Azure SQL Database Contracts with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 296 320
Rank change year-on-year +23 +24 -67
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 76 167 343
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.69% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.68% 3.65% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 112 269
10th Percentile £365 £425 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.33% +4.76% +5.53%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.95% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,835 4,574 9,403
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.36% 18.87% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,093 3,352 6,868
10th Percentile £356 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.50% -0.05% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 79 87
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.33 £19.30
25th Percentile £22.52 £42.63 £21.50
Median hourly rate £37.75 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.92% +31.31% +65.00%
75th Percentile £58.50 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £44.48
% change year-on-year -33.33% +34.91% +64.97%

Azure SQL Database
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure SQL Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure SQL Database trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure SQL Database.

Azure SQL Database daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Azure SQL Database daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure SQL Database
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure SQL Database.

Azure SQL Database hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (7.89%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.63%) ArcGIS
2 2 (2.63%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.32%) Apache
3 1 (1.32%) CMS
3 1 (1.32%) Drupal
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.32%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 76 (100.00%) Azure
2 35 (46.05%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (43.42%) Azure Data Factory
4 29 (38.16%) Azure Functions
4 29 (38.16%) Serverless
5 26 (34.21%) Power Platform
6 21 (27.63%) Azure Logic Apps
7 18 (23.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 18 (23.68%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (22.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 14 (18.42%) Azure Key Vault
10 13 (17.11%) Azure API Management
11 11 (14.47%) PaaS
12 9 (11.84%) Azure Storage
13 8 (10.53%) PowerApps
14 7 (9.21%) Entra ID
15 6 (7.89%) Azure App Service
15 6 (7.89%) Azure Monitor
15 6 (7.89%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (7.89%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) Firewall
1 2 (2.63%) Network Security
2 1 (1.32%) DNS
2 1 (1.32%) VPN
2 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 19 (25.00%) Power BI
3 11 (14.47%) Data Lake
3 11 (14.47%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.89%) Big Data
5 5 (6.58%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (5.26%) MongoDB
6 4 (5.26%) OLTP
6 4 (5.26%) Power Query
6 4 (5.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (3.95%) Delta Lake
7 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (3.95%) Parquet
7 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.95%) Spark SQL
8 2 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.63%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (15.79%) Git
2 4 (5.26%) Visual Studio Team System
3 3 (3.95%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.63%) NUnit
5 1 (1.32%) Deequ
5 1 (1.32%) JIRA
5 1 (1.32%) Moq
5 1 (1.32%) Postman
General
1 20 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.11%) Finance
3 5 (6.58%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Marketing
6 1 (1.32%) Banking
6 1 (1.32%) Front Office
6 1 (1.32%) Law
6 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (39.47%) Developer
2 22 (28.95%) Data Engineer
3 19 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (17.11%) Azure Data Engineer
5 9 (11.84%) Architect
5 9 (11.84%) Azure Developer
6 8 (10.53%) Lead
7 7 (9.21%) .NET Developer
7 7 (9.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (7.89%) Azure Architect
9 5 (6.58%) C# Developer
9 5 (6.58%) Full Stack Developer
9 5 (6.58%) Integration Developer
9 5 (6.58%) SQL Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Analyst
10 4 (5.26%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Power BI Developer
11 3 (3.95%) Applications Developer
11 3 (3.95%) DBA
11 3 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (32.89%) .NET
2 15 (19.74%) ARM Templates
3 14 (18.42%) .NET Core
4 9 (11.84%) .NET Framework
5 7 (9.21%) JSON
5 7 (9.21%) REST
5 7 (9.21%) YAML
6 6 (7.89%) PySpark
7 5 (6.58%) React
7 5 (6.58%) SOAP
7 5 (6.58%) XML
8 4 (5.26%) Entity Framework
8 4 (5.26%) Web Services
9 3 (3.95%) ASP.NET
9 3 (3.95%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (3.95%) ASP.NET Web API
9 3 (3.95%) CSS
9 3 (3.95%) jQuery
9 3 (3.95%) Spark Streaming
9 3 (3.95%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.26%) Cloud Native
1 4 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.63%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.32%) Clustering
4 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.32%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.32%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.32%) Replication
4 1 (1.32%) Smart Meter
4 1 (1.32%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.63%) Windows
2 1 (1.32%) Unix
2 1 (1.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (51.32%) DevOps
2 28 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 21 (27.63%) ETL
4 19 (25.00%) Agile
4 19 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 18 (23.68%) Migration
6 14 (18.42%) Analytics
6 14 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (18.42%) Microservices
7 13 (17.11%) TDD
8 12 (15.79%) Data Engineering
8 12 (15.79%) Scrum
9 11 (14.47%) Data Modelling
9 11 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (14.47%) Test Automation
10 10 (13.16%) Data Migration
11 9 (11.84%) API Management
11 9 (11.84%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (11.84%) Unit Testing
12 7 (9.21%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 66 (86.84%) SQL
2 27 (35.53%) C#
3 21 (27.63%) Python
4 19 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 9 (11.84%) JavaScript
6 8 (10.53%) Bicep
6 8 (10.53%) Scala
6 8 (10.53%) T-SQL
7 5 (6.58%) Java
8 4 (5.26%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (3.95%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.63%) C++
10 2 (2.63%) Go
11 1 (1.32%) R
11 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (11.84%) Azure Certification
2 6 (7.89%) SC Cleared
2 6 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.58%) Degree
4 3 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.95%) QA
3 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 4 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (26.32%) Terraform
2 7 (9.21%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (34.21%) Microsoft
2 15 (19.74%) Databricks
3 6 (7.89%) Oracle
4 2 (2.63%) Informatica
4 2 (2.63%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.63%) SAP
5 1 (1.32%) Ab Initio
5 1 (1.32%) CA
5 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.32%) Sitecore