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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 281 282
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +54
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 125 69 113
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 0.55% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.82% 2.46% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 47 81
10th Percentile £409 £425 £450
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £688
90th Percentile £750 £751 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%

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 3,273 2,806 3,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.45% 22.30% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,239 1,983 2,835
10th Percentile £363 £375 £378
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £557 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% -0.92% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 32 37
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.14 £28.03 £25.79
Median hourly rate £50.00 £39.31 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.21% -21.39% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62.63 £56.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.50 £64.73
England median hourly rate £47.54 £32.05 £40.00
% change year-on-year +48.33% -19.88% -27.27%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -15 12 £575 -10.16% 30
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 24 (19.20%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 125 (100.00%) Azure
2 64 (51.20%) Azure Data Factory
3 52 (41.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 48 (38.40%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (30.40%) Power Platform
6 32 (25.60%) GitHub
7 15 (12.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 15 (12.00%) Serverless
8 13 (10.40%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (9.60%) Azure Functions
10 10 (8.00%) Azure AKS
10 10 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (7.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 8 (6.40%) Entra ID
12 8 (6.40%) PaaS
13 7 (5.60%) PowerApps
14 6 (4.80%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (4.80%) Azure Storage
14 6 (4.80%) IaaS
15 5 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.80%) Network Security
2 4 (3.20%) DNS
3 3 (2.40%) Firewall
4 1 (0.80%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (38.40%) Data Warehouse
2 45 (36.00%) Data Lake
3 34 (27.20%) SQL Server
4 28 (22.40%) Power BI
5 18 (14.40%) NoSQL
6 14 (11.20%) Delta Lake
7 12 (9.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (8.00%) Metadata
9 6 (4.80%) Star Schema
10 5 (4.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 5 (4.00%) Spark SQL
10 5 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (4.00%) Tableau
11 4 (3.20%) Big Data
11 4 (3.20%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (3.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (2.40%) Relational Database
12 3 (2.40%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (1.60%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 39 (31.20%) Git
2 5 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.80%) JMeter
4 1 (0.80%) Postman
4 1 (0.80%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.80%) Selenium
General
1 39 (31.20%) Finance
2 25 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.60%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.80%) Banking
6 3 (2.40%) Military
7 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.60%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Marketing
8 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (48.80%) Data Engineer
2 28 (22.40%) Architect
3 25 (20.00%) Senior
4 21 (16.80%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (15.20%) Azure Data Engineer
6 17 (13.60%) Azure Architect
6 17 (13.60%) Senior Data Engineer
7 15 (12.00%) Developer
8 11 (8.80%) Data Architect
9 9 (7.20%) Informatica Engineer
9 9 (7.20%) Technical Architect
10 8 (6.40%) Azure Data Architect
11 7 (5.60%) DBA
11 7 (5.60%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.80%) .NET Developer
12 6 (4.80%) SQL DBA
13 4 (3.20%) Azure Developer
13 4 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
13 4 (3.20%) Senior Developer
14 3 (2.40%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (26.40%) PySpark
2 19 (15.20%) .NET
3 9 (7.20%) .NET Core
3 9 (7.20%) Kafka
4 7 (5.60%) AngularJS
5 6 (4.80%) React
5 6 (4.80%) REST
6 5 (4.00%) ARM Templates
7 3 (2.40%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.40%) CSS
7 3 (2.40%) HTML
7 3 (2.40%) JSON
7 3 (2.40%) OAuth
7 3 (2.40%) Spring
7 3 (2.40%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.40%) XML
7 3 (2.40%) YAML
8 2 (1.60%) Node.js
8 2 (1.60%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.60%) Cloud Native
1 7 (5.60%) Replication
2 3 (2.40%) AI Agents
2 3 (2.40%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.60%) IoT
3 2 (1.60%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.80%) Clustering
4 1 (0.80%) Data Fabric
4 1 (0.80%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.80%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (52.80%) Data Modelling
2 60 (48.00%) DevOps
3 55 (44.00%) Data Pipeline
4 52 (41.60%) CI/CD
5 50 (40.00%) Data Engineering
6 48 (38.40%) Analytics
6 48 (38.40%) ETL
7 43 (34.40%) Data Governance
8 36 (28.80%) Data Architecture
9 33 (26.40%) Data Integration
10 31 (24.80%) Agile
11 30 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (21.60%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (21.60%) Integration Patterns
13 21 (16.80%) Data Science
14 20 (16.00%) High Availability
15 19 (15.20%) Performance Tuning
16 17 (13.60%) AI
16 17 (13.60%) Migration
17 14 (11.20%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 125 (100.00%) SQL
2 47 (37.60%) Python
3 30 (24.00%) Scala
4 12 (9.60%) Bicep
4 12 (9.60%) C#
5 10 (8.00%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.40%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.80%) Java
8 4 (3.20%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.20%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.60%) Bash
10 2 (1.60%) R
11 1 (0.80%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.80%) C
11 1 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 49 (39.20%) Security Cleared
2 45 (36.00%) SC Cleared
3 18 (14.40%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.60%) Degree
6 1 (0.80%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.80%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.80%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (39.20%) Data Quality
2 15 (12.00%) QA
3 6 (4.80%) GDPR
4 2 (1.60%) NCSC
5 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.80%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.80%) IFRS
5 1 (0.80%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.80%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.80%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (10.40%) Docker
2 7 (5.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (25.60%) Terraform
2 11 (8.80%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 54 (43.20%) Microsoft
2 44 (35.20%) Databricks
3 10 (8.00%) Informatica
4 5 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.20%) Oracle
6 3 (2.40%) ForgeRock
6 3 (2.40%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.60%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.80%) Google
8 1 (0.80%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud