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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 328 369
Rank change year-on-year +57 +41 -124
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 116 163 259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.66% 0.63% 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.00% 3.07% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 96 188
10th Percentile £450 £444 £392
25th Percentile £475 £484 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £688 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £725 £738
England median daily rate £545 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% +5.00%
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 3,866 5,307 8,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.12% 20.40% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,866 3,892 6,122
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -0.86% +10.48%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 51 35
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.62 £23.70 £32.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +77.22%
75th Percentile £55.00 £78.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.30 £90.00 £76.84
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.19% +23.78% +85.57%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 17 £513 -24.07% 10
South London - 2 £475 -
West London - 1 £530 - 2
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 12 (10.34%) Apache Spark
2 8 (6.90%) BizTalk Server
3 7 (6.03%) Apache
4 2 (1.72%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.86%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.86%) CMS
5 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.86%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.59%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 116 (100.00%) Azure
2 43 (37.07%) Azure Data Factory
2 43 (37.07%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (32.76%) Power Platform
4 32 (27.59%) Serverless
5 31 (26.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 30 (25.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 29 (25.00%) Azure Functions
8 28 (24.14%) Azure Service Bus
9 27 (23.28%) Azure Logic Apps
10 26 (22.41%) Azure Storage
11 24 (20.69%) Azure API Management
12 21 (18.10%) Azure Key Vault
13 20 (17.24%) PaaS
14 15 (12.93%) Entra ID
15 14 (12.07%) PowerApps
16 13 (11.21%) AWS
17 11 (9.48%) Azure Monitor
17 11 (9.48%) Power Automate
18 9 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.86%) Firewall
1 1 (0.86%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (25.86%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 29 (25.00%) Power BI
3 28 (24.14%) SQL Server
4 23 (19.83%) NoSQL
5 12 (10.34%) MongoDB
6 11 (9.48%) Big Data
7 9 (7.76%) Parquet
8 7 (6.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 7 (6.03%) Relational Database
9 6 (5.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 6 (5.17%) OLTP
9 6 (5.17%) Power Query
10 5 (4.31%) Delta Lake
10 5 (4.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (4.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (2.59%) MariaDB
11 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.59%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (14.66%) Git
2 11 (9.48%) Postman
3 6 (5.17%) Visual Studio Team System
4 4 (3.45%) Deequ
4 4 (3.45%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.72%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.86%) JMeter
6 1 (0.86%) NUnit
6 1 (0.86%) Selenium
6 1 (0.86%) SpecFlow
General
1 33 (28.45%) Finance
2 23 (19.83%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.48%) Banking
4 6 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.45%) Back Office
6 4 (3.45%) Marketing
7 3 (2.59%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.72%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.72%) Retail
9 1 (0.86%) Front Office
9 1 (0.86%) Law
9 1 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 40 (34.48%) Developer
2 36 (31.03%) Data Engineer
3 33 (28.45%) Azure Engineer
4 21 (18.10%) Azure Data Engineer
5 14 (12.07%) Lead
6 10 (8.62%) Python Developer
7 9 (7.76%) Architect
7 9 (7.76%) Azure Developer
7 9 (7.76%) Full Stack Developer
7 9 (7.76%) Senior
8 7 (6.03%) Analyst
8 7 (6.03%) Azure Architect
8 7 (6.03%) Data Analyst
8 7 (6.03%) SQL Developer
9 6 (5.17%) C# Developer
9 6 (5.17%) Lead Data Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.17%) Senior Python Developer
10 5 (4.31%) Integration Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (32.76%) .NET
2 22 (18.97%) .NET Core
3 17 (14.66%) PySpark
4 16 (13.79%) JSON
4 16 (13.79%) Web Services
5 15 (12.93%) ARM Templates
6 12 (10.34%) Swagger
7 11 (9.48%) REST
8 10 (8.62%) XML
9 9 (7.76%) Kafka
9 9 (7.76%) YAML
10 8 (6.90%) SOAP
11 7 (6.03%) Apache Avro
11 7 (6.03%) Blazor
12 6 (5.17%) GraphQL
13 5 (4.31%) .NET Framework
13 5 (4.31%) JSON Schema
13 5 (4.31%) React
14 4 (3.45%) Great Expectations
15 3 (2.59%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.03%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.72%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.72%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.72%) Wiki
7 1 (0.86%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.86%) Clustering
7 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.86%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.86%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.34%) Windows
2 5 (4.31%) Unix
3 3 (2.59%) Linux
3 3 (2.59%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.72%) VMS
5 1 (0.86%) CentOS
5 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (45.69%) Agile
2 48 (41.38%) DevOps
3 45 (38.79%) CI/CD
4 31 (26.72%) ETL
5 30 (25.86%) Data Modelling
5 30 (25.86%) TDD
6 28 (24.14%) Analytics
6 28 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (23.28%) API Management
7 27 (23.28%) Software Engineering
8 24 (20.69%) Data Engineering
8 24 (20.69%) Migration
9 22 (18.97%) Microservices
10 20 (17.24%) Scrum
11 19 (16.38%) Continuous Integration
11 19 (16.38%) Data Migration
12 17 (14.66%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (14.66%) SDLC
13 14 (12.07%) Data Integration
13 14 (12.07%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 110 (94.83%) SQL
2 58 (50.00%) Python
3 35 (30.17%) C#
4 32 (27.59%) PowerShell
5 22 (18.97%) T-SQL
6 12 (10.34%) Java
6 12 (10.34%) JavaScript
6 12 (10.34%) Scala
7 10 (8.62%) C++
8 9 (7.76%) PL/SQL
9 8 (6.90%) Go
10 7 (6.03%) Bicep
10 7 (6.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (4.31%) R
12 3 (2.59%) Shell Script
12 3 (2.59%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.72%) Bash
13 2 (1.72%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.86%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (6.90%) Azure Certification
2 5 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (4.31%) Degree
3 4 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.45%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.59%) CIMA
4 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (18.97%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.59%) PMO
3 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.72%) QA
3 2 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (10.34%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.17%) Docker
3 3 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (18.97%) Terraform
2 16 (13.79%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.72%) Ansible
3 2 (1.72%) Grafana
3 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.72%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.86%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.86%) Puppet
4 1 (0.86%) yum
Vendors
1 48 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 30 (25.86%) Databricks
3 11 (9.48%) Oracle
4 8 (6.90%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.45%) SAP
6 2 (1.72%) Informatica
6 2 (1.72%) New Relic
6 2 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.86%) Cisco
7 1 (0.86%) Nintex
7 1 (0.86%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.86%) Virgin Media