Azure SQL Database Contracts in the South East

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Azure SQL Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 199 221
Rank change year-on-year +12 +22 -38
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 18 18 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.32% 0.31% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.92% 2.06% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 28
10th Percentile £418 £510 £398
25th Percentile £490 £570 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £519
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +15.66% +9.21%
75th Percentile £545 £625 £588
90th Percentile £605 £643 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

Azure SQL Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 617 875 1,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.09% 14.99% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 615 982
10th Percentile £315 £319 £338
25th Percentile £398 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £607 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £680
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 39 30
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £20.18
25th Percentile £22.08 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £58.95 £57.50 £39.21
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% +46.66% +21.57%
75th Percentile £69.38 £75.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.44 £62.49
England median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.92% +41.18% +70.00%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 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
Thames Valley +11 17 £513 -14.58% 4
Berkshire -3 12 £513 -4.43% 2
Buckinghamshire +21 5 £600 - 1
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 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.56%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (77.78%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (72.22%) Azure Functions
3 13 (72.22%) Serverless
4 8 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (38.89%) Azure API Management
5 7 (38.89%) Azure Logic Apps
5 7 (38.89%) Power Platform
6 5 (27.78%) Azure Key Vault
6 5 (27.78%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (22.22%) PaaS
8 2 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 2 (11.11%) AWS
8 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 2 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 7 (38.89%) Power BI
3 4 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 3 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (11.11%) MySQL
5 2 (11.11%) RDBMS
6 1 (5.56%) Apache Hive
6 1 (5.56%) Apache Zeppelin
6 1 (5.56%) Big Data
6 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.56%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
6 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Visual Studio
2 2 (11.11%) Postman
3 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
1 4 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Azure Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Data Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Integration Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Business Data Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) C# Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) DBA
4 2 (11.11%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.56%) .NET Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) ETL Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) XML
2 5 (27.78%) ARM Templates
3 4 (22.22%) .NET
4 3 (16.67%) JSON
4 3 (16.67%) OAuth
4 3 (16.67%) OpenID
4 3 (16.67%) REST
4 3 (16.67%) SOAP
5 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (11.11%) OpenAPI
5 2 (11.11%) Swagger
6 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
6 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 5 (27.78%) Smart Meter
3 3 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Analytics
2 8 (44.44%) DevOps
3 7 (38.89%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (38.89%) Data Modelling
3 7 (38.89%) ETL
3 7 (38.89%) Scrum
4 6 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (27.78%) Application Security
5 5 (27.78%) B2C
5 5 (27.78%) Break/Fix
5 5 (27.78%) ETL Development
5 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (27.78%) OO
5 5 (27.78%) Security Testing
5 5 (27.78%) SOLID
6 4 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (22.22%) Data Protection
6 4 (22.22%) Dimensional Modelling
6 4 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) C#
3 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) R
4 1 (5.56%) Scala
4 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) GDPR
2 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) QA
3 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.56%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) Grafana
2 2 (11.11%) Graylog
2 2 (11.11%) Nagios
2 2 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Ab Initio
3 2 (11.11%) Databricks
3 2 (11.11%) Splunk