Azure SQL Database Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 255 265 304
Rank change year-on-year +10 +39 +9
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 49 80 177
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.52% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.34% 2.75% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 62 122
10th Percentile £450 £350 £428
25th Percentile £513 £452 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.04% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £666 £613 £625
90th Percentile £751 £688 £686
UK median daily rate £524 £523 £525
% change year-on-year +0.29% -0.48% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.00
Median hourly rate - - £67.25
75th Percentile - - £70.56
90th Percentile - - £71.13
UK median hourly rate - - £66.00
% change year-on-year - - +100.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Azure SQL Database
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Azure SQL Database trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure SQL Database
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 Database.

Azure SQL Database daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Azure SQL Database daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure SQL Database
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure SQL Database.

Azure SQL Database hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure SQL Database
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 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.08%) SharePoint
1 2 (4.08%) Umbraco
2 1 (2.04%) Apache
2 1 (2.04%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.04%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.04%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.04%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 49 (100.00%) Azure
2 18 (36.73%) Power Platform
3 15 (30.61%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (24.49%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (22.45%) Serverless
6 10 (20.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 10 (20.41%) Entra ID
7 9 (18.37%) PowerApps
8 8 (16.33%) PaaS
9 7 (14.29%) Azure Functions
9 7 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (14.29%) Power Automate
10 6 (12.24%) GCP
10 6 (12.24%) SaaS
11 5 (10.20%) AWS
11 5 (10.20%) Azure AKS
11 5 (10.20%) Azure Storage
11 5 (10.20%) GitHub
11 5 (10.20%) IaaS
11 5 (10.20%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) DNS
1 1 (2.04%) Firewall
1 1 (2.04%) Network Security
1 1 (2.04%) SSH
1 1 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (40.82%) SQL Server
2 15 (30.61%) Power BI
3 12 (24.49%) Data Lake
4 11 (22.45%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (12.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (6.12%) MongoDB
6 3 (6.12%) Relational Database
7 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.08%) Big Data
7 2 (4.08%) Data Mining
7 2 (4.08%) Data Vault
7 2 (4.08%) MySQL
7 2 (4.08%) Parquet
7 2 (4.08%) Power Query
7 2 (4.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (2.04%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.04%) Metadata
8 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (2.04%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Git
1 2 (4.08%) JIRA
1 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.04%) Postman
2 1 (2.04%) RStudio
2 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.20%) Finance
5 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Retail
6 1 (2.04%) Aviation
6 1 (2.04%) Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.04%) Local Government
6 1 (2.04%) Marketing
6 1 (2.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Architect
2 13 (26.53%) Senior
3 12 (24.49%) Developer
4 9 (18.37%) Data Engineer
5 8 (16.33%) Azure Architect
5 8 (16.33%) Data Architect
6 6 (12.24%) .NET Developer
7 5 (10.20%) Senior Architect
8 4 (8.16%) Analyst
8 4 (8.16%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Senior Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Azure Data Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Azure Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (6.12%) Consultant
9 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 3 (6.12%) Senior .NET Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Senior Cloud Architect
10 2 (4.08%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.41%) .NET
2 8 (16.33%) .NET Core
3 4 (8.16%) ARM Templates
3 4 (8.16%) JSON
4 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.12%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (6.12%) PySpark
5 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET
5 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (4.08%) CSS
5 2 (4.08%) Entity Framework
5 2 (4.08%) HTML
5 2 (4.08%) Middleware
5 2 (4.08%) RESTful
5 2 (4.08%) YAML
6 1 (2.04%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.04%) LINQ
6 1 (2.04%) OAuth
6 1 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.04%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (6.12%) Reinsurance
3 2 (4.08%) Clustering
3 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.04%) NHS
4 1 (2.04%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.04%) Replication
4 1 (2.04%) Social Media
4 1 (2.04%) TWAP
4 1 (2.04%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.24%) Windows
2 4 (8.16%) Linux
3 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.04%) VMS
4 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.82%) DevOps
2 17 (34.69%) Analytics
3 16 (32.65%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (30.61%) CI/CD
4 15 (30.61%) Data Modelling
5 13 (26.53%) ETL
6 12 (24.49%) Agile
7 8 (16.33%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (14.29%) High Availability
8 7 (14.29%) Migration
8 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (12.24%) Cloud Security
9 6 (12.24%) Data Governance
9 6 (12.24%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (10.20%) Cost Management
10 5 (10.20%) Data Architecture
10 5 (10.20%) Data Pipeline
10 5 (10.20%) Data Transformation
10 5 (10.20%) Scrum
11 4 (8.16%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 45 (91.84%) SQL
2 10 (20.41%) C#
3 7 (14.29%) Bicep
3 7 (14.29%) Python
4 6 (12.24%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.16%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.16%) T-SQL
6 3 (6.12%) Java
7 2 (4.08%) Bash
7 2 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (4.08%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.04%) C++
8 1 (2.04%) Go
8 1 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (2.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.04%) CITP
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.33%) GDPR
2 3 (6.12%) SOC 2
3 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.04%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.04%) QA
4 1 (2.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (10.20%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.12%) Docker
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (20.41%) Terraform
2 6 (12.24%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.04%) Ansible
3 1 (2.04%) Grafana
3 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (51.02%) Microsoft
2 13 (26.53%) Databricks
3 3 (6.12%) Google
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle
5 1 (2.04%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.04%) IBM
5 1 (2.04%) Mercator
5 1 (2.04%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.04%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.04%) Splunk
5 1 (2.04%) Veeam
5 1 (2.04%) VMware