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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 431 391 337
Rank change year-on-year -40 -54 +161
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 196 303 491
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.64% 0.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.34% 3.59% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 155 206 435
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,188 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £58,158
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.47% -16.92%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £106,000 £96,250 £92,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £58,079
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.31% -17.03%

All Database & 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 5,866 8,434 12,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.51% 17.93% 19.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,828 4,736 9,900
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,563 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

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 30 January 2026.

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 30 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
London +69 108 £75,000 -6.25% 55
Midlands +12 29 £60,000 +14.29% 26
North of England -10 25 £55,000 -8.33% 45
East Midlands -11 16 £50,000 -2.44% 12
North West +8 13 £58,000 -10.77% 28
South East -56 13 £65,000 - 53
West Midlands +13 11 £63,500 +15.45% 14
East of England -8 7 £57,500 +21.05% 19
South West +11 6 £53,250 -11.25% 14
North East +1 6 - - 4
Yorkshire -21 6 £50,000 -7.41% 13
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 5 (2.55%) Apache Spark
1 5 (2.55%) Confluence
2 1 (0.51%) IIS
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (12.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.53%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.53%) Trello
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 196 (100.00%) Azure
2 75 (38.27%) Azure Data Factory
3 69 (35.20%) Power Platform
4 64 (32.65%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (24.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 29 (14.80%) Azure Monitor
7 27 (13.78%) GitHub
8 22 (11.22%) SaaS
9 21 (10.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 21 (10.71%) Serverless
10 20 (10.20%) Azure Functions
11 18 (9.18%) AWS
12 15 (7.65%) Azure Storage
13 12 (6.12%) PaaS
14 10 (5.10%) Azure AKS
15 9 (4.59%) Entra ID
16 8 (4.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 8 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (4.08%) PowerApps
17 7 (3.57%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.57%) Firewall
2 6 (3.06%) VPN
2 6 (3.06%) WAN
3 5 (2.55%) DNS
3 5 (2.55%) Network Security
4 2 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.02%) WinSCP
5 1 (0.51%) DHCP
5 1 (0.51%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.51%) Internet
5 1 (0.51%) LAN
5 1 (0.51%) SAN
5 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.51%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (31.63%) SQL Server
2 60 (30.61%) Power BI
3 58 (29.59%) Data Lake
4 45 (22.96%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (18.88%) MongoDB
6 27 (13.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 17 (8.67%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (8.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (6.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 11 (5.61%) Delta Lake
9 11 (5.61%) Power Query
10 10 (5.10%) Data Vault
11 9 (4.59%) Data Mining
12 7 (3.57%) Metadata
13 6 (3.06%) MySQL
13 6 (3.06%) Relational Database
13 6 (3.06%) Star Schema
14 5 (2.55%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (2.04%) GIS
15 4 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (16.33%) Git
2 6 (3.06%) JIRA
2 6 (3.06%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.02%) JMeter
4 2 (1.02%) Postman
4 2 (1.02%) Selenium
4 2 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.51%) CA Release Automation
General
1 66 (33.67%) Finance
2 46 (23.47%) Social Skills
3 30 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.12%) Retail
5 7 (3.57%) Billing
5 7 (3.57%) Law
5 7 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.06%) Advertising
7 4 (2.04%) Marketing
7 4 (2.04%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.53%) Legal
8 3 (1.53%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.02%) Banking
9 2 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.51%) Automotive
10 1 (0.51%) Back Office
10 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (30.10%) Developer
2 43 (21.94%) .NET Developer
3 41 (20.92%) Data Engineer
4 33 (16.84%) Senior
5 18 (9.18%) Architect
6 16 (8.16%) Data Architect
7 15 (7.65%) Analyst
7 15 (7.65%) DBA
8 14 (7.14%) Azure Architect
9 13 (6.63%) Azure Data Architect
9 13 (6.63%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (6.63%) SQL DBA
10 12 (6.12%) Applications Support
10 12 (6.12%) Senior Data Engineer
11 11 (5.61%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (5.61%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.59%) Senior Architect
13 8 (4.08%) Senior Data Architect
13 8 (4.08%) Software Engineer
14 7 (3.57%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (34.18%) .NET
2 41 (20.92%) .NET Core
3 40 (20.41%) ASP.NET
4 31 (15.82%) ASP.NET MVC
5 29 (14.80%) Entity Framework
6 28 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
6 28 (14.29%) React
7 26 (13.27%) AngularJS
8 24 (12.24%) .NET Framework
9 19 (9.69%) HTML
9 19 (9.69%) Node.js
9 19 (9.69%) RESTful
10 18 (9.18%) Vue
11 15 (7.65%) HTML5
11 15 (7.65%) PySpark
12 11 (5.61%) Blazor
13 10 (5.10%) LINQ
14 9 (4.59%) CSS
15 8 (4.08%) WPF
16 7 (3.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.18%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (5.61%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.08%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.06%) Digital TV
5 6 (3.06%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.06%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.04%) Clustering
6 4 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.53%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.53%) Social Media
8 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.02%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.02%) N-Tier
8 2 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.02%) Social Network
9 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.61%) Windows
2 8 (4.08%) VMS
3 4 (2.04%) Android
4 3 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.02%) Linux
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (40.82%) DevOps
2 79 (40.31%) Analytics
3 66 (33.67%) Agile
4 61 (31.12%) CI/CD
5 59 (30.10%) Business Intelligence
6 55 (28.06%) Data Modelling
7 48 (24.49%) ETL
8 43 (21.94%) Data Pipeline
8 43 (21.94%) Full-Stack Development
9 41 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (19.90%) Microservices
11 35 (17.86%) Decision-Making
12 33 (16.84%) MVC
13 29 (14.80%) Visualisation
14 26 (13.27%) Scrum
15 25 (12.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (12.76%) Log Analytics
15 25 (12.76%) Migration
16 23 (11.73%) Data Governance
16 23 (11.73%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 196 (100.00%) SQL
2 64 (32.65%) C#
3 41 (20.92%) JavaScript
3 41 (20.92%) Python
4 28 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 20 (10.20%) T-SQL
6 18 (9.18%) TypeScript
7 17 (8.67%) Scala
8 14 (7.14%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.53%) Bicep
11 2 (1.02%) C
12 1 (0.51%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.51%) Bash
12 1 (0.51%) Java
12 1 (0.51%) Korn
12 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (8.67%) Azure Certification
2 15 (7.65%) Degree
3 13 (6.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (4.59%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.59%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 5 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.02%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.51%) ACCA
9 1 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.51%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (18.88%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.14%) GDPR
3 8 (4.08%) QA
4 7 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.04%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.02%) SLA
6 2 (1.02%) WCAG
7 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 14 (7.14%) Docker
2 6 (3.06%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.51%) Firmware
3 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.51%) vCloud
3 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.20%) Terraform
3 8 (4.08%) Grafana
4 7 (3.57%) Kibana
5 6 (3.06%) Ansible
6 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 98 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 47 (23.98%) Databricks
3 5 (2.55%) Facebook
3 5 (2.55%) YouTube
4 4 (2.04%) Google
4 4 (2.04%) Palo Alto
4 4 (2.04%) Zscaler
5 2 (1.02%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.02%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.51%) Delphix
6 1 (0.51%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.51%) Foundry
6 1 (0.51%) IBM
6 1 (0.51%) Intel
6 1 (0.51%) NetApp
6 1 (0.51%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle
6 1 (0.51%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.51%) SAP
6 1 (0.51%) Sybase