Azure SQL Data Warehouse Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure SQL Data Warehouse skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure SQL Data Warehouse over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 373 401
Rank change year-on-year -2 +28 +60
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse 2 3 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.016% 0.090%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.086% 0.12% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 16
10th Percentile £366 £319 £294
25th Percentile £389 £329 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £345 £493
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -29.95% -8.37%
75th Percentile £477 £416 £619
90th Percentile £502 £459 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £410 £550
% change year-on-year +25.00% -25.45% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Azure SQL Data Warehouse 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,328 2,427 3,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.22% 13.22% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,538 1,665 2,275
10th Percentile £300 £313 £335
25th Percentile £385 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 68 107
10th Percentile £18.47 £13.63 £21.05
25th Percentile £21.07 £17.50 £28.55
Median hourly rate £31.64 £30.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% -42.86% +50.00%
75th Percentile £63.13 £60.36 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.28 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £35.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.41% -35.45% +35.04%

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
West Midlands -6 1 £350 -26.32% 3
Midlands -9 1 £350 -26.32% 4
Scotland - 1 £513 -
Azure SQL Data Warehouse
UK

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) HDInsight
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) FMCG
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Inmon Methodology
2 1 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft