QA
3 3 (3.57%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (13.10%) Active Directory
2 10 (11.90%) Docker
3 1 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (23.81%) Terraform
2 10 (11.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.19%) Grafana
3 1 (1.19%) Istio
3 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 28 (33.33%) Databricks
3 4 (4.76%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.57%) ForgeRock
4 3 (3.57%) Oracle
5 2 (2.38%) SAP
6 1 (1.19%) NetApp