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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 474 445
Rank change year-on-year +212 -29 -47
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 708 175 335
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 0.40% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.97% 2.71% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 641 157 239
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -

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 7,892 6,466 10,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.88% 14.90% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,502 4,197 6,636
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £110,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -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 13 September 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 13 September 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
South East +109 186 £57,500 -11.54% 57
London +1 136 £80,000 +14.29% 95
North of England +46 129 £50,161 -12.76% 42
East of England +62 102 £60,000 +9.09% 19
Midlands +8 94 £55,000 +14.58% 26
West Midlands +13 62 £60,000 +26.32% 19
North West +31 57 £50,000 -9.09% 25
South West -18 56 £55,000 +10.00% 12
North East -21 42 £55,000 -4.35% 8
East Midlands -21 32 £50,000 +4.17% 7
Yorkshire -21 30 £55,000 -8.33% 9
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 35 (4.94%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.12%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (1.13%) SharePoint Server
5 6 (0.85%) IIS
6 5 (0.71%) Apache
6 5 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.71%) nginx
7 3 (0.42%) CMS
7 3 (0.42%) DNN
7 3 (0.42%) EPiServer
7 3 (0.42%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (0.42%) Kentico
7 3 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (0.42%) Sitefinity
7 3 (0.42%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.28%) Luigi
8 2 (0.28%) Tornado
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 708 (100.00%) Azure
2 250 (35.31%) Azure DevOps
3 151 (21.33%) Azure AI
3 151 (21.33%) GitHub
4 135 (19.07%) GitHub Copilot
5 113 (15.96%) Power Platform
6 94 (13.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 93 (13.14%) AWS
8 79 (11.16%) Azure Data Factory
9 46 (6.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 44 (6.21%) Serverless
11 41 (5.79%) PaaS
12 40 (5.65%) Azure Key Vault
13 38 (5.37%) Azure Monitor
13 38 (5.37%) Azure Service Bus
14 36 (5.08%) Azure Functions
14 36 (5.08%) Microsoft 365
15 34 (4.80%) Azure Logic Apps
16 33 (4.66%) PowerApps
17 29 (4.10%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 53 (7.49%) Internet
2 21 (2.97%) VPN
3 14 (1.98%) Firewall
4 6 (0.85%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.71%) DNS
6 4 (0.56%) MQTT
7 2 (0.28%) SSL
7 2 (0.28%) WAN
8 1 (0.14%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.14%) HTTP
8 1 (0.14%) LAN
8 1 (0.14%) Network Security
8 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 376 (53.11%) MongoDB
2 143 (20.20%) Elasticsearch
3 123 (17.37%) SQL Server
4 98 (13.84%) Power BI
5 63 (8.90%) Data Warehouse
6 35 (4.94%) Data Lake
7 26 (3.67%) NoSQL
8 20 (2.82%) Relational Database
8 20 (2.82%) Tableau
9 19 (2.68%) Metadata
10 15 (2.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 15 (2.12%) Star Schema
11 14 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (1.84%) DynamoDB
13 11 (1.55%) NonStop SQL
13 11 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (1.27%) Spark SQL
15 8 (1.13%) Big Data
15 8 (1.13%) Delta Lake
15 8 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (6.50%) Git
2 9 (1.27%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (0.56%) JIRA
5 3 (0.42%) NUnit
6 2 (0.28%) MSTest
7 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.14%) kappa
7 1 (0.14%) Postman
7 1 (0.14%) Selenium
7 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.14%) Yeoman
General
1 102 (14.41%) Finance
2 86 (12.15%) Social Skills
3 53 (7.49%) Advertising
4 38 (5.37%) Marketing
5 36 (5.08%) Games
6 34 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
7 23 (3.25%) Retail
8 22 (3.11%) Law
9 17 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 16 (2.26%) Banking
11 15 (2.12%) Public Sector
12 14 (1.98%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.84%) Legal
14 11 (1.55%) Music Industry
15 5 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
18 2 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
18 2 (0.28%) Investment Banking
18 2 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 459 (64.83%) Developer
2 417 (58.90%) .NET Developer
3 93 (13.14%) Senior
