Azure SQL Database Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Azure SQL Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 335 351
Rank change year-on-year +53 +16 -105
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 110 167 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.62% 0.62% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.87% 3.01% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 102 196
10th Percentile £444 £444 £409
25th Percentile £475 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £688 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £723 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate - £60.50 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

Azure SQL Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,830 5,550 8,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.47% 20.53% 21.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,822 4,045 6,250
10th Percentile £377 £400 £406
25th Percentile £460 £475 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -1.71% +11.43%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £775
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 53 35
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.59 £24.50 £32.00
Median hourly rate £49.25 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% - +50.52%
75th Percentile £54.34 £72.50 £71.88
90th Percentile £64.14 £88.30 £82.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.92
% change year-on-year -31.09% +35.25% +72.91%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Azure SQL Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in London

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in London.

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in London

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in London

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in London

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 29 April 2024. 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 18 £513 -24.07% 6
South London - 2 £475 -
West London - 1 £530 - 2
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (8.18%) BizTalk Server
2 7 (6.36%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.64%) Apache
4 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.91%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.91%) CMS
4 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.91%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.73%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 110 (100.00%) Azure
2 45 (40.91%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (37.27%) Azure Data Factory
4 38 (34.55%) Power Platform
5 34 (30.91%) Serverless
6 32 (29.09%) Azure Functions
7 29 (26.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 29 (26.36%) Azure Logic Apps
7 29 (26.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 27 (24.55%) Azure Storage
9 26 (23.64%) Azure Service Bus
10 23 (20.91%) Azure API Management
11 20 (18.18%) Azure Key Vault
12 18 (16.36%) PaaS
13 13 (11.82%) Entra ID
13 13 (11.82%) PowerApps
14 12 (10.91%) AWS
15 11 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (9.09%) Power Automate
17 9 (8.18%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) DNS
1 1 (0.91%) Firewall
1 1 (0.91%) SAN
1 1 (0.91%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (27.27%) Data Lake
1 30 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 29 (26.36%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (26.36%) Power BI
3 14 (12.73%) NoSQL
4 12 (10.91%) MongoDB
5 9 (8.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 9 (8.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 8 (7.27%) Big Data
7 7 (6.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 7 (6.36%) Power Query
7 7 (6.36%) Relational Database
7 7 (6.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (5.45%) OLTP
8 6 (5.45%) Parquet
9 5 (4.55%) Delta Lake
9 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 4 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (2.73%) Data Mart
12 2 (1.82%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (17.27%) Git
2 10 (9.09%) Postman
3 6 (5.45%) Visual Studio Team System
4 4 (3.64%) Deequ
4 4 (3.64%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.91%) ERwin
6 1 (0.91%) JMeter
6 1 (0.91%) NUnit
6 1 (0.91%) Selenium
6 1 (0.91%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 30 (27.27%) Finance
2 24 (21.82%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.09%) Banking
4 7 (6.36%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.64%) Back Office
6 4 (3.64%) Marketing
7 3 (2.73%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.82%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.82%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.82%) Retail
9 1 (0.91%) Front Office
9 1 (0.91%) Law
9 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (35.45%) Developer
2 31 (28.18%) Azure Engineer
2 31 (28.18%) Data Engineer
3 19 (17.27%) Azure Data Engineer
4 15 (13.64%) Lead
5 10 (9.09%) Azure Developer
5 10 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
6 9 (8.18%) Senior
7 8 (7.27%) Architect
7 8 (7.27%) Python Developer
7 8 (7.27%) SQL Developer
8 7 (6.36%) Analyst
8 7 (6.36%) Azure Architect
8 7 (6.36%) Data Analyst
9 6 (5.45%) Lead Data Engineer
9 6 (5.45%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.55%) DBA
10 5 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Lead Developer
10 5 (4.55%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (34.55%) .NET
2 21 (19.09%) .NET Core
3 16 (14.55%) JSON
3 16 (14.55%) Web Services
4 15 (13.64%) ARM Templates
5 12 (10.91%) PySpark
5 12 (10.91%) REST
6 11 (10.00%) Swagger
7 10 (9.09%) XML
8 9 (8.18%) Blazor
8 9 (8.18%) YAML
9 8 (7.27%) SOAP
10 6 (5.45%) .NET Framework
10 6 (5.45%) GraphQL
11 5 (4.55%) Apache Avro
11 5 (4.55%) JSON Schema
11 5 (4.55%) Kafka
12 4 (3.64%) Great Expectations
12 4 (3.64%) React
13 3 (2.73%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.82%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.27%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.73%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.82%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.82%) Wiki
7 1 (0.91%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.91%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.91%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.91%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.91%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.82%) Windows
2 4 (3.64%) Unix
3 3 (2.73%) Linux
3 3 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.82%) VMS
5 1 (0.91%) CentOS
5 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (46.36%) Agile
2 48 (43.64%) DevOps
3 44 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 35 (31.82%) ETL
5 32 (29.09%) Data Modelling
6 30 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (26.36%) TDD
8 27 (24.55%) Software Engineering
9 26 (23.64%) Analytics
10 25 (22.73%) API Management
11 22 (20.00%) Migration
12 20 (18.18%) Data Engineering
13 19 (17.27%) Microservices
13 19 (17.27%) Scrum
14 18 (16.36%) SDLC
15 16 (14.55%) Continuous Integration
15 16 (14.55%) Data Migration
16 14 (12.73%) Full Stack Development
17 13 (11.82%) Data Integration
17 13 (11.82%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 104 (94.55%) SQL
2 54 (49.09%) Python
3 34 (30.91%) PowerShell
4 33 (30.00%) C#
5 23 (20.91%) T-SQL
6 13 (11.82%) JavaScript
7 12 (10.91%) Java
8 10 (9.09%) C++
9 9 (8.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (8.18%) Go
9 9 (8.18%) PL/SQL
10 8 (7.27%) Scala
11 7 (6.36%) Bicep
12 3 (2.73%) R
13 2 (1.82%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.91%) Bash
14 1 (0.91%) Perl
14 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.91%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.91%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (6.36%) Azure Certification
2 3 (2.73%) CIMA
2 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (2.73%) Degree
2 3 (2.73%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.73%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.73%) PMO
3 2 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.82%) QA
3 2 (1.82%) WCAG
4 1 (0.91%) IFRS
System Software
1 12 (10.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.45%) Docker
3 4 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.91%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (19.09%) Terraform
2 13 (11.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.82%) Ansible
3 2 (1.82%) Grafana
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.82%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.91%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.91%) Puppet
4 1 (0.91%) yum
Vendors
1 49 (44.55%) Microsoft
2 27 (24.55%) Databricks
3 14 (12.73%) Oracle
4 9 (8.18%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.64%) SAP
6 2 (1.82%) New Relic
6 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.91%) Cisco
7 1 (0.91%) Informatica
7 1 (0.91%) Nintex
7 1 (0.91%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.91%) Virgin Media