Azure SQL Database Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Azure SQL Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 145 169
Rank change year-on-year +18 +24 -29
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 10 18 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.36% 0.52% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.48% 3.05% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 21
10th Percentile £331 - £356
25th Percentile £366 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £667 £575
90th Percentile £664 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

Azure SQL Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 404 591 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.73% 17.09% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 409 703
10th Percentile £300 £313 £315
25th Percentile £356 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £540
90th Percentile £700 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 17
10th Percentile - £21.53 £17.90
25th Percentile - £24.16 £22.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £25.87 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.87% -26.10% +45.83%
75th Percentile £27.49 £32.93 -
90th Percentile £40.50 £47.54 £45.67
England median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.92% +41.18% +70.00%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the Midlands

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the Midlands

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in the Midlands

Azure SQL Database
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 Database within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
East Midlands +21 5 £463 -7.50% 3
West Midlands +17 5 £523 +14.21% 4
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Functions
2 4 (40.00%) PaaS
2 4 (40.00%) Serverless
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Azure App Service
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (20.00%) SonarCloud
5 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (10.00%) Data Mining
4 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (10.00%) OLAP
4 1 (10.00%) OLAP Cube
4 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) Redis
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Moq
1 2 (20.00%) NUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Hudson
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Applications Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) DBA
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) VMS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) API Management
3 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) MVC
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) B2C
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Bicep
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) LogicMonitor