Azure SQL Data Warehouse Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Azure SQL Data Warehouse skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure SQL Data Warehouse 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 109 132 162
Rank change year-on-year +23 +30 +32
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.10% 0.036% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.71% 0.24% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £373 - £479
25th Percentile £388 - £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £463 - £600
90th Percentile £478 - -
England median daily rate £475 £650 £513
% change year-on-year -26.92% +26.83% -2.38%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

Azure SQL Data Warehouse 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 283 416 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.79% 15.09% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 308 412
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £655 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 6
10th Percentile £16.31 - £21.53
25th Percentile £17.00 - £24.16
Median hourly rate £18.20 £14.00 £25.87
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -45.87% -26.10%
75th Percentile £19.25 £27.49 £32.93
90th Percentile £20.90 £40.50 £47.54
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the Midlands

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the Midlands

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands - 2 £425 - 2
Azure SQL Data Warehouse
England

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Data Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) SFIA
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) ANSI SQL
2 1 (50.00%) R
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft