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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 378 337
Rank change year-on-year -43 -41 +150
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 193 316 394
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.37% 0.65% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.30% 3.65% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 152 221 345
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -14.29%

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 5,852 8,668 9,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.13% 17.96% 20.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,865 4,882 7,774
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 9 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 9 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 +76 110 £75,000 - 60
Midlands +17 28 £57,500 +15.00% 34
North of England -5 24 £56,250 -10.00% 43
East Midlands -9 16 £49,250 -1.50% 18
South East -58 16 £65,000 - 54
North West +2 12 £57,750 -7.60% 26
West Midlands +17 10 £63,500 +15.45% 16
North East +12 6 - - 8
Yorkshire -7 6 £50,000 -5.66% 9
South West +8 5 £69,000 +43.01% 19
East of England -18 4 £60,000 +26.32% 22
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 (3.11%) Confluence
2 5 (2.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.52%) IIS
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (11.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.55%) Trello
3 2 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 193 (100.00%) Azure
2 67 (34.72%) Power Platform
3 66 (34.20%) Azure Data Factory
4 57 (29.53%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (24.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 28 (14.51%) Azure Monitor
6 28 (14.51%) GitHub
7 24 (12.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 23 (11.92%) AWS
8 23 (11.92%) SaaS
9 19 (9.84%) Serverless
10 18 (9.33%) Azure Functions
11 13 (6.74%) Azure Storage
12 12 (6.22%) PaaS
13 11 (5.70%) Azure AKS
14 9 (4.66%) Entra ID
14 9 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (4.15%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (4.15%) GCP
16 7 (3.63%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) Firewall
2 6 (3.11%) VPN
2 6 (3.11%) WAN
3 5 (2.59%) Network Security
4 4 (2.07%) DNS
5 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.52%) DHCP
6 1 (0.52%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.52%) Internet
6 1 (0.52%) LAN
6 1 (0.52%) SAN
6 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (31.61%) SQL Server
2 59 (30.57%) Power BI
3 55 (28.50%) Data Lake
4 42 (21.76%) Data Warehouse
5 41 (21.24%) MongoDB
6 27 (13.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 19 (9.84%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (8.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (6.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 10 (5.18%) Data Vault
10 10 (5.18%) Power Query
11 9 (4.66%) Data Mining
11 9 (4.66%) Delta Lake
12 6 (3.11%) Metadata
12 6 (3.11%) MySQL
12 6 (3.11%) NonStop SQL
12 6 (3.11%) NoSQL
12 6 (3.11%) Star Schema
13 4 (2.07%) Relational Database
13 4 (2.07%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (14.51%) Git
2 7 (3.63%) JIRA
3 6 (3.11%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.55%) JMeter
4 3 (1.55%) Postman
4 3 (1.55%) Selenium
4 3 (1.55%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.52%) CA Release Automation
General
1 59 (30.57%) Finance
2 43 (22.28%) Social Skills
3 26 (13.47%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.29%) Retail
5 8 (4.15%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.63%) Advertising
6 7 (3.63%) Billing
7 6 (3.11%) Law
8 4 (2.07%) Marketing
8 4 (2.07%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.55%) Legal
9 3 (1.55%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.52%) Automotive
11 1 (0.52%) Back Office
11 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 61 (31.61%) Developer
2 46 (23.83%) .NET Developer
3 36 (18.65%) Data Engineer
4 33 (17.10%) Senior
5 19 (9.84%) Architect
6 18 (9.33%) DBA
7 16 (8.29%) Data Architect
7 16 (8.29%) SQL DBA
8 14 (7.25%) Azure Architect
9 13 (6.74%) Azure Data Architect
9 13 (6.74%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (6.22%) Analyst
10 12 (6.22%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (6.22%) Senior Data Engineer
11 10 (5.18%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.66%) Senior Architect
12 9 (4.66%) Software Engineer
13 8 (4.15%) Administrator
13 8 (4.15%) Applications Support
13 8 (4.15%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (35.75%) .NET
2 45 (23.32%) .NET Core
3 43 (22.28%) ASP.NET
4 37 (19.17%) ASP.NET MVC
5 33 (17.10%) ASP.NET Web API
6 32 (16.58%) Entity Framework
7 31 (16.06%) AngularJS
7 31 (16.06%) React
8 27 (13.99%) .NET Framework
9 22 (11.40%) HTML
9 22 (11.40%) Node.js
9 22 (11.40%) Vue
10 21 (10.88%) RESTful
11 18 (9.33%) HTML5
12 12 (6.22%) LINQ
12 12 (6.22%) PySpark
13 11 (5.70%) Blazor
14 10 (5.18%) CSS
15 7 (3.63%) YAML
16 6 (3.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.81%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (6.74%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.70%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.15%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.63%) Digital TV
6 7 (3.63%) Mobile App
7 6 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.59%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.07%) Clustering
10 3 (1.55%) Social Media
11 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.04%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.04%) N-Tier
11 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
12 1 (0.52%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.52%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.15%) VMS
2 7 (3.63%) Windows
3 4 (2.07%) Android
4 2 (1.04%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.04%) Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (39.38%) Analytics
2 75 (38.86%) DevOps
3 72 (37.31%) Agile
4 61 (31.61%) Business Intelligence
5 52 (26.94%) CI/CD
5 52 (26.94%) Data Modelling
6 48 (24.87%) Full-Stack Development
7 44 (22.80%) Microservices
8 43 (22.28%) ETL
8 43 (22.28%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (21.76%) Data Pipeline
10 39 (20.21%) MVC
11 33 (17.10%) Decision-Making
12 31 (16.06%) Scrum
13 30 (15.54%) Visualisation
14 27 (13.99%) Kanban
14 27 (13.99%) TDD
15 24 (12.44%) BDD
15 24 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (11.92%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 193 (100.00%) SQL
2 66 (34.20%) C#
3 47 (24.35%) JavaScript
4 38 (19.69%) Python
5 26 (13.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 24 (12.44%) T-SQL
7 22 (11.40%) TypeScript
8 14 (7.25%) Scala
9 12 (6.22%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.63%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.04%) Bicep
11 2 (1.04%) C
12 1 (0.52%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.52%) Bash
12 1 (0.52%) Java
12 1 (0.52%) Korn
12 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (8.29%) Azure Certification
2 14 (7.25%) Degree
2 14 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (4.15%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.15%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 5 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.04%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.52%) ACCA
8 1 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (17.10%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.74%) GDPR
3 9 (4.66%) QA
4 7 (3.63%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (2.59%) Accessibility
6 4 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.07%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.55%) WCAG
8 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 14 (7.25%) Docker
2 8 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) Firmware
4 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.52%) vCloud
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (10.36%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.29%) Terraform
3 6 (3.11%) Ansible
3 6 (3.11%) Grafana
4 5 (2.59%) Kibana
5 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 104 (53.89%) Microsoft
2 46 (23.83%) Databricks
3 7 (3.63%) Palo Alto
4 6 (3.11%) Facebook
4 6 (3.11%) YouTube
5 4 (2.07%) Fortinet
5 4 (2.07%) Google
5 4 (2.07%) Zscaler
6 3 (1.55%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (1.55%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.04%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.52%) Delphix
8 1 (0.52%) Foundry
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) Intel
8 1 (0.52%) NetApp
8 1 (0.52%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle
8 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.52%) SAP