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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 416 364
Rank change year-on-year -4 -52 +118
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 196 345 347
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.41% 0.61% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.27% 3.55% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 152 236 298
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,105 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,188 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £95,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £63,867 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.19% -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 5,990 9,724 9,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 12.62% 17.10% 21.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,995 5,639 7,556
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% -1.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 3 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 3 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 +54 110 £72,500 -9.38% 62
North of England +4 29 £55,000 -8.33% 33
Midlands +50 25 £50,000 +5.26% 25
South East -30 19 £65,000 - 49
East Midlands +19 18 £48,500 -3.00% 12
North West +11 15 £57,500 -4.17% 19
West Midlands +38 7 £55,000 +18.92% 13
North East +20 7 £48,000 -16.52% 4
Yorkshire +2 7 £45,000 -23.73% 10
South West +23 4 £73,250 +51.81% 11
East of England 0 2 £54,500 +14.74% 18
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 (3.06%) Confluence
2 5 (2.55%) IIS
3 4 (2.04%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.04%) nginx
3 4 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (11.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.53%) Trello
3 2 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 196 (100.00%) Azure
2 74 (37.76%) Power Platform
3 66 (33.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 48 (24.49%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (24.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 29 (14.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 28 (14.29%) AWS
7 24 (12.24%) GitHub
7 24 (12.24%) SaaS
8 21 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (7.14%) Serverless
10 13 (6.63%) Azure Functions
10 13 (6.63%) Entra ID
10 13 (6.63%) GCP
11 12 (6.12%) Azure AKS
11 12 (6.12%) Azure Service Bus
11 12 (6.12%) PaaS
12 11 (5.61%) Azure Logic Apps
12 11 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (4.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.06%) Firewall
2 5 (2.55%) VPN
3 4 (2.04%) Network Security
3 4 (2.04%) WAN
4 3 (1.53%) DNS
5 1 (0.51%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (34.18%) SQL Server
2 66 (33.67%) Power BI
3 52 (26.53%) Data Lake
4 43 (21.94%) Data Warehouse
5 42 (21.43%) MongoDB
6 26 (13.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (6.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 13 (6.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (5.61%) NoSQL
10 10 (5.10%) Data Vault
11 9 (4.59%) Data Mining
12 7 (3.57%) Metadata
12 7 (3.57%) NonStop SQL
12 7 (3.57%) Power Query
13 6 (3.06%) BigQuery
14 4 (2.04%) MySQL
14 4 (2.04%) Relational Database
14 4 (2.04%) Star Schema
15 3 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (11.73%) Git
2 7 (3.57%) JIRA
3 6 (3.06%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.53%) JMeter
5 3 (1.53%) Postman
5 3 (1.53%) Selenium
5 3 (1.53%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.02%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.51%) CA Release Automation
General
1 52 (26.53%) Finance
2 42 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 23 (11.73%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (11.73%) Retail
4 14 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (4.08%) Advertising
6 7 (3.57%) Billing
7 5 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.55%) Law
8 4 (2.04%) Marketing
8 4 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (2.04%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.53%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.51%) Automotive
11 1 (0.51%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 68 (34.69%) Developer
2 48 (24.49%) .NET Developer
3 40 (20.41%) Senior
4 35 (17.86%) Data Engineer
5 22 (11.22%) Architect
6 19 (9.69%) Data Architect
7 17 (8.67%) Azure Architect
8 16 (8.16%) Azure Data Architect
8 16 (8.16%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (8.16%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (6.63%) DBA
10 12 (6.12%) Software Engineer
10 12 (6.12%) SQL DBA
11 11 (5.61%) Analyst
12 10 (5.10%) SQL Developer
13 9 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.59%) Senior Architect
14 8 (4.08%) Administrator
14 8 (4.08%) Senior Data Architect
14 8 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (36.73%) .NET
2 48 (24.49%) .NET Core
3 45 (22.96%) ASP.NET
4 43 (21.94%) ASP.NET MVC
5 37 (18.88%) ASP.NET Web API
5 37 (18.88%) Entity Framework
6 36 (18.37%) AngularJS
7 31 (15.82%) .NET Framework
8 28 (14.29%) React
9 25 (12.76%) Vue
10 24 (12.24%) HTML
10 24 (12.24%) Node.js
11 21 (10.71%) HTML5
11 21 (10.71%) RESTful
12 14 (7.14%) LINQ
13 10 (5.10%) CSS
14 9 (4.59%) Blazor
15 7 (3.57%) CSS3
15 7 (3.57%) YAML
16 6 (3.06%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.16%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (6.63%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (6.12%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.57%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.57%) Digital TV
7 6 (3.06%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.53%) Social Media
11 2 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.02%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
11 2 (1.02%) N-Tier
11 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.51%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.55%) Linux
1 5 (2.55%) VMS
1 5 (2.55%) Windows
2 3 (1.53%) Android
3 2 (1.02%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (41.33%) Agile
2 72 (36.73%) DevOps
3 69 (35.20%) Business Intelligence
4 65 (33.16%) Analytics
5 48 (24.49%) Microservices
6 47 (23.98%) Full-Stack Development
7 46 (23.47%) CI/CD
8 45 (22.96%) Data Modelling
8 45 (22.96%) MVC
9 38 (19.39%) Data Pipeline
10 36 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (18.37%) Scrum
10 36 (18.37%) Visualisation
11 35 (17.86%) ETL
12 31 (15.82%) TDD
13 30 (15.31%) Kanban
14 29 (14.80%) Decision-Making
15 28 (14.29%) BDD
16 24 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (11.73%) AI
Programming Languages
1 195 (99.49%) SQL
2 70 (35.71%) C#
3 46 (23.47%) JavaScript
4 34 (17.35%) Python
5 26 (13.27%) T-SQL
6 25 (12.76%) TypeScript
7 22 (11.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 16 (8.16%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (3.06%) Bicep
10 6 (3.06%) Scala
11 2 (1.02%) C
12 1 (0.51%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.51%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (8.16%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (7.65%) Azure Certification
3 14 (7.14%) Degree
4 7 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.57%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.57%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 5 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.02%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.51%) ACCA
8 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.51%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.76%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.12%) GDPR
3 11 (5.61%) QA
4 7 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (2.55%) Accessibility
6 4 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.04%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.53%) WCAG
8 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 20 (10.20%) Docker
2 8 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.51%) vCloud
3 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (11.22%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.59%) Terraform
3 6 (3.06%) Ansible
4 5 (2.55%) Grafana
4 5 (2.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 112 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 49 (25.00%) Databricks
3 8 (4.08%) Palo Alto
4 7 (3.57%) Facebook
4 7 (3.57%) YouTube
5 4 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (2.04%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.04%) Zscaler
6 3 (1.53%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.53%) Google
7 2 (1.02%) Informatica
7 2 (1.02%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.51%) Foundry
8 1 (0.51%) IBM
8 1 (0.51%) NetApp
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle
8 1 (0.51%) SAP
8 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.51%) VMware