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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 280 272
Rank change year-on-year -36 -8 +39
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 109 72 131
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.59% 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.26% 2.67% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 52 98
10th Percentile £414 £428 £425
25th Percentile £474 £500 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £750 £738 £741
England median daily rate £525 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +0.38% -4.91% -

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 3,339 2,700 3,909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.98% 22.24% 22.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,273 1,876 2,904
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £710
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 32 33
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.99 £25.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -27.84% -9.77%
75th Percentile £61.50 £54.06 £54.13
90th Percentile £84.00 £76.50 £71.40
England median hourly rate £41.71 £32.05 £40.00
% change year-on-year +30.14% -19.88% -33.33%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -21 10 £538 -16.08% 31
West London -21 1 £550 - 1
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 10 (9.17%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.59%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 109 (100.00%) Azure
2 48 (44.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 46 (42.20%) Azure Data Factory
3 46 (42.20%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (32.11%) Power Platform
5 32 (29.36%) GitHub
6 14 (12.84%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (12.84%) Serverless
7 11 (10.09%) Azure Key Vault
8 10 (9.17%) Azure Functions
8 10 (9.17%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (9.17%) Entra ID
9 9 (8.26%) PaaS
10 7 (6.42%) IaaS
10 7 (6.42%) PowerApps
11 6 (5.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (5.50%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (5.50%) Azure Storage
12 5 (4.59%) Azure AKS
12 5 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.50%) Network Security
2 5 (4.59%) DNS
3 4 (3.67%) Firewall
4 2 (1.83%) VPN
5 1 (0.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (40.37%) Data Lake
2 33 (30.28%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (27.52%) SQL Server
4 25 (22.94%) Power BI
5 12 (11.01%) Delta Lake
6 10 (9.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (8.26%) Metadata
8 7 (6.42%) NoSQL
8 7 (6.42%) Star Schema
9 5 (4.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 5 (4.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (3.67%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (3.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (2.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.75%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (2.75%) Spark SQL
12 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 2 (1.83%) MySQL
12 2 (1.83%) OLAP
12 2 (1.83%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 27 (24.77%) Git
2 2 (1.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.92%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.92%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.92%) JMeter
3 1 (0.92%) Postman
3 1 (0.92%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.92%) Selenium
General
1 34 (31.19%) Finance
2 21 (19.27%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.34%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.50%) Banking
6 4 (3.67%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.75%) Military
8 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Local Government
9 1 (0.92%) Marketing
9 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (44.04%) Data Engineer
2 26 (23.85%) Architect
3 23 (21.10%) Senior
4 16 (14.68%) Azure Architect
4 16 (14.68%) Developer
5 14 (12.84%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (10.09%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (9.17%) Data Architect
8 9 (8.26%) Azure Data Engineer
8 9 (8.26%) Informatica Engineer
9 7 (6.42%) .NET Developer
9 7 (6.42%) Azure Data Architect
9 7 (6.42%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.50%) DBA
10 6 (5.50%) Senior Developer
10 6 (5.50%) Technical Architect
11 5 (4.59%) SQL DBA
12 4 (3.67%) Migration Engineer
12 4 (3.67%) Senior .NET Developer
12 4 (3.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (19.27%) PySpark
2 18 (16.51%) .NET
3 7 (6.42%) REST
4 6 (5.50%) .NET Core
5 5 (4.59%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.59%) ARM Templates
5 5 (4.59%) CSS
5 5 (4.59%) HTML
5 5 (4.59%) OAuth
6 4 (3.67%) OAuth2
6 4 (3.67%) React
7 3 (2.75%) JSON
7 3 (2.75%) Kafka
8 2 (1.83%) Blazor
8 2 (1.83%) RESTful
8 2 (1.83%) XML
9 1 (0.92%) Next.js
9 1 (0.92%) OpenID
9 1 (0.92%) Playwright
9 1 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.34%) Cloud Native
1 8 (7.34%) Replication
2 3 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.83%) IoT
3 2 (1.83%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.92%) Clustering
4 1 (0.92%) Data Fabric
4 1 (0.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.92%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.92%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.92%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Windows
2 2 (1.83%) VMS
3 1 (0.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (49.54%) DevOps
2 50 (45.87%) Data Modelling
3 44 (40.37%) CI/CD
4 43 (39.45%) Analytics
5 42 (38.53%) ETL
6 38 (34.86%) Data Engineering
7 37 (33.94%) Data Pipeline
8 27 (24.77%) Data Governance
8 27 (24.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 24 (22.02%) Business Intelligence
9 24 (22.02%) Data Architecture
10 23 (21.10%) Agile
11 19 (17.43%) High Availability
12 16 (14.68%) Data Integration
12 16 (14.68%) Migration
12 16 (14.68%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (12.84%) AI
13 14 (12.84%) Data Science
13 14 (12.84%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (12.84%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 109 (100.00%) SQL
2 28 (25.69%) Python
3 17 (15.60%) Scala
4 12 (11.01%) Bicep
5 11 (10.09%) PowerShell
6 9 (8.26%) C#
7 6 (5.50%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (3.67%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.83%) Bash
9 2 (1.83%) Java
10 1 (0.92%) C
10 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 34 (31.19%) Security Cleared
2 31 (28.44%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.76%) Azure Certification
4 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.92%) Degree
5 1 (0.92%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (33.03%) Data Quality
2 14 (12.84%) QA
3 6 (5.50%) GDPR
4 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.83%) NCSC
5 2 (1.83%) NIST
6 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.92%) IFRS
6 1 (0.92%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.92%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (6.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.59%) Docker
3 3 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (26.61%) Terraform
2 4 (3.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.92%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (49.54%) Microsoft
2 27 (24.77%) Databricks
3 11 (10.09%) Informatica
4 5 (4.59%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.75%) Oracle
6 2 (1.83%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.92%) Google
7 1 (0.92%) IBM
7 1 (0.92%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud