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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 205 287
Rank change year-on-year -99 +82 +55
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 69 184 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.51% 1.13% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.41% 4.93% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 137 84
10th Percentile £406 £310 £400
25th Percentile £451 £425 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +9.48%
75th Percentile £648 £675 £655
90th Percentile £726 £712 £730
England median daily rate £475 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +9.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 2,868 3,729 4,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.29% 22.87% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,000 2,675 3,039
10th Percentile £375 £363 £399
25th Percentile £425 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £825 £850 £788
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 26 38
10th Percentile £28.26 £26.00 £19.05
25th Percentile £33.75 £36.25 £35.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £46.25 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -13.95% -2.27%
75th Percentile £69.75 £55.00 £71.99
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £90.00
England median hourly rate £44.25 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +22.07% -34.09% +22.22%

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
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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -16 11 £645 +5.35% 44
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 7 (10.14%) Apache Spark
2 6 (8.70%) Apache
3 4 (5.80%) Jupyter
4 2 (2.90%) Umbraco
5 1 (1.45%) ArcGIS
5 1 (1.45%) CICS
5 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 69 (100.00%) Azure
2 26 (37.68%) Power Platform
3 24 (34.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (30.43%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (24.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (18.84%) Serverless
7 11 (15.94%) Azure Service Bus
8 10 (14.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (14.49%) Azure Functions
9 9 (13.04%) Entra ID
10 8 (11.59%) PaaS
11 7 (10.14%) Azure AKS
11 7 (10.14%) GitHub
12 6 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (7.25%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (7.25%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (7.25%) SaaS
13 5 (7.25%) Snowflake
14 4 (5.80%) Azure Storage
14 4 (5.80%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.80%) SSH
2 1 (1.45%) Firewall
2 1 (1.45%) NAS
2 1 (1.45%) Network Security
2 1 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (37.68%) SQL Server
2 25 (36.23%) Power BI
3 20 (28.99%) Data Lake
3 20 (28.99%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (8.70%) Apache Hive
4 6 (8.70%) Delta Lake
4 6 (8.70%) NoSQL
5 5 (7.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (4.35%) QlikView
6 3 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.90%) Big Data
7 2 (2.90%) Power Query
7 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.45%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Git
2 7 (10.14%) JIRA
3 4 (5.80%) RStudio
4 3 (4.35%) ERwin
5 2 (2.90%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.45%) GitLab
6 1 (1.45%) Postman
6 1 (1.45%) SpecFlow
General
1 24 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 21 (30.43%) Finance
3 18 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (7.25%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.80%) Banking
7 3 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.90%) Retail
9 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.45%) Legal
9 1 (1.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 23 (33.33%) Developer
2 16 (23.19%) Data Engineer
3 14 (20.29%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (15.94%) Architect
5 10 (14.49%) Senior
6 9 (13.04%) Azure Architect
7 8 (11.59%) .NET Developer
7 8 (11.59%) Senior Developer
8 7 (10.14%) Data Architect
9 6 (8.70%) Azure Data Architect
9 6 (8.70%) Azure Data Engineer
9 6 (8.70%) Azure Developer
10 5 (7.25%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (5.80%) DBA
12 3 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
12 3 (4.35%) Database Engineer
12 3 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (4.35%) Snowflake Developer
12 3 (4.35%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (24.64%) .NET
2 15 (21.74%) .NET Core
3 11 (15.94%) PySpark
4 8 (11.59%) React
5 7 (10.14%) YAML
6 6 (8.70%) JSON
6 6 (8.70%) pydantic
7 5 (7.25%) AngularJS
7 5 (7.25%) SOAP
8 4 (5.80%) ARM Templates
8 4 (5.80%) RESTful
9 3 (4.35%) CSS
9 3 (4.35%) HTML
10 2 (2.90%) .NET Framework
10 2 (2.90%) ADO
10 2 (2.90%) Entity Framework
10 2 (2.90%) FastAPI
10 2 (2.90%) Next.js
10 2 (2.90%) pytest
10 2 (2.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (10.14%) Data Structures
3 6 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (8.70%) Reference Data
4 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.35%) Clustering
4 3 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.90%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.90%) Life Science
5 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) IoT
6 1 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.45%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.45%) NHS
6 1 (1.45%) PKI
6 1 (1.45%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.70%) Linux
2 2 (2.90%) Windows
3 1 (1.45%) AIX
3 1 (1.45%) Solaris
3 1 (1.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (40.58%) DevOps
2 25 (36.23%) Analytics
3 24 (34.78%) ETL
4 21 (30.43%) CI/CD
5 20 (28.99%) Data Modelling
6 19 (27.54%) Business Intelligence
6 19 (27.54%) Migration
7 18 (26.09%) Agile
8 16 (23.19%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (23.19%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (18.84%) Scrum
11 11 (15.94%) Data Governance
12 10 (14.49%) Data Ingestion
12 10 (14.49%) Data Management
12 10 (14.49%) Data Security
13 8 (11.59%) Containerisation
13 8 (11.59%) Data Engineering
13 8 (11.59%) Investment Management
14 7 (10.14%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 66 (95.65%) SQL
2 28 (40.58%) Python
3 20 (28.99%) C#
4 10 (14.49%) T-SQL
5 8 (11.59%) Bash
5 8 (11.59%) Bicep
5 8 (11.59%) JavaScript
6 7 (10.14%) Scala
7 6 (8.70%) Java
8 4 (5.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (5.80%) PowerShell
9 3 (4.35%) VBA
10 1 (1.45%) COBOL
10 1 (1.45%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.14%) Azure Certification
3 7 (10.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.35%) Degree
5 2 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.45%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.94%) GDPR
2 4 (5.80%) QA
3 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.35%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.45%) GxP
5 1 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (11.59%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.70%) Docker
3 3 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (24.64%) Terraform
2 5 (7.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.45%) Grafana
3 1 (1.45%) Istio
3 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (36.23%) Microsoft
2 19 (27.54%) Databricks
3 1 (1.45%) ESRI
3 1 (1.45%) Google
3 1 (1.45%) IBM
3 1 (1.45%) NetApp
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle
3 1 (1.45%) Splunk