4 69 (9.75%) Data Engineer
5 68 (9.60%) Azure Engineer
6 29 (4.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 29 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
7 28 (3.95%) Lead
8 24 (3.39%) Architect
8 24 (3.39%) Senior Developer
9 23 (3.25%) Senior Data Engineer
10 22 (3.11%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (2.68%) Azure Data Engineer
12 18 (2.54%) DBA
13 16 (2.26%) Analyst
14 14 (1.98%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 14 (1.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 13 (1.84%) Data Architect
15 13 (1.84%) Software Engineer
15 13 (1.84%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 481 (67.94%) .NET
2 432 (61.02%) .NET Core
3 423 (59.75%) ASP.NET
4 414 (58.47%) ASP.NET Core
5 171 (24.15%) CSS
5 171 (24.15%) HTML
6 164 (23.16%) Entity Framework
7 149 (21.05%) ASP.NET Web API
8 144 (20.34%) React
9 141 (19.92%) AngularJS
9 141 (19.92%) Blazor
10 140 (19.77%) Node.js
10 140 (19.77%) RESTful
11 138 (19.49%) Vue
12 127 (17.94%) ML.NET
13 96 (13.56%) LINQ
14 59 (8.33%) .NET Framework
15 52 (7.34%) Terraform
16 22 (3.11%) HTML5 Canvas
17 21 (2.97%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 75 (10.59%) Greenfield Project
2 57 (8.05%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (3.53%) Cloud Native
4 21 (2.97%) Mobile App
5 20 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.68%) Digital TV
6 19 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.40%) iPhone
9 14 (1.98%) Security Posture
10 13 (1.84%) Replication
11 12 (1.69%) Podcast
11 12 (1.69%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.69%) Social Media
11 12 (1.69%) Social Network
12 11 (1.55%) BBC
13 8 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
14 6 (0.85%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.85%) IoT
14 6 (0.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 45 (6.36%) Windows
2 29 (4.10%) VMS
3 21 (2.97%) Android
4 16 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.55%) Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (59.89%) Full-Stack Development
2 381 (53.81%) Agile
3 269 (37.99%) CI/CD
4 265 (37.43%) DevOps
5 191 (26.98%) AI
6 162 (22.88%) Machine Learning
7 157 (22.18%) Microservices
8 124 (17.51%) Multithreading
9 121 (17.09%) Analytics
10 111 (15.68%) Business Intelligence
11 101 (14.27%) Scrum
12 75 (10.59%) TDD
13 69 (9.75%) BDD
14 65 (9.18%) Data Engineering
15 64 (9.04%) Data Modelling
16 63 (8.90%) OO
17 61 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
18 58 (8.19%) Infrastructure as Code
18 58 (8.19%) Kanban
19 57 (8.05%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
Programming Languages
1 704 (99.44%) SQL
2 486 (68.64%) C#
3 172 (24.29%) JavaScript
4 163 (23.02%) TypeScript
5 80 (11.30%) PowerShell
6 73 (10.31%) Python
7 25 (3.53%) Bicep
8 16 (2.26%) Bash
9 15 (2.12%) Kusto Query Language
10 14 (1.98%) T-SQL
11 12 (1.69%) Scala
12 9 (1.27%) Java
13 8 (1.13%) C++
14 6 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.71%) R
16 3 (0.42%) VBA
17 1 (0.14%) Delphi
17 1 (0.14%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 37 (5.23%) Azure Certification
2 21 (2.97%) Degree
3 19 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (1.98%) Security Cleared
5 13 (1.84%) SC Cleared
6 7 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (0.56%) Tableau Certification
8 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.14%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.07%) Data Quality
2 21 (2.97%) QA
3 17 (2.40%) GDPR
4 7 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (0.56%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.28%) NCSC
7 1 (0.14%) HL7
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 175 (24.72%) Docker
2 28 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 25 (3.53%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 12 (1.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 165 (23.31%) Kubernetes
2 14 (1.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.27%) Grafana
4 7 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.28%) Argo
6 2 (0.28%) Bosun
6 2 (0.28%) Scalr
7 1 (0.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 571 (80.65%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.49%) Databricks
2 53 (7.49%) Facebook
3 40 (5.65%) Google
4 21 (2.97%) YouTube
5 17 (2.40%) Adobe
6 13 (1.84%) Informatica
6 13 (1.84%) VMware
7 12 (1.69%) ScienceLogic
8 11 (1.55%) Apple
8 11 (1.55%) Sony
8 11 (1.55%) Yahoo!
9 9 (1.27%) Oracle
10 7 (0.99%) Talend
11 4 (0.56%) Intapp
11 4 (0.56%) SAP
12 3 (0.42%) Alterian
12 3 (0.42%) RedGate
12 3 (0.42%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.42%) SolarWinds