Azure SQL Database Contracts in the South West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 144 164 158
Rank change year-on-year +20 -6 -23
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 8 10 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.25% 0.27% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.48% 2.05% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 9
10th Percentile £368 £413 £355
25th Percentile £405 £450 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £525 £405
Median % change year-on-year -16.34% +29.63% -7.43%
75th Percentile - £688 £488
90th Percentile £491 £813 £513
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 322 487 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.10% 13.28% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 352 443
10th Percentile £325 £363 £345
25th Percentile £423 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +3.50% +0.50%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £594
90th Percentile £725 £709 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 21
10th Percentile £16.53 £19.00 £49.28
25th Percentile - £35.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% -5.87% +61.77%
75th Percentile £55.75 £75.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 -
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the South West

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the South West

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in the South West

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +23 8 £439 +3.35% 5
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (75.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (62.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (62.50%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Service Fabric
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Local Government
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) ICT Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (75.00%) Migration
2 5 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Fintech
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Microservices
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Python
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) CA