Azure SQL Database Contracts in Scotland

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 144 164
Rank change year-on-year +36 +20 -13
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 7 20 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.33% 0.75% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.84% 3.60% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 9
10th Percentile £415 £416 £358
25th Percentile £426 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £531 £433
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% +22.83% -3.89%
75th Percentile £488 £600 £482
90th Percentile £523 £630 £523
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%

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 380 556 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.73% 20.81% 17.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 425 442
10th Percentile £322 £388 £363
25th Percentile £400 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £533 £550 £550
90th Percentile £611 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £16.75
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £17.50
Median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%
75th Percentile £45.72 £67.66 £48.00
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £58.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
% change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Scotland

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Scotland

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

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 16 June 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
Glasgow +17 4 £475 -20.83%
Edinburgh +26 3 £433 -11.18% 5
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) PaaS
3 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
4 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Administrator
2 3 (42.86%) DBA
2 3 (42.86%) SQL DBA
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Administrator
4 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL DBA
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Core
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
1 2 (28.57%) ARM Templates
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) Entity Framework
1 2 (28.57%) jQuery
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth2
1 2 (28.57%) OpenID
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) SOAP
1 2 (28.57%) WCF
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Database Security
2 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) MVC
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) API Management
3 1 (14.29%) B2C
3 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
3 1 (14.29%) Database Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft