Azure SQL Database Contracts

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 375 397
Rank change year-on-year -1 +22 -96
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 215 358 545
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.64% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.88% 3.67% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 224 396
10th Percentile £387 £413 £400
25th Percentile £439 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,468 9,744 17,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.10% 17.54% 19.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,332 6,905 12,217
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 173 179
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.38
25th Percentile £20.77 £32.40 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%
75th Percentile £53.94 £73.75 £63.30
90th Percentile £72.50 £82.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.47 £56.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -39.48% +62.71% +41.02%

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 13 June 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 14 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 13 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
England +14 193 £550 - 144
London +53 132 £575 +2.50% 59
Work from Home +23 75 £515 -6.33% 98
UK excluding London -37 60 £475 -13.64% 88
South East +12 19 £516 -13.96% 26
North of England -21 14 £444 -21.18% 24
North West -12 12 £438 -24.50% 14
Midlands +13 10 £493 -1.50% 11
South West 0 9 £439 -25.24% 11
Scotland +36 7 £475 -10.59% 5
West Midlands +11 5 £523 +7.18% 8
East Midlands +10 5 £463 -7.50% 3
Yorkshire +2 2 £513 +7.89% 9
Wales +20 1 £388 +3.33% 1

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 14 (6.51%) Apache Spark
2 9 (4.19%) Apache
3 6 (2.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.33%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (1.86%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.93%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.93%) CMS
6 2 (0.93%) Confluence
6 2 (0.93%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.47%) Drupal
7 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.40%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 215 (100.00%) Azure
2 70 (32.56%) Azure Data Factory
3 69 (32.09%) Power Platform
4 67 (31.16%) Azure DevOps
5 51 (23.72%) Serverless
6 50 (23.26%) Azure Functions
7 49 (22.79%) Azure Service Bus
8 45 (20.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 44 (20.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 38 (17.67%) Azure Key Vault
11 37 (17.21%) Azure Logic Apps
12 35 (16.28%) PaaS
13 32 (14.88%) Azure Storage
14 31 (14.42%) Entra ID
15 28 (13.02%) Azure API Management
16 19 (8.84%) Azure App Service
16 19 (8.84%) Azure Monitor
17 18 (8.37%) PowerApps
18 16 (7.44%) Dynamics 365
19 15 (6.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.58%) Firewall
2 4 (1.86%) VPN
3 2 (0.93%) DNS
3 2 (0.93%) Network Security
4 1 (0.47%) Internet
4 1 (0.47%) SSH
4 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (32.09%) SQL Server
2 57 (26.51%) Power BI
3 49 (22.79%) Data Lake
4 41 (19.07%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (16.74%) NoSQL
6 13 (6.05%) Big Data
6 13 (6.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (5.12%) MongoDB
8 10 (4.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 9 (4.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 9 (4.19%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.72%) Parquet
10 8 (3.72%) Power Query
11 7 (3.26%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 7 (3.26%) OLTP
12 5 (2.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 5 (2.33%) Tableau
13 4 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (1.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (12.09%) Git
2 12 (5.58%) Postman
3 8 (3.72%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.26%) Visual Studio Team System
5 4 (1.86%) Deequ
5 4 (1.86%) JIRA
6 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.93%) Moq
6 2 (0.93%) NUnit
6 2 (0.93%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.47%) Hudson
7 1 (0.47%) JMeter
7 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.47%) Selenium
General
1 50 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 42 (19.53%) Finance
3 20 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.37%) Banking
5 13 (6.05%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.33%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.86%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.86%) Local Government
8 4 (1.86%) Marketing
8 4 (1.86%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.93%) Back Office
9 2 (0.93%) Retail
10 1 (0.47%) Automotive
10 1 (0.47%) Front Office
10 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 74 (34.42%) Developer
2 56 (26.05%) Azure Engineer
3 52 (24.19%) Data Engineer
4 36 (16.74%) Azure Data Engineer
5 20 (9.30%) Architect
6 18 (8.37%) Lead
7 15 (6.98%) .NET Developer
7 15 (6.98%) Full Stack Developer
8 13 (6.05%) Analyst
8 13 (6.05%) Senior
9 12 (5.58%) Azure Architect
9 12 (5.58%) Azure Developer
10 11 (5.12%) DBA
10 11 (5.12%) Python Developer
10 11 (5.12%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 10 (4.65%) C# Developer
11 10 (4.65%) Data Analyst
11 10 (4.65%) SQL Developer
12 9 (4.19%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (27.91%) .NET
2 29 (13.49%) .NET Core
3 28 (13.02%) ARM Templates
4 18 (8.37%) JSON
4 18 (8.37%) Kafka
4 18 (8.37%) Web Services
5 16 (7.44%) PySpark
6 13 (6.05%) .NET Framework
6 13 (6.05%) Swagger
6 13 (6.05%) XML
7 12 (5.58%) React
7 12 (5.58%) YAML
8 11 (5.12%) REST
9 10 (4.65%) SOAP
10 9 (4.19%) CSS
11 8 (3.72%) Entity Framework
11 8 (3.72%) GraphQL
12 7 (3.26%) Apache Avro
13 6 (2.79%) ASP.NET
13 6 (2.79%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.12%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.33%) Smart Meter
6 4 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.40%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.40%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.40%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.40%) Replication
7 3 (1.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (0.93%) Clustering
8 2 (0.93%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.93%) Social Media
8 2 (0.93%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.91%) Windows
2 14 (6.51%) Unix
3 10 (4.65%) VMS
4 8 (3.72%) Linux
5 5 (2.33%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.93%) Android
7 1 (0.47%) CentOS
7 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (37.67%) DevOps
2 74 (34.42%) Agile
3 64 (29.77%) CI/CD
4 58 (26.98%) Business Intelligence
5 51 (23.72%) Analytics
5 51 (23.72%) ETL
6 47 (21.86%) Migration
7 46 (21.40%) Data Modelling
8 38 (17.67%) Microservices
9 35 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (16.28%) TDD
10 34 (15.81%) API Management
10 34 (15.81%) Scrum
11 32 (14.88%) Data Engineering
12 27 (12.56%) Software Engineering
13 25 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
13 25 (11.63%) Test Automation
14 24 (11.16%) Data Migration
15 22 (10.23%) Continuous Integration
16 20 (9.30%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 197 (91.63%) SQL
2 65 (30.23%) Python
3 64 (29.77%) C#
4 47 (21.86%) PowerShell
5 27 (12.56%) T-SQL
6 17 (7.91%) JavaScript
7 16 (7.44%) Bicep
8 12 (5.58%) Scala
9 11 (5.12%) Java
10 9 (4.19%) C++
11 8 (3.72%) Shell Script
12 7 (3.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (3.26%) PL/SQL
12 7 (3.26%) R
12 7 (3.26%) TypeScript
13 5 (2.33%) Go
13 5 (2.33%) VB.NET
14 4 (1.86%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.93%) Bash
16 1 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (8.84%) Azure Certification
2 18 (8.37%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.44%) SC Cleared
4 15 (6.98%) Degree
5 9 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.26%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.40%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.16%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.79%) QA
3 5 (2.33%) GDPR
4 3 (1.40%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.40%) PMO
4 3 (1.40%) WCAG
5 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (12.56%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.37%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (4.65%) Docker
4 1 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (18.60%) Terraform
2 35 (16.28%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.33%) Ansible
5 3 (1.40%) Grafana
5 3 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.47%) Graylog
7 1 (0.47%) Nagios
7 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.47%) Puppet
7 1 (0.47%) yum
Vendors
1 78 (36.28%) Microsoft
2 35 (16.28%) Databricks
3 11 (5.12%) Oracle
4 6 (2.79%) CA
4 6 (2.79%) SAP
5 5 (2.33%) Ab Initio
5 5 (2.33%) Google
5 5 (2.33%) Informatica
5 5 (2.33%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.40%) New Relic
6 3 (1.40%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.93%) Sitecore
7 2 (0.93%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco
8 1 (0.47%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.47%) Nintex
8 1 (0.47%) Splunk