Azure SQL Database Contracts

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 369 396
Rank change year-on-year -19 +27 -117
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 199 350 561
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.61% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.73% 3.43% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 219 405
10th Percentile £400 £423 £396
25th Percentile £461 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £625
90th Percentile £729 £700 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £482
% change year-on-year -13.64% +14.11% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
10th Percentile - £44.75 -
25th Percentile - £58.63 £29.50
Median hourly rate - £66.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% -49.23%
75th Percentile - £68.13 £36.50
90th Percentile - £70.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year - +6.06% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,282 10,198 17,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.11% 17.90% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,219 7,260 12,426
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% - +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 181 189
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +30.43% +73.58%
75th Percentile £61.58 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £73.75 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.19% +59.14% +44.03%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK

Azure SQL Database
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure SQL Database in the UK

Azure SQL Database
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK

Azure SQL Database
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 May 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
England +17 173 £545 -0.91% 138
London +61 114 £575 +4.55% 56
Work from Home +35 80 £515 -1.87% 136
UK excluding London -7 57 £475 -13.64% 82
South East +10 16 £513 -14.58% 25
North of England -13 14 £444 -21.18% 16
North West -8 12 £438 -23.91% 10
Midlands +22 10 £493 -1.50% 9
South West +10 9 £439 -25.24% 19
Scotland +23 6 £475 -10.59% 3
West Midlands +18 5 £523 +22.94% 6
East Midlands +16 5 £463 -7.50% 3
Yorkshire 0 2 £513 +7.89% 2
Wales +18 1 £388 +3.33% 3
East of England +6 1 £550 +15.79% 8

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (5.53%) Apache Spark
2 10 (5.03%) BizTalk Server
3 7 (3.52%) Apache
4 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.51%) ArcGIS
5 3 (1.51%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.01%) CMS
6 2 (1.01%) Confluence
6 2 (1.01%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.50%) Drupal
7 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.01%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.51%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 199 (100.00%) Azure
2 74 (37.19%) Azure Data Factory
3 73 (36.68%) Azure DevOps
4 71 (35.68%) Power Platform
5 61 (30.65%) Serverless
6 57 (28.64%) Azure Functions
7 47 (23.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 46 (23.12%) Azure Logic Apps
9 45 (22.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 38 (19.10%) Azure Service Bus
11 34 (17.09%) Azure Key Vault
11 34 (17.09%) Azure Storage
12 32 (16.08%) PaaS
13 31 (15.58%) Azure API Management
14 28 (14.07%) Entra ID
15 21 (10.55%) AWS
16 19 (9.55%) Azure Monitor
17 17 (8.54%) PowerApps
18 16 (8.04%) Dynamics 365
19 14 (7.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.53%) Firewall
2 4 (2.01%) VPN
3 2 (1.01%) DNS
3 2 (1.01%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) SSH
4 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (29.65%) Power BI
2 58 (29.15%) SQL Server
3 48 (24.12%) Data Lake
4 41 (20.60%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (13.07%) NoSQL
6 15 (7.54%) MongoDB
7 14 (7.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (5.53%) Relational Database
9 10 (5.03%) Big Data
9 10 (5.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (4.52%) Parquet
10 9 (4.52%) Power Query
11 8 (4.02%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 7 (3.52%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 7 (3.52%) OLTP
12 7 (3.52%) Tableau
13 6 (3.02%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 6 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (2.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (2.01%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 23 (11.56%) Git
2 12 (6.03%) Postman
3 11 (5.53%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.52%) Visual Studio Team System
5 5 (2.51%) JIRA
6 4 (2.01%) Deequ
7 3 (1.51%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.51%) NUnit
8 2 (1.01%) Moq
8 2 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.50%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.50%) GitLab
9 1 (0.50%) Gradle
9 1 (0.50%) gulp
9 1 (0.50%) Hudson
9 1 (0.50%) Maven
9 1 (0.50%) Selenium
9 1 (0.50%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.50%) Travis CI
General
1 46 (23.12%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.60%) Finance
3 16 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.53%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.03%) Banking
6 6 (3.02%) Marketing
6 6 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.01%) Back Office
7 4 (2.01%) Local Government
7 4 (2.01%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.01%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.01%) Retail
9 1 (0.50%) Automotive
9 1 (0.50%) Front Office
9 1 (0.50%) Law
9 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 67 (33.67%) Developer
2 51 (25.63%) Azure Engineer
3 47 (23.62%) Data Engineer
4 30 (15.08%) Azure Data Engineer
5 23 (11.56%) Architect
6 18 (9.05%) Lead
7 15 (7.54%) Azure Developer
7 15 (7.54%) Full Stack Developer
8 12 (6.03%) Analyst
8 12 (6.03%) Azure Architect
9 11 (5.53%) DBA
9 11 (5.53%) Senior
9 11 (5.53%) SQL Developer
10 9 (4.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 9 (4.52%) C# Developer
10 9 (4.52%) Data Analyst
10 9 (4.52%) Python Developer
10 9 (4.52%) SQL DBA
11 8 (4.02%) .NET Developer
11 8 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (27.14%) .NET
2 29 (14.57%) .NET Core
2 29 (14.57%) ARM Templates
3 22 (11.06%) JSON
4 18 (9.05%) PySpark
5 17 (8.54%) XML
6 15 (7.54%) REST
6 15 (7.54%) Web Services
7 13 (6.53%) Swagger
8 12 (6.03%) YAML
9 11 (5.53%) SOAP
10 10 (5.03%) .NET Framework
10 10 (5.03%) React
11 9 (4.52%) Blazor
11 9 (4.52%) Kafka
12 7 (3.52%) Apache Avro
13 6 (3.02%) GraphQL
13 6 (3.02%) OAuth
13 6 (3.02%) OpenID
14 5 (2.51%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.04%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.53%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.52%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (2.51%) Smart Meter
5 4 (2.01%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.01%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.51%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.51%) N-Tier
6 3 (1.51%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.51%) Replication
6 3 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.01%) Clustering
7 2 (1.01%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.01%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.01%) Social Media
7 2 (1.01%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.55%) Windows
2 10 (5.03%) VMS
3 9 (4.52%) Unix
4 8 (4.02%) Linux
5 4 (2.01%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.50%) CentOS
6 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (42.21%) DevOps
2 74 (37.19%) CI/CD
3 70 (35.18%) Agile
4 60 (30.15%) Business Intelligence
5 54 (27.14%) Analytics
6 53 (26.63%) ETL
7 47 (23.62%) Data Modelling
8 43 (21.61%) Migration
9 34 (17.09%) TDD
10 33 (16.58%) API Management
10 33 (16.58%) Microservices
10 33 (16.58%) Scrum
11 31 (15.58%) Data Engineering
12 30 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (14.07%) Infrastructure as Code
13 28 (14.07%) Software Engineering
14 23 (11.56%) Test Automation
15 22 (11.06%) Continuous Integration
15 22 (11.06%) Data Integration
15 22 (11.06%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 184 (92.46%) SQL
2 68 (34.17%) Python
3 55 (27.64%) C#
4 44 (22.11%) PowerShell
5 26 (13.07%) T-SQL
6 20 (10.05%) JavaScript
7 16 (8.04%) Bicep
8 14 (7.04%) Java
9 12 (6.03%) PL/SQL
9 12 (6.03%) Scala
10 11 (5.53%) C++
10 11 (5.53%) Go
11 8 (4.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (3.02%) TypeScript
13 4 (2.01%) R
14 3 (1.51%) Bash
14 3 (1.51%) Shell Script
15 2 (1.01%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.50%) Groovy
16 1 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (9.05%) Azure Certification
2 16 (8.04%) SC Cleared
2 16 (8.04%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.53%) Degree
4 9 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.02%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.51%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.06%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.02%) QA
3 4 (2.01%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.01%) GDPR
3 4 (2.01%) WCAG
4 3 (1.51%) PMO
5 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 23 (11.56%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.54%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (6.03%) Docker
4 1 (0.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (20.60%) Terraform
2 25 (12.56%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.52%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (2.51%) Ansible
5 4 (2.01%) Grafana
5 4 (2.01%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.01%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.50%) Graylog
7 1 (0.50%) Nagios
7 1 (0.50%) Puppet
7 1 (0.50%) yum
Vendors
1 79 (39.70%) Microsoft
2 36 (18.09%) Databricks
3 16 (8.04%) Oracle
4 10 (5.03%) MuleSoft
5 6 (3.02%) CA
5 6 (3.02%) Google
5 6 (3.02%) SAP
6 5 (2.51%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.01%) Informatica
7 2 (1.01%) New Relic
7 2 (1.01%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.01%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.01%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco
8 1 (0.50%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.50%) Nintex
8 1 (0.50%) Splunk
8 1 (0.50%) Virgin Media
170 Azure SQL Database jobs Nationwide