Azure SQL Database Contracts in Suffolk

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 20 12 22
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 1 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 1.35% 3.28% 2.04%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.29% 33.33% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £333
25th Percentile - - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £751 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year +36.55% +29.41% -
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - £518
East of England median daily rate £576 £550 £475
% change year-on-year +4.64% +15.79% +5.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7 6 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 9.46% 9.84% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 19
10th Percentile £336 £358 £227
25th Percentile £372 £425 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £597 £650 £700
90th Percentile £690 - -
East of England median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.12
Median hourly rate - - £14.24
75th Percentile - - £15.36
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £49.00 £25.18 £64.25
% change year-on-year +94.60% -60.81% +83.57%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Suffolk

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Suffolk.

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Suffolk

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk 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
Ipswich -3 1 £751 +36.55% 6
Azure SQL Database
East of England

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft