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 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 382 374 398
Rank change year-on-year -8 +24 -110
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 200 356 571
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.62% 0.65%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.74% 3.48% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 219 414
10th Percentile £398 £425 £400
25th Percentile £452 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £625
90th Percentile £726 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £490
% change year-on-year -13.64% +12.24% +4.26%
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% -49.23%
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 7,287 10,222 17,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 17.85% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,225 7,278 12,532
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 175 184
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.93 £32.30 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% +69.81%
75th Percentile £61.53 £73.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £79.38 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.25 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.64% +57.14% +45.83%

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 20 May 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 15 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 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
England +19 176 £545 -0.91% 166
London +57 116 £575 +4.55% 71
Work from Home +24 79 £513 -2.38% 147
UK excluding London -12 57 £475 -13.64% 104
South East +17 17 £506 -15.63% 34
North of England -9 14 £444 -21.18% 25
North West -11 12 £438 -23.91% 16
Midlands +15 10 £493 -1.50% 11
South West +9 9 £439 -25.24% 20
Scotland +28 5 £475 -10.59% 4
East Midlands +20 5 £463 -7.50% 3
West Midlands +15 5 £523 -1.65% 8
Yorkshire +5 2 £513 +7.89% 5
Wales +19 1 £388 +3.33% 3
East of England +7 1 £550 +18.92% 6

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 12 (6.00%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.00%) BizTalk Server
3 7 (3.50%) Apache
4 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.50%) ArcGIS
5 3 (1.50%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.00%) CMS
6 2 (1.00%) Confluence
6 2 (1.00%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.50%) Drupal
7 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.50%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 200 (100.00%) Azure
2 76 (38.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 71 (35.50%) Azure DevOps
3 71 (35.50%) Power Platform
4 58 (29.00%) Serverless
5 55 (27.50%) Azure Functions
6 47 (23.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 44 (22.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 44 (22.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 39 (19.50%) Azure Service Bus
9 35 (17.50%) Azure Key Vault
10 33 (16.50%) PaaS
11 32 (16.00%) Azure API Management
11 32 (16.00%) Azure Storage
12 29 (14.50%) Entra ID
13 19 (9.50%) AWS
14 18 (9.00%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (8.50%) PowerApps
16 16 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
17 14 (7.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.50%) Firewall
2 4 (2.00%) VPN
3 2 (1.00%) DNS
3 2 (1.00%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) SSH
4 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (29.50%) Power BI
2 58 (29.00%) SQL Server
3 47 (23.50%) Data Lake
4 42 (21.00%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (13.00%) NoSQL
6 15 (7.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (6.00%) MongoDB
8 11 (5.50%) Big Data
8 11 (5.50%) Relational Database
9 10 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (4.50%) Parquet
11 8 (4.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 8 (4.00%) Power Query
12 7 (3.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 7 (3.50%) OLTP
12 7 (3.50%) Tableau
13 6 (3.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 5 (2.50%) Delta Lake
14 5 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (11.50%) Git
2 13 (6.50%) Postman
3 11 (5.50%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.50%) Visual Studio Team System
5 5 (2.50%) JIRA
6 4 (2.00%) Deequ
7 3 (1.50%) NUnit
8 2 (1.00%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.00%) Moq
8 2 (1.00%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.50%) GitLab
9 1 (0.50%) Hudson
9 1 (0.50%) JMeter
9 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 46 (23.00%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.50%) Finance
3 16 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.50%) Banking
5 10 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.00%) Marketing
7 5 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.00%) Back Office
8 4 (2.00%) Local Government
8 4 (2.00%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.00%) Retail
10 1 (0.50%) Automotive
10 1 (0.50%) Front Office
10 1 (0.50%) Law
10 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 66 (33.00%) Developer
2 50 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 47 (23.50%) Data Engineer
4 29 (14.50%) Azure Data Engineer
5 23 (11.50%) Architect
6 18 (9.00%) Lead
7 15 (7.50%) Azure Developer
8 14 (7.00%) Full Stack Developer
9 13 (6.50%) Analyst
10 12 (6.00%) Azure Architect
10 12 (6.00%) Senior
11 11 (5.50%) DBA
11 11 (5.50%) SQL Developer
12 10 (5.00%) Data Analyst
12 10 (5.00%) Python Developer
13 9 (4.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 9 (4.50%) C# Developer
13 9 (4.50%) SQL DBA
14 8 (4.00%) .NET Developer
14 8 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (26.50%) .NET
2 28 (14.00%) ARM Templates
3 27 (13.50%) .NET Core
4 22 (11.00%) JSON
5 18 (9.00%) PySpark
6 17 (8.50%) XML
7 16 (8.00%) Web Services
8 15 (7.50%) REST
9 14 (7.00%) Swagger
10 12 (6.00%) YAML
11 11 (5.50%) SOAP
12 10 (5.00%) .NET Framework
12 10 (5.00%) React
13 9 (4.50%) Kafka
14 7 (3.50%) Apache Avro
14 7 (3.50%) Blazor
15 6 (3.00%) GraphQL
15 6 (3.00%) OAuth
15 6 (3.00%) OpenID
16 5 (2.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.00%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.50%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.50%) Smart Meter
6 4 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.50%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.50%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.50%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.50%) Replication
7 3 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.00%) Clustering
8 2 (1.00%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.00%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.00%) Social Media
8 2 (1.00%) Wiki
9 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.50%) Windows
2 10 (5.00%) VMS
3 9 (4.50%) Unix
4 8 (4.00%) Linux
5 4 (2.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.50%) CentOS
6 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (41.00%) DevOps
2 72 (36.00%) CI/CD
3 69 (34.50%) Agile
4 60 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 54 (27.00%) ETL
6 52 (26.00%) Analytics
7 46 (23.00%) Data Modelling
8 43 (21.50%) Migration
9 35 (17.50%) API Management
9 35 (17.50%) TDD
10 32 (16.00%) Data Engineering
10 32 (16.00%) Scrum
11 31 (15.50%) Microservices
12 30 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (14.00%) Software Engineering
14 27 (13.50%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (12.00%) Test Automation
16 23 (11.50%) Continuous Integration
17 22 (11.00%) Data Integration
17 22 (11.00%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 185 (92.50%) SQL
2 67 (33.50%) Python
3 55 (27.50%) C#
4 44 (22.00%) PowerShell
5 24 (12.00%) T-SQL
6 17 (8.50%) JavaScript
7 16 (8.00%) Bicep
8 13 (6.50%) Java
8 13 (6.50%) Scala
9 10 (5.00%) C++
9 10 (5.00%) PL/SQL
10 8 (4.00%) Go
11 7 (3.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (2.50%) R
12 5 (2.50%) TypeScript
13 3 (1.50%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.50%) VB.NET
14 2 (1.00%) Bash
15 1 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (9.50%) Azure Certification
2 16 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 16 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.50%) Degree
4 9 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.00%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.50%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.50%) QA
3 4 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.00%) GDPR
3 4 (2.00%) WCAG
4 3 (1.50%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.50%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (5.50%) Docker
4 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (20.00%) Terraform
2 22 (11.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.00%) Ansible
5 3 (1.50%) Grafana
5 3 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.50%) Graylog
7 1 (0.50%) Nagios
7 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.50%) Puppet
7 1 (0.50%) yum
Vendors
1 81 (40.50%) Microsoft
2 38 (19.00%) Databricks
3 14 (7.00%) Oracle
4 8 (4.00%) MuleSoft
5 6 (3.00%) CA
5 6 (3.00%) Google
5 6 (3.00%) SAP
6 5 (2.50%) Ab Initio
7 3 (1.50%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.00%) Informatica
8 2 (1.00%) New Relic
8 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.00%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.50%) Cisco
9 1 (0.50%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.50%) Nintex
9 1 (0.50%) Splunk
9 1 (0.50%) Virgin Media