Azure SQL Database Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 109 126 145
Rank change year-on-year +17 +19 -31
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 5 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.26% 0.67% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.71% 3.87% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 17
10th Percentile £402 £412 £356
25th Percentile £443 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.21% -8.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £561 £689 £575
90th Percentile £577 £708 £625
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 293 413 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.17% 17.20% 19.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 282 524
10th Percentile £307 £350 £325
25th Percentile £358 £410 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £461
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +13.82% +8.53%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £540
90th Percentile £700 £699 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £24.13 -
25th Percentile - £24.31 £22.75
Median hourly rate £40.50 £25.25 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.40% +7.45% +11.90%
75th Percentile - £30.48 £24.25
90th Percentile - £33.24 -
England median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.92% +41.18% +70.00%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Azure SQL Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the West Midlands

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the West Midlands

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in the West Midlands

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands 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
Coventry +12 2 - -
Birmingham +5 2 £488 -23.53% 3
Shropshire +34 1 £523 +20.81%
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) PaaS
3 3 (60.00%) Azure Functions
3 3 (60.00%) Serverless
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (40.00%) SonarCloud
5 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (20.00%) Azure App Service
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (20.00%) GitHub
5 1 (20.00%) IaaS
5 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) Moq
1 2 (40.00%) NUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Hudson
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Lead Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) API Management
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) B2C
3 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Bicep
2 2 (40.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) LogicMonitor