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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 457 409
Rank change year-on-year +207 -48 +23
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 673 201 526
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.78% 0.47% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.67% 2.97% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 621 174 455
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -12.95%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,875 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 7,764 6,766 14,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.96% 15.94% 16.17%
Number of salaries quoted 5,294 4,504 11,035
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £46,250 £43,624
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 +104 166 £55,000 -21.43% 42
North of England +45 119 £50,000 -13.04% 38
London -1 112 £80,000 +6.67% 58
East of England +74 111 £60,000 +2.13% 18
Midlands +38 98 £55,000 +13.40% 12
West Midlands +27 62 £60,000 -4.00% 8
South West -12 60 £55,000 - 7
North West +35 53 £50,000 -11.11% 24
East Midlands -9 36 £51,250 +5.67% 4
North East -19 36 £52,500 -8.70% 7
Yorkshire -3 30 £55,000 -8.33% 7
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 28 (4.16%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.19%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.74%) IIS
5 4 (0.59%) nginx
6 3 (0.45%) CMS
6 3 (0.45%) DNN
6 3 (0.45%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.45%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.45%) Kentico
6 3 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.45%) Sitefinity
6 3 (0.45%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.15%) Apache
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 673 (100.00%) Azure
2 232 (34.47%) Azure DevOps
3 154 (22.88%) Azure AI
4 153 (22.73%) GitHub
5 137 (20.36%) GitHub Copilot
6 93 (13.82%) AWS
7 89 (13.22%) Power Platform
8 85 (12.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 78 (11.59%) Azure Data Factory
10 47 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
11 41 (6.09%) Serverless
12 36 (5.35%) Azure Functions
12 36 (5.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 36 (5.35%) PaaS
13 35 (5.20%) Azure Logic Apps
14 32 (4.75%) Azure Key Vault
14 32 (4.75%) Azure Service Bus
15 31 (4.61%) PowerApps
16 30 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
17 25 (3.71%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 53 (7.88%) Internet
2 17 (2.53%) VPN
3 11 (1.63%) Firewall
4 8 (1.19%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (0.74%) DNS
6 4 (0.59%) MQTT
7 2 (0.30%) WinSCP
8 1 (0.15%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.15%) HTTP
8 1 (0.15%) LAN
8 1 (0.15%) SSL
8 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 384 (57.06%) MongoDB
2 148 (21.99%) Elasticsearch
3 88 (13.08%) SQL Server
4 75 (11.14%) Power BI
5 33 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (4.46%) Data Lake
7 13 (1.93%) Tableau
8 12 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (1.63%) NonStop SQL
10 10 (1.49%) NoSQL
10 10 (1.49%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.34%) Spark SQL
11 9 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (1.19%) Delta Lake
12 8 (1.19%) Metadata
12 8 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (1.19%) Star Schema
13 7 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.89%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 5 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 35 (5.20%) Git
2 7 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (0.59%) Jenkins
3 4 (0.59%) NUnit
4 2 (0.30%) JIRA
4 2 (0.30%) MSTest
4 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.15%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.15%) Postman
5 1 (0.15%) Selenium
5 1 (0.15%) Yeoman
General
1 106 (15.75%) Finance
2 61 (9.06%) Social Skills
3 56 (8.32%) Advertising
4 39 (5.79%) Marketing
5 38 (5.65%) Games
6 30 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (3.12%) Retail
8 18 (2.67%) Law
9 16 (2.38%) Banking
9 16 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.08%) Aerospace
11 12 (1.78%) Public Sector
12 11 (1.63%) Music Industry
13 10 (1.49%) Legal
14 5 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.30%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.30%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.30%) Police
17 1 (0.15%) Billing
Job Titles
1 473 (70.28%) Developer
2 434 (64.49%) .NET Developer
3 76 (11.29%) Senior
4 49 (7.28%) Data Engineer
5 46 (6.84%) Azure Engineer
6 27 (4.01%) Senior Developer
7 26 (3.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 26 (3.86%) DevOps Engineer
8 19 (2.82%) Architect
8 19 (2.82%) DBA
8 19 (2.82%) Platform Engineer
8 19 (2.82%) Support Engineer
9 18 (2.67%) Analyst
10 14 (2.08%) Lead
11 13 (1.93%) Senior Data Engineer
12 12 (1.78%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 11 (1.63%) Data Architect
13 11 (1.63%) SQL DBA
14 10 (1.49%) Senior Support Engineer
14 10 (1.49%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 496 (73.70%) .NET
2 453 (67.31%) .NET Core
3 439 (65.23%) ASP.NET
4 432 (64.19%) ASP.NET Core
5 177 (26.30%) CSS
5 177 (26.30%) HTML
6 170 (25.26%) Entity Framework
7 155 (23.03%) ASP.NET Web API
8 149 (22.14%) Blazor
8 149 (22.14%) React
9 146 (21.69%) AngularJS
9 146 (21.69%) Node.js
10 142 (21.10%) RESTful
10 142 (21.10%) Vue
11 136 (20.21%) ML.NET
12 97 (14.41%) LINQ
13 58 (8.62%) .NET Framework
14 22 (3.27%) HTML5 Canvas
15 20 (2.97%) JSON
15 20 (2.97%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 76 (11.29%) Greenfield Project
2 45 (6.69%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (3.27%) Mobile App
4 21 (3.12%) Digital TV
5 18 (2.67%) iPhone
5 18 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (2.38%) Social Network
7 14 (2.08%) Cloud Native
7 14 (2.08%) Security Posture
8 13 (1.93%) Replication
9 12 (1.78%) Podcast
9 12 (1.78%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.63%) BBC
10 11 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.63%) Social Media
11 10 (1.49%) Product Ownership
12 8 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (1.19%) Onboarding
13 6 (0.89%) Clustering
13 6 (0.89%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.94%) Windows
2 33 (4.90%) VMS
3 22 (3.27%) Android
4 16 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.49%) Linux
6 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (65.38%) Full-Stack Development
2 367 (54.53%) Agile
3 252 (37.44%) CI/CD
4 245 (36.40%) DevOps
5 183 (27.19%) AI
6 169 (25.11%) Machine Learning
7 159 (23.63%) Microservices
8 131 (19.47%) Multithreading
9 107 (15.90%) Analytics
10 92 (13.67%) Scrum
11 90 (13.37%) Business Intelligence
12 76 (11.29%) TDD
13 71 (10.55%) BDD
14 65 (9.66%) OO
15 59 (8.77%) Kanban
16 58 (8.62%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
17 57 (8.47%) Infrastructure as Code
18 50 (7.43%) Problem-Solving
19 49 (7.28%) Performance Tuning
20 45 (6.69%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 672 (99.85%) SQL
2 491 (72.96%) C#
3 175 (26.00%) JavaScript
4 168 (24.96%) TypeScript
5 78 (11.59%) PowerShell
6 49 (7.28%) Python
7 22 (3.27%) Bicep
8 20 (2.97%) Kusto Query Language
9 17 (2.53%) Bash
10 16 (2.38%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.34%) Java
12 8 (1.19%) C++
12 8 (1.19%) Scala
13 6 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.30%) R
15 1 (0.15%) Delphi
15 1 (0.15%) Korn
15 1 (0.15%) Pascal
15 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (4.61%) Azure Certification
2 16 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (1.78%) Degree
4 9 (1.34%) Security Cleared
5 8 (1.19%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.59%) Tableau Certification
7 3 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.15%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 13 (1.93%) QA
3 8 (1.19%) GDPR
4 4 (0.59%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.45%) SLA
6 2 (0.30%) NCSC
7 1 (0.15%) HL7
7 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 161 (23.92%) Docker
2 24 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 22 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 12 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 157 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 49 (7.28%) Terraform
3 12 (1.78%) Grafana
4 8 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.45%) Kibana
6 3 (0.45%) Scalr
7 1 (0.15%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 541 (80.39%) Microsoft
2 54 (8.02%) Facebook
3 43 (6.39%) Databricks
3 43 (6.39%) Google
4 21 (3.12%) YouTube
5 19 (2.82%) Adobe
6 12 (1.78%) ScienceLogic
6 12 (1.78%) VMware
7 11 (1.63%) Apple
7 11 (1.63%) Sony
7 11 (1.63%) Yahoo!
8 8 (1.19%) Oracle
9 4 (0.59%) Informatica
9 4 (0.59%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.45%) Alterian
10 3 (0.45%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.45%) RedGate
10 3 (0.45%) SAP
10 3 (0.45%) Sitecore
11 2 (0.30%) OpenAI