Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in North London

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
London > North London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North London requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in North London 4.17% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
London median daily rate £575 £573 £575
% change year-on-year +0.44% -0.43% +4.55%

All Database & BI Skills
North London

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 North London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North London 8.33% - 24.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £224 - -
25th Percentile £295 - £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £414 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile £532 - £590
90th Percentile £603 - £592
London median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -2.61%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in North London

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in North London

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend in North London

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

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

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in North London

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 London region over the 6 months to 28 May 2026. 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
Enfield - 1 £650 -
Azure SQL Database
London

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North London 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%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft