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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 243 258
Rank change year-on-year -35 +15 +71
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 104 104 132
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 0.76% 0.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.53% 3.52% 3.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 69 88
10th Percentile £401 £420 £425
25th Percentile £463 £520 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £591 £700 £675
90th Percentile £684 £775 £749
England median daily rate £518 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -10.00% +6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.50 -
England median hourly rate - £60.50 -

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 2,946 2,953 3,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.81% 21.68% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,028 2,014 2,633
10th Percentile £352 £363 £381
25th Percentile £415 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £559 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +1.59% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £699 £678
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £500 £540 £538
% change year-on-year -7.41% +0.47% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 31 42
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.72 £28.60 £25.90
Median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -5.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £75.94 £58.25 £54.03
90th Percentile £89.75 £78.75 £64.43
England median hourly rate £45.75 £39.00 £42.35
% change year-on-year +17.31% -7.90% -25.53%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -16 7 £588 -8.20% 37
South London - 1 £500 - 3
West London - 1 - - 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 30 (28.85%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.96%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 104 (100.00%) Azure
2 63 (60.58%) Azure Data Factory
3 35 (33.65%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (29.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 28 (26.92%) Power Platform
6 21 (20.19%) GitHub
7 18 (17.31%) Serverless
8 16 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
9 15 (14.42%) Azure Functions
10 14 (13.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 12 (11.54%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (10.58%) Azure AKS
13 10 (9.62%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (9.62%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (8.65%) Entra ID
14 9 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (8.65%) PaaS
15 6 (5.77%) Snowflake
16 5 (4.81%) IaaS
16 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.88%) Network Security
2 2 (1.92%) Firewall
3 1 (0.96%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (47.12%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (28.85%) Data Lake
3 28 (26.92%) NoSQL
4 27 (25.96%) Power BI
5 24 (23.08%) SQL Server
6 11 (10.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (9.62%) Metadata
8 7 (6.73%) Delta Lake
8 7 (6.73%) Tableau
9 5 (4.81%) Big Data
10 4 (3.85%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (3.85%) Relational Database
10 4 (3.85%) Spark SQL
11 3 (2.88%) MySQL
11 3 (2.88%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (2.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (1.92%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (1.92%) Oracle ODI
12 2 (1.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (1.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (34.62%) Git
2 7 (6.73%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.92%) Postman
4 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.96%) JIRA
4 1 (0.96%) JMeter
4 1 (0.96%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.96%) Selenium
4 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 22 (21.15%) Finance
3 14 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.69%) Banking
5 6 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.92%) Military
8 1 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (42.31%) Data Engineer
2 27 (25.96%) Azure Engineer
3 24 (23.08%) Azure Data Engineer
4 20 (19.23%) Developer
5 18 (17.31%) Architect
6 17 (16.35%) Senior
7 14 (13.46%) Azure Architect
8 11 (10.58%) Azure Developer
8 11 (10.58%) Senior Data Engineer
9 8 (7.69%) .NET Developer
10 7 (6.73%) Data Architect
10 7 (6.73%) Technical Architect
11 6 (5.77%) Azure Data Architect
12 5 (4.81%) DBA
12 5 (4.81%) SQL DBA
13 4 (3.85%) Lead
14 3 (2.88%) Backend Developer
14 3 (2.88%) Snowflake Developer
14 3 (2.88%) SQL Developer
14 3 (2.88%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (34.62%) PySpark
2 17 (16.35%) .NET
3 11 (10.58%) .NET Core
4 10 (9.62%) Kafka
5 8 (7.69%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.81%) React
7 4 (3.85%) ARM Templates
7 4 (3.85%) Node.js
8 3 (2.88%) ASP.NET
8 3 (2.88%) Next.js
8 3 (2.88%) RESTful
8 3 (2.88%) Spring
8 3 (2.88%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.88%) YAML
9 2 (1.92%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.92%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (1.92%) PyTorch
9 2 (1.92%) TensorFlow
9 2 (1.92%) Vue
10 1 (0.96%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.85%) AI Agents
3 3 (2.88%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.92%) Clustering
4 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.92%) IoT
5 1 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.96%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.96%) VMS
1 1 (0.96%) Windows
1 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (58.65%) Data Modelling
2 46 (44.23%) CI/CD
3 43 (41.35%) Data Pipeline
3 43 (41.35%) DevOps
4 42 (40.38%) Data Governance
5 39 (37.50%) Analytics
6 38 (36.54%) Agile
6 38 (36.54%) Data Engineering
7 37 (35.58%) Data Integration
8 35 (33.65%) Data Architecture
9 34 (32.69%) ETL
10 29 (27.88%) Integration Patterns
11 27 (25.96%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (21.15%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (16.35%) Microservices
14 16 (15.38%) Data Science
15 15 (14.42%) RBAC
16 14 (13.46%) Migration
17 11 (10.58%) High Availability
17 11 (10.58%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 103 (99.04%) SQL
2 44 (42.31%) Python
3 31 (29.81%) Scala
4 12 (11.54%) C#
5 11 (10.58%) Bicep
6 6 (5.77%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.77%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.81%) Java
8 4 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.92%) R
10 2 (1.92%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.96%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (42.31%) Security Cleared
2 40 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.42%) Azure Certification
4 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.88%) Degree
6 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.96%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.96%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.96%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.96%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.96%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (42.31%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.77%) GDPR
2 6 (5.77%) QA
3 2 (1.92%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (13.46%) Docker
2 8 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (22.12%) Terraform
2 11 (10.58%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 48 (46.15%) Databricks
2 35 (33.65%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.81%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.85%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.85%) Oracle
5 3 (2.88%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.92%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.92%) SAP