Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
3 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.28% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £331 - -
25th Percentile £359 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £459 - -
90th Percentile £484 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%

All Database & BI Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 141 77 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 13.12% 20.81% 13.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 61 46
10th Percentile £350 £213 £375
25th Percentile £409 £375 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £582 £550 £634
90th Percentile £675 £613 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -4.76%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in South Yorkshire

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Sheffield - 3 £413 - 1
Azure SQL Database
Yorkshire

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Stack
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Parquet
2 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365 Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Database Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) E-Discovery
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) People Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) X++
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
Azure SQL Database jobs