Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Azure SQL Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 407 482 568
Rank change year-on-year +75 +86 -209
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 630 586 925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.60% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.44% 2.79% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 550 501 675
10th Percentile £38,881 £46,250 £42,958
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,328 21,007 47,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.86% 21.58% 28.19%
Number of salaries quoted 12,523 13,073 21,105
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in the UK

Azure SQL Database
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure SQL Database within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +83 558 £57,500 -14.81% 167
UK excluding London +113 423 £57,500 - 101
Work from Home +136 421 £57,500 -11.54% 133
London +58 176 £70,000 -6.67% 70
North of England +98 134 £55,000 -4.02% 25
South East +32 99 £57,500 -11.54% 30
North West +39 90 £55,000 -3.69% 15
East of England +39 58 £51,333 +36.89% 11
South West +8 49 £57,500 -8.00% 17
Midlands -17 35 £55,000 +3.29% 11
Scotland -38 29 £57,500 -11.54% 4
Yorkshire +87 28 £57,500 - 6
West Midlands -9 21 £53,500 +0.47% 8
North East +5 16 £42,500 -19.05% 4
East Midlands -8 14 £55,000 -4.35% 3
Northern Ireland +20 11 £55,000 -24.14% 1
Wales +2 8 £60,000 +118.18% 3

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 37 (5.87%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.27%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.11%) Confluence
5 6 (0.95%) CMS
6 3 (0.48%) Apache
7 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.63%) Trello
4 3 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.32%) Primavera
3 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 630 (100.00%) Azure
2 205 (32.54%) Power Platform
3 139 (22.06%) Azure DevOps
4 105 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 62 (9.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 59 (9.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 56 (8.89%) Entra ID
7 56 (8.89%) Serverless
8 50 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
9 49 (7.78%) PaaS
10 47 (7.46%) PowerApps
11 40 (6.35%) Azure Functions
12 39 (6.19%) Azure Logic Apps
13 36 (5.71%) Power Automate
14 32 (5.08%) AWS
14 32 (5.08%) Azure Service Bus
14 32 (5.08%) GitHub
15 31 (4.92%) IaaS
16 27 (4.29%) Azure AKS
17 26 (4.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (11.75%) Broadband
2 43 (6.83%) Internet
3 22 (3.49%) DNS
4 20 (3.17%) Firewall
5 17 (2.70%) Network Security
6 12 (1.90%) WAN
7 8 (1.27%) VPN
8 7 (1.11%) LAN
9 5 (0.79%) DHCP
9 5 (0.79%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.79%) SSL
9 5 (0.79%) VLAN
9 5 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.32%) MPLS
11 1 (0.16%) 3GPP
11 1 (0.16%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 388 (61.59%) SQL Server
2 183 (29.05%) Power BI
3 76 (12.06%) Data Lake
4 71 (11.27%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (8.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 41 (6.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 22 (3.49%) Relational Database
8 19 (3.02%) MySQL
9 16 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (2.54%) Redis
10 15 (2.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 13 (2.06%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.90%) Delta Lake
12 12 (1.90%) MariaDB
12 12 (1.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (1.90%) Tableau
13 11 (1.75%) RDBMS
14 10 (1.59%) NoSQL
15 8 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
16 7 (1.11%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 41 (6.51%) Git
2 19 (3.02%) NUnit
3 15 (2.38%) Visual Studio
4 14 (2.22%) Moq
5 13 (2.06%) JIRA
6 9 (1.43%) Jenkins
7 8 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
7 8 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (1.11%) MLflow
9 4 (0.63%) GitLab
9 4 (0.63%) MSTest
10 3 (0.48%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.16%) JMeter
12 1 (0.16%) Selenium
12 1 (0.16%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.16%) Subversion
12 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 180 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 77 (12.22%) Finance
3 44 (6.98%) Advertising
4 39 (6.19%) Marketing
5 30 (4.76%) Games
6 22 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (3.49%) Retail
7 14 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.06%) Legal
9 10 (1.59%) Music Industry
9 10 (1.59%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.11%) Law
10 7 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.95%) Aviation
11 6 (0.95%) Banking
11 6 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.63%) Police
13 3 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 266 (42.22%) Developer
2 169 (26.83%) .NET Developer
3 105 (16.67%) DBA
4 96 (15.24%) Senior
