Azure SQL Database Contracts in the Thames Valley

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 123 134 154
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 -26
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 17 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.63% 0.41% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.89% 2.68% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 10
10th Percentile £416 £569 £447
25th Percentile £485 £573 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £549 £625 £588
90th Percentile £610 - £621
South East median daily rate £513 £600 £519
% change year-on-year -14.58% +15.66% +9.21%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 348 447 556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.88% 15.26% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 303 420
10th Percentile £316 £340 £313
25th Percentile £400 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £679 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 3
10th Percentile £19.74 £22.90 -
25th Percentile £22.61 £26.08 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +266.67% -65.52%
75th Percentile £61.83 £75.75 £19.38
90th Percentile £67.50 £79.19 £22.00
South East median hourly rate £58.95 £57.50 £39.21
% change year-on-year +2.53% +46.66% +21.57%

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 25 April 2024.

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 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
Berkshire -3 12 £513 -4.43% 2
Buckinghamshire +21 5 £600 - 2
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 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (82.35%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (70.59%) Azure Functions
3 12 (70.59%) Serverless
4 7 (41.18%) Azure API Management
4 7 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (41.18%) Azure Logic Apps
4 7 (41.18%) Power Platform
5 5 (29.41%) Azure Key Vault
5 5 (29.41%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (17.65%) PaaS
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
7 2 (11.76%) AWS
7 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
1 2 (11.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (52.94%) SQL Server
2 7 (41.18%) Power BI
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
4 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
4 3 (17.65%) NoSQL
4 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (11.76%) MySQL
5 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
6 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
6 1 (5.88%) Apache Zeppelin
6 1 (5.88%) Big Data
6 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
6 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Visual Studio
2 2 (11.76%) Postman
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
1 4 (23.53%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Azure Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Azure Data Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Data Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Integration Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Business Data Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) C# Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) DBA
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) ETL Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) XML
2 5 (29.41%) ARM Templates
3 3 (17.65%) .NET
3 3 (17.65%) JSON
3 3 (17.65%) OAuth
3 3 (17.65%) OpenID
3 3 (17.65%) REST
3 3 (17.65%) SOAP
4 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (11.76%) OpenAPI
4 2 (11.76%) Swagger
5 1 (5.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Product Ownership
2 5 (29.41%) Smart Meter
3 3 (17.65%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 4 (23.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Analytics
2 7 (41.18%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 7 (41.18%) Data Modelling
2 7 (41.18%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) Scrum
3 6 (35.29%) ETL
3 6 (35.29%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (29.41%) Application Security
4 5 (29.41%) B2C
4 5 (29.41%) Break/Fix
4 5 (29.41%) ETL Development
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (29.41%) OO
4 5 (29.41%) Security Testing
4 5 (29.41%) SOLID
5 4 (23.53%) Data Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Data Protection
5 4 (23.53%) Dimensional Modelling
5 4 (23.53%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) C#
2 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) R
3 1 (5.88%) Scala
3 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) GDPR
2 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Grafana
1 2 (11.76%) Graylog
1 2 (11.76%) Nagios
1 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) Ab Initio
3 2 (11.76%) Databricks
3 2 (11.76%) Splunk