Azure SQL Database Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 88 151
Rank change year-on-year -51 +63 +11
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 15 19 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.36% 1.30% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.04% 7.12% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 15 19 21
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -17.39%
75th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £61,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% +8.70% -17.86%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
East Midlands

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 permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 371 267 639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.94% 18.29% 15.98%
Number of salaries quoted 187 229 473
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,350
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -11.54%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure SQL Database relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure SQL Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 15 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in the East Midlands

Azure SQL Database
Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 April 2026. 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
Leicestershire -32 9 £48,500 - 2
Nottinghamshire -15 5 £65,000 +23.81% 4
Derbyshire - 1 £52,500 - 2
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (20.00%) SaaS
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (13.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (6.67%) PaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (6.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (40.00%) Data Lake
3 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 5 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (20.00%) Big Data
5 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (13.33%) Power BI
5 2 (13.33%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (40.00%) Law
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) DBA
2 5 (33.33%) SQL DBA
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Administrator
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (13.33%) C# Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (6.67%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Mid Level C# Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.67%) SQL Developer
6 1 (6.67%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Core
3 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (13.33%) Node.js
3 2 (13.33%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) WPF
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (6.67%) Blazor
4 1 (6.67%) CSS
4 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
4 1 (6.67%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 4 (26.67%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (26.67%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (13.33%) Legacy Code
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Analytics
1 6 (40.00%) ETL
2 5 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) API Integration
4 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
4 2 (13.33%) DataOps
4 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
4 2 (13.33%) SDLC
5 1 (6.67%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (46.67%) T-SQL
3 4 (26.67%) C#
4 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Databricks