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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 572 589
Rank change year-on-year +49 +17 +134
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse 9 15 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.034% 0.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.16% 0.20% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 63
10th Percentile £358 £425 £388
25th Percentile £381 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £593 £515
Median % change year-on-year -19.83% +15.05% -6.36%
75th Percentile £603 £650 £674
90th Percentile £670 £740 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -13.16% -5.00% -

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 5,548 7,513 9,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.60% 17.13% 17.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,781 5,361 6,810
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £656
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 155 174
10th Percentile £19.59 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.01 £20.88 £32.32
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -31.73% +34.95%
75th Percentile £66.00 £53.94 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.70 £72.50 £81.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.85 £34.47 £56.95
% change year-on-year -7.60% -39.48% +62.71%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +68 8 £506 -15.63% 156
London +47 5 £594 -5.00% 48
Work from Home +36 5 £475 +11.76% 49
UK excluding London +43 2 £413 -13.16% 130
Midlands +12 1 £350 -31.71% 24
West Midlands +4 1 £350 -26.32% 16
North West - 1 £475 - 12
North of England - 1 £475 - 37

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 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (22.22%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) AWS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (44.44%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (44.44%) Data Lake
3 3 (33.33%) Power BI
3 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (22.22%) Data Mining
4 2 (22.22%) Data Vault
5 1 (11.11%) Big Data
5 1 (11.11%) EDRMS
5 1 (11.11%) HDInsight
5 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (11.11%) Star Schema
General
1 3 (33.33%) Retail
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Advertising
3 1 (11.11%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Architect
1 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Database Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Records Management Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) IoT
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Kimball Methodology
1 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (33.33%) Analytics
2 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Data Design
3 2 (22.22%) Data Management
3 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Data Science
3 2 (22.22%) Data Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Validation
4 1 (11.11%) Data Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Databricks
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft