Azure SQL Data Warehouse Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 300 336 417
Rank change year-on-year +36 +81 +117
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse 5 5 36
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.051% 0.034% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.25% 0.17% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 28
10th Percentile £378 £335 £341
25th Percentile £400 £369 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £506
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -16.05% -1.22%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £591
90th Percentile £680 £685 £689
UK median daily rate £475 £593 £515
% change year-on-year -19.83% +15.05% -6.36%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,040 2,934 4,425
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 20.90% 19.86% 18.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 2,142 3,226
10th Percentile £363 £358 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -2.33%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 38 81
10th Percentile £21.02 £18.40 £22.50
25th Percentile £25.99 £22.34 £40.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.75 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -39.45% +34.74%
75th Percentile £70.63 £56.88 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.25 £72.50 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -12.50% -31.73% +34.95%

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 18 June 2025.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (60.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (40.00%) Data Mining
3 2 (40.00%) Data Vault
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (20.00%) EDRMS
4 1 (20.00%) Power BI
4 1 (20.00%) Star Schema
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Database Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Records Management Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Data Warehouse Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (60.00%) Kimball Methodology
3 2 (40.00%) Data Design
3 2 (40.00%) Data Management
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Data Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Financial Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Management
4 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft