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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 433 400
Rank change year-on-year +84 -33 +51
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 411 200 570
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.50% 0.51% 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.71% 3.03% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 370 174 499
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -13.24%
75th Percentile £79,688 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 7,193 6,601 15,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.80% 16.81% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 4,719 4,381 11,506
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -5 96 £80,000 +6.67% 57
South East +42 82 £55,000 -21.43% 40
East of England +52 71 £62,500 - 18
Midlands +13 66 £60,000 +23.71% 19
North of England +2 66 £55,000 -4.35% 38
West Midlands +6 41 £64,250 -4.81% 14
North West +21 30 £55,000 -12.00% 26
South West -33 27 £53,750 -2.27% 11
East Midlands -21 23 £50,000 +3.09% 5
North East -31 18 £50,000 -13.04% 6
Yorkshire -35 18 £55,000 -4.35% 6
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 25 (6.08%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.95%) SharePoint Server
3 4 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.24%) Apache
4 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 411 (100.00%) Azure
2 148 (36.01%) Azure DevOps
3 79 (19.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 75 (18.25%) Azure AI
5 73 (17.76%) Power Platform
6 70 (17.03%) GitHub
7 59 (14.36%) GitHub Copilot
8 54 (13.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 41 (9.98%) Azure Monitor
10 40 (9.73%) AWS
11 38 (9.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 31 (7.54%) PowerApps
13 29 (7.06%) Serverless
14 28 (6.81%) Azure Logic Apps
15 26 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
16 25 (6.08%) Azure Functions
16 25 (6.08%) Power Automate
17 21 (5.11%) Azure Key Vault
18 19 (4.62%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 19 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.33%) Internet
2 11 (2.68%) Firewall
3 9 (2.19%) VPN
4 5 (1.22%) DNS
5 4 (0.97%) Hyperconnected
5 4 (0.97%) MQTT
6 2 (0.49%) WinSCP
7 1 (0.24%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.24%) LAN
7 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (44.28%) MongoDB
2 71 (17.27%) SQL Server
3 65 (15.82%) Elasticsearch
4 64 (15.57%) Power BI
5 30 (7.30%) Data Lake
6 25 (6.08%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (2.68%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.68%) Tableau
9 10 (2.43%) Star Schema
10 9 (2.19%) Delta Lake
10 9 (2.19%) NoSQL
11 8 (1.95%) Spark SQL
12 7 (1.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (1.70%) Power Query
13 5 (1.22%) Metadata
13 5 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.97%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.97%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 32 (7.79%) Git
2 4 (0.97%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.97%) NUnit
3 3 (0.73%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.49%) JIRA
4 2 (0.49%) MSTest
4 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.24%) Postman
5 1 (0.24%) Selenium
5 1 (0.24%) Yeoman
General
1 82 (19.95%) Finance
2 50 (12.17%) Social Skills
3 25 (6.08%) Advertising
4 23 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.11%) Games
6 17 (4.14%) Marketing
7 14 (3.41%) Banking
8 10 (2.43%) Legal
9 9 (2.19%) Law
9 9 (2.19%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.70%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.70%) Retail
11 6 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.97%) Music Industry
13 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.24%) Billing
14 1 (0.24%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.24%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 242 (58.88%) Developer
2 205 (49.88%) .NET Developer
3 64 (15.57%) Senior
4 44 (10.71%) Data Engineer
5 39 (9.49%) Azure Engineer
6 23 (5.60%) Senior Developer
7 20 (4.87%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 20 (4.87%) DevOps Engineer
8 19 (4.62%) Support Engineer
9 18 (4.38%) DBA
10 16 (3.89%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (3.16%) Applications Support
