Azure SQL Data Warehouse Contracts

Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 510 559 610
Rank change year-on-year +49 +51 +111
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse 10 23 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.053% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.18% 0.31% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 75
10th Percentile £321 £415 £372
25th Percentile £372 £519 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +17.07% -6.82%
75th Percentile £594 £750 £648
90th Percentile £665 £805 £705
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £438 £480
% change year-on-year +8.57% -8.85% -4.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,552 7,317 10,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.80% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,834 5,210 7,665
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 143 183
10th Percentile £19.97 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.06 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.15 £58.62 £70.88
90th Percentile £75.13 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the UK

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the UK

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the UK

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the UK

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 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
England +47 10 £475 -26.92% 22
Work from Home +39 6 £513 +0.99% 11
UK excluding London +64 3 £475 +8.57% 16
London +23 3 £675 +3.85% 8
Midlands +23 2 £425 -22.73% 2
West Midlands - 2 £425 - 2
North West - 1 £475 - 3
North of England - 1 £475 - 5

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (20.00%) Azure API Management
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
3 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (50.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (30.00%) Data Mining
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (20.00%) Data Vault
4 2 (20.00%) Power BI
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (10.00%) Big Data
5 1 (10.00%) EDRMS
5 1 (10.00%) Metadata
5 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (10.00%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (10.00%) QlikView
5 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (10.00%) Spark SQL
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Retail
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Architect
1 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Records Management Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) NumPy
2 1 (10.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Data Science
4 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Use Case
4 2 (20.00%) Validation
4 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (10.00%) R
4 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ISEB
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Databricks
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft