Azure SQL Data Warehouse Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Azure SQL Data Warehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 - 205
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.036% - 0.035%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.31% - 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £503 - -
25th Percentile £506 - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £325
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.78%
75th Percentile £556 - £338
90th Percentile £568 - -
England median daily rate £425 £475 £600
% change year-on-year -10.53% -20.83% +15.38%

All Database & BI Skills
South East

Azure SQL Data Warehouse 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 651 403 627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.66% 13.51% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 281 393
10th Percentile £300 £321 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -3.94%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 8 32
10th Percentile £14.14 £22.71 £18.20
25th Percentile £28.50 £23.50 £22.08
Median hourly rate £36.71 £31.13 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year +17.92% -47.15% +7.10%
75th Percentile £40.00 £56.72 £69.38
90th Percentile £82.25 £65.62 £80.00
England median hourly rate £49.36 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +43.07% -13.75% -28.19%

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 April 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
West Sussex - 2 £525 - 1
Azure SQL Data Warehouse
England

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Qlik Sense
1 2 (100.00%) QlikView
1 2 (100.00%) SAP BW
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration Project Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Migration Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Migration Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Project Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) SAP