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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 443 403 352
Rank change year-on-year -40 -51 +138
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 219 216 569
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 0.59% 0.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.34% 3.14% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 176 184 506
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -17.86%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -17.86%

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 6,557 6,879 14,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.36% 18.79% 18.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4,071 4,714 11,259
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,395
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £77,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,175 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.03% +9.87% -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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +1 100 £80,000 - 65
Midlands -33 31 £60,000 +14.29% 26
North of England -53 31 £49,000 -14.78% 50
East of England -25 22 £72,500 +52.63% 20
South East -49 20 £60,000 -14.29% 54
North West -18 15 £55,000 -18.52% 28
East Midlands -45 15 £50,000 -4.76% 10
West Midlands -18 14 £64,250 -4.81% 16
North East -18 9 £45,000 -21.74% 9
South West -37 8 £48,000 -20.00% 15
Yorkshire -43 7 £42,500 -3.41% 14
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 8 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.28%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.37%) Confluence
4 1 (0.46%) Apache
4 1 (0.46%) IIS
4 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 24 (10.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.37%) Trello
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 219 (100.00%) Azure
2 84 (38.36%) Azure Data Factory
3 80 (36.53%) Power Platform
4 66 (30.14%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (24.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 34 (15.53%) Azure Monitor
7 27 (12.33%) Serverless
8 26 (11.87%) GitHub
9 24 (10.96%) Azure Functions
10 19 (8.68%) SaaS
11 18 (8.22%) Azure Logic Apps
12 17 (7.76%) Azure AI
12 17 (7.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 17 (7.76%) PowerApps
13 14 (6.39%) AWS
13 14 (6.39%) Azure Storage
14 13 (5.94%) Power Automate
15 12 (5.48%) Entra ID
15 12 (5.48%) PaaS
16 11 (5.02%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.20%) Firewall
2 6 (2.74%) VPN
2 6 (2.74%) WAN
3 5 (2.28%) DNS
3 5 (2.28%) Network Security
4 2 (0.91%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.91%) Internet
4 2 (0.91%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.91%) WinSCP
5 1 (0.46%) DHCP
5 1 (0.46%) LAN
5 1 (0.46%) SAN
5 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.46%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (35.16%) SQL Server
2 69 (31.51%) Power BI
3 51 (23.29%) Data Lake
4 39 (17.81%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (15.53%) MongoDB
6 26 (11.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 22 (10.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (5.94%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (5.48%) Power Query
10 10 (4.57%) Delta Lake
11 9 (4.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 9 (4.11%) Star Schema
12 8 (3.65%) Tableau
13 6 (2.74%) Relational Database
14 5 (2.28%) Data Vault
14 5 (2.28%) Metadata
14 5 (2.28%) Spark SQL
14 5 (2.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (1.83%) Data Mining
15 4 (1.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 28 (12.79%) Git
2 5 (2.28%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.83%) JIRA
4 3 (1.37%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.46%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (0.46%) NUnit
6 1 (0.46%) Selenium
6 1 (0.46%) Yeoman
General
1 75 (34.25%) Finance
2 51 (23.29%) Social Skills
3 32 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (3.65%) Legal
5 7 (3.20%) Advertising
5 7 (3.20%) Billing
5 7 (3.20%) Law
5 7 (3.20%) Marketing
5 7 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (2.74%) Banking
7 5 (2.28%) Retail
8 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.37%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.37%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.91%) Games
11 1 (0.46%) Automotive
11 1 (0.46%) Back Office
11 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (28.31%) Developer
2 47 (21.46%) Data Engineer
3 40 (18.26%) Senior
4 39 (17.81%) .NET Developer
5 20 (9.13%) DBA
6 18 (8.22%) Azure Engineer
7 17 (7.76%) SQL DBA
7 17 (7.76%) Support Engineer
8 16 (7.31%) Analyst
