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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 235 242
Rank change year-on-year -44 +7 +90
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 97 133 155
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 0.90% 0.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.29% 4.21% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 94 89
10th Percentile £400 £310 £406
25th Percentile £452 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £663
90th Percentile £626 £736 £778
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
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 2,950 3,159 3,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.59% 21.48% 19.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,053 2,175 2,569
10th Percentile £360 £363 £382
25th Percentile £415 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £696 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 26 37
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.15 £26.21 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.25 £42.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.54% -5.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £68.69 £59.50 £61.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £65.80
England median hourly rate £54.70 £39.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +40.26% -15.55% -16.04%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 -11 10 £575 -10.85% 63
South London - 1 £500 - 2
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 28 (28.87%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.03%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.03%) CICS
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 97 (100.00%) Azure
2 53 (54.64%) Azure Data Factory
3 28 (28.87%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (28.87%) Power Platform
4 24 (24.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 20 (20.62%) Serverless
6 17 (17.53%) Azure Functions
7 15 (15.46%) Azure Key Vault
8 14 (14.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 13 (13.40%) Azure Service Bus
9 13 (13.40%) GitHub
10 12 (12.37%) Azure Logic Apps
10 12 (12.37%) Entra ID
11 10 (10.31%) Azure AKS
12 8 (8.25%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (8.25%) PaaS
13 6 (6.19%) Snowflake
14 5 (5.15%) Azure Event Grid
14 5 (5.15%) Azure Monitor
14 5 (5.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Firewall
1 2 (2.06%) Network Security
2 1 (1.03%) HTTP
2 1 (1.03%) NAS
2 1 (1.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (46.39%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (27.84%) NoSQL
2 27 (27.84%) Power BI
3 25 (25.77%) Data Lake
4 23 (23.71%) SQL Server
5 10 (10.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (7.22%) Tableau
7 6 (6.19%) Metadata
8 5 (5.15%) Big Data
8 5 (5.15%) Relational Database
8 5 (5.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (4.12%) Power Query
10 3 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (3.09%) MySQL
10 3 (3.09%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (3.09%) Spark SQL
11 2 (2.06%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (2.06%) QlikView
11 2 (2.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (30.93%) Git
2 7 (7.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.03%) GitLab
3 1 (1.03%) JIRA
3 1 (1.03%) Postman
3 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (31.96%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.71%) Finance
3 12 (12.37%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (8.25%) Banking
6 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Military
7 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (37.11%) Data Engineer
2 28 (28.87%) Azure Engineer
3 24 (24.74%) Azure Data Engineer
4 23 (23.71%) Developer
5 15 (15.46%) Architect
6 12 (12.37%) Azure Developer
7 10 (10.31%) Azure Architect
7 10 (10.31%) Senior
8 8 (8.25%) Technical Architect
9 7 (7.22%) .NET Developer
10 6 (6.19%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (5.15%) Data Architect
11 5 (5.15%) DBA
11 5 (5.15%) SQL DBA
12 4 (4.12%) Azure Data Architect
12 4 (4.12%) Lead
12 4 (4.12%) Python Engineer
13 3 (3.09%) Backend Developer
13 3 (3.09%) Python Data Engineer
13 3 (3.09%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (30.93%) PySpark
2 16 (16.49%) .NET
3 11 (11.34%) .NET Core
4 9 (9.28%) Kafka
5 8 (8.25%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.15%) React
7 4 (4.12%) ARM Templates
7 4 (4.12%) Node.js
7 4 (4.12%) YAML
8 3 (3.09%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.09%) RESTful
8 3 (3.09%) Spring
8 3 (3.09%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.06%) .NET Framework
9 2 (2.06%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (2.06%) FastAPI
9 2 (2.06%) Next.js
9 2 (2.06%) PyTorch
9 2 (2.06%) TensorFlow
9 2 (2.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.12%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.06%) Clustering
4 2 (2.06%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.03%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) IoT
5 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.03%) Life Science
5 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.03%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.06%) Windows
2 1 (1.03%) AIX
2 1 (1.03%) Linux
2 1 (1.03%) Solaris
2 1 (1.03%) VMS
2 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (52.58%) Data Modelling
2 40 (41.24%) Data Governance
2 40 (41.24%) Data Pipeline
3 37 (38.14%) CI/CD
3 37 (38.14%) DevOps
4 36 (37.11%) Agile
5 35 (36.08%) Data Integration
6 34 (35.05%) Analytics
7 32 (32.99%) Data Engineering
8 29 (29.90%) Data Architecture
9 27 (27.84%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (26.80%) ETL
10 26 (26.80%) Integration Patterns
11 18 (18.56%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (17.53%) Microservices
12 17 (17.53%) Migration
13 15 (15.46%) RBAC
14 13 (13.40%) Visualisation
15 12 (12.37%) Containerisation
16 11 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 96 (98.97%) SQL
2 44 (45.36%) Python
3 26 (26.80%) Scala
4 13 (13.40%) C#
5 12 (12.37%) Bicep
6 7 (7.22%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.19%) T-SQL
7 6 (6.19%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (5.15%) Java
9 4 (4.12%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.06%) R
11 1 (1.03%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (1.03%) COBOL
11 1 (1.03%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.03%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (42.27%) Security Cleared
2 37 (38.14%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.40%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.12%) Degree
4 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.03%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (31.96%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.15%) GDPR
2 5 (5.15%) QA
3 3 (3.09%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (14.43%) Docker
2 11 (11.34%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (19.59%) Terraform
2 12 (12.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (46.39%) Databricks
2 31 (31.96%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.12%) OpenAI
3 4 (4.12%) Oracle
4 3 (3.09%) ForgeRock
5 2 (2.06%) SAP
5 2 (2.06%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.03%) NetApp
6 1 (1.03%) Palo Alto