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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 495 397 477
Rank change year-on-year -98 +80 +83
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 201 564 513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.66% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.87% 3.70% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 177 497 437
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £46,700
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 £81,250 £67,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £104,250 £87,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £61,250 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.52% -11.54% -

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 7,003 15,261 19,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.23% 17.77% 21.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,625 11,419 11,983
10th Percentile £36,850 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £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 16 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 16 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 +18 84 £75,000 +2.74% 93
Midlands +71 42 £52,500 -4.55% 29
South East +31 28 £70,000 +21.74% 44
North of England -56 28 £58,750 +6.82% 60
West Midlands +59 22 £67,500 +22.73% 17
East Midlands +37 20 £48,500 -5.37% 9
North West -75 11 £62,500 +13.64% 26
Yorkshire +48 9 £55,000 -4.35% 29
South West +66 8 £52,500 -8.70% 13
North East +37 8 £57,500 +35.29% 8
East of England -7 8 £47,500 -7.47% 34
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 15 (7.46%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.49%) Confluence
4 2 (1.00%) Apache
4 2 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 201 (100.00%) Azure
2 68 (33.83%) Power Platform
3 57 (28.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 43 (21.39%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (16.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 29 (14.43%) AWS
7 24 (11.94%) Azure Logic Apps
8 22 (10.95%) GitHub
9 21 (10.45%) Serverless
10 18 (8.96%) Azure Functions
11 17 (8.46%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (8.46%) Entra ID
12 16 (7.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 16 (7.96%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (7.46%) SaaS
14 14 (6.97%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (6.97%) PowerApps
15 10 (4.98%) Azure Service Bus
16 9 (4.48%) PaaS
17 8 (3.98%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.97%) DNS
2 7 (3.48%) Firewall
3 5 (2.49%) WAN
3 5 (2.49%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.99%) Network Security
4 4 (1.99%) SAN
4 4 (1.99%) VPN
5 3 (1.49%) DHCP
5 3 (1.49%) LAN
5 3 (1.49%) MPLS
5 3 (1.49%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.49%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.00%) Converged Networks
6 2 (1.00%) LLU
6 2 (1.00%) PBX
6 2 (1.00%) VLAN
6 2 (1.00%) xDSL
7 1 (0.50%) SMTP
7 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (38.31%) SQL Server
2 64 (31.84%) Power BI
3 54 (26.87%) Data Lake
4 44 (21.89%) Data Warehouse
5 38 (18.91%) MongoDB
6 33 (16.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 23 (11.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 19 (9.45%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (6.97%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 10 (4.98%) NoSQL
11 7 (3.48%) Power Query
11 7 (3.48%) Tableau
12 6 (2.99%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 6 (2.99%) NonStop SQL
13 4 (1.99%) HDInsight
13 4 (1.99%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.49%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (5.97%) Git
2 9 (4.48%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.48%) JIRA
4 5 (2.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.00%) ERwin
6 2 (1.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.00%) NUnit
6 2 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.50%) git-flow
7 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 54 (26.87%) Social Skills
2 53 (26.37%) Finance
3 31 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.96%) Law
5 9 (4.48%) Automotive
5 9 (4.48%) Retail
6 8 (3.98%) Advertising
7 7 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.49%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.99%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.00%) Banking
12 2 (1.00%) Front Office
12 2 (1.00%) Legal
13 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.50%) Local Government
13 1 (0.50%) Publishing
13 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (35.82%) Developer
2 36 (17.91%) Senior
3 34 (16.92%) .NET Developer
4 30 (14.93%) Data Engineer
5 24 (11.94%) Architect
6 21 (10.45%) DBA
7 18 (8.96%) Software Engineer
7 18 (8.96%) SQL DBA
8 15 (7.46%) Data Architect
9 14 (6.97%) Administrator
9 14 (6.97%) Senior Data Engineer
10 12 (5.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 12 (5.97%) Lead
11 11 (5.47%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (4.98%) Azure Architect
13 9 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (4.48%) Senior Developer
14 8 (3.98%) Analyst
14 8 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
14 8 (3.98%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (37.31%) .NET
2 43 (21.39%) .NET Core
3 42 (20.90%) ASP.NET
4 38 (18.91%) AngularJS
5 34 (16.92%) ASP.NET MVC
6 30 (14.93%) ASP.NET Web API
6 30 (14.93%) Entity Framework
7 27 (13.43%) .NET Framework
8 25 (12.44%) HTML
9 24 (11.94%) React
10 23 (11.44%) HTML5
11 22 (10.95%) Vue
12 20 (9.95%) Node.js
13 18 (8.96%) RESTful
14 13 (6.47%) CSS
15 12 (5.97%) Blazor
15 12 (5.97%) CSS3
16 11 (5.47%) LINQ
17 10 (4.98%) REST
18 7 (3.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.97%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.47%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.98%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.49%) Digital TV
4 5 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.99%) IoT
5 4 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.49%) AS400
6 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.49%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.00%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.50%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.97%) Windows
2 10 (4.98%) Linux
3 5 (2.49%) VMS
3 5 (2.49%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.99%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.00%) Unix
6 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (36.82%) DevOps
2 73 (36.32%) Agile
3 63 (31.34%) Business Intelligence
4 57 (28.36%) CI/CD
5 46 (22.89%) Analytics
6 44 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (19.90%) Full-Stack Development
8 38 (18.91%) Microservices
9 37 (18.41%) MVC
10 35 (17.41%) ETL
11 34 (16.92%) Data Modelling
12 32 (15.92%) Visualisation
13 31 (15.42%) Data Visualisation
14 29 (14.43%) Data Engineering
15 28 (13.93%) Scrum
15 28 (13.93%) Software Engineering
16 23 (11.44%) TDD
17 22 (10.95%) Computer Science
18 20 (9.95%) BDD
18 20 (9.95%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 195 (97.01%) SQL
2 83 (41.29%) C#
3 43 (21.39%) JavaScript
4 32 (15.92%) Python
5 30 (14.93%) PowerShell
6 28 (13.93%) T-SQL
7 22 (10.95%) TypeScript
8 15 (7.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (2.99%) Java
10 5 (2.49%) Bicep
11 4 (1.99%) PHP
11 4 (1.99%) X++
12 3 (1.49%) C
12 3 (1.49%) C++
12 3 (1.49%) Objective-C
13 2 (1.00%) Delphi
13 2 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.00%) R
13 2 (1.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (18.91%) Degree
2 25 (12.44%) Azure Certification
3 20 (9.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (5.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.48%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.48%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.00%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.45%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.98%) QA
3 6 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.99%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.99%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.00%) GDPR
6 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (10.45%) Docker
2 14 (6.97%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.49%) vSphere
4 2 (1.00%) pfSense
4 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (14.43%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.45%) Terraform
3 2 (1.00%) Ansible
3 2 (1.00%) cPanel
3 2 (1.00%) MIIS
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.50%) Grafana
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 119 (59.20%) Microsoft
2 45 (22.39%) Databricks
3 5 (2.49%) Atlassian
3 5 (2.49%) Facebook
3 5 (2.49%) VMware
3 5 (2.49%) YouTube
4 4 (1.99%) Nimble Storage
5 3 (1.49%) CheckPoint
5 3 (1.49%) Cisco
5 3 (1.49%) Cognos
5 3 (1.49%) Extreme Networks
5 3 (1.49%) Google
5 3 (1.49%) Oracle
5 3 (1.49%) SAP
5 3 (1.49%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.49%) Xamarin
5 3 (1.49%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.00%) Draytek
7 1 (0.50%) Citrix
7 1 (0.50%) Clearswift