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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 238 255
Rank change year-on-year -36 +17 +81
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 99 124 147
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 0.88% 0.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.40% 4.08% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 85 87
10th Percentile £398 £310 £408
25th Percentile £463 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £675 £666
90th Percentile £650 £750 £753
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.50 -
England median hourly rate - £60.50 -

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 2,910 3,039 3,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.51% 21.56% 19.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,015 2,081 2,523
10th Percentile £358 £363 £385
25th Percentile £415 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £573
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.40% -4.50%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 26 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £22.78
25th Percentile £29.72 £26.21 £35.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £70.50 £59.50 £57.59
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £64.51
England median hourly rate £51.36 £42.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +22.29% -9.05% -16.04%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 10 £600 -1.23% 44
South London - 1 £500 -
West London - 1 - - 3
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 30 (30.30%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.01%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.01%) CICS
Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.01%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 99 (100.00%) Azure
2 59 (59.60%) Azure Data Factory
3 31 (31.31%) Power Platform
4 30 (30.30%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (26.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 20 (20.20%) Serverless
7 16 (16.16%) Azure Functions
8 15 (15.15%) GitHub
9 14 (14.14%) Azure Key Vault
10 13 (13.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 13 (13.13%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (12.12%) Azure Logic Apps
12 11 (11.11%) Azure AKS
13 9 (9.09%) Entra ID
14 8 (8.08%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (8.08%) PaaS
15 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (6.06%) Snowflake
16 5 (5.05%) Azure Event Grid
16 5 (5.05%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.03%) Network Security
2 2 (2.02%) Firewall
3 1 (1.01%) HTTP
3 1 (1.01%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (48.48%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (30.30%) Power BI
3 28 (28.28%) NoSQL
4 26 (26.26%) Data Lake
5 25 (25.25%) SQL Server
6 11 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (8.08%) Metadata
8 7 (7.07%) Tableau
9 5 (5.05%) Big Data
9 5 (5.05%) Relational Database
10 4 (4.04%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (4.04%) Spark SQL
11 3 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (3.03%) MySQL
11 3 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (2.02%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (2.02%) QlikView
12 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (2.02%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (32.32%) Git
2 7 (7.07%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.01%) GitLab
3 1 (1.01%) JIRA
3 1 (1.01%) Postman
3 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.20%) Finance
3 12 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.08%) Banking
5 6 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.02%) Military
6 2 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (39.39%) Data Engineer
2 30 (30.30%) Azure Engineer
3 26 (26.26%) Azure Data Engineer
4 22 (22.22%) Developer
5 15 (15.15%) Architect
6 13 (13.13%) Senior
7 12 (12.12%) Azure Developer
8 10 (10.10%) Azure Architect
9 9 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (7.07%) .NET Developer
10 7 (7.07%) Technical Architect
11 5 (5.05%) Data Architect
11 5 (5.05%) DBA
11 5 (5.05%) SQL DBA
12 4 (4.04%) Azure Data Architect
12 4 (4.04%) Lead
13 3 (3.03%) Backend Developer
13 3 (3.03%) Snowflake Developer
13 3 (3.03%) SQL Server DBA
13 3 (3.03%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (31.31%) PySpark
2 16 (16.16%) .NET
3 11 (11.11%) .NET Core
4 10 (10.10%) Kafka
5 8 (8.08%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.05%) React
7 4 (4.04%) ARM Templates
7 4 (4.04%) Node.js
7 4 (4.04%) YAML
8 3 (3.03%) ASP.NET
8 3 (3.03%) RESTful
8 3 (3.03%) Spring
8 3 (3.03%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.02%) .NET Framework
9 2 (2.02%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (2.02%) FastAPI
9 2 (2.02%) Next.js
9 2 (2.02%) PyTorch
9 2 (2.02%) TensorFlow
9 2 (2.02%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.07%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.04%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.02%) Clustering
4 2 (2.02%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.01%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.01%) IoT
5 1 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.01%) Life Science
5 1 (1.01%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.01%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.02%) Windows
2 1 (1.01%) AIX
2 1 (1.01%) Linux
2 1 (1.01%) Solaris
2 1 (1.01%) VMS
2 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (55.56%) Data Modelling
2 41 (41.41%) Data Pipeline
3 40 (40.40%) CI/CD
3 40 (40.40%) Data Governance
4 38 (38.38%) DevOps
5 37 (37.37%) Data Integration
6 36 (36.36%) Agile
7 35 (35.35%) Analytics
7 35 (35.35%) Data Engineering
8 32 (32.32%) Data Architecture
9 30 (30.30%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (29.29%) ETL
11 27 (27.27%) Integration Patterns
12 17 (17.17%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (17.17%) Microservices
13 16 (16.16%) RBAC
14 15 (15.15%) Migration
15 12 (12.12%) Containerisation
16 11 (11.11%) Data Science
16 11 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 98 (98.99%) SQL
2 44 (44.44%) Python
3 27 (27.27%) Scala
4 13 (13.13%) C#
5 12 (12.12%) Bicep
6 7 (7.07%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.06%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.05%) Java
8 5 (5.05%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.04%) T-SQL
10 3 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (2.02%) R
12 1 (1.01%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (1.01%) COBOL
12 1 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.01%) VBA
Qualifications
1 42 (42.42%) Security Cleared
2 38 (38.38%) SC Cleared
3 14 (14.14%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.03%) Degree
6 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.01%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.01%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.01%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.01%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.05%) GDPR
2 5 (5.05%) QA
3 3 (3.03%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (14.14%) Docker
2 8 (8.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (17.17%) Terraform
2 11 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 43 (43.43%) Databricks
2 35 (35.35%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.04%) OpenAI
3 4 (4.04%) Oracle
3 4 (4.04%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.03%) ForgeRock
5 2 (2.02%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.02%) SAP
6 1 (1.01%) NetApp