4 96 (15.24%) SQL DBA
5 77 (12.22%) Azure Engineer
6 74 (11.75%) Data Engineer
7 58 (9.21%) C# Developer
8 52 (8.25%) Lead
9 49 (7.78%) C# .NET Developer
10 45 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
11 38 (6.03%) Senior Developer
12 37 (5.87%) Internet Developer
13 32 (5.08%) Senior Data Engineer
14 31 (4.92%) Architect
15 28 (4.44%) Software Developer
16 27 (4.29%) Analyst
17 26 (4.13%) DevOps Engineer
18 23 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
18 23 (3.65%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 266 (42.22%) .NET
2 207 (32.86%) .NET Core
3 189 (30.00%) ASP.NET
4 187 (29.68%) CSS
5 184 (29.21%) Entity Framework
5 184 (29.21%) HTML
6 178 (28.25%) Blazor
7 168 (26.67%) ASP.NET MVC
8 164 (26.03%) CSS3
8 164 (26.03%) HTML5
9 54 (8.57%) .NET Framework
10 40 (6.35%) React
11 29 (4.60%) AngularJS
12 23 (3.65%) PySpark
13 21 (3.33%) REST
14 20 (3.17%) ASP.NET Web API
15 18 (2.86%) JSON
16 17 (2.70%) Razor View Engine
17 16 (2.54%) ARM Templates
17 16 (2.54%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.78%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (3.97%) Digital TV
3 21 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.06%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.06%) Public Cloud
6 12 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.43%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.11%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.11%) Social Media
11 5 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.63%) Life Science
12 4 (0.63%) Mobile App
12 4 (0.63%) NHS
12 4 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 3 (0.48%) BBC
13 3 (0.48%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 83 (13.17%) VMS
2 32 (5.08%) Windows
3 15 (2.38%) Linux
4 11 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (43.33%) Agile
2 188 (29.84%) Business Intelligence
2 188 (29.84%) DevOps
2 188 (29.84%) Full Stack Development
3 186 (29.52%) MVC
4 173 (27.46%) TDD
5 162 (25.71%) BDD
6 112 (17.78%) Analytics
7 92 (14.60%) Disaster Recovery
8 88 (13.97%) CI/CD
9 87 (13.81%) Performance Tuning
10 86 (13.65%) Collaborative Working
11 83 (13.17%) High Availability
12 71 (11.27%) ETL
13 69 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
14 53 (8.41%) Data Engineering
14 53 (8.41%) Data Modelling
15 47 (7.46%) Data Analytics
16 45 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
16 45 (7.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 610 (96.83%) SQL
2 273 (43.33%) C#
3 213 (33.81%) JavaScript
4 135 (21.43%) T-SQL
5 106 (16.83%) PowerShell
6 77 (12.22%) Python
7 32 (5.08%) TypeScript
8 23 (3.65%) Bash
9 17 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (2.54%) R
11 14 (2.22%) Java
12 11 (1.75%) Go
12 11 (1.75%) U-SQL
13 10 (1.59%) Scala
14 9 (1.43%) VB.NET
15 7 (1.11%) Groovy
15 7 (1.11%) PHP
15 7 (1.11%) Ruby
16 5 (0.79%) C
16 5 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 117 (18.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 63 (10.00%) Degree
3 43 (6.83%) Azure Certification
4 34 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.38%) Security Cleared
6 12 (1.90%) SC Cleared
7 10 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.95%) CISM
8 6 (0.95%) CISSP
8 6 (0.95%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.95%) GIAC
8 6 (0.95%) SANS
9 5 (0.79%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.63%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.48%) CIPD
11 3 (0.48%) HND
12 2 (0.32%) CIMA
12 2 (0.32%) MCSA
12 2 (0.32%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.65%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (2.06%) QA
4 6 (0.95%) COBIT
4 6 (0.95%) NIST
4 6 (0.95%) SLA
4 6 (0.95%) Web Application Security Consortium
5 4 (0.63%) GDPR
6 3 (0.48%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.32%) PMO
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 90 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 46 (7.30%) Active Directory
3 40 (6.35%) Docker
4 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.32%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (8.57%) Terraform
2 48 (7.62%) Kubernetes
3 23 (3.65%) Ansible
4 11 (1.75%) Grafana
4 11 (1.75%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.59%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.11%) Puppet
7 6 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.95%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 4 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 432 (68.57%) Microsoft
2 73 (11.59%) Databricks
3 21 (3.33%) Facebook
4 18 (2.86%) Oracle
5 15 (2.38%) Commvault
6 10 (1.59%) New Relic
7 9 (1.43%) Apple
7 9 (1.43%) Google
7 9 (1.43%) VMware
8 7 (1.11%) SaltStack
9 6 (0.95%) Adobe
9 6 (0.95%) Citrix
9 6 (0.95%) Sun
10 5 (0.79%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.63%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.63%) Nintex
11 4 (0.63%) SAP
12 3 (0.48%) Pardot
12 3 (0.48%) RedGate
12 3 (0.48%) Xamarin