Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.22% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £463 - -

All Database & BI Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 45 39 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 9.83% 17.97% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 24 10
10th Percentile £400 £359 £420
25th Percentile £413 £409 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £461 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% -2.89% -20.83%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £497
90th Percentile £606 £668 £560
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £69.44 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £69.44 - -

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Azure SQL Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks