Azure SQL Database Contracts in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 372 423
Rank change year-on-year +14 +51 -109
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 193 285 412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.61% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.01% 3.46% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 182 296
10th Percentile £400 £425 £366
25th Percentile £453 £473 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £68.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Azure SQL Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,409 8,241 13,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.09% 17.52% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,613 5,916 9,942
10th Percentile £350 £365 £369
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £669
90th Percentile £800 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 154 165
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.50
25th Percentile £20.77 £32.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +72.48%
75th Percentile £52.83 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.30 £82.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
% change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +53 132 £575 +2.50% 59
South East +12 19 £516 -13.96% 27
North of England -21 14 £444 -21.18% 24
North West -12 12 £438 -24.50% 14
Midlands +13 10 £493 -1.50% 11
South West 0 9 £439 -25.24% 11
West Midlands +11 5 £523 +7.18% 8
East Midlands +10 5 £463 -7.50% 3
Yorkshire +2 2 £513 +7.89% 9
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.25%) Apache Spark
2 9 (4.66%) Apache
3 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.59%) BizTalk Server
5 4 (2.07%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.04%) ArcGIS
6 2 (1.04%) CMS
6 2 (1.04%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.52%) Drupal
7 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.55%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 193 (100.00%) Azure
2 67 (34.72%) Azure Data Factory
3 63 (32.64%) Power Platform
4 59 (30.57%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (23.83%) Azure Service Bus
5 46 (23.83%) Serverless
6 45 (23.32%) Azure Functions
7 42 (21.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 41 (21.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 35 (18.13%) Azure Logic Apps
10 33 (17.10%) Azure Key Vault
11 31 (16.06%) Azure Storage
11 31 (16.06%) PaaS
12 28 (14.51%) Azure API Management
13 27 (13.99%) Entra ID
14 19 (9.84%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (8.81%) PowerApps
16 16 (8.29%) Azure App Service
17 14 (7.25%) Power Automate
18 13 (6.74%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.70%) Firewall
2 3 (1.55%) VPN
3 2 (1.04%) DNS
3 2 (1.04%) Network Security
4 1 (0.52%) Internet
4 1 (0.52%) SSH
4 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (31.61%) SQL Server
2 51 (26.42%) Power BI
3 46 (23.83%) Data Lake
4 39 (20.21%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (18.65%) NoSQL
6 13 (6.74%) Big Data
6 13 (6.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (5.70%) MongoDB
8 10 (5.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 9 (4.66%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 9 (4.66%) Relational Database
10 8 (4.15%) Parquet
11 7 (3.63%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 7 (3.63%) OLTP
12 6 (3.11%) Power Query
13 5 (2.59%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 4 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 3 (1.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (11.92%) Git
2 12 (6.22%) Postman
3 7 (3.63%) Visual Studio Team System
4 6 (3.11%) Visual Studio
5 4 (2.07%) Deequ
6 2 (1.04%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.04%) JIRA
6 2 (1.04%) Moq
6 2 (1.04%) NUnit
6 2 (1.04%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.52%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.52%) Hudson
7 1 (0.52%) JMeter
7 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 40 (20.73%) Finance
1 40 (20.73%) Social Skills
2 18 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (9.33%) Banking
3 8 (4.15%) Public Sector
4 6 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (2.59%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.07%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.07%) Local Government
6 4 (2.07%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.04%) Back Office
7 2 (1.04%) Marketing
7 2 (1.04%) Retail
8 1 (0.52%) Automotive
8 1 (0.52%) Front Office
8 1 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 67 (34.72%) Developer
2 55 (28.50%) Azure Engineer
3 52 (26.94%) Data Engineer
4 36 (18.65%) Azure Data Engineer
5 17 (8.81%) Lead
6 15 (7.77%) Architect
7 13 (6.74%) Full Stack Developer
7 13 (6.74%) Senior
8 11 (5.70%) .NET Developer
8 11 (5.70%) Azure Developer
8 11 (5.70%) Python Developer
8 11 (5.70%) Senior Developer
9 10 (5.18%) Analyst
9 10 (5.18%) C# Developer
9 10 (5.18%) Data Analyst
10 9 (4.66%) Azure Architect
10 9 (4.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 9 (4.66%) SQL Developer
11 7 (3.63%) DBA
11 7 (3.63%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (27.46%) .NET
2 25 (12.95%) .NET Core
3 22 (11.40%) ARM Templates
4 18 (9.33%) Kafka
5 16 (8.29%) JSON
5 16 (8.29%) PySpark
5 16 (8.29%) Web Services
6 13 (6.74%) Swagger
6 13 (6.74%) XML
7 11 (5.70%) REST
8 10 (5.18%) YAML
9 9 (4.66%) .NET Framework
10 8 (4.15%) GraphQL
10 8 (4.15%) React
10 8 (4.15%) SOAP
11 7 (3.63%) Apache Avro
12 6 (3.11%) ASP.NET
13 5 (2.59%) CSS
13 5 (2.59%) JSON Schema
14 4 (2.07%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.18%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (3.63%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.59%) Smart Meter
5 4 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.55%) Replication
7 2 (1.04%) Clustering
7 2 (1.04%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.04%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.04%) Wiki
8 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.52%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.81%) Windows
2 14 (7.25%) Unix
3 10 (5.18%) VMS
4 8 (4.15%) Linux
5 5 (2.59%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.04%) Android
7 1 (0.52%) CentOS
7 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (36.79%) DevOps
2 65 (33.68%) Agile
3 55 (28.50%) CI/CD
4 50 (25.91%) Business Intelligence
5 47 (24.35%) ETL
6 46 (23.83%) Analytics
7 44 (22.80%) Data Modelling
8 39 (20.21%) Migration
9 35 (18.13%) TDD
10 34 (17.62%) Microservices
11 33 (17.10%) API Management
12 32 (16.58%) Data Engineering
13 29 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (15.03%) Scrum
14 27 (13.99%) Software Engineering
15 21 (10.88%) Data Migration
15 21 (10.88%) Infrastructure as Code
15 21 (10.88%) Test Automation
16 20 (10.36%) Continuous Integration
16 20 (10.36%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 178 (92.23%) SQL
2 62 (32.12%) Python
3 58 (30.05%) C#
4 42 (21.76%) PowerShell
5 25 (12.95%) T-SQL
6 13 (6.74%) Bicep
6 13 (6.74%) JavaScript
7 12 (6.22%) Scala
8 11 (5.70%) Java
9 9 (4.66%) C++
10 8 (4.15%) Shell Script
11 7 (3.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (3.63%) R
12 6 (3.11%) PL/SQL
13 5 (2.59%) Go
13 5 (2.59%) TypeScript
13 5 (2.59%) VB.NET
14 4 (2.07%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (1.04%) Bash
16 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (7.25%) Azure Certification
1 14 (7.25%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.22%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.70%) Degree
4 7 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.59%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.55%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.44%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.59%) GDPR
3 4 (2.07%) QA
4 3 (1.55%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.55%) PMO
4 3 (1.55%) WCAG
5 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (11.92%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.77%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (4.15%) Docker
4 1 (0.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (17.10%) Terraform
2 32 (16.58%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.63%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.59%) Ansible
5 3 (1.55%) Grafana
5 3 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.52%) Graylog
7 1 (0.52%) Nagios
7 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.52%) Puppet
7 1 (0.52%) yum
Vendors
1 73 (37.82%) Microsoft
2 34 (17.62%) Databricks
3 8 (4.15%) Oracle
4 6 (3.11%) CA
5 5 (2.59%) Ab Initio
5 5 (2.59%) Informatica
5 5 (2.59%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.07%) SAP
7 3 (1.55%) New Relic
7 3 (1.55%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.04%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.04%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.04%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.52%) Cisco
9 1 (0.52%) Google
9 1 (0.52%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.52%) Nintex
9 1 (0.52%) Splunk