Azure SQL Database Contracts in West Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure SQL Database 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 60 76 92
Rank change year-on-year +16 +16 +23
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 2 1 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.36% 0.10% 0.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.72% 0.65% 7.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 12
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £428 £563 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.57% +21.05% +8.57%
75th Percentile £503 £588 £688
90th Percentile £524 - £692
Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -9.76% +7.89% +5.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 116 154 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 21.17% 15.42% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 126 149
10th Percentile £394 £388 £413
25th Percentile £425 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £575 £605 £600
90th Percentile £738 £625 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 - -
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 £11.00 -
% change year-on-year +199.64% - -

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in West Yorkshire

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in West Yorkshire

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region 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
Leeds +4 2 £463 -19.57% 9
Azure SQL Database
Yorkshire

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Architect
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks