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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 338 291 246
Rank change year-on-year -47 -45 +83
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 95 75 154
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 0.57% 0.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.78% 2.63% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 54 115
10th Percentile £425 £425 £400
25th Percentile £500 £496 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £571 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.66% +3.86% -7.56%
75th Percentile £700 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £747 £738
England median daily rate £540 £523 £538
% change year-on-year +3.35% -2.79% -2.27%

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 3,423 2,847 4,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.69% 21.54% 23.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,311 1,994 3,037
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.51% -0.87%
75th Percentile £638 £705 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 33
10th Percentile £18.44 £25.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £27.50
Median hourly rate £43.50 £40.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -14.74% -20.83%
75th Percentile £60.56 £59.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £79.50 £71.40
England median hourly rate £38.25 £33.94 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.70% -15.15% -29.08%

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 July 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 July 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 -24 9 £500 -23.08% 30
West London -19 1 £550 - 1
North London - 1 £650 -
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 9 (9.47%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 95 (100.00%) Azure
2 48 (50.53%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (42.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 35 (36.84%) GitHub
5 33 (34.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 29 (30.53%) Power Platform
7 18 (18.95%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (12.63%) Entra ID
8 12 (12.63%) Serverless
9 11 (11.58%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (10.53%) Azure Functions
11 9 (9.47%) PaaS
12 8 (8.42%) Azure Storage
12 8 (8.42%) IaaS
13 7 (7.37%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (7.37%) PowerApps
14 6 (6.32%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (6.32%) SaaS
15 5 (5.26%) AWS
15 5 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) DNS
1 5 (5.26%) Network Security
2 3 (3.16%) VPN
3 2 (2.11%) Firewall
4 1 (1.05%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (38.95%) Data Lake
2 26 (27.37%) SQL Server
3 19 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (20.00%) Power BI
4 12 (12.63%) Delta Lake
5 9 (9.47%) Star Schema
6 6 (6.32%) Metadata
7 5 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (4.21%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 4 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (4.21%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.21%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (3.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.16%) MySQL
9 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (2.11%) OLAP
10 2 (2.11%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 23 (24.21%) Git
2 5 (5.26%) Visual Studio
3 3 (3.16%) JetBrains Rider
4 2 (2.11%) Jasmine
4 2 (2.11%) JUnit
4 2 (2.11%) Karma Test Runner
4 2 (2.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.05%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.05%) JMeter
5 1 (1.05%) Postman
5 1 (1.05%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.05%) Selenium
General
1 34 (35.79%) Finance
2 17 (17.89%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.42%) Banking
6 5 (5.26%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.16%) Local Government
8 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Marketing
9 1 (1.05%) Military
9 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (35.79%) Data Engineer
2 24 (25.26%) Architect
2 24 (25.26%) Developer
3 19 (20.00%) Senior
4 12 (12.63%) Azure Architect
4 12 (12.63%) Data Architect
5 9 (9.47%) Informatica Engineer
5 9 (9.47%) Senior Data Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Azure Data Architect
6 8 (8.42%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (7.37%) Angular Developer
7 7 (7.37%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) .NET Developer
8 6 (6.32%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.32%) SQL Developer
9 5 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Migration Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Web Developer
10 4 (4.21%) DBA
10 4 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.95%) .NET
2 13 (13.68%) PySpark
2 13 (13.68%) REST
3 8 (8.42%) AngularJS
3 8 (8.42%) CSS
3 8 (8.42%) HTML
4 7 (7.37%) React
5 6 (6.32%) OAuth
6 5 (5.26%) OAuth2
7 4 (4.21%) .NET Core
7 4 (4.21%) .NET Framework
7 4 (4.21%) RESTful
8 3 (3.16%) CSS3
8 3 (3.16%) Entity Framework
8 3 (3.16%) HTML5
8 3 (3.16%) JSON
8 3 (3.16%) Middleware
8 3 (3.16%) Web Services
9 2 (2.11%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.74%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.42%) Replication
3 4 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.11%) IoT
5 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.05%) Clustering
6 1 (1.05%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.05%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.05%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.16%) Windows
2 2 (2.11%) VMS
3 1 (1.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (58.95%) DevOps
2 41 (43.16%) CI/CD
3 38 (40.00%) Analytics
4 36 (37.89%) Data Modelling
5 35 (36.84%) ETL
6 30 (31.58%) Data Pipeline
7 25 (26.32%) Data Engineering
8 23 (24.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 22 (23.16%) Agile
10 19 (20.00%) Data Governance
11 18 (18.95%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (15.79%) High Availability
12 15 (15.79%) Log Analytics
12 15 (15.79%) Migration
12 15 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (14.74%) Data Architecture
13 14 (14.74%) Disaster Recovery
14 13 (13.68%) AI
15 12 (12.63%) Data Science
15 12 (12.63%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 95 (100.00%) SQL
2 23 (24.21%) Python
3 13 (13.68%) C#
4 12 (12.63%) TypeScript
5 10 (10.53%) PowerShell
5 10 (10.53%) Scala
6 7 (7.37%) T-SQL
7 5 (5.26%) Bicep
7 5 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (3.16%) Bash
8 3 (3.16%) Java
8 3 (3.16%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.05%) C
9 1 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 22 (23.16%) Security Cleared
2 21 (22.11%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.42%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.16%) Degree
5 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.05%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.05%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (23.16%) Data Quality
2 15 (15.79%) QA
3 7 (7.37%) GDPR
4 4 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (3.16%) NIST
6 2 (2.11%) NCSC
7 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.05%) IFRS
7 1 (1.05%) IFRS 17
7 1 (1.05%) IFRS 9
7 1 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (7.37%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.26%) Docker
3 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (26.32%) Terraform
2 7 (7.37%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.05%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 48 (50.53%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.95%) Databricks
3 11 (11.58%) Informatica
4 3 (3.16%) Oracle
5 1 (1.05%) Google
5 1 (1.05%) IBM
5 1 (1.05%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow