Azure SQL Database Contracts in Central London

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Azure SQL Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 139 182
Rank change year-on-year +22 +43 -31
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 20 35 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.84% 0.94% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.77% 4.55% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 6
10th Percentile £423 £510 £513
25th Percentile £475 £538 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £653 £813 £619
90th Percentile £675 £828 £638
London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
London median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

Azure SQL Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 531 769 898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.17% 20.73% 20.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 490 692
10th Percentile £408 £413 £419
25th Percentile £475 £500 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £702 £730 £713
90th Percentile £784 £800 £800
London median daily rate £551 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.17% -0.86% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £42.50 £39.45
25th Percentile £46.75 £49.38 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +52.89% +223.53%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £48.00 £52.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year -8.57% -2.33% +74.44%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Central London

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Central London

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in Central London

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 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
City of London +27 17 £525 -22.22% 7
West End of London - 2 - -
Azure SQL Database
London

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (15.00%) Apache
2 3 (15.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.00%) CMS
3 1 (5.00%) Sitecore CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Primavera
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 7 (35.00%) AWS
3 7 (35.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (30.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (25.00%) Azure Functions
5 5 (25.00%) Azure Storage
5 5 (25.00%) Serverless
6 4 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
8 2 (10.00%) Azure App Service
8 2 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
8 2 (10.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Data Lake
2 6 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (15.00%) Parquet
4 3 (15.00%) Power BI
5 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (5.00%) Metadata
6 1 (5.00%) Power Query
6 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Deequ
1 2 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) JMeter
2 1 (5.00%) Postman
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Back Office
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Applications Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Data Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Report Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Migration Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) .NET
1 8 (40.00%) .NET Core
2 5 (25.00%) Blazor
3 4 (20.00%) Kafka
4 3 (15.00%) Apache Avro
4 3 (15.00%) JSON
4 3 (15.00%) JSON Schema
4 3 (15.00%) PySpark
5 2 (10.00%) ARM Templates
5 2 (10.00%) Great Expectations
5 2 (10.00%) Middleware
6 1 (5.00%) CSS
6 1 (5.00%) CSS3
6 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
6 1 (5.00%) HTML
6 1 (5.00%) HTML5
6 1 (5.00%) MACH
6 1 (5.00%) React
6 1 (5.00%) REST
6 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Agile
2 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (50.00%) SDLC
4 7 (35.00%) Full Stack Development
5 6 (30.00%) Microservices
5 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (25.00%) Data Development
6 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 5 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (25.00%) ETL
6 5 (25.00%) Front End Development
6 5 (25.00%) Migration
6 5 (25.00%) Multithreading
7 4 (20.00%) Analytics
7 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (20.00%) Data Migration
7 4 (20.00%) Scrum
8 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) SQL
2 11 (55.00%) Python
3 10 (50.00%) T-SQL
4 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (25.00%) C++
5 5 (25.00%) Go
5 5 (25.00%) PL/SQL
6 3 (15.00%) C#
7 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (10.00%) R
7 2 (10.00%) Scala
8 1 (5.00%) Bicep
8 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) PMO
3 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 5 (25.00%) MuleSoft
3 4 (20.00%) Databricks
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) SAP
5 1 (5.00%) Sitecore