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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 397 368
Rank change year-on-year -72 -29 +145
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 170 340 378
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.56% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.77% 3.47% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 152 228 324
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £46,550
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £52,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,875 £94,125 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,617 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.67% - -7.14%

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 6,143 9,802 10,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.31% 16.06% 21.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,973 5,611 8,264
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,522 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.84% -0.80%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,750 £97,290
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -0.96%

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 27 October 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 27 October 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 +54 102 £72,500 -9.38% 111
Midlands +36 20 £48,000 -4.00% 40
South East -45 18 £65,000 - 81
North of England -22 17 £57,500 - 57
East Midlands +14 14 £45,000 -10.00% 20
North West -27 11 £57,500 - 31
West Midlands +54 6 £57,500 +15.00% 19
East of England -22 5 £55,000 +15.79% 28
South West +50 4 £62,000 +1.22% 15
Yorkshire +7 4 £57,500 -11.54% 20
North East +12 2 £48,000 +12.94% 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 7 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.94%) Confluence
2 5 (2.94%) IIS
3 4 (2.35%) nginx
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.18%) Trello
3 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 170 (100.00%) Azure
2 58 (34.12%) Power Platform
3 49 (28.82%) Azure Data Factory
4 35 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 29 (17.06%) AWS
7 24 (14.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 18 (10.59%) GitHub
9 17 (10.00%) SaaS
10 14 (8.24%) Azure Logic Apps
10 14 (8.24%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (7.65%) Entra ID
11 13 (7.65%) GCP
12 10 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (4.71%) Azure Functions
13 8 (4.71%) PowerApps
13 8 (4.71%) Serverless
13 8 (4.71%) Snowflake
14 7 (4.12%) Azure AKS
14 7 (4.12%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (30.59%) Power BI
1 52 (30.59%) SQL Server
2 46 (27.06%) Data Lake
3 43 (25.29%) MongoDB
4 35 (20.59%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (12.35%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (8.24%) NoSQL
7 12 (7.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 12 (7.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (6.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (5.29%) Data Mining
9 9 (5.29%) Data Vault
10 8 (4.71%) BigQuery
10 8 (4.71%) NonStop SQL
11 7 (4.12%) Power Query
12 5 (2.94%) Metadata
12 5 (2.94%) Star Schema
13 4 (2.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 3 (1.76%) GIS
14 3 (1.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (11.18%) Git
2 7 (4.12%) JIRA
3 5 (2.94%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.35%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.76%) JMeter
5 3 (1.76%) Postman
5 3 (1.76%) Selenium
5 3 (1.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 38 (22.35%) Finance
2 26 (15.29%) Social Skills
3 25 (14.71%) Retail
4 10 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.12%) Advertising
6 7 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.35%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.76%) Law
8 3 (1.76%) Marketing
9 2 (1.18%) Automotive
9 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.18%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.59%) Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (45.88%) Developer
2 47 (27.65%) .NET Developer
3 31 (18.24%) Senior
4 27 (15.88%) Data Engineer
5 20 (11.76%) Architect
6 18 (10.59%) Data Architect
7 15 (8.82%) SQL Developer
8 14 (8.24%) Azure Architect
8 14 (8.24%) Azure Data Architect
9 11 (6.47%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (6.47%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.88%) DBA
11 9 (5.29%) Senior Data Engineer
11 9 (5.29%) Senior Software Engineer
11 9 (5.29%) SQL DBA
12 8 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.71%) Lead
12 8 (4.71%) Senior Architect
12 8 (4.71%) Senior Data Architect
13 7 (4.12%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (42.94%) .NET
2 50 (29.41%) .NET Core
3 43 (25.29%) ASP.NET
3 43 (25.29%) ASP.NET MVC
4 40 (23.53%) AngularJS
5 37 (21.76%) Entity Framework
6 36 (21.18%) ASP.NET Web API
7 30 (17.65%) .NET Framework
8 28 (16.47%) React
8 28 (16.47%) Vue
9 25 (14.71%) HTML
10 24 (14.12%) Node.js
11 22 (12.94%) HTML5
11 22 (12.94%) RESTful
12 15 (8.82%) LINQ
13 11 (6.47%) Blazor
14 10 (5.88%) CSS
15 7 (4.12%) CSS3
16 5 (2.94%) ARM Templates
16 5 (2.94%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.47%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.12%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.12%) Digital TV
4 5 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.94%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.35%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.18%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.18%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.18%) Social Media
7 1 (0.59%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.59%) EPoS
7 1 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.94%) Windows
2 4 (2.35%) Linux
3 3 (1.76%) Android
4 2 (1.18%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.18%) VMS
5 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (43.53%) Agile
2 60 (35.29%) DevOps
3 58 (34.12%) Business Intelligence
4 51 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 46 (27.06%) Microservices
6 43 (25.29%) MVC
7 41 (24.12%) CI/CD
8 40 (23.53%) Analytics
9 39 (22.94%) Data Modelling
10 35 (20.59%) Data Pipeline
11 33 (19.41%) Scrum
12 29 (17.06%) TDD
13 28 (16.47%) BDD
13 28 (16.47%) ETL
14 26 (15.29%) Kanban
15 21 (12.35%) Visualisation
16 20 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
17 16 (9.41%) Data Visualisation
18 15 (8.82%) Dimensional Modelling
18 15 (8.82%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 169 (99.41%) SQL
2 69 (40.59%) C#
3 47 (27.65%) JavaScript
4 31 (18.24%) T-SQL
5 30 (17.65%) Python
6 24 (14.12%) TypeScript
7 12 (7.06%) PowerShell
8 9 (5.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (2.94%) Bicep
10 3 (1.76%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.76%) Scala
11 1 (0.59%) Bash
11 1 (0.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (6.47%) Azure Certification
3 8 (4.71%) Degree
4 6 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.53%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.53%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.18%) MCSE
6 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.65%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.47%) QA
3 7 (4.12%) GDPR
4 5 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.76%) WCAG
6 1 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 17 (10.00%) Docker
2 7 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (9.41%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.12%) Terraform
3 5 (2.94%) Grafana
3 5 (2.94%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.59%) Ansible
4 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 101 (59.41%) Microsoft
2 42 (24.71%) Databricks
3 7 (4.12%) Facebook
3 7 (4.12%) YouTube
4 4 (2.35%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (2.35%) Fortinet
4 4 (2.35%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.76%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.18%) Google
6 2 (1.18%) Informatica
6 2 (1.18%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.59%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.59%) Oracle
7 1 (0.59%) SAP
7 1 (0.59%) ServiceNow