Azure SQL Database Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 82 129 141
Rank change year-on-year +47 +12 +10
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 20 16 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.32% 0.60% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.62% 4.69% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 10
10th Percentile - £415 £560
25th Percentile £413 £480 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -14.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £625
90th Percentile £588 £615 -
South East median daily rate £533 £513 £600
% change year-on-year +3.90% -14.58% +15.66%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 232 341 446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.35% 12.70% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 195 300
10th Percentile £325 £316 £331
25th Percentile £412 £403 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 13
10th Percentile £22.97 £19.59 £22.90
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.61 £26.08
Median hourly rate £32.05 £59.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.68% +7.27% +266.67%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.60 £75.75
90th Percentile £65.62 £65.50 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the Thames Valley

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the Thames Valley

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in the Thames Valley

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the Thames Valley

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +38 18 £500 -1.23% 6
Buckinghamshire +13 2 £543 -9.58% 5
Azure SQL Database
South East

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 12 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (45.00%) Azure AKS
4 8 (40.00%) IaaS
4 8 (40.00%) PaaS
5 7 (35.00%) Azure Storage
6 4 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (15.00%) Azure API Management
7 3 (15.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (15.00%) Serverless
8 2 (10.00%) Azure App Service
8 2 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (10.00%) Azure Table
8 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (25.00%) Big Data
3 4 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (15.00%) Power BI
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
6 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
6 1 (5.00%) HBase
6 1 (5.00%) HDInsight
6 1 (5.00%) Impala
6 1 (5.00%) Metadata
6 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (5.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Electronics
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.00%) Marketing
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Site Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Senior
5 3 (15.00%) Architect
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Architect
5 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Data Migration Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Migration Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Tester
6 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) PySpark
2 5 (25.00%) ADO
3 4 (20.00%) .NET
3 4 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (20.00%) ARM Templates
4 3 (15.00%) JSON
4 3 (15.00%) OAuth
4 3 (15.00%) OpenID
4 3 (15.00%) SAML
5 2 (10.00%) Gherkin
5 2 (10.00%) REST
6 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
6 1 (5.00%) Entity Framework
6 1 (5.00%) Kafka
6 1 (5.00%) React
6 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Replication
3 1 (5.00%) IoT
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (5.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) DevOps
2 9 (45.00%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (35.00%) Migration
5 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 5 (25.00%) Analytics
6 5 (25.00%) Data Migration
7 4 (20.00%) Agile
7 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 3 (15.00%) API Management
8 3 (15.00%) ETL
8 3 (15.00%) Identity Management
8 3 (15.00%) RBAC
8 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
9 2 (10.00%) Design Patterns
9 2 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
9 2 (10.00%) Log Analytics
9 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) SQL
2 11 (55.00%) Python
3 7 (35.00%) C#
3 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (30.00%) Bicep
5 4 (20.00%) Bash
6 2 (10.00%) Java
6 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Flume
3 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (10.00%) Grafana
4 2 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) StreamSets