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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 275 286
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 +28
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 124 84 105
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 0.64% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.95% 2.92% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 58 75
10th Percentile £413 £420 £437
25th Percentile £488 £514 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £609 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £751 £760
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -1.87%
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 3,136 2,872 3,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.13% 22.03% 20.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,145 2,040 2,727
10th Percentile £361 £375 £377
25th Percentile £425 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £561 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +2.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £749 £834 £788
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 29 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.23 £28.60 £25.90
Median hourly rate £48.25 £41.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.27% -7.78% +3.14%
75th Percentile £65.31 £58.75 £52.31
90th Percentile £89.25 £77.75 £63.98
England median hourly rate £49.36 £33.11 £40.25
% change year-on-year +49.08% -17.74% -32.92%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -10 10 £575 - 38
West London -15 2 £550 - 1
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 (24.19%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.81%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 124 (100.00%) Azure
2 74 (59.68%) Azure Data Factory
3 43 (34.68%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (33.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 35 (28.23%) Power Platform
6 27 (21.77%) GitHub
7 18 (14.52%) Azure Key Vault
7 18 (14.52%) Serverless
8 16 (12.90%) Azure Functions
8 16 (12.90%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (9.68%) Azure AKS
9 12 (9.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 11 (8.87%) Azure Service Bus
10 11 (8.87%) Entra ID
11 10 (8.06%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (7.26%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (6.45%) PaaS
14 6 (4.84%) IaaS
14 6 (4.84%) SaaS
15 5 (4.03%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.84%) Network Security
2 4 (3.23%) DNS
3 3 (2.42%) Firewall
4 1 (0.81%) HTTP
4 1 (0.81%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (41.94%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (31.45%) Data Lake
3 31 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 30 (24.19%) Power BI
5 24 (19.35%) NoSQL
6 13 (10.48%) Delta Lake
6 13 (10.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (8.06%) Metadata
8 7 (5.65%) Tableau
9 5 (4.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (3.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.23%) Big Data
10 4 (3.23%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (3.23%) Spark SQL
10 4 (3.23%) Star Schema
11 3 (2.42%) MySQL
11 3 (2.42%) Relational Database
11 3 (2.42%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 44 (35.48%) Git
2 7 (5.65%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.81%) JMeter
3 1 (0.81%) Postman
3 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.81%) Selenium
3 1 (0.81%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (25.81%) Finance
2 29 (23.39%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.45%) Banking
5 5 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.61%) Military
7 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (44.35%) Data Engineer
2 29 (23.39%) Azure Engineer
3 25 (20.16%) Azure Data Engineer
4 24 (19.35%) Architect
5 21 (16.94%) Senior
6 20 (16.13%) Developer
7 15 (12.10%) Senior Data Engineer
8 14 (11.29%) Azure Architect
9 10 (8.06%) .NET Developer
9 10 (8.06%) Azure Developer
10 9 (7.26%) Technical Architect
11 8 (6.45%) DBA
12 7 (5.65%) Data Architect
12 7 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.65%) SQL DBA
13 5 (4.03%) Azure Data Architect
13 5 (4.03%) Lead
14 3 (2.42%) Backend Developer
14 3 (2.42%) Cloud Engineer
14 3 (2.42%) ETL Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (33.06%) PySpark
2 19 (15.32%) .NET
3 10 (8.06%) .NET Core
3 10 (8.06%) Kafka
4 7 (5.65%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.03%) ARM Templates
5 5 (4.03%) React
5 5 (4.03%) REST
6 4 (3.23%) YAML
7 3 (2.42%) .NET Framework
7 3 (2.42%) ASP.NET
7 3 (2.42%) Node.js
7 3 (2.42%) RESTful
7 3 (2.42%) Spring
7 3 (2.42%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.61%) Blazor
8 2 (1.61%) JSON
8 2 (1.61%) Next.js
8 2 (1.61%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.84%) Replication
3 4 (3.23%) AI Agents
4 3 (2.42%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.61%) Clustering
5 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.61%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.61%) IoT
5 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.81%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.42%) Windows
2 1 (0.81%) VMS
2 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (54.03%) Data Modelling
2 59 (47.58%) CI/CD
3 55 (44.35%) DevOps
4 52 (41.94%) Data Pipeline
5 48 (38.71%) Analytics
5 48 (38.71%) Data Governance
6 43 (34.68%) Data Engineering
7 42 (33.87%) ETL
8 39 (31.45%) Agile
9 38 (30.65%) Data Integration
10 36 (29.03%) Data Architecture
11 32 (25.81%) Infrastructure as Code
11 32 (25.81%) Integration Patterns
12 29 (23.39%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (16.94%) Data Science
14 20 (16.13%) High Availability
15 18 (14.52%) Migration
15 18 (14.52%) RBAC
16 16 (12.90%) Log Analytics
16 16 (12.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 124 (100.00%) SQL
2 52 (41.94%) Python
3 36 (29.03%) Scala
4 15 (12.10%) C#
5 13 (10.48%) Bicep
6 12 (9.68%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.84%) Java
7 6 (4.84%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.84%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.23%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.61%) Bash
10 2 (1.61%) R
11 1 (0.81%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.81%) C
11 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.81%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (40.32%) Security Cleared
2 46 (37.10%) SC Cleared
3 19 (15.32%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.61%) Degree
6 1 (0.81%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.81%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.81%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (41.13%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.65%) GDPR
2 7 (5.65%) QA
3 2 (1.61%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.61%) NCSC
4 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (11.29%) Docker
2 10 (8.06%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (27.42%) Terraform
2 13 (10.48%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 54 (43.55%) Databricks
2 45 (36.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.03%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.23%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.23%) Oracle
5 3 (2.42%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.61%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.61%) SAP
7 1 (0.81%) Google
7 1 (0.81%) Informatica