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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 443 438 572
Rank change year-on-year -5 +134 -145
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 400 465 797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.65% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.20% 3.12% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 339 398 622
10th Percentile £41,500 £47,500 £43,002
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% -6.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £74,125 £81,250 £83,063
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +12.50%

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 12,495 14,926 39,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.95% 21.00% 27.20%
Number of salaries quoted 8,650 10,674 19,065
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £45,491
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £84,188 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +15 161 £75,000 - 21
North of England +25 101 £57,500 +4.55% 13
North West +6 72 £55,250 -3.91% 8
South East +13 59 £65,000 +8.33% 27
East of England +17 29 £50,000 +33.33% 7
Yorkshire +57 23 £57,500 +4.55% 1
South West +5 22 £57,500 -8.00% 7
Midlands -56 22 £51,000 -5.56% 10
West Midlands -35 12 £52,000 -3.70% 7
East Midlands -31 10 £50,000 -6.98% 3
North East -9 6 £50,000 -11.50% 4
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 24 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 19 (4.75%) Confluence
3 14 (3.50%) Apache Spark
4 13 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.00%) IIS
5 4 (1.00%) nginx
6 3 (0.75%) CMS
7 2 (0.50%) Apache
8 1 (0.25%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.00%) Trello
4 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 400 (100.00%) Azure
2 156 (39.00%) Power Platform
3 129 (32.25%) Azure DevOps
4 116 (29.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 63 (15.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 49 (12.25%) PaaS
7 48 (12.00%) Entra ID
8 46 (11.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 46 (11.50%) Azure Logic Apps
8 46 (11.50%) Microsoft 365
9 43 (10.75%) GitHub
9 43 (10.75%) Serverless
10 33 (8.25%) Azure Functions
11 29 (7.25%) Azure Service Bus
12 28 (7.00%) PowerApps
13 23 (5.75%) Azure AKS
13 23 (5.75%) Azure Storage
13 23 (5.75%) Power Automate
14 22 (5.50%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (5.25%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 35 (8.75%) Broadband
2 17 (4.25%) DNS
3 16 (4.00%) Firewall
3 16 (4.00%) Network Security
4 12 (3.00%) Internet
4 12 (3.00%) WAN
5 7 (1.75%) LAN
5 7 (1.75%) VPN
6 5 (1.25%) VLAN
7 4 (1.00%) DHCP
7 4 (1.00%) SD-WAN
7 4 (1.00%) SSL
7 4 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.25%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.25%) 5G
8 1 (0.25%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (48.00%) SQL Server
2 146 (36.50%) Power BI
3 71 (17.75%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (17.25%) Data Lake
5 40 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 27 (6.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 17 (4.25%) NoSQL
8 16 (4.00%) Relational Database
9 15 (3.75%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 13 (3.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 10 (2.50%) Delta Lake
12 9 (2.25%) Power Query
12 9 (2.25%) RDBMS
12 9 (2.25%) Redis
13 8 (2.00%) Metadata
13 8 (2.00%) MySQL
13 8 (2.00%) Tableau
14 7 (1.75%) Data Mining
14 7 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
15 6 (1.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 53 (13.25%) Git
2 23 (5.75%) JIRA
3 18 (4.50%) Octopus Deploy
4 12 (3.00%) NUnit
4 12 (3.00%) Visual Studio
5 8 (2.00%) Moq
6 6 (1.50%) GitLab
7 3 (0.75%) MSTest
8 2 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.50%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.50%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.25%) JMeter
9 1 (0.25%) Selenium
9 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.25%) Sourcetree
9 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.25%) Subversion
9 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 105 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 83 (20.75%) Finance
3 33 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (2.75%) Advertising
4 11 (2.75%) Marketing
4 11 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
4 11 (2.75%) Retail
5 10 (2.50%) Legal
6 9 (2.25%) Law
6 9 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (2.00%) Games
8 7 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.75%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.00%) Banking
11 3 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.75%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.50%) Automotive
12 2 (0.50%) Publishing
12 2 (0.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 111 (27.75%) Developer
2 80 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 75 (18.75%) Senior
4 71 (17.75%) Data Engineer
5 54 (13.50%) DBA
6 52 (13.00%) SQL DBA
7 51 (12.75%) .NET Developer
8 41 (10.25%) Azure Data Engineer
9 36 (9.00%) Lead
10 32 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
11 29 (7.25%) DevOps Engineer
12 26 (6.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 26 (6.50%) Senior Developer
13 23 (5.75%) Architect
14 22 (5.50%) Platform Engineer
15 19 (4.75%) Analyst
15 19 (4.75%) Azure Platform Engineer
15 19 (4.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 19 (4.75%) Software Engineer
16 15 (3.75%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (30.50%) .NET
2 59 (14.75%) .NET Core
3 58 (14.50%) HTML
4 57 (14.25%) CSS
5 56 (14.00%) ASP.NET
6 49 (12.25%) Entity Framework
7 47 (11.75%) ASP.NET MVC
8 43 (10.75%) CSS3
8 43 (10.75%) HTML5
9 40 (10.00%) Blazor
10 29 (7.25%) .NET Framework
11 25 (6.25%) React
12 21 (5.25%) PySpark
13 15 (3.75%) ARM Templates
14 14 (3.50%) AngularJS
15 12 (3.00%) ASP.NET Web API
15 12 (3.00%) JSON
16 11 (2.75%) Razor View Engine
16 11 (2.75%) REST
16 11 (2.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 15 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (2.75%) Data Structures
4 10 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.75%) Public Cloud
7 7 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.50%) Digital TV
9 5 (1.25%) Replication
10 4 (1.00%) Social Media
11 3 (0.75%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.75%) Wiki
12 2 (0.50%) e-Learning
12 2 (0.50%) Enterprise Cloud
12 2 (0.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.50%) Housing Association
12 2 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (11.50%) VMS
2 21 (5.25%) Windows
3 8 (2.00%) Linux
4 5 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.25%) Android
5 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.25%) Unix
5 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (41.25%) DevOps
2 145 (36.25%) Business Intelligence
3 123 (30.75%) Agile
4 102 (25.50%) Analytics
5 94 (23.50%) CI/CD
6 74 (18.50%) ETL
7 69 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (15.25%) Full Stack Development
9 57 (14.25%) MVC
10 56 (14.00%) Data Modelling
10 56 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
11 54 (13.50%) TDD
12 49 (12.25%) Data Engineering
13 48 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
13 48 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
14 45 (11.25%) Disaster Recovery
14 45 (11.25%) High Availability
15 41 (10.25%) BDD
15 41 (10.25%) Platform Engineering
16 40 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 382 (95.50%) SQL
2 119 (29.75%) C#
3 88 (22.00%) PowerShell
4 81 (20.25%) Python
5 70 (17.50%) T-SQL
6 61 (15.25%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 16 (4.00%) Bash
9 11 (2.75%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.50%) U-SQL
11 7 (1.75%) Bicep
11 7 (1.75%) Java
11 7 (1.75%) R
11 7 (1.75%) Scala
12 6 (1.50%) Go
12 6 (1.50%) VB.NET
13 4 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.75%) C++
15 1 (0.25%) Bourne shell
15 1 (0.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 72 (18.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 52 (13.00%) Degree
3 41 (10.25%) Azure Certification
4 34 (8.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.75%) Security Cleared
6 8 (2.00%) SC Cleared
7 5 (1.25%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.25%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.50%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.50%) MCSA
10 2 (0.50%) MCSE
11 1 (0.25%) OCA
11 1 (0.25%) OCP
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.25%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (2.00%) GDPR
4 6 (1.50%) QA
5 5 (1.25%) SLA
6 3 (0.75%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 58 (14.50%) Virtual Machines
2 49 (12.25%) Active Directory
3 46 (11.50%) Docker
4 3 (0.75%) vSphere
5 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (11.75%) Terraform
2 36 (9.00%) Kubernetes
3 16 (4.00%) Ansible
4 8 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (1.00%) Grafana
5 4 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Identity Management
7 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 239 (59.75%) Microsoft
2 88 (22.00%) Databricks
3 10 (2.50%) Commvault
4 9 (2.25%) Oracle
5 6 (1.50%) Citrix
5 6 (1.50%) Google
5 6 (1.50%) Informatica
5 6 (1.50%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.50%) VMware
6 4 (1.00%) BT
7 3 (0.75%) Alteryx
7 3 (0.75%) Pardot
8 1 (0.25%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.25%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.25%) BMC
8 1 (0.25%) Facebook
8 1 (0.25%) Nintex
8 1 (0.25%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.25%) Remedy
8 1 (0.25%) ServiceNow