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 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 373 367 404
Rank change year-on-year -6 +37 -101
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 210 357 555
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.64% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.88% 3.61% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 221 405
10th Percentile £394 £413 £400
25th Percentile £442 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -17.05% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £58.63 -
25th Percentile - - £29.50
Median hourly rate - £66.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% -31.96%
75th Percentile - £69.19 £36.50
90th Percentile - £70.88 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £33.00

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 7,300 9,902 17,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.66% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 7,035 12,303
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 179 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.70 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%

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 1 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 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
England +1 186 £550 - 142
London +60 129 £575 +4.55% 58
Work from Home +25 76 £515 -6.33% 84
UK excluding London -24 56 £456 -17.05% 88
South East +6 15 £513 -14.58% 29
North of England -15 14 £444 -21.18% 22
North West -6 12 £438 -24.50% 12
Midlands +20 10 £493 -1.50% 10
South West +6 9 £439 -25.24% 15
Scotland +25 7 £475 -2.56% 5
East Midlands +15 5 £463 -7.50% 3
West Midlands +8 5 £523 -1.65% 7
Yorkshire +6 2 £513 +7.89% 9
Wales +17 1 £388 +3.33% 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 13 (6.19%) Apache Spark
2 8 (3.81%) Apache
3 7 (3.33%) BizTalk Server
4 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.90%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.95%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.95%) CMS
6 2 (0.95%) Confluence
6 2 (0.95%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.48%) Drupal
7 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.95%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.43%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 210 (100.00%) Azure
2 73 (34.76%) Azure Data Factory
3 71 (33.81%) Power Platform
4 69 (32.86%) Azure DevOps
5 55 (26.19%) Serverless
6 53 (25.24%) Azure Functions
7 46 (21.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 43 (20.48%) Azure Service Bus
9 42 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 42 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 35 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
11 33 (15.71%) PaaS
12 32 (15.24%) Entra ID
13 31 (14.76%) Azure Storage
14 29 (13.81%) Azure API Management
15 19 (9.05%) Azure App Service
16 18 (8.57%) AWS
16 18 (8.57%) PowerApps
17 16 (7.62%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (7.62%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.24%) Firewall
2 4 (1.90%) VPN
3 2 (0.95%) DNS
3 2 (0.95%) Network Security
4 1 (0.48%) Internet
4 1 (0.48%) SSH
4 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (30.95%) SQL Server
2 59 (28.10%) Power BI
3 47 (22.38%) Data Lake
4 40 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (16.19%) NoSQL
6 12 (5.71%) Big Data
6 12 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (5.24%) MongoDB
8 10 (4.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 9 (4.29%) Parquet
9 9 (4.29%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.81%) Power Query
11 7 (3.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 7 (3.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 7 (3.33%) OLTP
12 6 (2.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 6 (2.86%) Tableau
13 5 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (1.90%) Delta Lake
14 4 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (11.43%) Git
2 12 (5.71%) Postman
3 9 (4.29%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.33%) Visual Studio Team System
5 4 (1.90%) Deequ
5 4 (1.90%) JIRA
6 3 (1.43%) NUnit
7 2 (0.95%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.95%) Moq
7 2 (0.95%) SpecFlow
7 2 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.48%) Hudson
8 1 (0.48%) JMeter
8 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.48%) Selenium
General
1 49 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 42 (20.00%) Finance
3 19 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.62%) Banking
5 12 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.38%) Marketing
6 5 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.90%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.90%) Local Government
7 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.43%) Back Office
8 3 (1.43%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.95%) Retail
10 1 (0.48%) Automotive
10 1 (0.48%) Front Office
10 1 (0.48%) Law
10 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 71 (33.81%) Developer
2 55 (26.19%) Azure Engineer
3 50 (23.81%) Data Engineer
4 34 (16.19%) Azure Data Engineer
5 22 (10.48%) Architect
6 18 (8.57%) Lead
7 14 (6.67%) Azure Developer
7 14 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
8 13 (6.19%) Analyst
8 13 (6.19%) Azure Architect
9 12 (5.71%) .NET Developer
10 11 (5.24%) Python Developer
10 11 (5.24%) SQL Developer
11 10 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 10 (4.76%) C# Developer
11 10 (4.76%) Data Analyst
11 10 (4.76%) DBA
12 9 (4.29%) Senior
13 8 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
13 8 (3.81%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (26.19%) .NET
2 31 (14.76%) .NET Core
3 29 (13.81%) ARM Templates
4 20 (9.52%) JSON
5 18 (8.57%) Web Services
6 17 (8.10%) Kafka
6 17 (8.10%) PySpark
7 15 (7.14%) XML
8 13 (6.19%) REST
8 13 (6.19%) Swagger
9 12 (5.71%) .NET Framework
9 12 (5.71%) React
9 12 (5.71%) YAML
10 11 (5.24%) SOAP
11 8 (3.81%) CSS
12 7 (3.33%) Apache Avro
13 6 (2.86%) Blazor
13 6 (2.86%) Entity Framework
13 6 (2.86%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.86%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.24%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.38%) Smart Meter
6 3 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.43%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.43%) N-Tier
6 3 (1.43%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.43%) Replication
6 3 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.95%) Clustering
7 2 (0.95%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.95%) Social Media
7 2 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.95%) Wiki
8 1 (0.48%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.57%) Windows
2 14 (6.67%) Unix
3 10 (4.76%) VMS
4 8 (3.81%) Linux
5 4 (1.90%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.48%) CentOS
6 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (39.52%) DevOps
2 74 (35.24%) Agile
3 68 (32.38%) CI/CD
4 60 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 53 (25.24%) ETL
6 52 (24.76%) Analytics
7 47 (22.38%) Migration
8 46 (21.90%) Data Modelling
9 37 (17.62%) Microservices
10 36 (17.14%) TDD
11 34 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (15.71%) API Management
13 32 (15.24%) Data Engineering
14 31 (14.76%) Scrum
15 28 (13.33%) Software Engineering
16 26 (12.38%) Infrastructure as Code
17 24 (11.43%) Data Migration
18 23 (10.95%) Test Automation
19 22 (10.48%) Continuous Integration
20 20 (9.52%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 192 (91.43%) SQL
2 66 (31.43%) Python
3 56 (26.67%) C#
4 45 (21.43%) PowerShell
5 27 (12.86%) T-SQL
6 19 (9.05%) JavaScript
7 16 (7.62%) Bicep
8 12 (5.71%) Java
8 12 (5.71%) Scala
9 9 (4.29%) C++
9 9 (4.29%) PL/SQL
10 8 (3.81%) Shell Script
11 7 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (3.33%) Go
11 7 (3.33%) TypeScript
12 5 (2.38%) R
13 3 (1.43%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.95%) Bash
15 1 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (9.05%) Azure Certification
2 16 (7.62%) Degree
3 14 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 10 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.81%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.43%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.43%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.33%) QA
3 5 (2.38%) GDPR
4 3 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.43%) PMO
4 3 (1.43%) WCAG
5 1 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (12.86%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.10%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (5.24%) Docker
4 1 (0.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (19.05%) Terraform
2 31 (14.76%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.38%) Ansible
5 3 (1.43%) Grafana
5 3 (1.43%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.48%) Graylog
7 1 (0.48%) Nagios
7 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.48%) Puppet
7 1 (0.48%) yum
Vendors
1 81 (38.57%) Microsoft
2 36 (17.14%) Databricks
3 13 (6.19%) Oracle
4 7 (3.33%) MuleSoft
5 6 (2.86%) CA
5 6 (2.86%) Google
5 6 (2.86%) SAP
6 5 (2.38%) Ab Initio
6 5 (2.38%) Informatica
7 3 (1.43%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.95%) New Relic
8 2 (0.95%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.95%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.48%) Cisco
9 1 (0.48%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.48%) Nintex
9 1 (0.48%) Splunk
9 1 (0.48%) Virgin Media