Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in the North East

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.26% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 37 46 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 9.61% 15.54% 18.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 32
10th Percentile £364 £345 £373
25th Percentile £428 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £475 £443
Median % change year-on-year +14.47% +7.34% -19.55%
75th Percentile £703 £576 £543
90th Percentile £750 £637 £599
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.76%
England median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.00% -18.80% -9.45%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in the North East

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Azure SQL Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £375 - 4
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks