Azure SQL Database Contracts in London

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 321 351
Rank change year-on-year +49 +30 -89
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 129 164 253
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.73% 0.65% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.29% 3.19% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 97 179
10th Percentile £425 £436 £383
25th Percentile £475 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £557 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +1.27% -
75th Percentile £688 £650 £634
90th Percentile £743 £730 £738
England median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate - £68.50 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,919 5,137 8,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.32% 20.42% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,916 3,771 5,998
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £475 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -1.71% +8.84%
75th Percentile £710 £700 £700
90th Percentile £850 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 52 37
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.69
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.10 £34.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £53.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% +2.38% +77.22%
75th Percentile £54.13 £80.63 £68.75
90th Percentile £71.40 £90.00 £75.34
England median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.54% +39.52% +72.48%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in London

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in London

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in London

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in London

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Central London +19 18 £525 -18.22% 7
South London - 2 £475 -
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 14 (10.85%) Apache Spark
2 9 (6.98%) Apache
3 5 (3.88%) BizTalk Server
4 3 (2.33%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.78%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.78%) CMS
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.78%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.33%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 129 (100.00%) Azure
2 44 (34.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 44 (34.11%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (29.46%) Power Platform
4 37 (28.68%) Azure Service Bus
5 30 (23.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 30 (23.26%) Serverless
6 29 (22.48%) Azure Functions
6 29 (22.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 24 (18.60%) Azure API Management
7 24 (18.60%) Azure Logic Apps
8 23 (17.83%) Azure Storage
8 23 (17.83%) PaaS
9 21 (16.28%) Azure Key Vault
10 16 (12.40%) Entra ID
11 15 (11.63%) PowerApps
12 12 (9.30%) Power Automate
13 11 (8.53%) AWS
13 11 (8.53%) Azure App Service
13 11 (8.53%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) Firewall
1 1 (0.78%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (30.23%) SQL Server
2 36 (27.91%) NoSQL
3 32 (24.81%) Data Lake
4 31 (24.03%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (22.48%) Power BI
6 13 (10.08%) Big Data
7 11 (8.53%) MongoDB
8 9 (6.98%) Parquet
9 7 (5.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 6 (4.65%) OLTP
10 6 (4.65%) Power Query
10 6 (4.65%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (3.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 5 (3.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (2.33%) Delta Lake
12 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 3 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (2.33%) Spark SQL
12 3 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (13.18%) Git
2 11 (8.53%) Postman
3 6 (4.65%) Visual Studio Team System
4 4 (3.10%) Deequ
5 3 (2.33%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.55%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.78%) JMeter
7 1 (0.78%) NUnit
7 1 (0.78%) Selenium
7 1 (0.78%) SpecFlow
General
1 35 (27.13%) Finance
2 27 (20.93%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.95%) Banking
4 13 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.88%) Investment Banking
5 5 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.33%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.55%) Back Office
7 2 (1.55%) Marketing
7 2 (1.55%) Retail
8 1 (0.78%) Front Office
8 1 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 46 (35.66%) Developer
2 38 (29.46%) Data Engineer
3 36 (27.91%) Azure Engineer
4 23 (17.83%) Azure Data Engineer
5 14 (10.85%) Lead
6 11 (8.53%) Python Developer
7 10 (7.75%) Architect
7 10 (7.75%) Full Stack Developer
8 9 (6.98%) Senior
9 8 (6.20%) Azure Architect
9 8 (6.20%) Azure Developer
9 8 (6.20%) C# Developer
9 8 (6.20%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.43%) Analyst
10 7 (5.43%) Data Analyst
10 7 (5.43%) SQL Developer
11 6 (4.65%) Lead Data Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Senior Python Developer
12 5 (3.88%) Integration Engineer
13 4 (3.10%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (31.78%) .NET
2 24 (18.60%) .NET Core
3 18 (13.95%) Kafka
4 16 (12.40%) ARM Templates
4 16 (12.40%) JSON
4 16 (12.40%) Web Services
5 15 (11.63%) PySpark
6 12 (9.30%) Swagger
7 11 (8.53%) REST
8 10 (7.75%) XML
9 9 (6.98%) YAML
10 8 (6.20%) SOAP
11 7 (5.43%) Apache Avro
11 7 (5.43%) React
12 6 (4.65%) GraphQL
13 5 (3.88%) CSS
13 5 (3.88%) JSON Schema
14 4 (3.10%) .NET Framework
14 4 (3.10%) CSS3
14 4 (3.10%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.98%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.55%) Wiki
7 1 (0.78%) Clustering
7 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.78%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.75%) Unix
2 9 (6.98%) Windows
3 3 (2.33%) Linux
3 3 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.55%) Android
4 2 (1.55%) VMS
5 1 (0.78%) CentOS
5 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (45.74%) Agile
2 52 (40.31%) DevOps
3 43 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 33 (25.58%) ETL
5 31 (24.03%) Data Modelling
5 31 (24.03%) TDD
6 29 (22.48%) Analytics
6 29 (22.48%) Business Intelligence
7 28 (21.71%) Microservices
8 27 (20.93%) API Management
8 27 (20.93%) Software Engineering
9 25 (19.38%) Data Engineering
9 25 (19.38%) Migration
10 20 (15.50%) Scrum
11 19 (14.73%) Continuous Integration
11 19 (14.73%) Data Migration
12 18 (13.95%) Event-Driven
13 17 (13.18%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (13.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 17 (13.18%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 120 (93.02%) SQL
2 54 (41.86%) Python
3 42 (32.56%) C#
4 33 (25.58%) PowerShell
5 21 (16.28%) T-SQL
6 12 (9.30%) Scala
7 11 (8.53%) JavaScript
8 10 (7.75%) Java
9 8 (6.20%) Shell Script
10 7 (5.43%) Bicep
10 7 (5.43%) C++
10 7 (5.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (4.65%) PL/SQL
12 5 (3.88%) Go
12 5 (3.88%) R
13 4 (3.10%) TypeScript
14 3 (2.33%) VB.NET
15 2 (1.55%) Bash
16 1 (0.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (7.75%) Azure Certification
2 9 (6.98%) Degree
3 7 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.10%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.10%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.10%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.33%) CIMA
5 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.28%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.33%) PMO
3 2 (1.55%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.55%) QA
3 2 (1.55%) WCAG
4 1 (0.78%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (10.08%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.88%) Docker
3 3 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 25 (19.38%) Kubernetes
2 23 (17.83%) Terraform
3 3 (2.33%) Ansible
4 2 (1.55%) Grafana
4 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.78%) Puppet
5 1 (0.78%) yum
Vendors
1 52 (40.31%) Microsoft
2 28 (21.71%) Databricks
3 8 (6.20%) Oracle
4 5 (3.88%) Informatica
4 5 (3.88%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.10%) SAP
6 2 (1.55%) New Relic
6 2 (1.55%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.55%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.55%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.78%) Cisco
7 1 (0.78%) Google
7 1 (0.78%) Nintex
7 1 (0.78%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.78%) Virgin Media