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 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 35 50
Rank change year-on-year -18 +15 +22
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 5 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.89% 1.03% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.88% 6.06% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £469 £541 £445
25th Percentile £579 £541 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £543 £600
Median % change year-on-year +17.97% -9.58% -
75th Percentile - £544 £625
90th Percentile - £545 -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £640 £545 £600
% change year-on-year +17.43% -9.17% -

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 85 33 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 15.21% 16.92% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 30 54
10th Percentile £319 £320 £276
25th Percentile £400 £370 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £549 £534
90th Percentile £600 £653 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -10.53% +5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.61
Median hourly rate - - £23.82
75th Percentile - - £33.95
90th Percentile - - £51.08
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £24.00 £23.82
% change year-on-year - +0.75% -

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in Milton Keynes

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:

Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Technical Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) DBA
3 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Database Security
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) RBAC
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft