Azure SQL Database Contracts

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 409 382 392
Rank change year-on-year -27 +10 -114
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 193 366 585
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.44% 0.61% 0.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.64% 3.40% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 235 417
10th Percentile £375 £422 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £563 £489
% change year-on-year -15.19% +15.19% +8.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £43.13 -
25th Percentile - £54.94 £29.50
Median hourly rate - £66.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% -49.23%
75th Percentile - £69.19 £36.50
90th Percentile - £70.88 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,303 10,763 17,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.75% 18.03% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,193 7,663 12,744
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% -1.78% +9.96%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 183 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +59.00%
75th Percentile £58.55 £70.88 £61.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year -31.09% +65.84% +45.83%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in the UK

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK

Azure SQL Database
Top 15 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 Database within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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 -4 166 £525 -4.55% 142
London +53 110 £575 +4.55% 67
Work from Home +26 81 £513 -2.38% 133
UK excluding London -1 56 £478 -15.19% 75
South East +19 17 £513 -14.58% 10
Midlands +21 10 £493 +3.68% 10
North of England -16 10 £475 -15.63% 17
South West +11 8 £439 -25.24% 16
North West -9 8 £450 -22.35% 11
Scotland +21 7 £475 -20.83% 7
East Midlands +25 5 £463 -7.50% 4
West Midlands +18 5 £523 +18.75% 6
Wales +14 2 £494 +21.54% 2
East of England +10 2 £550 +15.79% 13
Yorkshire +9 2 £513 +7.89% 2

