Azure SQL Database Contracts in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 389 412
Rank change year-on-year +17 +23 -115
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 173 280 417
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.58% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.78% 3.26% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 177 303
10th Percentile £417 £434 £373
25th Percentile £463 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £60.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year - +100.00% -49.23%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,216 8,600 13,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.08% 17.85% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,487 6,193 10,127
10th Percentile £355 £375 £365
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -3.67% - +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 162 173
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.93 £31.84 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.13 £58.59 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.52% +30.20% +83.67%
75th Percentile £59.44 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £74.75 £82.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +30.43% +73.58%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
London +61 114 £575 +4.55% 57
South East +10 16 £513 -14.58% 25
North of England -13 14 £444 -21.18% 16
North West -8 12 £438 -23.91% 10
Midlands +22 10 £493 -1.50% 9
South West +10 9 £439 -25.24% 19
West Midlands +18 5 £523 +22.94% 6
East Midlands +16 5 £463 -7.50% 3
Yorkshire 0 2 £513 +7.89% 2
East of England +6 1 £550 +15.79% 8
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (6.36%) Apache Spark
2 10 (5.78%) BizTalk Server
3 7 (4.05%) Apache
4 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.73%) ArcGIS
5 3 (1.73%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.16%) CMS
6 2 (1.16%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.58%) Drupal
7 1 (0.58%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.73%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 173 (100.00%) Azure
2 67 (38.73%) Azure Data Factory
3 62 (35.84%) Azure DevOps
3 62 (35.84%) Power Platform
4 57 (32.95%) Serverless
5 54 (31.21%) Azure Functions
6 46 (26.59%) Azure Logic Apps
7 41 (23.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 40 (23.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 34 (19.65%) Azure Service Bus
10 31 (17.92%) Azure API Management
10 31 (17.92%) Azure Storage
11 30 (17.34%) Azure Key Vault
12 29 (16.76%) PaaS
13 25 (14.45%) Entra ID
14 18 (10.40%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (9.25%) AWS
15 16 (9.25%) PowerApps
16 13 (7.51%) Dynamics 365
16 13 (7.51%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.78%) Firewall
2 3 (1.73%) VPN
3 2 (1.16%) DNS
3 2 (1.16%) Network Security
4 1 (0.58%) SSH
4 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (29.48%) SQL Server
2 50 (28.90%) Power BI
3 41 (23.70%) Data Lake
4 36 (20.81%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (15.03%) NoSQL
6 14 (8.09%) MongoDB
7 13 (7.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (6.36%) Relational Database
9 10 (5.78%) Big Data
9 10 (5.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (5.20%) Parquet
11 7 (4.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 7 (4.05%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 7 (4.05%) OLTP
12 6 (3.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 6 (3.47%) Power Query
13 5 (2.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (2.31%) Delta Lake
14 4 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (12.72%) Git
2 12 (6.94%) Postman
3 9 (5.20%) Visual Studio
4 7 (4.05%) Visual Studio Team System
5 4 (2.31%) Deequ
6 3 (1.73%) NUnit
7 2 (1.16%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.16%) JIRA
7 2 (1.16%) Moq
7 2 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.58%) Hudson
8 1 (0.58%) JMeter
8 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.58%) Selenium
8 1 (0.58%) SpecFlow
General
1 37 (21.39%) Finance
2 33 (19.08%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.78%) Banking
5 7 (4.05%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.31%) Back Office
7 4 (2.31%) Local Government
7 4 (2.31%) Marketing
7 4 (2.31%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.16%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.16%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.16%) Retail
9 1 (0.58%) Automotive
9 1 (0.58%) Front Office
9 1 (0.58%) Law
