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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 308 224
Rank change year-on-year -66 -84 +49
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 86 67 180
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.43% 0.50% 1.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.42% 2.37% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 53 136
10th Percentile £400 £408 £310
25th Percentile £459 £450 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £571
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -5.47% -0.65%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £675
90th Percentile £738 £675 £704
England median daily rate £545 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +11.69% -11.36% -3.72%

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 3,558 2,831 3,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.60% 21.15% 22.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,455 1,962 2,583
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £431 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £738 £813 £850
England median daily rate £510 £512 £550
% change year-on-year -0.39% -6.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 38 21
10th Percentile £19.25 £22.63 £27.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.13 £36.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £53.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +26.47% -15.84%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.19 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £87.50 £78.75
England median hourly rate £41.36 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -1.52% +19.99% -33.33%

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 October 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 October 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 -12 19 £500 -20.98% 15
North London - 1 £650 - 1
South London - 1 £613 - 3
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 13 (15.12%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.49%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.33%) Apache
4 2 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 86 (100.00%) Azure
2 44 (51.16%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (38.37%) Power Platform
4 31 (36.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 30 (34.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 26 (30.23%) GitHub
7 19 (22.09%) Entra ID
8 16 (18.60%) Azure Key Vault
9 13 (15.12%) Serverless
10 11 (12.79%) Azure Functions
10 11 (12.79%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (11.63%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (10.47%) PaaS
12 9 (10.47%) SaaS
13 8 (9.30%) Azure App Service
14 7 (8.14%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (8.14%) IaaS
14 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (8.14%) PowerApps
15 6 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.49%) VPN
2 2 (2.33%) DNS
2 2 (2.33%) Firewall
2 2 (2.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (37.21%) SQL Server
2 29 (33.72%) Power BI
3 25 (29.07%) Data Lake
4 22 (25.58%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (16.28%) Star Schema
6 12 (13.95%) Metadata
6 12 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (10.47%) Power Query
7 9 (10.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (8.14%) NoSQL
8 7 (8.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (6.98%) Relational Database
10 5 (5.81%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (4.65%) Data Hub
11 4 (4.65%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (4.65%) MySQL
12 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
13 2 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (2.33%) Oracle Database
13 2 (2.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (18.60%) Git
2 6 (6.98%) Visual Studio
3 4 (4.65%) JetBrains Rider
4 3 (3.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (2.33%) GitLab
5 2 (2.33%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.33%) JUnit
5 2 (2.33%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (1.16%) ERwin
6 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.74%) Finance
3 11 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.63%) Banking
5 9 (10.47%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.98%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.98%) Retail
7 5 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (4.65%) Local Government
9 2 (2.33%) Publishing
10 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.16%) Military
Job Titles
1 33 (38.37%) Developer
2 21 (24.42%) Architect
3 19 (22.09%) Data Engineer
3 19 (22.09%) Senior
4 14 (16.28%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (13.95%) Data Architect
6 11 (12.79%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (10.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 9 (10.47%) Power BI Developer
7 9 (10.47%) Senior Developer
8 7 (8.14%) Angular Developer
8 7 (8.14%) Azure Data Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Azure Architect
9 6 (6.98%) Senior Architect
9 6 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (6.98%) SQL Developer
10 5 (5.81%) .NET Developer
10 5 (5.81%) Azure Data Architect
10 5 (5.81%) Web Developer
11 4 (4.65%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.77%) .NET
1 17 (19.77%) Terraform
2 16 (18.60%) REST
3 12 (13.95%) React
4 9 (10.47%) AngularJS
4 9 (10.47%) PySpark
5 8 (9.30%) CSS
5 8 (9.30%) HTML
6 7 (8.14%) OAuth
6 7 (8.14%) OAuth2
7 6 (6.98%) .NET Core
7 6 (6.98%) Middleware
8 5 (5.81%) ASP.NET
8 5 (5.81%) Node.js
8 5 (5.81%) RESTful
9 4 (4.65%) .NET Framework
9 4 (4.65%) Entity Framework
9 4 (4.65%) JSON
9 4 (4.65%) YAML
10 3 (3.49%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.77%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.81%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.65%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.65%) Replication
4 3 (3.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.49%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.33%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.33%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.16%) Clustering
6 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.16%) EPoS
6 1 (1.16%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.16%) NHS
6 1 (1.16%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.49%) Linux
2 2 (2.33%) VMS
2 2 (2.33%) Windows
3 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (61.63%) DevOps
2 45 (52.33%) CI/CD
3 35 (40.70%) Data Modelling
4 34 (39.53%) Analytics
5 29 (33.72%) Business Intelligence
6 27 (31.40%) Agile
7 21 (24.42%) Data Governance
8 19 (22.09%) ETL
9 18 (20.93%) Data Pipeline
10 17 (19.77%) AI
10 17 (19.77%) Data Engineering
10 17 (19.77%) Migration
11 15 (17.44%) API Integration
11 15 (17.44%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (16.28%) Full-Stack Development
12 14 (16.28%) Integration Patterns
13 13 (15.12%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (15.12%) Software Engineering
14 12 (13.95%) Metadata Management
14 12 (13.95%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 86 (100.00%) SQL
2 25 (29.07%) Python
3 19 (22.09%) TypeScript
4 14 (16.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 12 (13.95%) C#
6 10 (11.63%) Bicep
6 10 (11.63%) T-SQL
7 9 (10.47%) PowerShell
8 7 (8.14%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.49%) Java
9 3 (3.49%) Scala
10 1 (1.16%) Bash
10 1 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.16%) VB
10 1 (1.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 17 (19.77%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.98%) Azure Certification
3 6 (6.98%) Degree
4 3 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.16%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.77%) Data Quality
2 9 (10.47%) QA
3 6 (6.98%) GDPR
4 3 (3.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.49%) NIST
5 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.16%) IFRS
6 1 (1.16%) IFRS 17
6 1 (1.16%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (9.30%) Docker
2 4 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.33%) Control-M
2 2 (2.33%) Grafana
2 2 (2.33%) Puppet
3 1 (1.16%) SCOM
3 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.16%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 55 (63.95%) Microsoft
2 20 (23.26%) Databricks
3 7 (8.14%) Informatica
4 5 (5.81%) Oracle
5 2 (2.33%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.33%) Foundry
5 2 (2.33%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.33%) Talend
6 1 (1.16%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.16%) IBM
6 1 (1.16%) Okta
6 1 (1.16%) RedGate
6 1 (1.16%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.16%) Syncfusion
6 1 (1.16%) Workday