Azure SQL Data Warehouse Contracts

Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Azure SQL Data Warehouse skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Azure SQL Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 596 705
Rank change year-on-year +27 +109 -126
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse 21 103 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.049% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.29% 0.99% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 70 106
10th Percentile £404 £362 £434
25th Percentile £488 £452 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -6.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £750 £650 £647
90th Percentile £810 £714 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +17.65%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Azure SQL Data Warehouse 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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,285 10,368 17,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.94% 17.94% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,210 7,377 12,459
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.75% +9.92%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 188 197
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +66.79%
75th Percentile £61.60 £73.72 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £80.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £56.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.76% +62.71% +42.45%

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the UK

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the UK

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the UK

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the UK

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +30 18 £650 +26.83% 26
London +45 16 £675 +22.73% 15
Work from Home +86 6 £425 -17.07% 12
UK excluding London +30 2 £438 -7.89% 14
Midlands +25 1 £550 -2.22% 2
East Midlands +19 1 £550 +10.00%
South East +11 1 £325 -27.78% 3

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) Power Platform
3 10 (47.62%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (38.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Serverless
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Stack
6 2 (9.52%) Boomi
7 1 (4.76%) Azure API Management
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Batch
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Storage
7 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
7 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
7 1 (4.76%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (42.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (42.86%) Power BI
3 8 (38.10%) Data Lake
4 6 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
6 4 (19.05%) Big Data
7 2 (9.52%) Data Mart
7 2 (9.52%) Delta Lake
7 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
7 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
7 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
7 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (9.52%) Star Schema
8 1 (4.76%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (4.76%) Data Mining
8 1 (4.76%) OLTP
8 1 (4.76%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (4.76%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 6 (28.57%) Banking
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Law
4 2 (9.52%) Back Office
4 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Data Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (9.52%) ETL Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Integration Specialist
4 2 (9.52%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Product Specialist
4 2 (9.52%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Python Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) SQL DBA
4 2 (9.52%) SSIS Developer
4 2 (9.52%) SSRS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) PySpark
2 3 (14.29%) .NET
3 2 (9.52%) Kafka
3 2 (9.52%) Unity DI Container
3 2 (9.52%) YAML
4 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.76%) JSON
4 1 (4.76%) RESTful
4 1 (4.76%) Web Services
4 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
1 3 (14.29%) Grid Computing
2 2 (9.52%) Market Risk
2 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Tandem
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Analytics
1 10 (47.62%) ETL
2 8 (38.10%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (38.10%) Data Modelling
2 8 (38.10%) DevOps
3 6 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (23.81%) Agile
4 5 (23.81%) Data Engineering
4 5 (23.81%) Data Integration
5 4 (19.05%) Data Architecture
5 4 (19.05%) Data Governance
6 3 (14.29%) Data Science
6 3 (14.29%) Data Transformation
6 3 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (14.29%) Scrum
6 3 (14.29%) TDD
6 3 (14.29%) Visualisation
7 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
7 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (9.52%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) PowerShell
2 5 (23.81%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) C#
3 3 (14.29%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Microsoft
2 9 (42.86%) Databricks
3 2 (9.52%) MuleSoft
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) SAP