Azure SQL Database Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 109 126
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 -29
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 12 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.61% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.65% 1.61% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 3
10th Percentile £413 £465 £393
25th Percentile £453 £468 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% -8.57% -
75th Percentile £523 £487 £563
90th Percentile £525 £487 £578
South East median daily rate £516 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -13.96% +14.29% +5.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 258 249 397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.18% 14.00% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 154 265
10th Percentile £302 £340 £354
25th Percentile £400 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £670
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 2
10th Percentile £19.59 £41.90 £25.20
25th Percentile £34.47 £61.75 £31.13
Median hourly rate £61.60 £75.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.41% +79.76% -3.45%
75th Percentile - £79.19 £52.63
90th Percentile £65.14 - £58.40
South East median hourly rate £48.18 £58.59 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.77% +160.40% -48.28%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Berkshire

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Berkshire

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Berkshire

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Reading -4 12 £513 +7.89% 1
Azure SQL Database
South East

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 6 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 6 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 6 (50.00%) Serverless
4 4 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (33.33%) Azure Storage
4 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (16.67%) Azure API Management
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (8.33%) AWS
6 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Power BI
2 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
3 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Integration Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) DBA
5 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) XML
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 2 (16.67%) ARM Templates
3 2 (16.67%) Entity Framework
3 2 (16.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 4 (33.33%) Smart Meter
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Scrum
2 5 (41.67%) ETL
3 4 (33.33%) Analytics
3 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 4 (33.33%) ETL Development
3 4 (33.33%) OOP
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (33.33%) SOLID
3 4 (33.33%) User Stories
4 3 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Data Science
4 3 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 3 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Graylog
2 1 (8.33%) Nagios
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Ab Initio
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk