Azure SQL Database Jobs in England

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 484 550
Rank change year-on-year +109 +66 -210
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 561 526 772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.66% 0.57% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.72% 2.62% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 497 455 604
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,717 £43,007
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £84,375 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% +8.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 15,092 20,071 35,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.78% 21.67% 27.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11,403 12,558 19,280
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £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 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in England

Azure SQL Database
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
London +50 169 £70,000 -12.50% 61
North of England +102 135 £55,000 -4.02% 17
South East +42 98 £57,500 -11.54% 20
North West +64 92 £55,000 -4.35% 12
East of England +51 58 £51,333 +36.89% 16
South West +16 53 £57,500 +4.55% 17
Midlands -14 37 £50,000 -6.10% 9
Yorkshire +103 29 £57,500 - 2
East Midlands -1 19 £47,500 -17.39% 3
West Midlands +2 18 £55,000 +3.29% 6
North East +4 14 £50,000 +5.26% 3
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 40 (7.13%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.25%) CMS
4 6 (1.07%) Confluence
5 5 (0.89%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.53%) Apache
7 2 (0.36%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.71%) Trello
4 3 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.36%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 561 (100.00%) Azure
2 190 (33.87%) Power Platform
3 132 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
4 106 (18.89%) Azure Data Factory
5 54 (9.63%) Serverless
6 53 (9.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 53 (9.45%) Microsoft 365
7 51 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 46 (8.20%) Entra ID
9 43 (7.66%) Azure Logic Apps
10 42 (7.49%) PowerApps
11 39 (6.95%) Azure Functions
12 37 (6.60%) PaaS
13 32 (5.70%) Azure Service Bus
14 30 (5.35%) Power Automate
15 27 (4.81%) GitHub
16 24 (4.28%) IaaS
17 21 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
18 20 (3.57%) AWS
19 19 (3.39%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 63 (11.23%) Broadband
2 42 (7.49%) Internet
3 20 (3.57%) DNS
3 20 (3.57%) Firewall
4 14 (2.50%) Network Security
5 12 (2.14%) WAN
6 8 (1.43%) VPN
7 7 (1.25%) LAN
8 5 (0.89%) DHCP
8 5 (0.89%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.89%) SSL
8 5 (0.89%) VLAN
8 5 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.36%) MPLS
10 1 (0.18%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.18%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 351 (62.57%) SQL Server
2 163 (29.06%) Power BI
3 67 (11.94%) Data Lake
4 57 (10.16%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 44 (7.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (4.10%) Relational Database
8 21 (3.74%) MySQL
9 16 (2.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 16 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (2.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 13 (2.32%) Redis
12 12 (2.14%) RDBMS
13 11 (1.96%) NoSQL
13 11 (1.96%) Tableau
14 9 (1.60%) Delta Lake
14 9 (1.60%) MariaDB
14 9 (1.60%) MongoDB
15 8 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
15 8 (1.43%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 36 (6.42%) Git
2 18 (3.21%) NUnit
3 14 (2.50%) Moq
4 12 (2.14%) JIRA
4 12 (2.14%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.43%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.71%) GitLab
6 4 (0.71%) MSTest
7 3 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.53%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.18%) JMeter
8 1 (0.18%) Postman
8 1 (0.18%) Selenium
8 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.18%) Subversion
8 1 (0.18%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 151 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 66 (11.76%) Finance
3 42 (7.49%) Advertising
4 33 (5.88%) Marketing
5 25 (4.46%) Games
6 22 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (3.74%) Retail
8 17 (3.03%) Legal
9 15 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.78%) Public Sector
11 8 (1.43%) Law
12 7 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.07%) Aviation
13 6 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.53%) Banking
14 3 (0.53%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.53%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.53%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 241 (42.96%) Developer
2 168 (29.95%) .NET Developer
3 94 (16.76%) DBA
4 87 (15.51%) SQL DBA
5 73 (13.01%) Senior
6 61 (10.87%) Data Engineer
7 59 (10.52%) Azure Engineer
8 54 (9.63%) C# Developer
9 50 (8.91%) C# .NET Developer
10 39 (6.95%) Lead
11 37 (6.60%) Internet Developer
12 32 (5.70%) Azure Data Engineer
13 29 (5.17%) Architect
14 27 (4.81%) Senior Developer
15 26 (4.63%) Analyst
16 23 (4.10%) Senior Data Engineer
17 21 (3.74%) Azure Developer
17 21 (3.74%) Software Engineer
17 21 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
18 19 (3.39%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (44.92%) .NET
2 183 (32.62%) .NET Core
3 179 (31.91%) CSS
4 177 (31.55%) ASP.NET
5 176 (31.37%) HTML
6 165 (29.41%) Entity Framework
7 156 (27.81%) ASP.NET MVC
7 156 (27.81%) Blazor
8 155 (27.63%) CSS3
8 155 (27.63%) HTML5
9 41 (7.31%) .NET Framework
10 30 (5.35%) React
11 29 (5.17%) AngularJS
12 20 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
13 17 (3.03%) ARM Templates
13 17 (3.03%) Razor View Engine
14 16 (2.85%) jQuery
15 15 (2.67%) PySpark
16 14 (2.50%) REST
17 13 (2.32%) LINQ to SQL
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.20%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (4.46%) Digital TV
3 17 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 14 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (2.14%) Public Cloud
7 11 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.60%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.60%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.25%) Social Media
10 5 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.71%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.71%) NHS
11 4 (0.71%) Private Cloud
11 4 (0.71%) Reinsurance
11 4 (0.71%) Replication
11 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.53%) BBC
12 3 (0.53%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 70 (12.48%) VMS
2 28 (4.99%) Windows
3 10 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.25%) Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (44.21%) Agile
2 179 (31.91%) Full Stack Development
3 174 (31.02%) MVC
4 173 (30.84%) DevOps
5 172 (30.66%) Business Intelligence
6 163 (29.06%) TDD
7 153 (27.27%) BDD
8 105 (18.72%) Analytics
9 82 (14.62%) Disaster Recovery
10 78 (13.90%) Performance Tuning
11 75 (13.37%) High Availability
12 73 (13.01%) Collaborative Working
13 70 (12.48%) CI/CD
14 67 (11.94%) ETL
15 53 (9.45%) Problem-Solving
16 49 (8.73%) Data Modelling
17 47 (8.38%) Data Analytics
18 42 (7.49%) Data Engineering
19 38 (6.77%) Data Pipeline
20 35 (6.24%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 542 (96.61%) SQL
2 262 (46.70%) C#
3 205 (36.54%) JavaScript
4 116 (20.68%) T-SQL
5 91 (16.22%) PowerShell
6 68 (12.12%) Python
7 29 (5.17%) TypeScript
8 17 (3.03%) R
9 15 (2.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 11 (1.96%) Go
10 11 (1.96%) Java
11 10 (1.78%) Bash
11 10 (1.78%) Scala
12 9 (1.60%) U-SQL
12 9 (1.60%) VB.NET
13 7 (1.25%) Groovy
13 7 (1.25%) PHP
13 7 (1.25%) Ruby
14 5 (0.89%) Bicep
15 3 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 104 (18.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 48 (8.56%) Degree
3 38 (6.77%) Azure Certification
4 25 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.78%) Security Cleared
6 8 (1.43%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.07%) DBS Check
8 5 (0.89%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.71%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.53%) CIPD
11 2 (0.36%) CIMA
11 2 (0.36%) MCSA
11 2 (0.36%) MCSE
12 1 (0.18%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.14%) QA
4 5 (0.89%) SLA
5 4 (0.71%) GDPR
6 3 (0.53%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.36%) PMO
8 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 81 (14.44%) Virtual Machines
2 46 (8.20%) Active Directory
3 36 (6.42%) Docker
4 4 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.36%) vSphere
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (7.31%) Terraform
2 34 (6.06%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.32%) Ansible
4 8 (1.43%) Progress Chef
5 7 (1.25%) Grafana
5 7 (1.25%) Prometheus
5 7 (1.25%) Puppet
6 6 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.36%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 399 (71.12%) Microsoft
2 68 (12.12%) Databricks
3 21 (3.74%) Facebook
4 19 (3.39%) Oracle
5 15 (2.67%) Commvault
6 10 (1.78%) New Relic
7 9 (1.60%) Apple
8 8 (1.43%) Google
9 7 (1.25%) SaltStack
10 6 (1.07%) Adobe
10 6 (1.07%) Citrix
10 6 (1.07%) Sun
10 6 (1.07%) VMware
11 5 (0.89%) SAP
12 4 (0.71%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.71%) Nintex
13 3 (0.53%) RedGate
13 3 (0.53%) Sony
13 3 (0.53%) Xamarin
13 3 (0.53%) Yahoo!