Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 113 132
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 +29
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 4 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.25% 0.23% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.11% 1.35% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 8
10th Percentile £465 £417 £443
25th Percentile £488 £427 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £467 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.54% -11.14% +12.90%
75th Percentile £588 £519 £588
90th Percentile £610 £553 -
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 359 296 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.35% 16.70% 17.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 185 289
10th Percentile £313 £328 £375
25th Percentile £408 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.69% -0.51%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £550
90th Percentile £630 £625 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile - £17.72 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.92 £18.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% +0.46% -7.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £20.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £47.50
% change year-on-year +37.90% -33.59% -5.00%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in Scotland

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in Scotland

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Edinburgh +5 3 £500 +15.47% 3
Glasgow -8 1 £550 - 4
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Power Query
2 1 (25.00%) Redis
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) Blazor
1 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (25.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Data Security
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft