Azure SQL Database Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 337 330 368
Rank change year-on-year -7 +38 -46
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 57 120 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.52% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.21% 3.41% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 84 109
10th Percentile £359 £413 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £482
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +14.11% +3.66%
75th Percentile £541 £628 £600
90th Percentile £625 £684 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £29.50
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year - +6.06% -
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,578 3,518 5,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.70% 15.29% 17.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,831 2,518 3,826
10th Percentile £313 £337 £328
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.24%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -3.67% - +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 112 135
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.32 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £30.54 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.19% +59.14% +44.03%
75th Percentile £61.53 £67.81 £62.15
90th Percentile £75.50 £75.73 £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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
South East +10 16 £513 -14.58% 27
North of England -13 14 £444 -21.18% 17
North West -8 12 £438 -23.91% 11
Midlands +22 10 £493 -1.50% 9
South West +10 9 £439 -25.24% 19
Scotland +23 6 £475 -10.59% 3
West Midlands +18 5 £523 +22.94% 6
East Midlands +16 5 £463 -7.50% 3
Yorkshire 0 2 £513 +7.89% 2
Wales +18 1 £388 +3.33% 3
East of England +6 1 £550 +15.79% 8
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (8.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.75%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 57 (100.00%) Azure
2 27 (47.37%) Azure Data Factory
3 25 (43.86%) Power Platform
4 18 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (29.82%) Azure Functions
5 17 (29.82%) Serverless
6 16 (28.07%) Azure Logic Apps
7 10 (17.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (17.54%) Entra ID
8 9 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (14.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (14.04%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (14.04%) PaaS
10 7 (12.28%) Azure API Management
10 7 (12.28%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (12.28%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (5.26%) Azure AKS
11 3 (5.26%) Azure App Service
12 2 (3.51%) GitHub
12 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.28%) Firewall
2 2 (3.51%) DNS
2 2 (3.51%) Network Security
3 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.75%) VPN
3 1 (1.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (42.11%) Power BI
2 23 (40.35%) SQL Server
3 10 (17.54%) Data Lake
4 9 (15.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (8.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 4 (7.02%) Relational Database
8 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
9 2 (3.51%) MySQL
9 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (3.51%) Redis
9 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (3.51%) Tableau
10 1 (1.75%) Data Mining
10 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
10 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.75%) OLAP
10 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Visual Studio
2 3 (5.26%) Git
3 2 (3.51%) JIRA
3 2 (3.51%) Moq
3 2 (3.51%) NUnit
3 2 (3.51%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (3.51%) Postman
4 1 (1.75%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.75%) Gradle
4 1 (1.75%) gulp
4 1 (1.75%) Hudson
4 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.75%) Maven
4 1 (1.75%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.75%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (17.54%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.02%) Finance
3 4 (7.02%) Local Government
3 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.02%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.75%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 19 (33.33%) Developer
2 15 (26.32%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) Data Engineer
4 8 (14.04%) Azure Data Engineer
5 7 (12.28%) DBA
6 6 (10.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 6 (10.53%) Integration Developer
6 6 (10.53%) SQL DBA
7 5 (8.77%) Azure Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Administrator
8 4 (7.02%) Analyst
8 4 (7.02%) Architect
8 4 (7.02%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Data Analyst
9 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Power BI Developer
9 3 (5.26%) SQL Developer
10 2 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.79%) ARM Templates
2 8 (14.04%) .NET
3 7 (12.28%) XML
4 4 (7.02%) JSON
5 3 (5.26%) OAuth
5 3 (5.26%) OpenID
5 3 (5.26%) REST
5 3 (5.26%) SOAP
6 2 (3.51%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (3.51%) OpenAPI
6 2 (3.51%) Swagger
7 1 (1.75%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.75%) Node.js
7 1 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.75%) PySpark
7 1 (1.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.77%) Smart Meter
3 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.51%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.51%) Replication
4 1 (1.75%) Clustering
4 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.04%) VMS
2 7 (12.28%) Windows
3 5 (8.77%) Linux
4 4 (7.02%) Unix
5 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (40.35%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (36.84%) DevOps
3 16 (28.07%) Analytics
4 15 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 15 (26.32%) ETL
5 12 (21.05%) Data Modelling
6 11 (19.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (15.79%) Migration
8 8 (14.04%) Scrum
9 7 (12.28%) B2C
9 7 (12.28%) Data Engineering
9 7 (12.28%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (10.53%) API Management
10 6 (10.53%) Containerisation
10 6 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (10.53%) Visualisation
11 5 (8.77%) OO
11 5 (8.77%) Security Testing
11 5 (8.77%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 52 (91.23%) SQL
2 12 (21.05%) C#
3 9 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.26%) Bicep
4 3 (5.26%) Python
5 2 (3.51%) Java
5 2 (3.51%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.51%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.75%) Bash
6 1 (1.75%) Go
6 1 (1.75%) Groovy
6 1 (1.75%) PHP
6 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.75%) Ruby
6 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (10.53%) Azure Certification
2 4 (7.02%) Degree
3 3 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) GDPR
2 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.75%) QA
3 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Active Directory
1 9 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (12.28%) Single Sign-On
1 7 (12.28%) Terraform
2 3 (5.26%) Ansible
3 2 (3.51%) Grafana
3 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.51%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.75%) Graylog
4 1 (1.75%) Nagios
4 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 20 (35.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) CA
3 5 (8.77%) Ab Initio
4 3 (5.26%) Databricks
5 1 (1.75%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle
5 1 (1.75%) Splunk