Azure SQL Database Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 416 386 353
Rank change year-on-year -30 -33 +128
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 189 334 328
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.65% 0.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.16% 3.65% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 148 234 274
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% -6.43%
75th Percentile £80,313 £80,000 £85,938
90th Percentile £100,375 £94,625 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -7.14%

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 5,973 9,142 9,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.64% 17.92% 21.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,929 5,272 7,287
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.56% -2.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £96,723
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -4.00%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in England

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure SQL Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in England over the 6 months to 18 December 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 18 December 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 +63 105 £75,000 -6.25% 65
Midlands +12 26 £52,500 +7.69% 28
North of England +8 26 £56,250 -10.00% 31
South East -39 19 £65,000 - 47
East Midlands -9 17 £48,500 -3.00% 14
North West +1 13 £57,500 -6.50% 17
West Midlands +30 9 £62,500 +31.58% 14
Yorkshire -6 7 £45,000 -30.77% 7
North East +9 6 - - 7
South West +24 5 £69,000 +43.01% 13
East of England -11 1 £62,500 +31.58% 19
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.17%) Confluence
2 5 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.12%) IIS
4 3 (1.59%) nginx
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (12.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.59%) Trello
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 189 (100.00%) Azure
2 70 (37.04%) Power Platform
3 65 (34.39%) Azure Data Factory
4 52 (27.51%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (26.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 28 (14.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 28 (14.81%) GitHub
7 25 (13.23%) Azure Monitor
8 24 (12.70%) AWS
8 24 (12.70%) SaaS
9 14 (7.41%) Serverless
10 13 (6.88%) Azure Functions
11 12 (6.35%) PaaS
12 11 (5.82%) Azure AKS
12 11 (5.82%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (5.82%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (5.29%) Entra ID
13 10 (5.29%) GCP
14 8 (4.23%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (4.23%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.70%) Firewall
2 6 (3.17%) VPN
3 5 (2.65%) Network Security
3 5 (2.65%) WAN
4 4 (2.12%) DNS
5 1 (0.53%) DHCP
5 1 (0.53%) SAN
5 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.53%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (34.92%) SQL Server
2 62 (32.80%) Power BI
3 55 (29.10%) Data Lake
4 42 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (19.05%) MongoDB
6 27 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 18 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (8.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (6.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 10 (5.29%) Data Vault
11 9 (4.76%) Data Mining
12 8 (4.23%) NoSQL
13 7 (3.70%) Metadata
13 7 (3.70%) Power Query
14 6 (3.17%) Delta Lake
14 6 (3.17%) NonStop SQL
15 5 (2.65%) MySQL
15 5 (2.65%) Relational Database
16 4 (2.12%) BigQuery
16 4 (2.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (13.23%) Git
2 7 (3.70%) JIRA
3 6 (3.17%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.59%) JMeter
4 3 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (1.59%) Postman
4 3 (1.59%) Selenium
4 3 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.53%) CA Release Automation
General
1 53 (28.04%) Finance
2 44 (23.28%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.11%) Retail
5 11 (5.82%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.70%) Advertising
6 7 (3.70%) Billing
7 6 (3.17%) Law
8 4 (2.12%) Marketing
8 4 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.12%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.06%) Legal
11 1 (0.53%) Automotive
11 1 (0.53%) Back Office
11 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (30.69%) Developer
2 42 (22.22%) .NET Developer
3 39 (20.63%) Senior
4 38 (20.11%) Data Engineer
5 22 (11.64%) Architect
6 19 (10.05%) Data Architect
7 17 (8.99%) Azure Architect
7 17 (8.99%) DBA
8 16 (8.47%) Azure Data Architect
8 16 (8.47%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (8.47%) Senior Data Engineer
8 16 (8.47%) SQL DBA
9 12 (6.35%) Analyst
10 10 (5.29%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.29%) Software Engineer
11 9 (4.76%) Administrator
11 9 (4.76%) Senior Architect
12 8 (4.23%) Azure Data Engineer
12 8 (4.23%) Senior Data Architect
12 8 (4.23%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (33.86%) .NET
2 41 (21.69%) .NET Core
3 39 (20.63%) ASP.NET
4 37 (19.58%) ASP.NET MVC
5 32 (16.93%) ASP.NET Web API
6 31 (16.40%) AngularJS
6 31 (16.40%) Entity Framework
7 26 (13.76%) .NET Framework
8 25 (13.23%) React
9 22 (11.64%) Vue
10 21 (11.11%) HTML
10 21 (11.11%) Node.js
11 19 (10.05%) RESTful
12 18 (9.52%) HTML5
13 12 (6.35%) LINQ
14 9 (4.76%) CSS
14 9 (4.76%) PySpark
15 8 (4.23%) Blazor
16 7 (3.70%) YAML
17 6 (3.17%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.99%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (6.88%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (5.29%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.23%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.17%) Digital TV
6 6 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.17%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.65%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.59%) Social Media
9 2 (1.06%) Clustering
9 2 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.06%) N-Tier
9 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.70%) VMS
2 5 (2.65%) Windows
3 4 (2.12%) Linux
4 3 (1.59%) Android
5 2 (1.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (39.15%) Agile
2 73 (38.62%) Analytics
2 73 (38.62%) DevOps
3 66 (34.92%) Business Intelligence
4 52 (27.51%) Data Modelling
5 48 (25.40%) CI/CD
6 42 (22.22%) Microservices
7 41 (21.69%) Data Pipeline
7 41 (21.69%) Full-Stack Development
8 40 (21.16%) ETL
9 39 (20.63%) MVC
9 39 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (18.52%) Visualisation
11 31 (16.40%) Decision-Making
11 31 (16.40%) Scrum
12 27 (14.29%) Kanban
12 27 (14.29%) TDD
13 24 (12.70%) BDD
13 24 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (11.64%) AI
Programming Languages
1 188 (99.47%) SQL
2 62 (32.80%) C#
3 40 (21.16%) JavaScript
3 40 (21.16%) Python
4 27 (14.29%) T-SQL
5 22 (11.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 22 (11.64%) TypeScript
6 16 (8.47%) PowerShell
7 12 (6.35%) Scala
8 7 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 6 (3.17%) Bicep
10 2 (1.06%) C
11 1 (0.53%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (0.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (8.47%) Azure Certification
1 16 (8.47%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (6.88%) Degree
3 8 (4.23%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.23%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.70%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 5 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.06%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.53%) ACCA
8 1 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.53%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (16.40%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.88%) GDPR
3 11 (5.82%) QA
4 7 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (2.65%) Accessibility
6 4 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.12%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.59%) WCAG
8 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 18 (9.52%) Docker
2 9 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.53%) Firmware
3 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.53%) vCloud
3 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (10.58%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.41%) Terraform
3 6 (3.17%) Ansible
4 5 (2.65%) Grafana
5 4 (2.12%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.53%) Kibana
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 104 (55.03%) Microsoft
2 51 (26.98%) Databricks
3 8 (4.23%) Palo Alto
4 6 (3.17%) Facebook
4 6 (3.17%) YouTube
5 5 (2.65%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.12%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (2.12%) Zscaler
7 3 (1.59%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.59%) Google
8 2 (1.06%) Informatica
8 2 (1.06%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.53%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.53%) Foundry
9 1 (0.53%) IBM
9 1 (0.53%) NetApp
9 1 (0.53%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (0.53%) VMware