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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 282 252
Rank change year-on-year -42 -30 +63
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 101 71 148
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.53% 0.57% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.97% 2.60% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 51 110
10th Percentile £413 £425 £400
25th Percentile £478 £490 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.44% +4.09% -2.65%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £738
England median daily rate £542 £523 £538
% change year-on-year +3.78% -2.79% -2.27%

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 3,401 2,726 4,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.87% 21.80% 22.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,302 1,912 2,990
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £431 £449 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £719
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 26 30 33
10th Percentile £17.94 £24.80 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.57 £29.07 £25.00
Median hourly rate £47.25 £39.31 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.21% -17.25% -17.39%
75th Percentile £61.19 £61.19 £54.13
90th Percentile £82.50 £80.75 £71.40
England median hourly rate £39.00 £34.19 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.07% -14.53% -31.73%

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 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 20 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 -21 9 £500 -23.08% 39
West London -27 1 £550 - 1
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 7 (6.93%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.96%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 101 (100.00%) Azure
2 48 (47.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 44 (43.56%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (41.58%) Azure Data Factory
5 36 (35.64%) Power Platform
6 35 (34.65%) GitHub
7 16 (15.84%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (11.88%) Serverless
9 11 (10.89%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (8.91%) Entra ID
11 8 (7.92%) Azure Functions
12 7 (6.93%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (6.93%) PaaS
12 7 (6.93%) PowerApps
13 6 (5.94%) Azure AKS
13 6 (5.94%) Azure Storage
13 6 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (5.94%) IaaS
14 5 (4.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.93%) Network Security
2 5 (4.95%) DNS
3 4 (3.96%) Firewall
4 3 (2.97%) VPN
5 1 (0.99%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (43.56%) Data Lake
2 31 (30.69%) SQL Server
3 29 (28.71%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (25.74%) Power BI
5 12 (11.88%) Delta Lake
6 10 (9.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (8.91%) Metadata
8 7 (6.93%) Star Schema
9 5 (4.95%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (3.96%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (3.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.97%) NoSQL
11 3 (2.97%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (2.97%) Spark SQL
11 3 (2.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 2 (1.98%) OLAP
12 2 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (1.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (22.77%) Git
2 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (1.98%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.99%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.99%) JetBrains Rider
3 1 (0.99%) JMeter
3 1 (0.99%) Postman
3 1 (0.99%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.99%) Selenium
General
1 33 (32.67%) Finance
2 16 (15.84%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.91%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.94%) Banking
6 4 (3.96%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.97%) Military
8 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Local Government
9 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Marketing
9 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (43.56%) Data Engineer
2 24 (23.76%) Architect
3 23 (22.77%) Senior
4 18 (17.82%) Developer
5 14 (13.86%) Senior Data Engineer
6 13 (12.87%) Azure Architect
7 10 (9.90%) Data Architect
8 9 (8.91%) Informatica Engineer
9 8 (7.92%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (6.93%) Azure Data Architect
10 7 (6.93%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (5.94%) .NET Developer
12 5 (4.95%) Azure Data Engineer
12 5 (4.95%) Senior Developer
12 5 (4.95%) SQL Developer
13 4 (3.96%) DBA
13 4 (3.96%) Migration Engineer
13 4 (3.96%) Senior Architect
13 4 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (3.96%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.84%) PySpark
2 15 (14.85%) .NET
3 8 (7.92%) REST
4 5 (4.95%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.95%) CSS
4 5 (4.95%) HTML
4 5 (4.95%) OAuth
4 5 (4.95%) React
5 4 (3.96%) OAuth2
6 3 (2.97%) JSON
7 2 (1.98%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.98%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.98%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.98%) Blazor
7 2 (1.98%) Kafka
7 2 (1.98%) RESTful
7 2 (1.98%) Web Services
7 2 (1.98%) XML
8 1 (0.99%) Next.js
8 1 (0.99%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.91%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.92%) Replication
3 4 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.98%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.98%) IoT
4 2 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.98%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.99%) Clustering
5 1 (0.99%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.99%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.99%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.99%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.99%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.99%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.97%) Windows
2 2 (1.98%) VMS
3 1 (0.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (50.50%) DevOps
2 45 (44.55%) Analytics
3 44 (43.56%) Data Modelling
4 43 (42.57%) CI/CD
4 43 (42.57%) ETL
5 33 (32.67%) Data Engineering
6 32 (31.68%) Data Pipeline
7 25 (24.75%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (21.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (20.79%) Agile
9 21 (20.79%) Data Governance
10 19 (18.81%) Data Architecture
11 17 (16.83%) High Availability
12 15 (14.85%) Log Analytics
13 14 (13.86%) AI
13 14 (13.86%) Data Science
13 14 (13.86%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (13.86%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (12.87%) Migration
14 13 (12.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 101 (100.00%) SQL
2 25 (24.75%) Python
3 12 (11.88%) PowerShell
3 12 (11.88%) Scala
4 10 (9.90%) C#
5 7 (6.93%) Bicep
5 7 (6.93%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.94%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.97%) Bash
9 2 (1.98%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.99%) C
10 1 (0.99%) Java
10 1 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 29 (28.71%) Security Cleared
2 26 (25.74%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.88%) Azure Certification
4 7 (6.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.99%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.99%) Degree
5 1 (0.99%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (29.70%) Data Quality
2 13 (12.87%) QA
3 7 (6.93%) GDPR
4 4 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.97%) NIST
6 2 (1.98%) NCSC
7 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.99%) IFRS
7 1 (0.99%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.99%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.99%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (5.94%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.95%) Docker
3 3 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.98%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (23.76%) Terraform
2 5 (4.95%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.99%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (54.46%) Microsoft
2 21 (20.79%) Databricks
3 11 (10.89%) Informatica
4 5 (4.95%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.97%) Oracle
6 2 (1.98%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.99%) Google
7 1 (0.99%) IBM
7 1 (0.99%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.99%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.99%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud