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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 325 373
Rank change year-on-year +60 +48 -127
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 129 165 253
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.74% 0.65% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.32% 3.18% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 99 181
10th Percentile £427 £440 £388
25th Percentile £484 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £688 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £728 £738
England median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +7.50%
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 3,887 5,196 8,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.20% 20.43% 20.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,883 3,818 5,981
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £455 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -0.86% +9.43%
75th Percentile £700 £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 34 53 34
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £27.14
25th Percentile £25.31 £24.50 £34.75
Median hourly rate £48.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -2.33% +74.44%
75th Percentile £54.03 £80.00 £71.56
90th Percentile £70.85 £90.00 £75.59
England median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £43.68
% change year-on-year -33.33% +37.35% +76.00%

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 1 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 1 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 +22 20 £525 -22.22% 6
South London - 2 £475 -
West London - 1 £530 - 4
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 13 (10.08%) Apache Spark
2 8 (6.20%) Apache
3 7 (5.43%) 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 46 (35.66%) Azure Data Factory
3 45 (34.88%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (31.01%) Power Platform
5 34 (26.36%) Azure Service Bus
6 31 (24.03%) Serverless
7 30 (23.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 30 (23.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 29 (22.48%) Azure Functions
9 26 (20.16%) Azure Logic Apps
10 25 (19.38%) Azure Storage
11 24 (18.60%) Azure API Management
12 21 (16.28%) Azure Key Vault
12 21 (16.28%) PaaS
13 16 (12.40%) Entra ID
14 15 (11.63%) PowerApps
15 13 (10.08%) AWS
16 12 (9.30%) Power Automate
17 11 (8.53%) Azure Monitor
18 10 (7.75%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) Firewall
1 1 (0.78%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (27.91%) SQL Server
2 33 (25.58%) NoSQL
3 31 (24.03%) Data Lake
3 31 (24.03%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (24.03%) Power BI
4 12 (9.30%) Big Data
5 11 (8.53%) MongoDB
6 9 (6.98%) Parquet
7 7 (5.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 6 (4.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 6 (4.65%) OLTP
8 6 (4.65%) Power Query
8 6 (4.65%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (3.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (3.10%) Delta Lake
11 3 (2.33%) MariaDB
11 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 3 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.33%) Spark SQL
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
4 4 (3.10%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.55%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.55%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.78%) JMeter
6 1 (0.78%) NUnit
6 1 (0.78%) Selenium
6 1 (0.78%) SpecFlow
General
1 36 (27.91%) Finance
2 28 (21.71%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.40%) Banking
4 12 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.10%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.33%) Back Office
7 3 (2.33%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.33%) Marketing
7 3 (2.33%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.55%) Retail
9 1 (0.78%) Front Office
9 1 (0.78%) Law
9 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 46 (35.66%) Developer
2 39 (30.23%) Data Engineer
3 37 (28.68%) Azure Engineer
4 24 (18.60%) Azure Data Engineer
5 14 (10.85%) Lead
6 11 (8.53%) Python Developer
7 10 (7.75%) Architect
8 9 (6.98%) Azure Developer
8 9 (6.98%) Full Stack Developer
9 8 (6.20%) Azure Architect
9 8 (6.20%) C# Developer
9 8 (6.20%) Senior
9 8 (6.20%) SQL Developer
10 7 (5.43%) Analyst
10 7 (5.43%) Data Analyst
11 6 (4.65%) Lead Data Engineer
11 6 (4.65%) Senior Developer
11 6 (4.65%) Senior Python Developer
12 5 (3.88%) .NET Developer
12 5 (3.88%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (31.78%) .NET
2 25 (19.38%) .NET Core
3 17 (13.18%) Kafka
4 16 (12.40%) ARM Templates
4 16 (12.40%) JSON
4 16 (12.40%) PySpark
4 16 (12.40%) Web Services
5 12 (9.30%) Swagger
6 11 (8.53%) REST
7 10 (7.75%) XML
8 9 (6.98%) YAML
9 8 (6.20%) SOAP
10 7 (5.43%) Apache Avro
10 7 (5.43%) React
11 6 (4.65%) Blazor
11 6 (4.65%) GraphQL
12 5 (3.88%) .NET Framework
12 5 (3.88%) JSON Schema
13 4 (3.10%) CSS
13 4 (3.10%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.53%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.55%) Wiki
6 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.78%) Clustering
6 1 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.78%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.78%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.78%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.78%) Replication
6 1 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.53%) Windows
2 10 (7.75%) Unix
3 3 (2.33%) Linux
3 3 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.55%) VMS
5 1 (0.78%) CentOS
5 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (46.51%) Agile
2 53 (41.09%) DevOps
3 44 (34.11%) CI/CD
4 34 (26.36%) ETL
5 32 (24.81%) Data Modelling
5 32 (24.81%) TDD
6 31 (24.03%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (22.48%) Analytics
8 28 (21.71%) Microservices
9 27 (20.93%) API Management
9 27 (20.93%) Software Engineering
10 25 (19.38%) Data Engineering
10 25 (19.38%) Migration
11 20 (15.50%) Scrum
12 19 (14.73%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (14.73%) Data Migration
12 19 (14.73%) SDLC
13 17 (13.18%) Data Pipeline
14 15 (11.63%) Event-Driven
14 15 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 120 (93.02%) SQL
2 58 (44.96%) Python
3 39 (30.23%) C#
4 33 (25.58%) PowerShell
5 23 (17.83%) T-SQL
6 13 (10.08%) JavaScript
7 12 (9.30%) Scala
8 11 (8.53%) Java
9 9 (6.98%) C++
10 8 (6.20%) PL/SQL
10 8 (6.20%) Shell Script
11 7 (5.43%) Bicep
11 7 (5.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (5.43%) 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 9 (6.98%) Azure Certification
1 9 (6.98%) Degree
2 7 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.10%) Master's Degree
3 4 (3.10%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.10%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.33%) CIMA
4 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (17.05%) 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 6 (4.65%) 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 54 (41.86%) Microsoft
2 29 (22.48%) Databricks
3 10 (7.75%) Oracle
4 7 (5.43%) MuleSoft
5 5 (3.88%) Informatica
6 4 (3.10%) SAP
7 2 (1.55%) New Relic
7 2 (1.55%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.55%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.78%) Cisco
8 1 (0.78%) Google
8 1 (0.78%) Nintex
8 1 (0.78%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.78%) Virgin Media