Azure SQL Database Contracts in Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 104 105
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 +43
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 3 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.24% 0.12% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.29% 0.70% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 8
10th Percentile - £439 -
25th Percentile £513 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -10.87% +29.58%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £689
90th Percentile - £576 £695
England median daily rate £523 £541 £550
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.59% +1.85%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 232 285 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 18.62% 16.60% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 199 164
10th Percentile £323 £395 £363
25th Percentile £393 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £638
90th Percentile £605 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 £11.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +199.64% -48.38% +6.55%
75th Percentile £34.38 £13.50 -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
England median hourly rate £33.94 £40.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -15.15% -29.76% +41.84%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Yorkshire

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Yorkshire

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
West Yorkshire +6 3 £525 -8.70% 20
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Software Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C# Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C# Software Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior .NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior .NET Software Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior C# Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior C# Software Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Technical Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (66.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
1 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft