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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 442 396
Rank change year-on-year +128 -46 +55
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 504 200 572
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 0.50% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.87% 3.02% 3.71%
Number of salaries quoted 457 173 501
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -12.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -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 7,337 6,620 15,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.78% 16.65% 16.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,916 4,417 11,647
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,138 £46,750 £43,000
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 £78,750
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% -10.16%

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 19 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 19 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
South East +59 108 £55,000 -21.43% 41
London -19 103 £80,000 +6.67% 57
East of England +58 85 £62,500 +6.38% 18
North of England +25 85 £55,000 -3.51% 39
Midlands +24 80 £55,000 +13.40% 19
West Midlands +22 50 £60,000 -11.11% 15
South West -26 38 £55,000 - 8
North West +26 37 £50,000 -9.09% 25
East Midlands -19 28 £51,250 +5.67% 4
North East -26 25 £50,000 -13.04% 6
Yorkshire -25 23 £55,000 -4.35% 8
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 27 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.59%) SharePoint Server
3 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.20%) Apache
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.20%) CMS
6 1 (0.20%) DNN
6 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.20%) Immediacy CMS
6 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.20%) Kentico
6 1 (0.20%) nginx
6 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.20%) Sitefinity
6 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 504 (100.00%) Azure
2 180 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
3 104 (20.63%) Azure AI
4 97 (19.25%) GitHub
5 84 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
6 80 (15.87%) Power Platform
7 78 (15.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 65 (12.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 58 (11.51%) AWS
10 44 (8.73%) Azure Monitor
11 36 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 33 (6.55%) Serverless
13 31 (6.15%) Azure Logic Apps
13 31 (6.15%) PowerApps
14 29 (5.75%) Azure Functions
15 27 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
15 27 (5.36%) PaaS
16 25 (4.96%) Azure Key Vault
16 25 (4.96%) Power Automate
17 24 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 38 (7.54%) Internet
2 12 (2.38%) VPN
3 11 (2.18%) Firewall
4 7 (1.39%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.99%) DNS
6 4 (0.79%) MQTT
7 2 (0.40%) WinSCP
8 1 (0.20%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.20%) HTTP
8 1 (0.20%) LAN
8 1 (0.20%) SSL
8 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (49.60%) MongoDB
2 94 (18.65%) Elasticsearch
3 77 (15.28%) SQL Server
4 69 (13.69%) Power BI
5 29 (5.75%) Data Lake
6 28 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (2.58%) Tableau
8 11 (2.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (1.98%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.98%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.98%) Star Schema
10 9 (1.79%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.79%) Spark SQL
11 8 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 6 (1.19%) Metadata
13 6 (1.19%) NonStop SQL
13 6 (1.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 34 (6.75%) Git
2 4 (0.79%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.79%) NUnit
2 4 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.40%) JIRA
3 2 (0.40%) MSTest
3 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.20%) Postman
4 1 (0.20%) Selenium
4 1 (0.20%) Yeoman
General
1 91 (18.06%) Finance
2 57 (11.31%) Social Skills
3 37 (7.34%) Advertising
4 28 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (4.96%) Games
6 24 (4.76%) Marketing
7 16 (3.17%) Banking
8 13 (2.58%) Law
9 11 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.18%) Legal
9 11 (2.18%) Retail
10 10 (1.98%) Public Sector
11 9 (1.79%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.19%) Music Industry
13 4 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.40%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.20%) Billing
16 1 (0.20%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 319 (63.29%) Developer
2 282 (55.95%) .NET Developer
3 70 (13.89%) Senior
4 44 (8.73%) Data Engineer
5 42 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 25 (4.96%) Senior Developer
7 23 (4.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 23 (4.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 20 (3.97%) Support Engineer
9 19 (3.77%) DBA
9 19 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
10 17 (3.37%) Architect
11 13 (2.58%) Analyst
12 12 (2.38%) Applications Support
12 12 (2.38%) Senior Data Engineer
12 12 (2.38%) SQL DBA
13 11 (2.18%) Software Engineer
14 10 (1.98%) Applications Support Engineer
14 10 (1.98%) Head of Finance
14 10 (1.98%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 342 (67.86%) .NET
2 304 (60.32%) .NET Core
3 288 (57.14%) ASP.NET
4 281 (55.75%) ASP.NET Core
5 127 (25.20%) CSS
5 127 (25.20%) HTML
6 119 (23.61%) Entity Framework
7 99 (19.64%) ASP.NET Web API
8 98 (19.44%) React
9 97 (19.25%) Blazor
10 96 (19.05%) RESTful
11 93 (18.45%) Node.js
12 92 (18.25%) AngularJS
13 90 (17.86%) ML.NET
14 88 (17.46%) Vue
15 62 (12.30%) LINQ
16 37 (7.34%) .NET Framework
17 22 (4.37%) HTML5 Canvas
18 20 (3.97%) Microsoft Graph
19 19 (3.77%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 51 (10.12%) Greenfield Project
2 31 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (3.37%) Mobile App
4 14 (2.78%) Digital TV
4 14 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.58%) iPhone
5 13 (2.58%) Replication
5 13 (2.58%) Social Network
6 11 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.98%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.79%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.59%) BBC
9 8 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
9 8 (1.59%) Social Media
10 7 (1.39%) Clustering
10 7 (1.39%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.39%) Podcast
10 7 (1.39%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.19%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 33 (6.55%) Windows
2 29 (5.75%) VMS
3 17 (3.37%) Android
4 14 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.39%) Linux
6 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 291 (57.74%) Full-Stack Development
2 247 (49.01%) Agile
3 193 (38.29%) CI/CD
4 192 (38.10%) DevOps
5 129 (25.60%) AI
6 122 (24.21%) Machine Learning
7 98 (19.44%) Microservices
8 91 (18.06%) Analytics
9 88 (17.46%) Multithreading
10 80 (15.87%) Business Intelligence
11 54 (10.71%) Scrum
12 50 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
13 49 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (9.33%) OO
14 47 (9.33%) TDD
15 43 (8.53%) BDD
15 43 (8.53%) Data Modelling
16 40 (7.94%) Data Engineering
17 39 (7.74%) High Availability
17 39 (7.74%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 503 (99.80%) SQL
2 337 (66.87%) C#
3 127 (25.20%) JavaScript
4 112 (22.22%) TypeScript
5 68 (13.49%) PowerShell
6 49 (9.72%) Python
7 17 (3.37%) T-SQL
8 15 (2.98%) Kusto Query Language
9 14 (2.78%) Bicep
10 12 (2.38%) Bash
11 10 (1.98%) Scala
12 9 (1.79%) Java
13 8 (1.59%) C++
14 7 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.40%) R
16 1 (0.20%) Delphi
16 1 (0.20%) Korn
16 1 (0.20%) Pascal
16 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (5.16%) Azure Certification
2 12 (2.38%) Degree
2 12 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (1.59%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.39%) SC Cleared
5 4 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.79%) Tableau Certification
6 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.56%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.79%) QA
3 7 (1.39%) GDPR
4 4 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.60%) SLA
6 2 (0.40%) NCSC
7 1 (0.20%) HL7
7 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 102 (20.24%) Docker
2 17 (3.37%) Active Directory
2 17 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (19.84%) Kubernetes
2 42 (8.33%) Terraform
3 12 (2.38%) Grafana
4 6 (1.19%) Kibana
4 6 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.60%) Scalr
7 1 (0.20%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 374 (74.21%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.73%) Databricks
3 37 (7.34%) Facebook
4 30 (5.95%) Google
5 19 (3.77%) Adobe
6 14 (2.78%) YouTube
7 8 (1.59%) Apple
7 8 (1.59%) Sony
7 8 (1.59%) Yahoo!
8 7 (1.39%) Oracle
8 7 (1.39%) ScienceLogic
8 7 (1.39%) VMware
9 4 (0.79%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.60%) Informatica
10 3 (0.60%) RedGate
10 3 (0.60%) SAP
11 2 (0.40%) DevExpress
11 2 (0.40%) iManage
11 2 (0.40%) Intapp
11 2 (0.40%) Xamarin