Azure SQL Database Contracts in the North of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Azure SQL Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 160 208
Rank change year-on-year -18 +48 -44
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 11 56 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.96% 0.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.57% 6.64% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 40 34
10th Percentile £346 £450 £383
25th Percentile £350 £463 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £569 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.52% +8.33% +21.45%
75th Percentile £550 £661 £663
90th Percentile £618 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

Azure SQL Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 700 844 1,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.62% 14.45% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 614 956
10th Percentile £350 £359 £325
25th Percentile £413 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £647 £688 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 19 44
10th Percentile £11.25 £35.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.08 £39.80 £17.44
Median hourly rate £41.38 £49.00 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +76.58% +26.14%
75th Percentile £45.10 £65.00 £50.18
90th Percentile £46.18 £65.20 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.25 £58.59 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.30% +37.86% +70.00%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Azure SQL Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the North of England

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the North of England

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in the North of England

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
North West -14 8 £450 -22.78% 11
Yorkshire +7 3 £513 +7.89% 2
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Tableau
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (18.18%) DBA
3 2 (18.18%) Power BI Developer
3 2 (18.18%) SQL DBA
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) VMS
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) ETL
2 3 (27.27%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (27.27%) Analytics
2 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (27.27%) Data Extraction
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Visualisation
3 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Microservices
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Optimisation
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Data Security
4 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks