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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 289 234
Rank change year-on-year -37 -55 +96
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 99 82 157
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.50% 0.61% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.81% 2.84% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 59 117
10th Percentile £425 £417 £325
25th Percentile £494 £472 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £740 £725
England median daily rate £540 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.95% -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 3,523 2,890 4,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.74% 21.37% 23.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,375 2,026 3,044
10th Percentile £363 £381 £363
25th Percentile £435 £448 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.51% -0.87%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
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 30 34 28
10th Percentile £18.94 £25.40 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £34.06
Median hourly rate £41.00 £42.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -12.50% -24.41%
75th Percentile £60.12 £61.25 £52.56
90th Percentile £76.50 £79.25 £69.40
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -15.00% -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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -14 11 £500 -22.51% 27
West London -16 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 9 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (100.00%) Azure
2 49 (49.49%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (42.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 36 (36.36%) GitHub
5 35 (35.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 32 (32.32%) Power Platform
7 19 (19.19%) Azure Monitor
8 13 (13.13%) Entra ID
9 12 (12.12%) Serverless
10 11 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
11 10 (10.10%) Azure Functions
11 10 (10.10%) PaaS
12 9 (9.09%) IaaS
13 8 (8.08%) Azure Storage
14 7 (7.07%) Azure Service Bus
14 7 (7.07%) PowerApps
14 7 (7.07%) SaaS
15 6 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (5.05%) AWS
16 5 (5.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) DNS
1 5 (5.05%) Network Security
2 3 (3.03%) VPN
3 2 (2.02%) Firewall
4 1 (1.01%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (39.39%) Data Lake
2 28 (28.28%) SQL Server
3 22 (22.22%) Power BI
4 21 (21.21%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (12.12%) Delta Lake
6 10 (10.10%) Star Schema
7 6 (6.06%) Metadata
7 6 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (6.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (5.05%) Relational Database
9 4 (4.04%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (4.04%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (4.04%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (4.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (3.03%) MySQL
10 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
10 3 (3.03%) OLAP
10 3 (3.03%) Power Query
11 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 23 (23.23%) Git
2 6 (6.06%) Visual Studio
3 4 (4.04%) JetBrains Rider
4 2 (2.02%) Jasmine
4 2 (2.02%) JUnit
4 2 (2.02%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.01%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.01%) JMeter
5 1 (1.01%) Postman
5 1 (1.01%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.01%) Selenium
General
1 34 (34.34%) Finance
2 17 (17.17%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.10%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.08%) Banking
6 5 (5.05%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.03%) Local Government
8 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Marketing
9 1 (1.01%) Military
9 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (34.34%) Data Engineer
2 26 (26.26%) Developer
3 25 (25.25%) Architect
4 19 (19.19%) Senior
5 13 (13.13%) Data Architect
6 12 (12.12%) Azure Architect
7 9 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (9.09%) Informatica Engineer
7 9 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
8 8 (8.08%) Azure Data Architect
9 7 (7.07%) Angular Developer
9 7 (7.07%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.06%) .NET Developer
10 6 (6.06%) Senior Developer
10 6 (6.06%) SQL Developer
11 5 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (5.05%) Migration Engineer
11 5 (5.05%) Web Developer
12 4 (4.04%) DBA
12 4 (4.04%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.19%) .NET
2 14 (14.14%) REST
3 13 (13.13%) PySpark
4 8 (8.08%) AngularJS
4 8 (8.08%) CSS
4 8 (8.08%) HTML
4 8 (8.08%) React
5 6 (6.06%) OAuth
6 5 (5.05%) .NET Core
6 5 (5.05%) .NET Framework
6 5 (5.05%) OAuth2
7 4 (4.04%) Entity Framework
7 4 (4.04%) Middleware
7 4 (4.04%) RESTful
8 3 (3.03%) CSS3
8 3 (3.03%) HTML5
8 3 (3.03%) JSON
8 3 (3.03%) Web Services
9 2 (2.02%) Spring
9 2 (2.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.16%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.08%) Replication
3 4 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.02%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.02%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.02%) IoT
5 2 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.02%) Reinsurance
5 2 (2.02%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.01%) Clustering
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.01%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.01%) NHS
6 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.01%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.03%) Windows
2 2 (2.02%) VMS
3 1 (1.01%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (57.58%) DevOps
2 42 (42.42%) CI/CD
3 40 (40.40%) Analytics
4 38 (38.38%) Data Modelling
5 35 (35.35%) ETL
6 30 (30.30%) Data Pipeline
7 25 (25.25%) Data Engineering
8 23 (23.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (22.22%) Agile
10 21 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (19.19%) Data Governance
12 16 (16.16%) Data Architecture
12 16 (16.16%) Migration
12 16 (16.16%) Performance Tuning
13 15 (15.15%) High Availability
13 15 (15.15%) Log Analytics
14 14 (14.14%) Disaster Recovery
15 13 (13.13%) AI
16 12 (12.12%) Data Science
16 12 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 99 (100.00%) SQL
2 23 (23.23%) Python
3 14 (14.14%) C#
4 13 (13.13%) TypeScript
5 10 (10.10%) PowerShell
5 10 (10.10%) Scala
6 8 (8.08%) T-SQL
7 6 (6.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (5.05%) Bicep
9 3 (3.03%) Bash
9 3 (3.03%) Java
9 3 (3.03%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.01%) C
10 1 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 23 (23.23%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.08%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.03%) Degree
5 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.01%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.01%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 15 (15.15%) QA
3 7 (7.07%) GDPR
4 4 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (3.03%) NIST
6 2 (2.02%) NCSC
7 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.01%) IFRS
7 1 (1.01%) IFRS 17
7 1 (1.01%) IFRS 9
7 1 (1.01%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (7.07%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.05%) Docker
3 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (25.25%) Terraform
2 7 (7.07%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.01%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (50.51%) Microsoft
2 19 (19.19%) Databricks
3 11 (11.11%) Informatica
4 3 (3.03%) Oracle
5 1 (1.01%) Google
5 1 (1.01%) IBM
5 1 (1.01%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.01%) ServiceNow