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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 280 292
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 +37
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 129 75 104
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.74% 0.59% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.93% 2.64% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 49 73
10th Percentile £403 £422 £433
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £751 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
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 3,279 2,843 3,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.83% 22.37% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,253 2,002 2,775
10th Percentile £363 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £630 £713 £700
90th Percentile £749 £838 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 33 37
10th Percentile £20.64 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £31.03 £28.60 £25.79
Median hourly rate £46.50 £40.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -16.49% +2.11%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.75 £54.13
90th Percentile £84.00 £75.50 £64.06
England median hourly rate £50.50 £33.11 £40.13
% change year-on-year +52.52% -17.48% -31.52%

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 April 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 20 April 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 11 £575 -10.16% 29
West London -25 1 £550 - 2
South London - 1 £500 -
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 (23.26%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 129 (100.00%) Azure
2 70 (54.26%) Azure Data Factory
3 48 (37.21%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (36.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 38 (29.46%) Power Platform
6 31 (24.03%) GitHub
7 16 (12.40%) Azure Key Vault
8 14 (10.85%) Azure Monitor
8 14 (10.85%) Serverless
9 12 (9.30%) Azure Functions
10 11 (8.53%) Azure AKS
11 10 (7.75%) Entra ID
12 9 (6.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 9 (6.98%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (6.20%) PaaS
14 7 (5.43%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (5.43%) PowerApps
15 6 (4.65%) Azure Storage
15 6 (4.65%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.65%) Network Security
2 4 (3.10%) DNS
3 3 (2.33%) Firewall
4 1 (0.78%) HTTP
4 1 (0.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (39.53%) Data Warehouse
2 43 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 34 (26.36%) SQL Server
4 28 (21.71%) Power BI
5 23 (17.83%) NoSQL
6 14 (10.85%) Delta Lake
7 13 (10.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (6.98%) Metadata
9 6 (4.65%) Tableau
10 5 (3.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.88%) Spark SQL
10 5 (3.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (3.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (3.88%) Star Schema
11 4 (3.10%) Big Data
11 4 (3.10%) Metadata Repository
12 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.33%) MySQL
12 3 (2.33%) Relational Database
12 3 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (34.88%) Git
2 6 (4.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.78%) JMeter
3 1 (0.78%) Postman
3 1 (0.78%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.78%) Selenium
General
1 36 (27.91%) Finance
2 26 (20.16%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.30%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.98%) Banking
5 6 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.33%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.55%) Military
8 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Marketing
8 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (47.29%) Data Engineer
2 27 (20.93%) Architect
3 26 (20.16%) Azure Engineer
4 24 (18.60%) Azure Data Engineer
5 22 (17.05%) Senior
6 17 (13.18%) Azure Architect
7 16 (12.40%) Developer
7 16 (12.40%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (7.75%) Data Architect
9 9 (6.98%) Technical Architect
10 8 (6.20%) .NET Developer
10 8 (6.20%) Azure Data Architect
10 8 (6.20%) DBA
11 7 (5.43%) Azure Developer
11 7 (5.43%) Informatica Engineer
11 7 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.43%) SQL DBA
12 3 (2.33%) Cloud Engineer
12 3 (2.33%) SQL Server Architect
12 3 (2.33%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (30.23%) PySpark
2 22 (17.05%) .NET
3 10 (7.75%) .NET Core
3 10 (7.75%) Kafka
4 9 (6.98%) AngularJS
5 6 (4.65%) REST
6 5 (3.88%) ARM Templates
6 5 (3.88%) React
7 4 (3.10%) JSON
8 3 (2.33%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.33%) CSS
8 3 (2.33%) HTML
8 3 (2.33%) Node.js
8 3 (2.33%) OAuth
8 3 (2.33%) Spring
8 3 (2.33%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.33%) XML
8 3 (2.33%) YAML
9 2 (1.55%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.20%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.43%) Replication
3 3 (2.33%) AI Agents
3 3 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.55%) IoT
4 2 (1.55%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.78%) Clustering
5 1 (0.78%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.78%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (54.26%) Data Modelling
2 60 (46.51%) DevOps
3 58 (44.96%) Data Pipeline
4 54 (41.86%) CI/CD
5 51 (39.53%) Data Engineering
6 48 (37.21%) Data Governance
7 46 (35.66%) Analytics
8 45 (34.88%) ETL
9 42 (32.56%) Data Architecture
10 39 (30.23%) Data Integration
11 36 (27.91%) Agile
12 33 (25.58%) Integration Patterns
13 31 (24.03%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (20.93%) Business Intelligence
15 21 (16.28%) Data Science
16 20 (15.50%) High Availability
17 18 (13.95%) Performance Tuning
18 16 (12.40%) Microservices
18 16 (12.40%) Migration
18 16 (12.40%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 129 (100.00%) SQL
2 50 (38.76%) Python
3 36 (27.91%) Scala
4 12 (9.30%) Bicep
4 12 (9.30%) C#
5 10 (7.75%) PowerShell
6 7 (5.43%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.65%) Java
8 5 (3.88%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.10%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.55%) Bash
10 2 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.55%) R
11 1 (0.78%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.78%) C
11 1 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 53 (41.09%) Security Cleared
2 48 (37.21%) SC Cleared
3 19 (14.73%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.55%) Degree
6 1 (0.78%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (41.86%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.75%) QA
3 6 (4.65%) GDPR
4 2 (1.55%) NCSC
5 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (10.85%) Docker
2 8 (6.20%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (24.81%) Terraform
2 13 (10.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.78%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 52 (40.31%) Microsoft
2 51 (39.53%) Databricks
3 7 (5.43%) Informatica
4 5 (3.88%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.10%) Oracle
6 3 (2.33%) ForgeRock
6 3 (2.33%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.55%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.78%) Google
8 1 (0.78%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud