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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 209 255
Rank change year-on-year -89 +46 +98
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 80 180 171
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.57% 1.15% 0.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.73% 5.32% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 133 89
10th Percentile £405 £310 £400
25th Percentile £453 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% +2.73%
75th Percentile £599 £675 £669
90th Percentile £670 £700 £738
England median daily rate £500 £550 £571
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.72% +1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.50 -
England median hourly rate - £60.50 -

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 2,928 3,384 3,824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.82% 21.63% 19.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,039 2,383 2,752
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £425 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £788 £838 £788
England median daily rate £501 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.91% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 23 37
10th Percentile £18.25 £28.12 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.96 £36.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £43.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -4.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.15 £79.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +24.29% -24.21% -3.68%

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 13 November 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 13 November 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 -7 10 £613 - 63
South London - 1 £500 -
West London - 1 - - 2
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 (11.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.25%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.25%) CICS
2 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 80 (100.00%) Azure
2 39 (48.75%) Azure Data Factory
3 26 (32.50%) Power Platform
4 24 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (27.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 16 (20.00%) Serverless
7 14 (17.50%) Azure Functions
7 14 (17.50%) Azure Service Bus
8 13 (16.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 12 (15.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 12 (15.00%) GitHub
10 11 (13.75%) Azure AKS
10 11 (13.75%) Entra ID
11 10 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (8.75%) PaaS
14 6 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
15 5 (6.25%) Power Automate
15 5 (6.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Network Security
2 1 (1.25%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) HTTP
2 1 (1.25%) NAS
2 1 (1.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (36.25%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (30.00%) Power BI
3 23 (28.75%) Data Lake
4 21 (26.25%) SQL Server
5 14 (17.50%) NoSQL
6 6 (7.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (5.00%) Power Query
7 4 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (3.75%) Big Data
8 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (3.75%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (3.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (3.75%) Star Schema
8 3 (3.75%) Tableau
9 2 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (2.50%) Data Vault
9 2 (2.50%) Metadata
9 2 (2.50%) MySQL
9 2 (2.50%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 13 (16.25%) Git
2 3 (3.75%) ERwin
2 3 (3.75%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.50%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.25%) GitLab
4 1 (1.25%) JIRA
4 1 (1.25%) Postman
4 1 (1.25%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (32.50%) Finance
1 26 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 11 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.50%) Banking
6 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Legal
7 1 (1.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 29 (36.25%) Developer
2 18 (22.50%) Azure Engineer
2 18 (22.50%) Data Engineer
3 13 (16.25%) Architect
4 12 (15.00%) Azure Data Engineer
5 11 (13.75%) Azure Developer
6 9 (11.25%) Azure Architect
7 8 (10.00%) .NET Developer
7 8 (10.00%) Data Architect
8 7 (8.75%) Azure Data Architect
9 6 (7.50%) DBA
10 5 (6.25%) Senior
10 5 (6.25%) Senior Developer
10 5 (6.25%) SQL DBA
11 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (5.00%) Lead
11 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared DBA
11 4 (5.00%) Tester
12 3 (3.75%) Lead Tester
12 3 (3.75%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.75%) .NET
2 14 (17.50%) PySpark
3 13 (16.25%) .NET Core
4 11 (13.75%) React
5 8 (10.00%) AngularJS
6 5 (6.25%) SOAP
7 4 (5.00%) Node.js
7 4 (5.00%) RESTful
8 3 (3.75%) .NET Framework
8 3 (3.75%) ADO
8 3 (3.75%) ARM Templates
8 3 (3.75%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.75%) Next.js
8 3 (3.75%) YAML
9 2 (2.50%) CSS
9 2 (2.50%) FastAPI
9 2 (2.50%) HTML
9 2 (2.50%) pytest
9 2 (2.50%) PyTorch
9 2 (2.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.75%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (7.50%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.00%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.50%) Clustering
5 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.25%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) IoT
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Life Science
6 1 (1.25%) NHS
6 1 (1.25%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.25%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Windows
2 2 (2.50%) Linux
2 2 (2.50%) VMS
3 1 (1.25%) AIX
3 1 (1.25%) Solaris
3 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (42.50%) DevOps
2 31 (38.75%) Analytics
2 31 (38.75%) Data Modelling
3 29 (36.25%) CI/CD
4 24 (30.00%) Agile
4 24 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
4 24 (30.00%) ETL
5 22 (27.50%) Data Pipeline
6 20 (25.00%) Data Governance
7 18 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (22.50%) Migration
8 16 (20.00%) Data Architecture
8 16 (20.00%) Data Engineering
9 15 (18.75%) Data Integration
10 11 (13.75%) Containerisation
10 11 (13.75%) Microservices
10 11 (13.75%) RBAC
11 10 (12.50%) Data Management
11 10 (12.50%) Data Science
11 10 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 79 (98.75%) SQL
2 35 (43.75%) Python
3 23 (28.75%) C#
4 12 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 12 (15.00%) T-SQL
5 9 (11.25%) Scala
6 8 (10.00%) Bicep
7 7 (8.75%) Java
8 6 (7.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 6 (7.50%) PowerShell
9 5 (6.25%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.75%) VBA
11 2 (2.50%) Bash
12 1 (1.25%) COBOL
12 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.25%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (32.50%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.25%) Azure Certification
4 7 (8.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.75%) Degree
6 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.25%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.75%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.25%) QA
3 4 (5.00%) GDPR
4 3 (3.75%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (13.75%) Active Directory
2 9 (11.25%) Docker
3 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (23.75%) Terraform
2 9 (11.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.25%) Grafana
3 1 (1.25%) Istio
3 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (38.75%) Microsoft
2 26 (32.50%) Databricks
3 4 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.75%) Oracle
5 2 (2.50%) ForgeRock
5 2 (2.50%) SAP
6 1 (1.25%) NetApp