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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 251 250
Rank change year-on-year -29 -1 +91
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 100 105 144
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 0.76% 0.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.40% 3.49% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 68 88
10th Percentile £398 £338 £408
25th Percentile £463 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £539
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.37% -2.05%
75th Percentile £588 £678 £643
90th Percentile £650 £758 £749
England median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -2.27%
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 2,944 3,010 3,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.19% 21.68% 19.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,045 2,065 2,565
10th Percentile £357 £363 £385
25th Percentile £415 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% +0.53% -5.83%
75th Percentile £644 £699 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 27 39
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £23.20
25th Percentile £29.41 £27.67 £30.62
Median hourly rate £45.00 £43.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -4.44% +1.55%
75th Percentile £71.50 £62.88 £56.44
90th Percentile £87.50 £85.50 £64.51
England median hourly rate £43.50 £38.50 £43.62
% change year-on-year +12.99% -11.74% -23.29%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -16 9 £588 -3.29% 34
South London - 1 £500 - 2
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 30 (30.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.00%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 100 (100.00%) Azure
2 59 (59.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 33 (33.00%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (30.00%) Power Platform
5 28 (28.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 19 (19.00%) GitHub
7 18 (18.00%) Serverless
8 15 (15.00%) Azure Functions
8 15 (15.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 13 (13.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 13 (13.00%) Azure Service Bus
10 12 (12.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (11.00%) Azure AKS
12 10 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (9.00%) Entra ID
14 8 (8.00%) PaaS
15 6 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Purview
16 5 (5.00%) Azure Event Grid
16 5 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.00%) Network Security
2 2 (2.00%) Firewall
3 1 (1.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (48.00%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (29.00%) Power BI
3 28 (28.00%) NoSQL
4 27 (27.00%) Data Lake
5 24 (24.00%) SQL Server
6 11 (11.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (8.00%) Metadata
8 7 (7.00%) Tableau
9 5 (5.00%) Big Data
10 4 (4.00%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (4.00%) Relational Database
10 4 (4.00%) Spark SQL
11 3 (3.00%) Delta Lake
11 3 (3.00%) MySQL
11 3 (3.00%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (2.00%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (2.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (33.00%) Git
2 7 (7.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.00%) Postman
4 1 (1.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.00%) JIRA
4 1 (1.00%) JMeter
4 1 (1.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.00%) Selenium
4 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.00%) Finance
3 12 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.00%) Banking
5 6 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.00%) Military
7 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (41.00%) Data Engineer
2 30 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
3 26 (26.00%) Azure Data Engineer
4 21 (21.00%) Developer
5 15 (15.00%) Architect
6 13 (13.00%) Senior
7 11 (11.00%) Azure Architect
7 11 (11.00%) Azure Developer
8 9 (9.00%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) .NET Developer
9 7 (7.00%) Technical Architect
10 5 (5.00%) Data Architect
10 5 (5.00%) DBA
10 5 (5.00%) SQL DBA
11 4 (4.00%) Azure Data Architect
11 4 (4.00%) Lead
12 3 (3.00%) Backend Developer
12 3 (3.00%) Snowflake Developer
12 3 (3.00%) SQL Server DBA
12 3 (3.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (33.00%) PySpark
2 16 (16.00%) .NET
3 11 (11.00%) .NET Core
4 10 (10.00%) Kafka
5 8 (8.00%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.00%) React
7 4 (4.00%) ARM Templates
7 4 (4.00%) Node.js
7 4 (4.00%) YAML
8 3 (3.00%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.00%) Next.js
8 3 (3.00%) RESTful
8 3 (3.00%) Spring
8 3 (3.00%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.00%) .NET Framework
9 2 (2.00%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (2.00%) PyTorch
9 2 (2.00%) TensorFlow
9 2 (2.00%) Vue
10 1 (1.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.00%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.00%) Clustering
3 2 (2.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.00%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.00%) VMS
1 1 (1.00%) Windows
1 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (55.00%) Data Modelling
2 44 (44.00%) CI/CD
3 41 (41.00%) DevOps
4 40 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
5 39 (39.00%) Data Governance
6 38 (38.00%) Agile
7 36 (36.00%) Analytics
7 36 (36.00%) Data Integration
8 35 (35.00%) Data Engineering
9 33 (33.00%) Data Architecture
10 30 (30.00%) ETL
11 29 (29.00%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (27.00%) Integration Patterns
13 19 (19.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (17.00%) Microservices
15 16 (16.00%) RBAC
16 14 (14.00%) Migration
17 12 (12.00%) Data Science
18 11 (11.00%) Containerisation
18 11 (11.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 99 (99.00%) SQL
2 44 (44.00%) Python
3 28 (28.00%) Scala
4 13 (13.00%) C#
5 12 (12.00%) Bicep
6 7 (7.00%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.00%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.00%) Java
8 5 (5.00%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (3.00%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.00%) R
11 1 (1.00%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 40 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.00%) Azure Certification
4 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.00%) Degree
6 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.00%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.00%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.00%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (39.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.00%) QA
3 4 (4.00%) GDPR
4 2 (2.00%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (14.00%) Docker
2 8 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (19.00%) Terraform
2 11 (11.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 44 (44.00%) Databricks
2 35 (35.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.00%) Oracle
5 3 (3.00%) ForgeRock
6 2 (2.00%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.00%) SAP