Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - 38
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.27% - 1.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.22% - 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £397 - £429
25th Percentile £401 - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.58%
75th Percentile £412 - £578
90th Percentile £415 - £606
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £406 - £513
% change year-on-year - - -14.58%

All Database & BI Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 90 52 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 11.95% 29.38% 14.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 39 34
10th Percentile £360 £305 £350
25th Percentile £400 £325 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £431
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -7.25% -16.87%
75th Percentile £538 £522 £475
90th Percentile £588 £599 £594
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £418 £431
% change year-on-year +13.77% -3.19% -21.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £22.61
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year - +126.15% -
75th Percentile - £53.75 £24.13
90th Percentile - - £24.31
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £24.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year - +3.38% -

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure SQL Database relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Azure SQL Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DBA
1 2 (100.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Database Security
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft