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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 242 244
Rank change year-on-year -37 +2 +90
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 101 118 147
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 0.84% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.44% 3.89% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 79 87
10th Percentile £400 £310 £408
25th Percentile £463 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £588 £675 £656
90th Percentile £650 £755 £753
England median daily rate £503 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.64% - -
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 2,935 3,037 3,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.43% 21.63% 19.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,039 2,084 2,485
10th Percentile £358 £363 £385
25th Percentile £415 £456 £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 31 26 39
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £23.10
25th Percentile £29.56 £26.21 £30.62
Median hourly rate £43.50 £42.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -5.00% +6.98%
75th Percentile £67.38 £59.50 £56.44
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £64.51
England median hourly rate £47.61 £40.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +17.56% -12.30% -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 15 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 15 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 -14 9 £588 -3.29% 42
South London - 1 £500 -
West London - 1 - - 4
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 (29.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.99%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.99%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) Azure
2 61 (60.40%) Azure Data Factory
3 32 (31.68%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (31.68%) Power Platform
4 29 (28.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 19 (18.81%) Serverless
6 18 (17.82%) GitHub
7 16 (15.84%) Azure Functions
8 15 (14.85%) Azure Key Vault
9 13 (12.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 13 (12.87%) Azure Service Bus
10 12 (11.88%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (10.89%) Azure AKS
12 9 (8.91%) Entra ID
12 9 (8.91%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (7.92%) PaaS
14 6 (5.94%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (5.94%) Snowflake
15 5 (4.95%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) Network Security
2 2 (1.98%) Firewall
3 1 (0.99%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (49.50%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (30.69%) Power BI
3 28 (27.72%) Data Lake
3 28 (27.72%) NoSQL
4 24 (23.76%) SQL Server
5 11 (10.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (7.92%) Metadata
7 7 (6.93%) Tableau
8 5 (4.95%) Big Data
9 4 (3.96%) Metadata Repository
9 4 (3.96%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.96%) Spark SQL
10 3 (2.97%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.97%) MySQL
10 3 (2.97%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.98%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (1.98%) QlikView
11 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.98%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (32.67%) Git
2 7 (6.93%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.99%) JIRA
3 1 (0.99%) Postman
3 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.80%) Finance
3 12 (11.88%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.92%) Banking
5 5 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.98%) Military
6 2 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (41.58%) Data Engineer
2 30 (29.70%) Azure Engineer
3 26 (25.74%) Azure Data Engineer
4 22 (21.78%) Developer
5 15 (14.85%) Architect
6 13 (12.87%) Senior
7 12 (11.88%) Azure Developer
8 11 (10.89%) Azure Architect
9 9 (8.91%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (6.93%) .NET Developer
10 7 (6.93%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.95%) Data Architect
11 5 (4.95%) DBA
11 5 (4.95%) SQL DBA
12 4 (3.96%) Azure Data Architect
12 4 (3.96%) Lead
13 3 (2.97%) Backend Developer
13 3 (2.97%) Snowflake Developer
13 3 (2.97%) SQL Server DBA
13 3 (2.97%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (32.67%) PySpark
2 16 (15.84%) .NET
3 11 (10.89%) .NET Core
4 10 (9.90%) Kafka
5 8 (7.92%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.96%) ARM Templates
6 4 (3.96%) Node.js
6 4 (3.96%) React
6 4 (3.96%) YAML
7 3 (2.97%) ASP.NET
7 3 (2.97%) RESTful
7 3 (2.97%) Spring
7 3 (2.97%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.98%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.98%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.98%) Next.js
8 2 (1.98%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.98%) TensorFlow
8 2 (1.98%) Vue
9 1 (0.99%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.94%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.96%) AI Agents
3 3 (2.97%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.98%) Clustering
4 2 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.99%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.99%) IoT
5 1 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.99%) Life Science
5 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.99%) VMS
1 1 (0.99%) Windows
1 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (56.44%) Data Modelling
2 43 (42.57%) CI/CD
3 42 (41.58%) Data Pipeline
4 41 (40.59%) Data Governance
5 40 (39.60%) DevOps
6 38 (37.62%) Analytics
7 37 (36.63%) Agile
7 37 (36.63%) Data Integration
8 36 (35.64%) Data Engineering
9 33 (32.67%) Data Architecture
10 32 (31.68%) ETL
11 31 (30.69%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (26.73%) Integration Patterns
13 19 (18.81%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (16.83%) Microservices
15 16 (15.84%) RBAC
16 14 (13.86%) Migration
17 12 (11.88%) Data Science
18 11 (10.89%) Containerisation
18 11 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 100 (99.01%) SQL
2 45 (44.55%) Python
3 28 (27.72%) Scala
4 13 (12.87%) C#
5 12 (11.88%) Bicep
6 7 (6.93%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.94%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.95%) Java
8 5 (4.95%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.96%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.98%) R
12 1 (0.99%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.99%) VBA
Qualifications
1 43 (42.57%) Security Cleared
2 39 (38.61%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.86%) Azure Certification
4 7 (6.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.97%) Degree
6 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.99%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.99%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.99%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.99%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (38.61%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.95%) GDPR
2 5 (4.95%) QA
3 3 (2.97%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (13.86%) Docker
2 8 (7.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (18.81%) Terraform
2 11 (10.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 44 (43.56%) Databricks
2 37 (36.63%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.95%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.96%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.96%) Oracle
5 3 (2.97%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.98%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.98%) SAP