Azure SQL Database Contract Job Trends in West London

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 29 39
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 -
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.62% 0.45% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.13% 2.50% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £530
75th Percentile £575 - £545
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -

All Database & BI Skills
West London

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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 64 40 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 19.81% 18.02% 16.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 28 40
10th Percentile £313 £353 £181
25th Percentile £488 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.84% -5.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £625 £576 £572
90th Percentile £638 £703 £665
London median daily rate £524 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.93% +2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - £21.87
25th Percentile £27.25 - £29.40
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.27 £41.93
Median % change year-on-year +23.48% -46.89% -40.10%
75th Percentile £27.75 - £54.47
90th Percentile - £26.35 £61.99
London median hourly rate £46.50 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +9.41% -5.56% +6.98%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure SQL Database relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in West London

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Azure SQL Database.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in West London

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 West London region over the 6 months to 2 April 2026. 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
Hillingdon -7 1 - -
Azure SQL Database
London

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) SQL DBA
1 1 (50.00%) SSRS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft