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 remote or hybrid contract work 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 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 283 320
Rank change year-on-year +20 +37 -76
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Database 75 172 335
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.72% 0.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.58% 3.84% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 118 261
10th Percentile £376 £425 £400
25th Percentile £450 £466 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.33% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £539 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.05% +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 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,911 4,484 9,292
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.70% 18.79% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,135 3,284 6,793
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 £791 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 79 85
10th Percentile £18.00 £24.08 £19.00
25th Percentile £21.88 £42.63 £21.17
Median hourly rate £37.75 £66.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.80% +38.95% +58.33%
75th Percentile £58.50 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £43.95
% change year-on-year -33.33% +36.52% +62.78%

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 10 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 (8.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.67%) ArcGIS
2 2 (2.67%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.33%) Apache
3 1 (1.33%) CMS
3 1 (1.33%) Drupal
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.33%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 75 (100.00%) Azure
2 34 (45.33%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (44.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 30 (40.00%) Azure Functions
4 30 (40.00%) Serverless
5 26 (34.67%) Power Platform
6 21 (28.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 18 (24.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 18 (24.00%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (22.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (17.33%) Azure API Management
9 13 (17.33%) Azure Key Vault
10 11 (14.67%) PaaS
11 8 (10.67%) Azure Storage
11 8 (10.67%) PowerApps
12 6 (8.00%) Azure App Service
12 6 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (8.00%) Entra ID
12 6 (8.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) Firewall
1 2 (2.67%) Network Security
2 1 (1.33%) DNS
2 1 (1.33%) VPN
2 1 (1.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (44.00%) SQL Server
2 19 (25.33%) Power BI
3 11 (14.67%) Data Lake
3 11 (14.67%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (8.00%) Big Data
5 5 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.67%) NoSQL
5 5 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (5.33%) OLTP
6 4 (5.33%) Power Query
6 4 (5.33%) Relational Database
6 4 (5.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (4.00%) Delta Lake
7 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (4.00%) Parquet
7 3 (4.00%) Spark SQL
8 2 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.67%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (16.00%) Git
2 4 (5.33%) Visual Studio Team System
3 3 (4.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.67%) NUnit
5 1 (1.33%) Deequ
5 1 (1.33%) JIRA
5 1 (1.33%) Moq
5 1 (1.33%) Postman
General
1 20 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.00%) Finance
3 5 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Marketing
6 1 (1.33%) Banking
6 1 (1.33%) Front Office
6 1 (1.33%) Law
6 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (40.00%) Developer
2 22 (29.33%) Data Engineer
3 18 (24.00%) Azure Engineer
4 13 (17.33%) Azure Data Engineer
5 9 (12.00%) Architect
6 8 (10.67%) Azure Developer
6 8 (10.67%) Lead
7 7 (9.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 6 (8.00%) .NET Developer
8 6 (8.00%) Azure Architect
8 6 (8.00%) Full Stack Developer
9 5 (6.67%) Integration Developer
10 4 (5.33%) Analyst
10 4 (5.33%) C# Developer
10 4 (5.33%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Power BI Developer
10 4 (5.33%) SQL Developer
11 3 (4.00%) DBA
11 3 (4.00%) Lead Developer
11 3 (4.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (32.00%) .NET
2 15 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 12 (16.00%) .NET Core
4 7 (9.33%) .NET Framework
4 7 (9.33%) JSON
4 7 (9.33%) YAML
5 6 (8.00%) PySpark
5 6 (8.00%) REST
6 5 (6.67%) SOAP
6 5 (6.67%) XML
7 4 (5.33%) ASP.NET
7 4 (5.33%) React
7 4 (5.33%) Web Services
8 3 (4.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (4.00%) CSS
8 3 (4.00%) Entity Framework
8 3 (4.00%) GraphQL
8 3 (4.00%) jQuery
8 3 (4.00%) Spark Streaming
8 3 (4.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.33%) Cloud Native
1 4 (5.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.67%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.67%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.33%) Clustering
4 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.33%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.33%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.33%) Replication
4 1 (1.33%) Smart Meter
4 1 (1.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.67%) Windows
2 1 (1.33%) Android
2 1 (1.33%) Unix
2 1 (1.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (50.67%) DevOps
2 28 (37.33%) CI/CD
3 21 (28.00%) ETL
4 19 (25.33%) Business Intelligence
5 18 (24.00%) Agile
5 18 (24.00%) Migration
6 14 (18.67%) Analytics
6 14 (18.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (17.33%) TDD
8 12 (16.00%) Data Engineering
8 12 (16.00%) Microservices
8 12 (16.00%) Scrum
9 11 (14.67%) Data Modelling
9 11 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (14.67%) Test Automation
10 10 (13.33%) Data Migration
11 9 (12.00%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (12.00%) Unit Testing
12 8 (10.67%) API Management
13 7 (9.33%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 65 (86.67%) SQL
2 26 (34.67%) C#
3 20 (26.67%) Python
4 19 (25.33%) PowerShell
5 8 (10.67%) Bicep
5 8 (10.67%) JavaScript
5 8 (10.67%) Scala
5 8 (10.67%) T-SQL
6 5 (6.67%) Java
7 4 (5.33%) PL/SQL
8 3 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.67%) C++
9 2 (2.67%) Go
9 2 (2.67%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.33%) R
10 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (12.00%) Azure Certification
2 6 (8.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.67%) Degree
4 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.00%) QA
3 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (5.33%) Active Directory
1 4 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (26.67%) Terraform
2 7 (9.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 15 (20.00%) Databricks
3 6 (8.00%) Oracle
4 2 (2.67%) Informatica
4 2 (2.67%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.67%) SAP
5 1 (1.33%) Ab Initio
5 1 (1.33%) CA
5 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.33%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.33%) Xamarin