9 14 (6.39%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (5.94%) Architect
10 13 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.02%) Applications Support
11 11 (5.02%) Data Architect
12 10 (4.57%) Senior Developer
13 9 (4.11%) Azure Architect
14 8 (3.65%) Azure Data Architect
15 7 (3.20%) Cloud Engineer
15 7 (3.20%) Commercial Analyst
15 7 (3.20%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (36.07%) .NET
2 53 (24.20%) .NET Core
3 45 (20.55%) ASP.NET
4 25 (11.42%) ASP.NET Core
5 24 (10.96%) Entity Framework
6 23 (10.50%) HTML
7 21 (9.59%) React
8 20 (9.13%) ASP.NET Web API
9 19 (8.68%) CSS
10 18 (8.22%) PySpark
11 17 (7.76%) .NET Framework
11 17 (7.76%) RESTful
12 16 (7.31%) AngularJS
13 15 (6.85%) ASP.NET MVC
14 13 (5.94%) Blazor
14 13 (5.94%) Node.js
15 12 (5.48%) ML.NET
16 11 (5.02%) Vue
17 10 (4.57%) JSON
18 9 (4.11%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.31%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (5.94%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.65%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.20%) Replication
5 6 (2.74%) Clustering
5 6 (2.74%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.83%) Digital TV
6 4 (1.83%) Legacy Code
6 4 (1.83%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.83%) Social Media
6 4 (1.83%) Social Network
7 3 (1.37%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.37%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.91%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.85%) VMS
2 14 (6.39%) Windows
3 6 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.37%) Android
4 3 (1.37%) Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (40.64%) Analytics
2 78 (35.62%) DevOps
3 72 (32.88%) Business Intelligence
4 68 (31.05%) CI/CD
5 60 (27.40%) Agile
6 53 (24.20%) Data Modelling
7 45 (20.55%) ETL
7 45 (20.55%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (19.63%) Data Pipeline
9 40 (18.26%) Full-Stack Development
10 34 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (15.53%) Migration
11 33 (15.07%) Decision-Making
12 31 (14.16%) Machine Learning
13 30 (13.70%) AI
13 30 (13.70%) Log Analytics
14 28 (12.79%) Data Governance
14 28 (12.79%) Performance Tuning
14 28 (12.79%) Visualisation
15 27 (12.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 219 (100.00%) SQL
2 72 (32.88%) C#
3 44 (20.09%) Python
4 33 (15.07%) JavaScript
5 29 (13.24%) PowerShell
6 25 (11.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 24 (10.96%) T-SQL
8 20 (9.13%) TypeScript
9 15 (6.85%) Scala
10 12 (5.48%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (1.83%) Bicep
12 3 (1.37%) Bash
13 2 (0.91%) C
14 1 (0.46%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.46%) Java
14 1 (0.46%) Korn
14 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (7.31%) Degree
2 12 (5.48%) Azure Certification
3 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (4.11%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.11%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.20%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.37%) Tableau Certification
7 2 (0.91%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.46%) ACCA
8 1 (0.46%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.46%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (16.44%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.02%) GDPR
3 7 (3.20%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (3.20%) QA
4 4 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.83%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.37%) SLA
6 1 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 20 (9.13%) Docker
2 11 (5.02%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.74%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.46%) Firmware
4 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.46%) vCloud
4 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (11.42%) Terraform
2 23 (10.50%) Kubernetes
3 9 (4.11%) Grafana
4 7 (3.20%) Kibana
5 6 (2.74%) Ansible
6 2 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.91%) Scalr
7 1 (0.46%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.46%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 108 (49.32%) Microsoft
2 50 (22.83%) Databricks
3 8 (3.65%) Google
4 7 (3.20%) Adobe
5 5 (2.28%) Facebook
6 4 (1.83%) Oracle
6 4 (1.83%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.83%) Zscaler
7 3 (1.37%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.91%) iManage
8 2 (0.91%) Intapp
8 2 (0.91%) RedGate
8 2 (0.91%) YouTube
9 1 (0.46%) Delphix
9 1 (0.46%) DevExpress
9 1 (0.46%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.46%) Foundry
9 1 (0.46%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (0.46%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.46%) Yahoo!