Azure SQL Database Contracts in Merseyside

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - 40
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 1 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.60% - 2.05%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.13% - 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £540
25th Percentile £513 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.66%
75th Percentile £538 - £693
90th Percentile - - £697
North West median daily rate £475 £450 £580
% change year-on-year +5.56% -22.35% +5.36%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 32 27 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 19.05% 11.84% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 24 56
10th Percentile £208 £115 £325
25th Percentile £456 £191 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £363 £500
Median % change year-on-year +50.34% -27.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £480 £626
90th Percentile £663 £494 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £489 £490
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Job postings citing Azure SQL Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Merseyside

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Merseyside.

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Merseyside

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL