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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 404 491 536
Rank change year-on-year +87 +45 -197
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 637 624 936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.59% 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.54% 2.69% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 559 543 715
10th Percentile £39,750 £46,400 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 17,993 23,234 42,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.51% 21.81% 27.55%
Number of salaries quoted 12,611 14,224 21,652
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 £75,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.80% +5.10%

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 19 April 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 19 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
England +113 569 £57,500 -17.86% 142
UK excluding London +130 437 £57,500 - 88
Work from Home +142 409 £57,500 -14.81% 110
London +41 170 £72,500 -9.38% 57
North of England +115 134 £55,000 -3.69% 16
South East +28 98 £57,500 -11.54% 22
North West +62 92 £55,000 -4.02% 11
East of England +72 59 £54,417 +45.11% 20
South West +30 55 £57,500 -8.00% 13
Midlands +3 43 £50,000 -6.10% 11
Scotland -43 29 £57,500 -11.54% 7
Yorkshire +108 28 £57,500 - 2
East Midlands -2 22 £47,500 -17.39% 5
West Midlands +8 21 £55,000 +3.29% 6
North East +3 14 £50,000 +5.26% 3
Northern Ireland +28 11 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Wales +8 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 46 (7.22%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.26%) CMS
4 6 (0.94%) Confluence
5 5 (0.78%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.47%) Apache
6 3 (0.47%) SAS
6 3 (0.47%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.16%) NServiceBus
7 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 13 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.63%) Trello
4 3 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.31%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 637 (100.00%) Azure
2 216 (33.91%) Power Platform
3 142 (22.29%) Azure DevOps
4 115 (18.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 59 (9.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 58 (9.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 57 (8.95%) Entra ID
7 57 (8.95%) Microsoft 365
8 55 (8.63%) PaaS
8 55 (8.63%) Serverless
9 48 (7.54%) PowerApps
10 46 (7.22%) Azure Logic Apps
11 40 (6.28%) Azure Functions
12 39 (6.12%) IaaS
13 37 (5.81%) Azure Service Bus
13 37 (5.81%) Power Automate
14 34 (5.34%) AWS
15 31 (4.87%) SaaS
16 26 (4.08%) GitHub
17 23 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 74 (11.62%) Broadband
2 42 (6.59%) Internet
3 21 (3.30%) DNS
3 21 (3.30%) Firewall
4 13 (2.04%) Network Security
5 12 (1.88%) WAN
6 9 (1.41%) VPN
7 7 (1.10%) LAN
8 5 (0.78%) DHCP
8 5 (0.78%) SD-WAN
8 5 (0.78%) SSL
8 5 (0.78%) VLAN
8 5 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (0.31%) MPLS
10 1 (0.16%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.16%) 5G
10 1 (0.16%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 405 (63.58%) SQL Server
2 187 (29.36%) Power BI
3 75 (11.77%) Data Lake
4 70 (10.99%) Data Warehouse
5 58 (9.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 47 (7.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 25 (3.92%) Relational Database
8 22 (3.45%) MySQL
9 18 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (2.35%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 15 (2.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 14 (2.20%) RDBMS
11 14 (2.20%) Redis
12 13 (2.04%) NoSQL
13 12 (1.88%) Tableau
14 11 (1.73%) MongoDB
15 9 (1.41%) Delta Lake
15 9 (1.41%) MariaDB
16 8 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (1.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 35 (5.49%) Git
2 18 (2.83%) NUnit
3 14 (2.20%) Moq
4 12 (1.88%) JIRA
4 12 (1.88%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.26%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 4 (0.63%) GitLab
7 4 (0.63%) MSTest
8 3 (0.47%) MLflow
8 3 (0.47%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.16%) Postman
10 1 (0.16%) Selenium
10 1 (0.16%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.16%) Sourcetree
10 1 (0.16%) Subversion
10 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 188 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 79 (12.40%) Finance
3 42 (6.59%) Advertising
4 38 (5.97%) Marketing
5 30 (4.71%) Games
6 26 (4.08%) Retail
7 24 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (2.98%) Legal
9 15 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.04%) Law
11 10 (1.57%) Music Industry
11 10 (1.57%) Public Sector
12 8 (1.26%) Banking
13 7 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.94%) Aviation
14 6 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.63%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.63%) Police
17 3 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 270 (42.39%) Developer
2 175 (27.47%) .NET Developer
3 112 (17.58%) DBA
4 100 (15.70%) SQL DBA
5 95 (14.91%) Senior
6 70 (10.99%) Data Engineer
7 67 (10.52%) Azure Engineer
8 60 (9.42%) C# Developer
9 51 (8.01%) C# .NET Developer
10 45 (7.06%) Lead
11 41 (6.44%) Senior Developer
12 39 (6.12%) Architect
12 39 (6.12%) Azure Data Engineer
13 37 (5.81%) Internet Developer
14 32 (5.02%) Software Developer
15 27 (4.24%) Analyst
16 25 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
17 24 (3.77%) Senior Data Engineer
18 22 (3.45%) Azure Developer
18 22 (3.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 276 (43.33%) .NET
2 200 (31.40%) .NET Core
3 185 (29.04%) CSS
4 184 (28.89%) ASP.NET
5 182 (28.57%) HTML
6 179 (28.10%) Entity Framework
7 173 (27.16%) Blazor
8 160 (25.12%) ASP.NET MVC
8 160 (25.12%) CSS3
8 160 (25.12%) HTML5
9 52 (8.16%) .NET Framework
10 41 (6.44%) React
11 32 (5.02%) AngularJS
12 23 (3.61%) REST
13 20 (3.14%) ASP.NET Web API
14 19 (2.98%) ARM Templates
15 17 (2.67%) JSON
15 17 (2.67%) PySpark
15 17 (2.67%) Razor View Engine
16 16 (2.51%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.54%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (3.92%) Digital TV
3 19 (2.98%) Cloud Native
4 18 (2.83%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.20%) Data Structures
6 13 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (1.88%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.41%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.26%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.10%) Replication
10 7 (1.10%) Social Media
11 6 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 5 (0.78%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.63%) Clustering
13 4 (0.63%) Life Science
13 4 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 81 (12.72%) VMS
2 36 (5.65%) Windows
3 15 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 13 (2.04%) Linux
5 4 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (41.60%) Agile
2 195 (30.61%) DevOps
3 193 (30.30%) Business Intelligence
4 186 (29.20%) Full Stack Development
5 178 (27.94%) MVC
6 168 (26.37%) TDD
7 157 (24.65%) BDD
8 110 (17.27%) Analytics
9 98 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
10 92 (14.44%) High Availability
11 90 (14.13%) Performance Tuning
12 85 (13.34%) Collaborative Working
13 81 (12.72%) CI/CD
14 79 (12.40%) ETL
15 65 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
16 58 (9.11%) Data Modelling
17 48 (7.54%) Data Analytics
18 45 (7.06%) Data Pipeline
19 43 (6.75%) Data Engineering
20 41 (6.44%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 618 (97.02%) SQL
2 284 (44.58%) C#
3 217 (34.07%) JavaScript
4 138 (21.66%) T-SQL
5 101 (15.86%) PowerShell
6 72 (11.30%) Python
7 33 (5.18%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.67%) R
9 16 (2.51%) Bash
10 14 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (1.88%) Java
12 11 (1.73%) Go
13 10 (1.57%) Scala
14 9 (1.41%) VB.NET
15 8 (1.26%) U-SQL
16 7 (1.10%) Groovy
16 7 (1.10%) PHP
16 7 (1.10%) Ruby
17 6 (0.94%) Bicep
18 5 (0.78%) C
Qualifications
1 115 (18.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 64 (10.05%) Degree
3 42 (6.59%) Azure Certification
4 34 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.35%) Security Cleared
6 13 (2.04%) SC Cleared
7 12 (1.88%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.94%) CISM
8 6 (0.94%) CISSP
8 6 (0.94%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.94%) GIAC
8 6 (0.94%) SANS
9 5 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.47%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.47%) CIPD
10 3 (0.47%) HND
11 2 (0.31%) CIMA
11 2 (0.31%) MCSA
11 2 (0.31%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.88%) QA
4 6 (0.94%) COBIT
4 6 (0.94%) NIST
4 6 (0.94%) Web Application Security Consortium
5 5 (0.78%) SLA
6 4 (0.63%) GDPR
7 3 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.47%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.31%) PMO
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 95 (14.91%) Virtual Machines
2 52 (8.16%) Active Directory
3 39 (6.12%) Docker
4 5 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.31%) vSphere
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (7.38%) Kubernetes
1 47 (7.38%) Terraform
2 16 (2.51%) Ansible
3 11 (1.73%) Grafana
3 11 (1.73%) Prometheus
4 10 (1.57%) Progress Chef
5 7 (1.10%) Puppet
5 7 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 6 (0.94%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 432 (67.82%) Microsoft
2 72 (11.30%) Databricks
3 22 (3.45%) Oracle
4 21 (3.30%) Facebook
5 15 (2.35%) Commvault
6 10 (1.57%) Google
6 10 (1.57%) New Relic
7 9 (1.41%) Apple
7 9 (1.41%) VMware
8 7 (1.10%) SaltStack
9 6 (0.94%) Adobe
9 6 (0.94%) Citrix
9 6 (0.94%) Sun
10 5 (0.78%) SAP
11 4 (0.63%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.63%) Nintex
12 3 (0.47%) RedGate
12 3 (0.47%) Sony
12 3 (0.47%) Xamarin
12 3 (0.47%) Yahoo!