Azure SQL Database Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 172 159 216
Rank change year-on-year -13 +57 -50
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 14 53 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.95% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.96% 6.46% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 37 31
10th Percentile £350 £450 £381
25th Percentile £402 £463 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £563 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% +18.53% +7.95%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £663
90th Percentile £633 £688 £700
England median daily rate £545 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% +5.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 714 820 1,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.38% 14.68% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 596 937
10th Percentile £350 £363 £315
25th Percentile £413 £419 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £700 £663
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 15 51
10th Percentile £11.00 £35.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £38.70 £17.56
Median hourly rate £40.25 £49.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +58.06% +40.91%
75th Percentile £44.74 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £50.69 £65.60 £77.50
England median hourly rate £40.13 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.52% +30.20% +83.67%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the North of England

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the North of England

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in the North of England

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West -8 12 £438 -23.91% 10
Yorkshire 0 2 £513 +7.89% 2
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
4 5 (35.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
7 1 (7.14%) Azure App Service
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (7.14%) GitHub
7 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Power BI
2 4 (28.57%) Data Lake
2 4 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 3 (21.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (21.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.14%) Tableau
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Data Integration Developer
4 2 (14.29%) DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Integration Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (14.29%) SQL DBA
4 2 (14.29%) SSIS Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Data Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Principal Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) SQL Developer
5 1 (7.14%) SSIS Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Analytics
1 7 (50.00%) ETL
2 6 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (21.43%) Data Architecture
3 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Data Extraction
3 3 (21.43%) Data Integration
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 2 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Optimisation
5 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (7.14%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Bicep
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks