Azure SQL Database Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 80 97
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 -15
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 8 8 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.73% 0.74% 0.070%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.69% 4.97% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 1
10th Percentile £448 £361 -
25th Percentile £491 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% -7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £525 £547 £538
90th Percentile - £551 -
Berkshire median daily rate £520 £488 £663
% change year-on-year +6.67% -26.42% +17.78%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 217 161 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 19.82% 14.99% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 118 125
10th Percentile £385 £412 £339
25th Percentile £456 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £575 £480
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +19.79% -3.27%
75th Percentile £650 £662 £569
90th Percentile £663 £689 £705
Berkshire median daily rate £538 £575 £480
% change year-on-year -6.52% +19.79% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £31.72 - £27.50
25th Percentile - - £36.88
Median hourly rate £48.18 - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £61.60 - £57.50
90th Percentile £63.48 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £53.24 £63.00 £58.25
% change year-on-year -15.49% +8.15% +16.50%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Reading

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Reading

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in Reading

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 7 (87.50%) Azure Key Vault
2 7 (87.50%) Azure Monitor
2 7 (87.50%) Azure Service Bus
2 7 (87.50%) Azure Storage
3 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) .NET Developer
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior .NET Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) .NET
2 5 (62.50%) .NET Framework
2 5 (62.50%) Entity Framework
2 5 (62.50%) GraphQL
3 2 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
1 7 (87.50%) OOP
1 7 (87.50%) SOLID
2 6 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 6 (75.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Scrum
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 5 (62.50%) Component Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Design Patterns
3 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Data Management
4 3 (37.50%) Microservices
5 1 (12.50%) ETL
5 1 (12.50%) Pair Programming
5 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
5 1 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (87.50%) C#
2 7 (87.50%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (25.00%) Bicep
4 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Salesforce