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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 300 220
Rank change year-on-year -55 -80 +71
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 95 68 176
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.47% 0.51% 1.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.59% 2.42% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 49 130
10th Percentile £413 £406 £310
25th Percentile £452 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -3.72%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £728 £725
England median daily rate £505 £491 £545
% change year-on-year +2.80% -9.86% -6.03%

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 3,671 2,815 3,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.20% 21.15% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,498 1,954 2,696
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £437 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £505 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -0.98% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 39 23
10th Percentile £18.48 £28.26 £25.10
25th Percentile £25.25 £33.56 £36.25
Median hourly rate £34.03 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.18% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £54.69 £69.75 £60.02
90th Percentile £60.63 £87.50 £79.75
England median hourly rate £38.50 £40.25 £34.47
% change year-on-year -4.34% +16.77% -37.34%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 20 £500 -19.39% 4
North London - 1 £650 -
South London - 1 £613 - 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 12 (12.63%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.16%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.11%) Apache
3 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) Azure
2 44 (46.32%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (38.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 34 (35.79%) Power Platform
5 32 (33.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 28 (29.47%) GitHub
7 14 (14.74%) Entra ID
8 13 (13.68%) Azure Key Vault
8 13 (13.68%) Serverless
9 11 (11.58%) Azure Functions
10 10 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (10.53%) PowerApps
11 8 (8.42%) PaaS
11 8 (8.42%) SaaS
12 7 (7.37%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (7.37%) IaaS
13 6 (6.32%) Azure Databricks
13 6 (6.32%) Azure Storage
14 5 (5.26%) Azure App Service
15 4 (4.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) VPN
2 2 (2.11%) Firewall
2 2 (2.11%) Network Security
3 1 (1.05%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (35.79%) SQL Server
2 32 (33.68%) Data Lake
3 27 (28.42%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (28.42%) Power BI
4 18 (18.95%) Star Schema
5 9 (9.47%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (9.47%) Power Query
6 7 (7.37%) Metadata
6 7 (7.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (6.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 6 (6.32%) NoSQL
8 5 (5.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 5 (5.26%) Relational Database
8 5 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (4.21%) MySQL
9 4 (4.21%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (4.21%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (3.16%) Data Hub
10 3 (3.16%) OLAP
10 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 17 (17.89%) Git
2 6 (6.32%) Visual Studio
3 4 (4.21%) JetBrains Rider
4 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (2.11%) GitLab
5 2 (2.11%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.11%) JUnit
5 2 (2.11%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (1.05%) ERwin
6 1 (1.05%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (30.53%) Finance
2 25 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.53%) Banking
5 6 (6.32%) Investment Banking
5 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.32%) Retail
6 3 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.16%) Local Government
7 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Marketing
7 1 (1.05%) Military
7 1 (1.05%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (33.68%) Developer
2 30 (31.58%) Data Engineer
3 18 (18.95%) Senior
4 17 (17.89%) Architect
5 14 (14.74%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (11.58%) Data Architect
6 11 (11.58%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (9.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 9 (9.47%) Informatica Engineer
7 9 (9.47%) Power BI Developer
8 8 (8.42%) Senior Developer
9 7 (7.37%) Angular Developer
9 7 (7.37%) Azure Architect
10 6 (6.32%) Azure Data Architect
10 6 (6.32%) Azure Data Engineer
10 6 (6.32%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (6.32%) SQL Developer
11 5 (5.26%) .NET Developer
11 5 (5.26%) Migration Engineer
11 5 (5.26%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.89%) .NET
2 15 (15.79%) REST
2 15 (15.79%) Terraform
3 10 (10.53%) React
4 9 (9.47%) CSS
4 9 (9.47%) HTML
5 8 (8.42%) AngularJS
5 8 (8.42%) PySpark
6 6 (6.32%) .NET Core
6 6 (6.32%) OAuth
7 5 (5.26%) .NET Framework
7 5 (5.26%) OAuth2
7 5 (5.26%) RESTful
8 4 (4.21%) CSS3
8 4 (4.21%) Entity Framework
8 4 (4.21%) HTML5
8 4 (4.21%) JSON
8 4 (4.21%) Middleware
9 3 (3.16%) ASP.NET
10 2 (2.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.32%) Replication
3 4 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.11%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.05%) Clustering
5 1 (1.05%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.05%) EPoS
5 1 (1.05%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.05%) NHS
5 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.05%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.16%) Linux
2 2 (2.11%) VMS
2 2 (2.11%) Windows
3 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (60.00%) DevOps
2 43 (45.26%) CI/CD
3 38 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 36 (37.89%) Analytics
5 32 (33.68%) ETL
6 27 (28.42%) Business Intelligence
6 27 (28.42%) Data Engineering
6 27 (28.42%) Data Pipeline
7 25 (26.32%) Agile
8 16 (16.84%) AI
8 16 (16.84%) Migration
8 16 (16.84%) Performance Tuning
9 15 (15.79%) Data Architecture
9 15 (15.79%) Data Governance
10 13 (13.68%) Dimensional Modelling
10 13 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (13.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (13.68%) Validation
11 12 (12.63%) Scrum
12 11 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (100.00%) SQL
2 21 (22.11%) Python
3 16 (16.84%) TypeScript
4 15 (15.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 12 (12.63%) C#
6 11 (11.58%) T-SQL
7 7 (7.37%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.26%) JavaScript
9 4 (4.21%) Scala
10 3 (3.16%) Bicep
11 2 (2.11%) Bash
11 2 (2.11%) Java
12 1 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 22 (23.16%) Security Cleared
2 21 (22.11%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.32%) Degree
4 4 (4.21%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.05%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.05%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.89%) Data Quality
2 15 (15.79%) QA
3 4 (4.21%) GDPR
3 4 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.16%) NIST
5 1 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.05%) IFRS
5 1 (1.05%) IFRS 17
5 1 (1.05%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (7.37%) Docker
2 4 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (6.32%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.11%) Control-M
2 2 (2.11%) Puppet
3 1 (1.05%) SCOM
3 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.05%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 54 (56.84%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.95%) Databricks
3 13 (13.68%) Informatica
4 4 (4.21%) Oracle
5 2 (2.11%) Talend
6 1 (1.05%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.05%) Foundry
6 1 (1.05%) IBM
6 1 (1.05%) Okta
6 1 (1.05%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.05%) RedGate
6 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) SolarWinds