Azure SQL Database Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 121 134 159
Rank change year-on-year +13 +25 -27
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 16 13 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.60% 0.45% 0.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.55% 3.13% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 9
10th Percentile £413 £485 £483
25th Percentile £425 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £525 £625 £588
90th Percentile £535 - £623
South East median daily rate £516 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -13.96% +14.29% +5.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 352 415 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.12% 14.42% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 277 439
10th Percentile £313 £334 £337
25th Percentile £400 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% +10.99%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £571
90th Percentile £688 £688 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 3
10th Percentile £20.04 £24.66 £16.89
25th Percentile £22.61 £30.75 £18.53
Median hourly rate £54.59 £43.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.06% +94.00% -
75th Percentile £61.60 £76.61 £43.00
90th Percentile £63.37 £79.19 £54.55
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 the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the Thames Valley

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the Thames Valley

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in the Thames Valley

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the Thames Valley

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -1 12 £513 +6.77% 1
Buckinghamshire +24 4 £513 -14.58% 7
Azure SQL Database
South East

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (62.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (50.00%) Azure Functions
3 8 (50.00%) Serverless
4 7 (43.75%) Power Platform
5 6 (37.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (31.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (25.00%) Azure Storage
8 3 (18.75%) Azure API Management
8 3 (18.75%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
10 1 (6.25%) AWS
10 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Power BI
2 4 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) MySQL
4 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.25%) Postman
2 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Business Data Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Integration Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) DBA
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) .NET
1 4 (25.00%) XML
2 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 2 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 2 (12.50%) Entity Framework
2 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.25%) OpenAPI
3 1 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 5 (31.25%) Smart Meter
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Scrum
2 7 (43.75%) Analytics
2 7 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (43.75%) Data Modelling
3 6 (37.50%) ETL
4 5 (31.25%) DevOps
4 5 (31.25%) ETL Development
4 5 (31.25%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (31.25%) SOLID
4 5 (31.25%) User Stories
5 4 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 4 (25.00%) Data Science
5 4 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
5 4 (25.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
5 4 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
5 4 (25.00%) OOP
5 4 (25.00%) Performance Improvement
5 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) C#
3 4 (25.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Graylog
2 1 (6.25%) Nagios
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Ab Initio
2 2 (12.50%) Databricks
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk