Azure SQL Database Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 148 148 155
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -21
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 9 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.27% 0.32% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.62% 2.71% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 11
10th Percentile £369 £413 £363
25th Percentile £422 £478 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £588 £465
Median % change year-on-year -25.24% +26.34% +3.33%
75th Percentile £456 £719 £511
90th Percentile £525 £813 £588
England median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% +8.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 343 406 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.40% 11.98% 15.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 295 422
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £613
90th Percentile £681 £732 £657
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 12
10th Percentile - £19.00 £48.79
25th Percentile £17.50 £50.00 £52.82
Median hourly rate £40.00 £66.00 £61.80
Median % change year-on-year -39.39% +6.80% +44.16%
75th Percentile £47.88 £78.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +72.48%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the South West

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the South West

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in the South West

Azure SQL Database
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Bristol +8 9 £439 +3.35% 4
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (77.78%) Power Platform
3 6 (66.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 6 (66.67%) Entra ID
4 5 (55.56%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Fabric
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Local Government
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Developer
4 1 (11.11%) ICT Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Power BI Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 6 (66.67%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (11.11%) ETL
5 1 (11.11%) Fintech
5 1 (11.11%) Microservices
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) Python
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) CA