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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 302 225
Rank change year-on-year -47 -77 +71
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 100 71 176
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.49% 0.53% 1.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.73% 2.50% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 51 131
10th Percentile £413 £405 £310
25th Percentile £459 £438 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - -3.08%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £675
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £491 £543
% change year-on-year +6.87% -9.45% -6.91%

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 3,661 2,836 3,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.11% 21.06% 23.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,481 1,982 2,764
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £725
90th Percentile £740 £825 £850
England median daily rate £501 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.86% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 37 24
10th Percentile £18.23 £25.80 £25.40
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.50 £36.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £55.63 £64.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £87.50 £77.63
England median hourly rate £38.50 £38.23 £33.22
% change year-on-year +0.71% +15.10% -39.61%

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 August 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 29 August 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 -12 19 £500 -16.67% 4
North London - 1 £650 -
South London - 1 £613 -
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 10 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.00%) Apache
3 2 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (100.00%) Azure
2 46 (46.00%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (37.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 36 (36.00%) Power Platform
5 31 (31.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 29 (29.00%) GitHub
7 16 (16.00%) Entra ID
8 14 (14.00%) Serverless
9 13 (13.00%) Azure Key Vault
10 12 (12.00%) Azure Functions
11 11 (11.00%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (11.00%) PowerApps
12 9 (9.00%) PaaS
12 9 (9.00%) SaaS
13 8 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (8.00%) IaaS
14 7 (7.00%) Azure Storage
15 6 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
16 5 (5.00%) Azure AKS
16 5 (5.00%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.00%) Network Security
2 3 (3.00%) Firewall
2 3 (3.00%) VPN
3 2 (2.00%) DNS
4 1 (1.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (33.00%) SQL Server
2 32 (32.00%) Data Lake
3 27 (27.00%) Power BI
4 25 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (16.00%) Star Schema
6 9 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (8.00%) Power Query
8 7 (7.00%) Metadata
8 7 (7.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (6.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 5 (5.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 5 (5.00%) NoSQL
10 5 (5.00%) Relational Database
10 5 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (4.00%) MySQL
11 4 (4.00%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (3.00%) Delta Lake
12 3 (3.00%) OLAP
12 3 (3.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 16 (16.00%) Git
2 6 (6.00%) Visual Studio
3 4 (4.00%) JetBrains Rider
4 3 (3.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (2.00%) GitLab
5 2 (2.00%) Jasmine
5 2 (2.00%) JUnit
5 2 (2.00%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (1.00%) ERwin
6 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
General
1 31 (31.00%) Finance
2 27 (27.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.00%) Banking
4 7 (7.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.00%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.00%) Retail
7 3 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.00%) Local Government
8 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Marketing
8 1 (1.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 33 (33.00%) Developer
2 28 (28.00%) Data Engineer
3 21 (21.00%) Architect
4 17 (17.00%) Senior
5 14 (14.00%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (12.00%) Data Architect
7 11 (11.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (9.00%) Informatica Engineer
9 8 (8.00%) Azure Architect
9 8 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (8.00%) Power BI Developer
9 8 (8.00%) Senior Developer
10 7 (7.00%) .NET Developer
10 7 (7.00%) Angular Developer
11 6 (6.00%) Azure Data Architect
11 6 (6.00%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (6.00%) SQL Developer
12 5 (5.00%) DBA
12 5 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (5.00%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.00%) .NET
2 17 (17.00%) Terraform
3 16 (16.00%) REST
4 10 (10.00%) React
5 9 (9.00%) CSS
5 9 (9.00%) HTML
6 8 (8.00%) AngularJS
7 6 (6.00%) .NET Core
7 6 (6.00%) OAuth
7 6 (6.00%) PySpark
7 6 (6.00%) RESTful
8 5 (5.00%) .NET Framework
8 5 (5.00%) OAuth2
9 4 (4.00%) CSS3
9 4 (4.00%) Entity Framework
9 4 (4.00%) HTML5
9 4 (4.00%) JSON
9 4 (4.00%) Middleware
10 3 (3.00%) ASP.NET
10 3 (3.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.00%) Replication
3 5 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.00%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.00%) Reinsurance
5 2 (2.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.00%) Clustering
6 1 (1.00%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.00%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.00%) Linux
2 2 (2.00%) VMS
2 2 (2.00%) Windows
3 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (60.00%) DevOps
2 46 (46.00%) CI/CD
3 37 (37.00%) Analytics
4 36 (36.00%) Data Modelling
5 31 (31.00%) ETL
6 27 (27.00%) Data Pipeline
7 26 (26.00%) Business Intelligence
7 26 (26.00%) Data Engineering
8 25 (25.00%) Agile
9 18 (18.00%) Performance Tuning
10 17 (17.00%) AI
10 17 (17.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (17.00%) Migration
11 15 (15.00%) Data Architecture
11 15 (15.00%) Data Governance
12 13 (13.00%) Dimensional Modelling
12 13 (13.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (13.00%) Scrum
12 13 (13.00%) Validation
13 12 (12.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 100 (100.00%) SQL
2 20 (20.00%) Python
3 16 (16.00%) TypeScript
4 14 (14.00%) C#
5 13 (13.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 9 (9.00%) T-SQL
8 5 (5.00%) Bicep
8 5 (5.00%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.00%) Bash
9 3 (3.00%) Scala
10 2 (2.00%) Java
11 1 (1.00%) C
11 1 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 23 (23.00%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.00%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.00%) Degree
5 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.00%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.00%) Data Quality
1 15 (15.00%) QA
2 4 (4.00%) GDPR
2 4 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.00%) NIST
4 2 (2.00%) NCSC
5 1 (1.00%) IFRS
5 1 (1.00%) IFRS 17
5 1 (1.00%) IFRS 9
5 1 (1.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (8.00%) Docker
2 7 (7.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (7.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.00%) Control-M
2 2 (2.00%) Puppet
3 1 (1.00%) SCOM
3 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.00%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 59 (59.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.00%) Databricks
3 13 (13.00%) Informatica
4 4 (4.00%) Oracle
5 2 (2.00%) Talend
6 1 (1.00%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.00%) Foundry
6 1 (1.00%) Google
6 1 (1.00%) IBM
6 1 (1.00%) Okta
6 1 (1.00%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.00%) RedGate
6 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.00%) SolarWinds