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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 382 489
Rank change year-on-year -79 +107 +49
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 206 564 526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.44% 0.66% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.04% 3.72% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 179 498 452
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £46,325
25th Percentile £46,750 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -14.81% -
75th Percentile £80,625 £67,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £104,000 £87,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -14.81% +3.85%

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 6,786 15,169 19,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.59% 17.78% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4,750 11,441 12,466
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,779 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £96,539 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

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 May 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 May 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 +11 81 £75,000 +5.26% 84
Midlands +68 44 £52,500 +2.44% 25
North of England -33 31 £60,000 +9.09% 57
South East +42 29 £70,000 +21.74% 34
West Midlands +60 24 £67,500 +22.73% 17
East Midlands +42 20 £48,500 +2.11% 6
North West -55 14 £67,500 +22.73% 28
East of England +4 10 £47,500 -7.47% 27
Yorkshire +59 9 £53,000 -7.83% 25
South West +67 8 £52,500 -8.70% 19
North East +41 8 £57,500 +35.29% 5
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 (7.77%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.94%) Confluence
4 3 (1.46%) Apache
4 3 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 206 (100.00%) Azure
2 69 (33.50%) Power Platform
3 60 (29.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 50 (24.27%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (18.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 27 (13.11%) AWS
6 27 (13.11%) GitHub
7 24 (11.65%) Azure Logic Apps
7 24 (11.65%) Serverless
8 20 (9.71%) Azure Functions
9 19 (9.22%) Entra ID
10 18 (8.74%) SaaS
11 17 (8.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 17 (8.25%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (8.25%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (6.80%) PowerApps
13 11 (5.34%) Azure Service Bus
13 11 (5.34%) PaaS
14 9 (4.37%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.80%) DNS
2 8 (3.88%) Firewall
3 6 (2.91%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (2.43%) Network Security
4 5 (2.43%) WAN
5 4 (1.94%) SAN
5 4 (1.94%) VPN
6 3 (1.46%) DHCP
6 3 (1.46%) LAN
6 3 (1.46%) MPLS
6 3 (1.46%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.46%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.97%) Converged Networks
7 2 (0.97%) LLU
7 2 (0.97%) PBX
7 2 (0.97%) VLAN
7 2 (0.97%) xDSL
8 1 (0.49%) SMTP
8 1 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (41.75%) SQL Server
2 65 (31.55%) Power BI
3 55 (26.70%) Data Lake
4 46 (22.33%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (16.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 33 (16.02%) MongoDB
7 23 (11.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (8.25%) Elasticsearch
9 15 (7.28%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 11 (5.34%) NoSQL
11 8 (3.88%) Power Query
11 8 (3.88%) Tableau
12 6 (2.91%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 5 (2.43%) NonStop SQL
14 4 (1.94%) HDInsight
14 4 (1.94%) Relational Database
14 4 (1.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 3 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (1.46%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 13 (6.31%) Git
2 9 (4.37%) JIRA
2 9 (4.37%) Visual Studio
3 5 (2.43%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.97%) ERwin
5 2 (0.97%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.97%) NUnit
6 1 (0.49%) git-flow
6 1 (0.49%) kappa
6 1 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 59 (28.64%) Social Skills
2 52 (25.24%) Finance
3 33 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.74%) Law
5 10 (4.85%) Retail
6 9 (4.37%) Automotive
7 7 (3.40%) Advertising
7 7 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.91%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.46%) Front Office
10 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.46%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.97%) Banking
11 2 (0.97%) Legal
11 2 (0.97%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.49%) Back Office
12 1 (0.49%) Local Government
12 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 70 (33.98%) Developer
2 39 (18.93%) Senior
3 33 (16.02%) Data Engineer
4 30 (14.56%) .NET Developer
5 25 (12.14%) Architect
6 21 (10.19%) DBA
7 18 (8.74%) SQL DBA
8 17 (8.25%) Software Engineer
9 15 (7.28%) Data Architect
10 14 (6.80%) Administrator
10 14 (6.80%) Lead
10 14 (6.80%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (5.83%) Azure Architect
11 12 (5.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 12 (5.83%) Senior Developer
11 12 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (5.34%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (3.88%) Analyst
13 8 (3.88%) SQL Analyst
13 8 (3.88%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (34.95%) .NET
2 39 (18.93%) ASP.NET
3 36 (17.48%) .NET Core
4 32 (15.53%) AngularJS
5 28 (13.59%) ASP.NET MVC
5 28 (13.59%) Entity Framework
6 26 (12.62%) .NET Framework
7 25 (12.14%) ASP.NET Web API
8 24 (11.65%) HTML
9 22 (10.68%) HTML5
10 20 (9.71%) React
11 18 (8.74%) Vue
12 17 (8.25%) Node.js
13 16 (7.77%) RESTful
14 14 (6.80%) CSS
15 13 (6.31%) Blazor
15 13 (6.31%) CSS3
16 10 (4.85%) REST
17 9 (4.37%) LINQ
18 7 (3.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.28%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.80%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.34%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.94%) Digital TV
5 4 (1.94%) IoT
5 4 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.46%) AS400
6 3 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.46%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.97%) Legacy Code
7 2 (0.97%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.49%) Clustering
8 1 (0.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.83%) Windows
2 10 (4.85%) Linux
3 6 (2.91%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.43%) VMS
4 5 (2.43%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.46%) Unix
7 2 (0.97%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (39.81%) DevOps
2 70 (33.98%) Agile
3 64 (31.07%) Business Intelligence
4 61 (29.61%) CI/CD
5 50 (24.27%) Analytics
6 47 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (18.93%) ETL
8 35 (16.99%) Data Modelling
8 35 (16.99%) Full-Stack Development
9 34 (16.50%) Microservices
9 34 (16.50%) Visualisation
10 33 (16.02%) Data Visualisation
10 33 (16.02%) MVC
11 31 (15.05%) Data Engineering
12 27 (13.11%) Software Engineering
13 26 (12.62%) Scrum
14 25 (12.14%) Computer Science
15 20 (9.71%) Data Architecture
15 20 (9.71%) Mentoring
16 19 (9.22%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 198 (96.12%) SQL
2 81 (39.32%) C#
3 40 (19.42%) JavaScript
4 32 (15.53%) PowerShell
5 31 (15.05%) Python
6 30 (14.56%) T-SQL
7 19 (9.22%) TypeScript
8 15 (7.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (4.37%) Java
10 7 (3.40%) Bicep
11 5 (2.43%) C
11 5 (2.43%) C++
11 5 (2.43%) Objective-C
11 5 (2.43%) PHP
12 4 (1.94%) X++
13 2 (0.97%) Delphi
13 2 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.97%) R
13 2 (0.97%) Scala
13 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (20.39%) Degree
2 25 (12.14%) Azure Certification
3 22 (10.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (6.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (2.43%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.43%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.46%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.46%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.17%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.34%) QA
3 6 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.91%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.94%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.46%) GDPR
6 2 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (11.17%) Docker
2 14 (6.80%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.46%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.46%) vSphere
4 2 (0.97%) pfSense
4 2 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (15.53%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.14%) Terraform
3 2 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (0.97%) Ansible
3 2 (0.97%) cPanel
3 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.97%) MIIS
3 2 (0.97%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.49%) Grafana
4 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 118 (57.28%) Microsoft
2 48 (23.30%) Databricks
3 7 (3.40%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.43%) VMware
4 5 (2.43%) Xamarin
5 4 (1.94%) Facebook
5 4 (1.94%) Nimble Storage
5 4 (1.94%) SAP
5 4 (1.94%) YouTube
6 3 (1.46%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.46%) Cisco
6 3 (1.46%) Cognos
6 3 (1.46%) Extreme Networks
6 3 (1.46%) Google
6 3 (1.46%) Oracle
6 3 (1.46%) SolarWinds
6 3 (1.46%) Zscaler
7 2 (0.97%) Draytek
8 1 (0.49%) Citrix
8 1 (0.49%) Salesforce