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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 295 222
Rank change year-on-year -70 -73 +53
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 82 67 180
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.40% 0.50% 1.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.30% 2.33% 4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 52 136
10th Percentile £400 £407 £310
25th Percentile £455 £454 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £550 £571
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -3.72% -0.65%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £675
90th Percentile £738 £720 £704
England median daily rate £525 £481 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.50% -4.35%

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 3,564 2,878 3,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.59% 21.32% 22.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,453 1,990 2,603
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 £713
90th Percentile £738 £815 £850
England median daily rate £510 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 39 23
10th Percentile £18.48 £24.18 £28.12
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.25 £36.25
Median hourly rate £32.28 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.32% +22.22% -12.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.38 £54.38
90th Percentile £69.13 £87.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £43.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -4.11% +16.00% -29.91%

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 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 4 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 -10 19 £500 -21.94% 17
North London - 1 £650 - 1
South London - 1 £613 - 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 12 (14.63%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.66%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.44%) Apache
3 2 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 82 (100.00%) Azure
2 39 (47.56%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (37.80%) Power Platform
4 29 (35.37%) Azure Data Factory
5 28 (34.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 24 (29.27%) GitHub
7 15 (18.29%) Entra ID
8 12 (14.63%) Azure Key Vault
9 11 (13.41%) Serverless
10 9 (10.98%) Azure Functions
10 9 (10.98%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (9.76%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (9.76%) PowerApps
11 8 (9.76%) SaaS
12 7 (8.54%) IaaS
12 7 (8.54%) PaaS
13 6 (7.32%) Azure App Service
13 6 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.66%) VPN
2 2 (2.44%) Firewall
2 2 (2.44%) Network Security
3 1 (1.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (37.80%) SQL Server
2 28 (34.15%) Power BI
3 23 (28.05%) Data Lake
4 22 (26.83%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (17.07%) Star Schema
6 10 (12.20%) Metadata
7 9 (10.98%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (10.98%) Power Query
8 7 (8.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (7.32%) NoSQL
10 5 (6.10%) Semantic Layer
10 5 (6.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (4.88%) Data Hub
11 4 (4.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (4.88%) MySQL
11 4 (4.88%) Relational Database
12 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
13 2 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (2.44%) Parquet
13 2 (2.44%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (20.73%) Git
2 6 (7.32%) Visual Studio
3 4 (4.88%) JetBrains Rider
4 3 (3.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (2.44%) GitLab
5 2 (2.44%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.44%) JUnit
5 2 (2.44%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (1.22%) ERwin
6 1 (1.22%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 23 (28.05%) Finance
3 10 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.20%) Banking
4 7 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.32%) Investment Banking
5 6 (7.32%) Retail
6 5 (6.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.88%) Local Government
8 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Military
8 1 (1.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (40.24%) Developer
2 18 (21.95%) Architect
2 18 (21.95%) Data Engineer
3 16 (19.51%) Senior
4 13 (15.85%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (13.41%) Data Architect
5 11 (13.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (10.98%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 9 (10.98%) Power BI Developer
6 9 (10.98%) Senior Developer
7 7 (8.54%) Angular Developer
8 6 (7.32%) Azure Architect
8 6 (7.32%) Azure Data Engineer
8 6 (7.32%) SQL Developer
9 5 (6.10%) .NET Developer
9 5 (6.10%) Azure Data Architect
9 5 (6.10%) Migration Engineer
9 5 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (6.10%) Web Developer
10 4 (4.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.51%) .NET
2 13 (15.85%) REST
2 13 (15.85%) Terraform
3 12 (14.63%) React
4 9 (10.98%) PySpark
5 8 (9.76%) AngularJS
5 8 (9.76%) CSS
5 8 (9.76%) HTML
6 6 (7.32%) .NET Core
6 6 (7.32%) OAuth
6 6 (7.32%) OAuth2
7 5 (6.10%) ASP.NET
7 5 (6.10%) RESTful
8 4 (4.88%) .NET Framework
8 4 (4.88%) Entity Framework
8 4 (4.88%) JSON
8 4 (4.88%) Middleware
8 4 (4.88%) Node.js
8 4 (4.88%) YAML
9 3 (3.66%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.51%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.66%) Replication
4 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.44%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.22%) Clustering
5 1 (1.22%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.22%) EPoS
5 1 (1.22%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.22%) NHS
5 1 (1.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.22%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.22%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.66%) Linux
2 2 (2.44%) VMS
2 2 (2.44%) Windows
3 1 (1.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (58.54%) DevOps
2 40 (48.78%) CI/CD
3 33 (40.24%) Data Modelling
4 31 (37.80%) Analytics
5 28 (34.15%) Business Intelligence
6 27 (32.93%) Agile
7 19 (23.17%) ETL
8 18 (21.95%) Data Governance
9 16 (19.51%) Data Engineering
9 16 (19.51%) Data Pipeline
9 16 (19.51%) Migration
10 15 (18.29%) AI
11 14 (17.07%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (15.85%) API Integration
12 13 (15.85%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (14.63%) Scrum
14 11 (13.41%) Integration Patterns
14 11 (13.41%) Software Engineering
15 10 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 82 (100.00%) SQL
2 22 (26.83%) Python
3 18 (21.95%) TypeScript
4 14 (17.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 12 (14.63%) C#
6 10 (12.20%) T-SQL
7 8 (9.76%) PowerShell
8 6 (7.32%) Bicep
8 6 (7.32%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.66%) Scala
10 2 (2.44%) Java
11 1 (1.22%) Bash
11 1 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.22%) VB
11 1 (1.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.07%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.32%) Degree
4 4 (4.88%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.22%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.07%) Data Quality
2 9 (10.98%) QA
3 5 (6.10%) GDPR
4 3 (3.66%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.66%) NIST
5 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.22%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.22%) IFRS
5 1 (1.22%) IFRS 17
5 1 (1.22%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 6 (7.32%) Docker
2 4 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.44%) Control-M
2 2 (2.44%) Puppet
3 1 (1.22%) SCOM
3 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.22%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 50 (60.98%) Microsoft
2 20 (24.39%) Databricks
3 7 (8.54%) Informatica
4 2 (2.44%) Oracle
4 2 (2.44%) Talend
5 1 (1.22%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.22%) Foundry
5 1 (1.22%) IBM
5 1 (1.22%) Okta
5 1 (1.22%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.22%) RedGate
5 1 (1.22%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.22%) Syncfusion
5 1 (1.22%) Workday