Azure SQL Database Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 341 304 360
Rank change year-on-year -37 +56 -43
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 60 126 145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.56% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.25% 3.77% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 90 115
10th Percentile £363 £413 £365
25th Percentile £417 £463 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £636 £619
90th Percentile £588 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,661 3,340 5,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.48% 14.72% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,857 2,374 3,802
10th Percentile £314 £325 £337
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £663 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 106 125
10th Percentile £13.72 £21.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £31.84 £20.75
Median hourly rate £34.47 £56.95 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.48% +62.71% +41.02%
75th Percentile £49.54 £73.74 £56.25
90th Percentile £71.50 £78.00 £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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure SQL Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland +36 7 £475 -10.59% 5
West Midlands +11 5 £523 +7.18% 8
East Midlands +10 5 £463 -7.50% 3
Yorkshire +2 2 £513 +7.89% 9
Wales +20 1 £388 +3.33% 1
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 60 (100.00%) Azure
2 24 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 23 (38.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (23.33%) Azure Functions
5 14 (23.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 14 (23.33%) Serverless
6 12 (20.00%) Entra ID
7 10 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 10 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 10 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (15.00%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (13.33%) PaaS
10 4 (6.67%) Azure Storage
10 4 (6.67%) GitHub
11 3 (5.00%) Azure API Management
11 3 (5.00%) Azure App Service
12 2 (3.33%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) Firewall
2 2 (3.33%) DNS
2 2 (3.33%) Network Security
3 1 (1.67%) Internet
3 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.67%) VPN
3 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (38.33%) Power BI
1 23 (38.33%) SQL Server
2 10 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 6 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (8.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 5 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.33%) Tableau
8 1 (1.67%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.67%) MySQL
8 1 (1.67%) OLAP
8 1 (1.67%) OLAP Cube
8 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.67%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.67%) Redis
8 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) Moq
2 2 (3.33%) NUnit
2 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.67%) Hudson
3 1 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.67%) Postman
3 1 (1.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.67%) Finance
3 4 (6.67%) Local Government
3 4 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 21 (35.00%) Developer
2 17 (28.33%) Azure Engineer
3 12 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 11 (18.33%) Azure Data Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) .NET Developer
5 7 (11.67%) DBA
6 6 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 6 (10.00%) SQL DBA
7 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Administrator
8 4 (6.67%) Analyst
8 4 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Integration Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Azure Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Data Analyst
9 3 (5.00%) Power BI Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Senior .NET Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.33%) .NET
2 7 (11.67%) .NET Framework
2 7 (11.67%) ARM Templates
3 5 (8.33%) Entity Framework
4 4 (6.67%) XML
5 3 (5.00%) RESTful
6 2 (3.33%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (3.33%) CSS
6 2 (3.33%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.33%) jQuery
6 2 (3.33%) OAuth
6 2 (3.33%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.33%) OpenID
6 2 (3.33%) SOAP
6 2 (3.33%) WCF
6 2 (3.33%) Web Services
7 1 (1.67%) JSON
7 1 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.33%) Smart Meter
3 3 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.33%) Replication
5 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.67%) Clustering
5 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.33%) VMS
2 7 (11.67%) Windows
3 5 (8.33%) Linux
4 4 (6.67%) Unix
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.67%) Business Intelligence
2 18 (30.00%) DevOps
3 15 (25.00%) Analytics
4 14 (23.33%) ETL
4 14 (23.33%) Migration
5 12 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 12 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (18.33%) CI/CD
6 11 (18.33%) Scrum
7 10 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (11.67%) Data Engineering
8 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (10.00%) Agile
9 6 (10.00%) Containerisation
9 6 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (10.00%) Visualisation
10 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (8.33%) SOLID
10 5 (8.33%) Test Automation
10 5 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 55 (91.67%) SQL
2 12 (20.00%) C#
3 7 (11.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.67%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (6.67%) T-SQL
5 3 (5.00%) Bicep
5 3 (5.00%) Python
6 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.67%) Java
7 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 6 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) GDPR
2 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (18.33%) Active Directory
2 9 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.33%) Terraform
3 2 (3.33%) Ansible
4 1 (1.67%) Grafana
4 1 (1.67%) Graylog
4 1 (1.67%) Nagios
4 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) CA
3 5 (8.33%) Ab Initio
4 4 (6.67%) Databricks
5 1 (1.67%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.67%) New Relic
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle
5 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.67%) Splunk