Azure SQL Database Contracts in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 115 149
Rank change year-on-year -16 +34 -24
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 8 43 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.29% 1.33% 0.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.96% 8.45% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 31 27
10th Percentile £344 £463 £374
25th Percentile £350 £473 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +6.55% +29.41%
75th Percentile £534 £675 £669
90th Percentile £613 £693 £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 West

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 West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 408 509 737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.66% 15.80% 18.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 373 558
10th Percentile £350 £333 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 37
10th Percentile £27.43 £35.00 £13.09
25th Percentile £40.34 £39.70 £16.23
Median hourly rate £43.62 £47.29 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.75% +52.53% +32.08%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £51.45
90th Percentile £69.13 £65.30 £61.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.54% +39.52% +70.00%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the North West

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the North West

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the North West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in the North West

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Manchester +5 8 £450 -18.18% 5
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (25.00%) DBA
2 2 (25.00%) Power BI Developer
2 2 (25.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Extraction
1 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) ETL
1 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
1 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (12.50%) Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
2 1 (12.50%) Data Security
2 1 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (12.50%) Observability
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (12.50%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft