Azure SQL Database Contracts in Scotland

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 119 142 156
Rank change year-on-year +23 +14 -7
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 6 18 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.28% 0.67% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.54% 3.10% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 7
10th Percentile £436 £414 £346
25th Percentile £463 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £531 £413
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% +28.79% -10.81%
75th Percentile £488 £603 £465
90th Percentile £540 £635 £482
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £29.50
Median hourly rate - - £33.00
75th Percentile - - £36.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year - +100.00% -49.23%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 389 580 575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.08% 21.46% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 450 409
10th Percentile £324 £400 £362
25th Percentile £400 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £481
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +1.87% +13.18%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £642 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -3.67% - +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £15.73
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £17.50
Median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%
75th Percentile £45.72 £67.66 £36.50
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £43.40
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Scotland

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Scotland

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in Scotland

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +11 4 £475 -20.83% 1
Edinburgh +30 2 £438 -10.26% 2
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) npm
3 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
3 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) Power BI
3 1 (16.67%) MariaDB
3 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) CircleCI
1 1 (16.67%) Gradle
1 1 (16.67%) gulp
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
1 1 (16.67%) Travis CI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
1 3 (50.00%) DBA
1 3 (50.00%) SQL DBA
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL DBA
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Database Security
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) API Management
2 1 (16.67%) B2C
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
2 1 (16.67%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Management
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Log Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (16.67%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Go
2 1 (16.67%) Groovy
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft