Azure SQL Database Jobs in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 411 447
Rank change year-on-year -92 +36 +144
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 201 524 495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.39% 0.56% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.82% 3.44% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 174 453 427
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £52,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £66,056
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -12.95% -2.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,875 £87,500 £96,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% -3.70%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,125 15,245 16,921
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.76% 16.28% 21.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,557 11,066 11,402
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,580 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £105,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £61,500 £57,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +6.96% -8.73% +5.00%

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 4 July 2025.

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 4 July 2025. 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 +24 92 £75,000 +2.74% 269
Midlands +99 35 £48,500 -9.35% 55
North of England -59 29 £57,500 +4.55% 106
South East +13 24 £70,000 +21.74% 87
East Midlands +63 22 £48,500 -11.82% 21
North West -67 14 £56,250 +2.27% 66
West Midlands +59 13 £62,500 +20.19% 33
South West +69 9 £55,000 -4.35% 37
North East +42 8 £57,500 +15.00% 14
East of England -6 8 £58,750 +17.50% 43
Yorkshire +23 7 £60,000 +4.35% 26
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 16 (7.96%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.49%) IIS
2 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.99%) nginx
4 1 (0.50%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 201 (100.00%) Azure
2 67 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 64 (31.84%) Azure Data Factory
4 37 (18.41%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (17.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 27 (13.43%) AWS
7 25 (12.44%) Azure Logic Apps
8 23 (11.44%) Entra ID
9 18 (8.96%) GitHub
10 17 (8.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 14 (6.97%) Serverless
12 13 (6.47%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (5.97%) Azure Functions
13 12 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (5.47%) Azure Service Bus
15 10 (4.98%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (4.98%) GCP
15 10 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (4.48%) SaaS
16 9 (4.48%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.49%) Firewall
2 4 (1.99%) DNS
2 4 (1.99%) VPN
3 3 (1.49%) DHCP
3 3 (1.49%) LAN
3 3 (1.49%) MPLS
3 3 (1.49%) SAN
3 3 (1.49%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.49%) Unified Communications
3 3 (1.49%) WAN
3 3 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
4 1 (0.50%) SMTP
4 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (38.81%) SQL Server
2 65 (32.34%) Power BI
3 50 (24.88%) Data Lake
4 45 (22.39%) MongoDB
5 36 (17.91%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (14.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 22 (10.95%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (10.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (7.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 15 (7.46%) NoSQL
11 8 (3.98%) NonStop SQL
11 8 (3.98%) Power Query
12 7 (3.48%) BigQuery
13 5 (2.49%) Metadata
13 5 (2.49%) Tableau
14 4 (1.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 3 (1.49%) BusinessObjects
15 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 3 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
15 3 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (6.97%) Git
2 6 (2.99%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.00%) JIRA
4 2 (1.00%) NUnit
4 2 (1.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.50%) ERwin
5 1 (0.50%) git-flow
5 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 58 (28.86%) Finance
2 44 (21.89%) Social Skills
3 30 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.46%) Retail
5 13 (6.47%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (5.97%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (5.47%) Law
7 11 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.98%) Advertising
9 5 (2.49%) Automotive
10 3 (1.49%) Banking
10 3 (1.49%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.00%) Front Office
11 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.00%) Legal
11 2 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 81 (40.30%) Developer
2 37 (18.41%) .NET Developer
3 33 (16.42%) Senior
4 28 (13.93%) Data Engineer
5 20 (9.95%) DBA
5 20 (9.95%) Software Engineer
6 19 (9.45%) Architect
7 17 (8.46%) SQL DBA
8 16 (7.96%) SQL Developer
9 15 (7.46%) Administrator
9 15 (7.46%) Senior Data Engineer
10 14 (6.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 13 (6.47%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (6.47%) Lead
12 11 (5.47%) Senior Software Engineer
13 10 (4.98%) Data Architect
13 10 (4.98%) Lead Developer
14 8 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
15 7 (3.48%) Analyst
15 7 (3.48%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (41.79%) .NET
2 50 (24.88%) .NET Core
3 44 (21.89%) AngularJS
4 43 (21.39%) ASP.NET
5 40 (19.90%) ASP.NET MVC
6 34 (16.92%) ASP.NET Web API
7 31 (15.42%) Entity Framework
8 29 (14.43%) React
9 27 (13.43%) .NET Framework
9 27 (13.43%) Vue
10 22 (10.95%) HTML
10 22 (10.95%) Node.js
10 22 (10.95%) RESTful
11 21 (10.45%) HTML5
12 14 (6.97%) LINQ
13 13 (6.47%) Blazor
14 8 (3.98%) CSS
15 7 (3.48%) CSS3
15 7 (3.48%) REST
16 6 (2.99%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.96%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.98%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.98%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.99%) Digital TV
3 6 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.49%) AS400
6 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.49%) IoT
6 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.00%) Clustering
7 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.00%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.50%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.47%) Windows
2 9 (4.48%) Linux
3 4 (1.99%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (1.49%) VMS
4 3 (1.49%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.50%) Unix
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (35.82%) Agile
2 66 (32.84%) DevOps
3 64 (31.84%) Business Intelligence
4 50 (24.88%) CI/CD
5 49 (24.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 46 (22.89%) Microservices
7 40 (19.90%) MVC
8 38 (18.91%) Analytics
9 35 (17.41%) Data Modelling
9 35 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (16.92%) ETL
11 30 (14.93%) Scrum
12 29 (14.43%) Visualisation
13 28 (13.93%) Software Engineering
14 27 (13.43%) Data Engineering
15 26 (12.94%) Data Visualisation
16 25 (12.44%) TDD
17 24 (11.94%) BDD
18 23 (11.44%) Data Pipeline
19 22 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 196 (97.51%) SQL
2 84 (41.79%) C#
3 45 (22.39%) JavaScript
4 36 (17.91%) T-SQL
5 29 (14.43%) Python
6 25 (12.44%) TypeScript
7 23 (11.44%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (3.48%) Bicep
10 2 (1.00%) Java
10 2 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.00%) Scala
11 1 (0.50%) Bash
11 1 (0.50%) PHP
11 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.50%) R
11 1 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (14.93%) Degree
2 19 (9.45%) Azure Certification
3 18 (8.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (4.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.49%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.49%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.50%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.96%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.98%) QA
3 5 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.49%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.99%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.50%) GDPR
5 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (11.44%) Docker
2 11 (5.47%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.49%) vSphere
5 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (13.43%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.96%) Terraform
3 5 (2.49%) Grafana
3 5 (2.49%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.00%) Ansible
4 2 (1.00%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 118 (58.71%) Microsoft
2 45 (22.39%) Databricks
3 6 (2.99%) Facebook
3 6 (2.99%) YouTube
4 5 (2.49%) VMware
5 4 (1.99%) SAP
6 3 (1.49%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.49%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.49%) Cognos
6 3 (1.49%) Extreme Networks
6 3 (1.49%) Nimble Storage
6 3 (1.49%) Oracle
6 3 (1.49%) SolarWinds
6 3 (1.49%) Zscaler
7 2 (1.00%) Informatica
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco
8 1 (0.50%) Citrix
8 1 (0.50%) Clearswift
8 1 (0.50%) Ekahau
8 1 (0.50%) Google