11 13 (3.16%) Senior Data Engineer
11 13 (3.16%) SQL DBA
12 12 (2.92%) Architect
13 11 (2.68%) Applications Engineer
13 11 (2.68%) Applications Support Engineer
13 11 (2.68%) Software Engineer
14 10 (2.43%) Head of Finance
14 10 (2.43%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (64.23%) .NET
2 228 (55.47%) .NET Core
3 210 (51.09%) ASP.NET
4 203 (49.39%) ASP.NET Core
5 99 (24.09%) CSS
5 99 (24.09%) HTML
6 92 (22.38%) Entity Framework
7 73 (17.76%) RESTful
8 72 (17.52%) ASP.NET Web API
9 69 (16.79%) AngularJS
10 68 (16.55%) React
11 67 (16.30%) Blazor
12 65 (15.82%) Vue
13 64 (15.57%) ML.NET
13 64 (15.57%) Node.js
14 46 (11.19%) LINQ
15 27 (6.57%) .NET Framework
16 22 (5.35%) HTML5 Canvas
17 20 (4.87%) Microsoft Graph
18 19 (4.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.25%) Greenfield Project
2 24 (5.84%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (3.16%) Mobile App
4 12 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (2.92%) Replication
5 10 (2.43%) Digital TV
5 10 (2.43%) Social Network
6 9 (2.19%) iPhone
6 9 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
8 7 (1.70%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.70%) Clustering
9 6 (1.46%) IoT
9 6 (1.46%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.22%) BBC
10 5 (1.22%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.22%) Social Media
11 4 (0.97%) Legacy Code
11 4 (0.97%) Podcast
11 4 (0.97%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.57%) VMS
2 26 (6.33%) Windows
3 13 (3.16%) Android
4 12 (2.92%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.46%) Linux
6 2 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (52.07%) Full-Stack Development
2 183 (44.53%) Agile
3 161 (39.17%) CI/CD
4 160 (38.93%) DevOps
5 97 (23.60%) Machine Learning
6 94 (22.87%) AI
7 83 (20.19%) Analytics
8 73 (17.76%) Business Intelligence
9 68 (16.55%) Microservices
10 66 (16.06%) Multithreading
11 45 (10.95%) Data Modelling
11 45 (10.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 40 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (9.25%) Migration
14 36 (8.76%) Data Engineering
14 36 (8.76%) Data Pipeline
14 36 (8.76%) Log Analytics
14 36 (8.76%) Scrum
15 35 (8.52%) OO
16 33 (8.03%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 410 (99.76%) SQL
2 258 (62.77%) C#
3 98 (23.84%) JavaScript
4 87 (21.17%) TypeScript
5 63 (15.33%) PowerShell
6 50 (12.17%) Python
7 19 (4.62%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.92%) Kusto Query Language
8 12 (2.92%) Scala
9 10 (2.43%) Bicep
10 9 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (2.19%) Java
11 8 (1.95%) Bash
11 8 (1.95%) C++
12 1 (0.24%) Korn
12 1 (0.24%) R
12 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (4.87%) Azure Certification
2 10 (2.43%) Degree
3 8 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (1.46%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.22%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.97%) Tableau Certification
7 3 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.24%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.35%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.70%) GDPR
2 7 (1.70%) QA
3 3 (0.73%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.73%) SLA
4 1 (0.24%) HL7
4 1 (0.24%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 73 (17.76%) Docker
2 13 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (2.68%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.97%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 72 (17.52%) Kubernetes
2 36 (8.76%) Terraform
3 12 (2.92%) Grafana
4 7 (1.70%) Kibana
5 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (0.73%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.73%) Scalr
6 1 (0.24%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 288 (70.07%) Microsoft
2 43 (10.46%) Databricks
3 24 (5.84%) Facebook
4 22 (5.35%) Google
5 19 (4.62%) Adobe
6 9 (2.19%) YouTube
7 7 (1.70%) Oracle
8 5 (1.22%) Apple
8 5 (1.22%) Sony
8 5 (1.22%) Yahoo!
9 4 (0.97%) ScienceLogic
9 4 (0.97%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.97%) VMware
10 3 (0.73%) RedGate
11 2 (0.49%) DevExpress
11 2 (0.49%) iManage
11 2 (0.49%) Intapp
11 2 (0.49%) SAP
11 2 (0.49%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.24%) Sybase