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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 207 257
Rank change year-on-year -89 +50 +85
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 74 185 168
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.54% 1.18% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.56% 5.37% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 138 85
10th Percentile £406 £310 £400
25th Percentile £453 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +6.98%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £669
90th Percentile £675 £700 £728
England median daily rate £500 £550 £578
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.76% +5.00%

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 2,889 3,444 3,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.15% 21.90% 19.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,000 2,440 2,781
10th Percentile £375 £363 £385
25th Percentile £425 £451 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £850 £788
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 22 36
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.81 £19.88
25th Percentile £30.69 £36.25 £35.19
Median hourly rate £48.00 £45.00 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -1.16% -17.22%
75th Percentile £66.56 £62.21 £65.50
90th Percentile £87.50 £78.75 £90.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +24.29% -29.29% -1.00%

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 30 October 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 30 October 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 -16 10 £613 - 51
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 6 (8.11%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.70%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.35%) CICS
3 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 74 (100.00%) Azure
2 34 (45.95%) Azure Data Factory
3 25 (33.78%) Power Platform
4 21 (28.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 20 (27.03%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (17.57%) Serverless
7 12 (16.22%) Azure Service Bus
8 11 (14.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 11 (14.86%) Azure Functions
9 10 (13.51%) GitHub
10 9 (12.16%) Entra ID
11 8 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (9.46%) Azure AKS
12 7 (9.46%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (9.46%) PaaS
13 6 (8.11%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (6.76%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (6.76%) Power Automate
14 5 (6.76%) PowerApps
14 5 (6.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) Firewall
1 1 (1.35%) HTTP
1 1 (1.35%) NAS
1 1 (1.35%) Network Security
1 1 (1.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (35.14%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (31.08%) Power BI
3 22 (29.73%) Data Lake
3 22 (29.73%) SQL Server
4 11 (14.86%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (5.41%) Power Query
7 3 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (4.05%) Relational Database
7 3 (4.05%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (4.05%) Star Schema
8 2 (2.70%) Big Data
8 2 (2.70%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (2.70%) Data Vault
8 2 (2.70%) MySQL
8 2 (2.70%) QlikView
8 2 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.70%) Tableau
9 1 (1.35%) PolyBase
Development Applications
1 9 (12.16%) Git
2 3 (4.05%) ERwin
3 2 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.70%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.35%) GitLab
4 1 (1.35%) JIRA
4 1 (1.35%) Postman
4 1 (1.35%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 25 (33.78%) Finance
3 12 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (10.81%) Public Sector
6 6 (8.11%) Banking
7 2 (2.70%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Legal
8 1 (1.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 26 (35.14%) Developer
2 18 (24.32%) Azure Engineer
3 15 (20.27%) Data Engineer
4 11 (14.86%) Architect
5 10 (13.51%) Azure Data Engineer
6 9 (12.16%) Azure Architect
6 9 (12.16%) Azure Developer
7 8 (10.81%) .NET Developer
7 8 (10.81%) Data Architect
8 7 (9.46%) Azure Data Architect
9 6 (8.11%) DBA
9 6 (8.11%) Senior
9 6 (8.11%) Senior Developer
10 5 (6.76%) SQL DBA
11 4 (5.41%) Lead
11 4 (5.41%) SC Cleared DBA
11 4 (5.41%) Tester
12 3 (4.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 3 (4.05%) ETL Tester
12 3 (4.05%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.97%) .NET
2 12 (16.22%) .NET Core
3 11 (14.86%) PySpark
4 9 (12.16%) React
5 5 (6.76%) AngularJS
5 5 (6.76%) SOAP
6 4 (5.41%) RESTful
7 3 (4.05%) ADO
7 3 (4.05%) ARM Templates
7 3 (4.05%) Next.js
8 2 (2.70%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.70%) CSS
8 2 (2.70%) FastAPI
8 2 (2.70%) HTML
8 2 (2.70%) Node.js
8 2 (2.70%) pytest
8 2 (2.70%) Vue
8 2 (2.70%) YAML
9 1 (1.35%) Celery
9 1 (1.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (6.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.05%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.70%) Clustering
4 2 (2.70%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.35%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.35%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) IoT
5 1 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.35%) Life Science
5 1 (1.35%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.35%) NHS
5 1 (1.35%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.35%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.05%) Windows
2 2 (2.70%) Linux
2 2 (2.70%) VMS
3 1 (1.35%) AIX
3 1 (1.35%) Solaris
3 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (37.84%) Analytics
1 28 (37.84%) Data Modelling
1 28 (37.84%) DevOps
2 25 (33.78%) ETL
3 23 (31.08%) Business Intelligence
4 22 (29.73%) CI/CD
5 20 (27.03%) Agile
5 20 (27.03%) Migration
6 17 (22.97%) Data Pipeline
7 16 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (20.27%) Data Governance
9 13 (17.57%) Data Architecture
9 13 (17.57%) Data Engineering
10 11 (14.86%) Data Integration
11 10 (13.51%) Data Management
11 10 (13.51%) RBAC
12 9 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (10.81%) Containerisation
13 8 (10.81%) Investment Management
13 8 (10.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 73 (98.65%) SQL
2 29 (39.19%) Python
3 21 (28.38%) C#
4 12 (16.22%) T-SQL
5 10 (13.51%) JavaScript
6 7 (9.46%) Bicep
7 6 (8.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (8.11%) PowerShell
7 6 (8.11%) Scala
8 5 (6.76%) Java
9 3 (4.05%) VBA
10 2 (2.70%) Bash
10 2 (2.70%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.35%) COBOL
11 1 (1.35%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.35%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 20 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.81%) Azure Certification
4 7 (9.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.05%) Degree
6 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.35%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.35%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.81%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.76%) QA
3 4 (5.41%) GDPR
4 3 (4.05%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (12.16%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.76%) Docker
3 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (21.62%) Terraform
2 5 (6.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.35%) Grafana
3 1 (1.35%) Istio
3 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (36.49%) Microsoft
2 22 (29.73%) Databricks
3 3 (4.05%) Oracle
4 2 (2.70%) SAP
5 1 (1.35%) ESRI
5 1 (1.35%) NetApp
5 1 (1.35%) OpenAI