9 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (35.84%) Developer
2 48 (27.75%) Azure Engineer
3 45 (26.01%) Data Engineer
4 29 (16.76%) Azure Data Engineer
5 17 (9.83%) Lead
6 16 (9.25%) Architect
7 14 (8.09%) Azure Developer
8 13 (7.51%) Full Stack Developer
9 10 (5.78%) Senior
9 10 (5.78%) SQL Developer
10 9 (5.20%) Analyst
10 9 (5.20%) Azure Architect
10 9 (5.20%) C# Developer
10 9 (5.20%) Data Analyst
10 9 (5.20%) Python Developer
11 8 (4.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (4.62%) Integration Developer
12 7 (4.05%) DBA
12 7 (4.05%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.05%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (27.75%) .NET
2 26 (15.03%) .NET Core
3 24 (13.87%) ARM Templates
4 20 (11.56%) JSON
5 17 (9.83%) PySpark
5 17 (9.83%) XML
6 15 (8.67%) Web Services
7 14 (8.09%) REST
8 13 (7.51%) Swagger
9 11 (6.36%) SOAP
10 10 (5.78%) YAML
11 9 (5.20%) Blazor
11 9 (5.20%) Kafka
12 7 (4.05%) .NET Framework
12 7 (4.05%) Apache Avro
13 6 (3.47%) GraphQL
13 6 (3.47%) OAuth
13 6 (3.47%) OpenID
13 6 (3.47%) React
14 5 (2.89%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.25%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.20%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (5.20%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (2.89%) Smart Meter
4 3 (1.73%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.73%) Replication
4 3 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.16%) Clustering
5 2 (1.16%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.16%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.16%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.16%) Wiki
6 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.58%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.14%) Windows
2 10 (5.78%) VMS
3 9 (5.20%) Unix
4 8 (4.62%) Linux
5 4 (2.31%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.58%) CentOS
6 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (41.04%) DevOps
2 63 (36.42%) CI/CD
3 58 (33.53%) Agile
4 48 (27.75%) Business Intelligence
5 46 (26.59%) ETL
6 45 (26.01%) Analytics
7 42 (24.28%) Data Modelling
8 35 (20.23%) Migration
9 34 (19.65%) TDD
10 31 (17.92%) API Management
11 30 (17.34%) Data Engineering
12 28 (16.18%) Microservices
12 28 (16.18%) Scrum
13 27 (15.61%) Software Engineering
14 23 (13.29%) Infrastructure as Code
15 22 (12.72%) Problem-Solving
16 21 (12.14%) Data Migration
17 20 (11.56%) Continuous Integration
17 20 (11.56%) SDLC
18 19 (10.98%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 161 (93.06%) SQL
2 62 (35.84%) Python
3 49 (28.32%) C#
4 40 (23.12%) PowerShell
5 26 (15.03%) T-SQL
6 17 (9.83%) JavaScript
7 13 (7.51%) Bicep
7 13 (7.51%) Java
8 11 (6.36%) C++
8 11 (6.36%) PL/SQL
8 11 (6.36%) Scala
9 10 (5.78%) Go
10 7 (4.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (2.31%) R
12 3 (1.73%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.73%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.16%) Bash
13 2 (1.16%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (6.36%) Azure Certification
2 10 (5.78%) SC Cleared
2 10 (5.78%) Security Cleared
3 7 (4.05%) Degree
4 5 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.73%) CIMA
5 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.16%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (13.87%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.31%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.31%) GDPR
2 4 (2.31%) QA
2 4 (2.31%) WCAG
3 3 (1.73%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (12.14%) Active Directory
2 14 (8.09%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (5.20%) Docker
4 1 (0.58%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (19.08%) Terraform
2 21 (12.14%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.05%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.31%) Ansible
5 3 (1.73%) Grafana
5 3 (1.73%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.58%) Graylog
7 1 (0.58%) Nagios
7 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.58%) Puppet
7 1 (0.58%) yum
Vendors
1 71 (41.04%) Microsoft
2 33 (19.08%) Databricks
3 13 (7.51%) Oracle
4 10 (5.78%) MuleSoft
5 6 (3.47%) CA
6 5 (2.89%) Ab Initio
7 4 (2.31%) SAP
8 2 (1.16%) Informatica
8 2 (1.16%) New Relic
8 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.16%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.16%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.58%) Cisco
9 1 (0.58%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.58%) Nintex
9 1 (0.58%) Splunk
9 1 (0.58%) Virgin Media