Azure SQL Database
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.66%) BizTalk Server
2 8 (4.15%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.07%) Apache
5 3 (1.55%) ArcGIS
6 2 (1.04%) CMS
6 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.04%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.52%) Confluence
7 1 (0.52%) Drupal
7 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.55%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 193 (100.00%) Azure
2 75 (38.86%) Azure DevOps
3 72 (37.31%) Azure Data Factory
4 68 (35.23%) Power Platform
5 60 (31.09%) Serverless
6 57 (29.53%) Azure Functions
7 46 (23.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 45 (23.32%) Azure Logic Apps
9 43 (22.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 37 (19.17%) Azure Service Bus
11 34 (17.62%) Azure Storage
12 32 (16.58%) Azure Key Vault
13 31 (16.06%) Azure API Management
14 30 (15.54%) PaaS
15 25 (12.95%) Entra ID
16 21 (10.88%) AWS
17 18 (9.33%) Azure Monitor
18 14 (7.25%) PowerApps
19 13 (6.74%) Dynamics 365
20 11 (5.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.22%) Firewall
2 5 (2.59%) VPN
3 3 (1.55%) DNS
4 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.52%) Network Security
5 1 (0.52%) SAN
5 1 (0.52%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (30.05%) SQL Server
2 57 (29.53%) Power BI
3 49 (25.39%) Data Lake
4 39 (20.21%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (8.81%) NoSQL
6 14 (7.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (6.74%) MongoDB
7 13 (6.74%) Relational Database
8 11 (5.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 10 (5.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 9 (4.66%) Big Data
10 9 (4.66%) Power Query
11 8 (4.15%) Tableau
12 7 (3.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 7 (3.63%) OLTP
12 7 (3.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 6 (3.11%) MySQL
13 6 (3.11%) Parquet
13 6 (3.11%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 25 (12.95%) Git
2 12 (6.22%) Postman
3 10 (5.18%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.63%) Visual Studio Team System
5 4 (2.07%) Deequ
5 4 (2.07%) JIRA
6 3 (1.55%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.55%) NUnit
7 2 (1.04%) Moq
7 2 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.52%) GitLab
8 1 (0.52%) Gradle
8 1 (0.52%) gulp
8 1 (0.52%) Hudson
8 1 (0.52%) Selenium
8 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.52%) Travis CI
General
1 44 (22.80%) Social Skills
2 37 (19.17%) Finance
3 17 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.18%) Banking
4 10 (5.18%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.59%) Marketing
7 4 (2.07%) Back Office
7 4 (2.07%) Local Government
7 4 (2.07%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.04%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.04%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.04%) Retail
9 1 (0.52%) Automotive
9 1 (0.52%) Front Office
9 1 (0.52%) Law
9 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (30.57%) Developer
2 48 (24.87%) Azure Engineer
3 43 (22.28%) Data Engineer
4 27 (13.99%) Azure Data Engineer
5 22 (11.40%) Architect
6 19 (9.84%) Lead
7 17 (8.81%) DBA
8 16 (8.29%) Azure Developer
9 13 (6.74%) Analyst
10 12 (6.22%) Full Stack Developer
10 12 (6.22%) Senior
10 12 (6.22%) SQL DBA
10 12 (6.22%) SQL Developer
11 11 (5.70%) Azure Architect
11 11 (5.70%) Data Analyst
12 9 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (4.15%) C# Developer
13 8 (4.15%) Lead Developer
13 8 (4.15%) Python Developer
13 8 (4.15%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (25.91%) .NET
2 27 (13.99%) ARM Templates
3 26 (13.47%) .NET Core
4 21 (10.88%) JSON
5 17 (8.81%) XML
6 16 (8.29%) REST
6 16 (8.29%) Web Services
7 14 (7.25%) PySpark
8 13 (6.74%) Swagger
9 11 (5.70%) .NET Framework
9 11 (5.70%) SOAP
10 9 (4.66%) Blazor
10 9 (4.66%) YAML
11 6 (3.11%) GraphQL
11 6 (3.11%) Kafka
11 6 (3.11%) OAuth
11 6 (3.11%) OpenID
11 6 (3.11%) React
12 5 (2.59%) Apache Avro
12 5 (2.59%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.77%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.18%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.11%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.59%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.59%) Smart Meter
6 4 (2.07%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.55%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.04%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.04%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.04%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.04%) Replication
8 2 (1.04%) Wiki
9 1 (0.52%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.88%) Windows
2 10 (5.18%) VMS
3 9 (4.66%) Linux
4 8 (4.15%) Unix
5 4 (2.07%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.52%) CentOS
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (41.45%) DevOps
2 68 (35.23%) CI/CD
3 67 (34.72%) Agile
4 60 (31.09%) Business Intelligence
5 55 (28.50%) ETL
6 51 (26.42%) Analytics
7 50 (25.91%) Data Modelling
8 45 (23.32%) Migration
9 34 (17.62%) TDD
10 33 (17.10%) API Management
10 33 (17.10%) Scrum
11 28 (14.51%) Software Engineering
12 26 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (12.95%) Data Engineering
13 25 (12.95%) Microservices
14 22 (11.40%) Infrastructure as Code
15 20 (10.36%) Data Migration
15 20 (10.36%) SDLC
16 19 (9.84%) Continuous Integration
16 19 (9.84%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 181 (93.78%) SQL
2 65 (33.68%) Python
3 51 (26.42%) C#
4 47 (24.35%) PowerShell
5 26 (13.47%) T-SQL
6 18 (9.33%) JavaScript
7 14 (7.25%) Java
8 12 (6.22%) Bicep
9 11 (5.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (5.18%) C++
10 10 (5.18%) Go
10 10 (5.18%) PL/SQL
10 10 (5.18%) Scala
11 4 (2.07%) R
12 2 (1.04%) Bash
12 2 (1.04%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.04%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.52%) Perl
13 1 (0.52%) PHP
13 1 (0.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (9.84%) Azure Certification
2 17 (8.81%) SC Cleared
2 17 (8.81%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.74%) Degree
4 8 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.11%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.55%) CIMA
6 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.40%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.59%) QA
3 4 (2.07%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.07%) GDPR
3 4 (2.07%) WCAG
4 3 (1.55%) PMO
5 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.52%) IFRS
System Software
1 22 (11.40%) Active Directory
2 18 (9.33%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (6.22%) Docker
4 1 (0.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (19.17%) Terraform
2 20 (10.36%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.63%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (3.11%) Ansible
5 5 (2.59%) Grafana
5 5 (2.59%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.04%) Graylog
6 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.04%) Nagios
6 2 (1.04%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.52%) Puppet
7 1 (0.52%) yum
Vendors
1 82 (42.49%) Microsoft
2 36 (18.65%) Databricks
3 17 (8.81%) Oracle
4 9 (4.66%) MuleSoft
5 6 (3.11%) CA
5 6 (3.11%) Google
5 6 (3.11%) SAP
6 5 (2.59%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.04%) New Relic
7 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.04%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.04%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.04%) Splunk
8 1 (0.52%) Cisco
8 1 (0.52%) Informatica
8 1 (0.52%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.52%) Nintex
8 1 (0.52%) Virgin Media