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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 284 252
Rank change year-on-year -48 -32 +68
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 98 74 150
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.51% 0.58% 0.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.86% 2.69% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 53 112
10th Percentile £416 £425 £400
25th Percentile £484 £495 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £748 £738
England median daily rate £540 £523 £531
% change year-on-year +3.35% -1.65% -3.41%

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 3,424 2,752 4,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.87% 21.61% 22.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,315 1,925 3,010
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £720
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 33
10th Percentile £18.19 £25.01 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £27.50
Median hourly rate £44.50 £40.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% -16.49% -19.17%
75th Percentile £60.88 £60.38 £54.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.00 £71.40
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.87% -14.53% -29.76%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -25 9 £500 -23.08% 39
West London -22 1 £550 - 2
North London - 1 £650 -
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 8 (8.16%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 98 (100.00%) Azure
2 46 (46.94%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (44.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 38 (38.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 35 (35.71%) GitHub
6 32 (32.65%) Power Platform
7 17 (17.35%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (12.24%) Serverless
9 11 (11.22%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (10.20%) Entra ID
11 9 (9.18%) Azure Functions
12 8 (8.16%) PaaS
13 7 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (7.14%) Azure Storage
13 7 (7.14%) IaaS
13 7 (7.14%) PowerApps
14 6 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (5.10%) Azure AKS
15 5 (5.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 5 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.12%) Network Security
2 5 (5.10%) DNS
3 3 (3.06%) Firewall
3 3 (3.06%) VPN
4 1 (1.02%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (40.82%) Data Lake
2 29 (29.59%) SQL Server
3 24 (24.49%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (22.45%) Power BI
5 12 (12.24%) Delta Lake
6 8 (8.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (8.16%) Star Schema
7 7 (7.14%) Metadata
8 5 (5.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (4.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (3.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 3 (3.06%) NoSQL
10 3 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
10 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (2.04%) Metadata Repository
11 2 (2.04%) OLAP
11 2 (2.04%) Power Query
11 2 (2.04%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (24.49%) Git
2 4 (4.08%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.04%) JetBrains Rider
3 2 (2.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.02%) Jasmine
4 1 (1.02%) JMeter
4 1 (1.02%) JUnit
4 1 (1.02%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (1.02%) Postman
4 1 (1.02%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.02%) Selenium
General
1 34 (34.69%) Finance
2 17 (17.35%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.18%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (9.18%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.16%) Banking
5 5 (5.10%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.04%) Local Government
7 2 (2.04%) Military
8 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.02%) Marketing
8 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (39.80%) Data Engineer
2 23 (23.47%) Architect
3 22 (22.45%) Developer
4 20 (20.41%) Senior
5 12 (12.24%) Azure Architect
6 11 (11.22%) Senior Data Engineer
7 10 (10.20%) Data Architect
8 9 (9.18%) Informatica Engineer
9 7 (7.14%) Azure Data Architect
9 7 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) .NET Developer
10 6 (6.12%) Angular Developer
10 6 (6.12%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (6.12%) SQL Developer
11 5 (5.10%) Migration Engineer
11 5 (5.10%) Senior Developer
11 5 (5.10%) Web Developer
12 4 (4.08%) DBA
12 4 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.35%) .NET
2 14 (14.29%) PySpark
3 10 (10.20%) REST
4 7 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 7 (7.14%) CSS
4 7 (7.14%) HTML
5 6 (6.12%) OAuth
5 6 (6.12%) React
6 5 (5.10%) OAuth2
7 3 (3.06%) .NET Core
7 3 (3.06%) .NET Framework
7 3 (3.06%) JSON
7 3 (3.06%) RESTful
7 3 (3.06%) Web Services
8 2 (2.04%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.04%) CSS3
8 2 (2.04%) Entity Framework
8 2 (2.04%) HTML5
8 2 (2.04%) Middleware
8 2 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.16%) Replication
3 4 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.04%) IoT
4 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.04%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.02%) Clustering
5 1 (1.02%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.02%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.02%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.02%) NHS
5 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.02%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.02%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.06%) Windows
2 2 (2.04%) VMS
3 1 (1.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (55.10%) DevOps
2 42 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 41 (41.84%) Analytics
4 40 (40.82%) Data Modelling
4 40 (40.82%) ETL
5 31 (31.63%) Data Pipeline
6 29 (29.59%) Data Engineering
7 22 (22.45%) Agile
7 22 (22.45%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (20.41%) Data Governance
10 16 (16.33%) Data Architecture
10 16 (16.33%) High Availability
11 15 (15.31%) Log Analytics
11 15 (15.31%) Performance Tuning
12 14 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (14.29%) Migration
13 13 (13.27%) AI
13 13 (13.27%) Data Science
14 12 (12.24%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 98 (100.00%) SQL
2 24 (24.49%) Python
3 12 (12.24%) C#
4 11 (11.22%) PowerShell
4 11 (11.22%) Scala
5 10 (10.20%) TypeScript
6 7 (7.14%) T-SQL
7 6 (6.12%) Bicep
8 4 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (3.06%) Bash
9 3 (3.06%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.04%) Java
11 1 (1.02%) C
11 1 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 25 (25.51%) Security Cleared
2 23 (23.47%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.20%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.04%) Degree
6 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.02%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.02%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (26.53%) Data Quality
2 14 (14.29%) QA
3 7 (7.14%) GDPR
4 4 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (3.06%) NIST
6 2 (2.04%) NCSC
7 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.02%) IFRS
7 1 (1.02%) IFRS 17
7 1 (1.02%) IFRS 9
7 1 (1.02%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (6.12%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.10%) Docker
3 2 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (24.49%) Terraform
2 6 (6.12%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.02%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (52.04%) Microsoft
2 19 (19.39%) Databricks
3 11 (11.22%) Informatica
4 3 (3.06%) Oracle
4 3 (3.06%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.02%) Google
5 1 (1.02%) IBM
5 1 (1.02%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.02%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.02%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud