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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 109 95
Rank change year-on-year -10 -14 +48
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 16 19 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.64% 0.86% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.87% 6.01% 7.66%
Number of salaries quoted 16 11 32
10th Percentile £43,125 £38,750 £38,125
25th Percentile £46,750 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £54,375
90th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%

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 233 316 418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.26% 14.30% 22.05%
Number of salaries quoted 163 197 346
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,625 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,000 £70,000 £73,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -5.51%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -1 8 £48,500 +7.78% 5
Nottinghamshire +15 5 £65,000 +23.81% 6
Derbyshire -12 3 £57,500 +15.00% 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 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (18.75%) SaaS
4 2 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Storage
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (6.25%) IaaS
5 1 (6.25%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 9 (56.25%) Data Lake
3 7 (43.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (43.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (31.25%) Power BI
5 3 (18.75%) Big Data
6 2 (12.50%) Power Query
7 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
7 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Law
3 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) DBA
2 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) SQL DBA
3 4 (25.00%) Administrator
3 4 (25.00%) Senior
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Data Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) SQL Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Database Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) SQL BI Developer
6 1 (6.25%) SQL Database Developer
6 1 (6.25%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.25%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Data Structures
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) ETL
2 8 (50.00%) Analytics
3 7 (43.75%) Reverse Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
6 4 (25.00%) DevOps
7 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
7 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
8 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
8 2 (12.50%) Data Strategy
8 2 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
8 2 (12.50%) DataOps
8 2 (12.50%) Visualisation
9 1 (6.25%) Data Management
9 1 (6.25%) Data Security
9 1 (6.25%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (18.75%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Databricks