Azure SQL Database Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 188 206
Rank change year-on-year +52 +18 +16
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 23 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.76% 0.31% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.60% 2.80% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 12
10th Percentile £413 £416 £493
25th Percentile £459 £485 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -14.58% +15.66%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £625
90th Percentile £628 £610 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 411 608 867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.65% 10.94% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 374 606
10th Percentile £333 £319 £317
25th Percentile £409 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £684
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 39
10th Percentile £23.24 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £24.40 £21.55 £32.30
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%
75th Percentile £49.38 £67.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £65.62 £80.00 £76.44
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the South East

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the South East

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in the South East

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the South East

Azure SQL Database
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 Database within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +47 20 £500 -2.44% 5
Berkshire +38 18 £500 -1.23% 2
Buckinghamshire +13 2 £543 -9.58% 1
East Sussex - 2 £638 - 1
Surrey - 1 £525 - 4
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) Azure Data Factory
2 12 (52.17%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (39.13%) Azure AKS
4 8 (34.78%) IaaS
4 8 (34.78%) PaaS
5 7 (30.43%) Azure Storage
6 5 (21.74%) Power Platform
7 4 (17.39%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
8 3 (13.04%) Azure API Management
8 3 (13.04%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (13.04%) Serverless
9 2 (8.70%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (8.70%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (8.70%) Azure Table
9 2 (8.70%) Power Automate
9 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (21.74%) Big Data
3 4 (17.39%) Data Lake
4 3 (13.04%) Power BI
4 3 (13.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
6 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
6 1 (4.35%) HBase
6 1 (4.35%) HDInsight
6 1 (4.35%) Impala
6 1 (4.35%) Metadata
6 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.35%) Parquet
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) SpecFlow
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Electronics
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
2 2 (8.70%) Marketing
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Site Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Senior
5 3 (13.04%) Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Azure Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Specialist
6 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Migration Analyst
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Tester
6 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) PySpark
2 5 (21.74%) ADO
3 4 (17.39%) .NET
3 4 (17.39%) .NET Core
3 4 (17.39%) ARM Templates
4 3 (13.04%) JSON
4 3 (13.04%) OAuth
4 3 (13.04%) OpenID
4 3 (13.04%) SAML
5 2 (8.70%) Gherkin
5 2 (8.70%) REST
6 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.35%) Entity Framework
6 1 (4.35%) Kafka
6 1 (4.35%) React
6 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.04%) Replication
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Clustering
4 1 (4.35%) IoT
4 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (4.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) DevOps
2 9 (39.13%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (30.43%) Analytics
4 7 (30.43%) Migration
5 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
5 6 (26.09%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (21.74%) Agile
6 5 (21.74%) Data Migration
7 4 (17.39%) Data Transformation
7 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
8 3 (13.04%) API Management
8 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
8 3 (13.04%) ETL
8 3 (13.04%) Identity Management
8 3 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (13.04%) RBAC
8 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) SQL
2 11 (47.83%) Python
3 8 (34.78%) PowerShell
4 7 (30.43%) C#
5 6 (26.09%) Bicep
6 4 (17.39%) Bash
7 2 (8.70%) Java
7 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
8 1 (4.35%) Perl
8 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Flume
3 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (17.39%) Terraform
3 3 (13.04%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.70%) Grafana
4 2 (8.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 7 (30.43%) Databricks
3 2 (8.70%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (4.35%) StreamSets