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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 274 275
Rank change year-on-year -22 +1 +55
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 115 68 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 0.56% 0.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.49% 2.55% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 47 91
10th Percentile £413 £440 £429
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £688
90th Percentile £750 £743 £775
England median daily rate £525 £523 £545
% change year-on-year +0.38% -4.04% -0.91%

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 3,295 2,671 3,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.09% 22.02% 22.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,247 1,871 2,872
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £555 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -0.89% -2.61%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 29 34
10th Percentile £18.19 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.32 £25.31
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.00 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.14% -28.93% -10.45%
75th Percentile £60.88 £53.75 £54.78
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.75 £70.85
England median hourly rate £42.50 £32.05 £40.00
% change year-on-year +32.61% -19.88% -31.09%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -13 11 £575 -10.16% 28
West London -28 1 £550 - 1
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 19 (16.52%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 115 (100.00%) Azure
2 55 (47.83%) Azure Data Factory
3 50 (43.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 46 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (33.04%) Power Platform
6 31 (26.96%) GitHub
7 13 (11.30%) Serverless
8 12 (10.43%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (8.70%) Azure Functions
9 10 (8.70%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (7.83%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (6.96%) PaaS
12 7 (6.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (6.09%) Entra ID
12 7 (6.09%) PowerApps
13 6 (5.22%) Azure Storage
13 6 (5.22%) IaaS
14 5 (4.35%) AWS
14 5 (4.35%) Azure AKS
14 5 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.35%) Network Security
2 4 (3.48%) DNS
3 3 (2.61%) Firewall
4 1 (0.87%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (39.13%) Data Lake
2 41 (35.65%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (28.70%) SQL Server
4 28 (24.35%) Power BI
5 13 (11.30%) NoSQL
6 12 (10.43%) Delta Lake
6 12 (10.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (7.83%) Metadata
8 7 (6.09%) Star Schema
9 5 (4.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 5 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (3.48%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (2.61%) Big Data
11 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (2.61%) MySQL
11 3 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (2.61%) Spark SQL
11 3 (2.61%) Tableau
12 2 (1.74%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 32 (27.83%) Git
2 3 (2.61%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.87%) JMeter
4 1 (0.87%) Postman
4 1 (0.87%) REST Assured
4 1 (0.87%) Selenium
General
1 36 (31.30%) Finance
2 19 (16.52%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.09%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.35%) Banking
5 3 (2.61%) Military
6 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.87%) Marketing
7 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (47.83%) Data Engineer
2 25 (21.74%) Architect
3 23 (20.00%) Senior
4 17 (14.78%) Azure Architect
4 17 (14.78%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (13.04%) Azure Data Engineer
5 15 (13.04%) Senior Data Engineer
6 14 (12.17%) Developer
7 11 (9.57%) Data Architect
8 9 (7.83%) Informatica Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Azure Data Architect
10 7 (6.09%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (5.22%) .NET Developer
11 6 (5.22%) DBA
11 6 (5.22%) Technical Architect
12 5 (4.35%) Senior Developer
12 5 (4.35%) SQL DBA
13 3 (2.61%) C# Developer
13 3 (2.61%) SQL Developer
13 3 (2.61%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (24.35%) PySpark
2 18 (15.65%) .NET
3 7 (6.09%) .NET Core
3 7 (6.09%) Kafka
3 7 (6.09%) REST
4 5 (4.35%) ARM Templates
5 4 (3.48%) React
6 3 (2.61%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.61%) CSS
6 3 (2.61%) HTML
6 3 (2.61%) JSON
6 3 (2.61%) OAuth
7 2 (1.74%) Blazor
7 2 (1.74%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.74%) RESTful
7 2 (1.74%) XML
8 1 (0.87%) Next.js
8 1 (0.87%) Playwright
8 1 (0.87%) Vue
8 1 (0.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.09%) Replication
2 6 (5.22%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.74%) IoT
3 2 (1.74%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.87%) Clustering
4 1 (0.87%) Data Fabric
4 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.87%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.87%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.87%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.87%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.87%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.74%) Windows
2 1 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (52.17%) Data Modelling
2 55 (47.83%) DevOps
3 46 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 45 (39.13%) CI/CD
4 45 (39.13%) Data Engineering
4 45 (39.13%) ETL
5 43 (37.39%) Analytics
6 36 (31.30%) Data Governance
7 31 (26.96%) Data Architecture
8 27 (23.48%) Agile
8 27 (23.48%) Business Intelligence
8 27 (23.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 25 (21.74%) Data Integration
10 21 (18.26%) Integration Patterns
11 19 (16.52%) High Availability
12 17 (14.78%) Migration
12 17 (14.78%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (12.17%) AI
13 14 (12.17%) Data Science
13 14 (12.17%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 115 (100.00%) SQL
2 35 (30.43%) Python
3 25 (21.74%) Scala
4 12 (10.43%) Bicep
5 10 (8.70%) C#
5 10 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (3.48%) T-SQL
6 4 (3.48%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.61%) Java
8 2 (1.74%) Bash
9 1 (0.87%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.87%) C
9 1 (0.87%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 40 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 37 (32.17%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.91%) Azure Certification
4 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.74%) Degree
6 1 (0.87%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (38.26%) Data Quality
2 15 (13.04%) QA
3 5 (4.35%) GDPR
4 2 (1.74%) NCSC
5 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.87%) IFRS
5 1 (0.87%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.87%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.87%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (6.09%) Docker
2 5 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (25.22%) Terraform
2 5 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.87%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (46.09%) Microsoft
2 36 (31.30%) Databricks
3 11 (9.57%) Informatica
4 5 (4.35%) Oracle
4 5 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.74%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.87%) Google
6 1 (0.87%) IBM
6 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.87%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud