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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 392 339
Rank change year-on-year -34 -53 +145
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 191 316 392
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.66% 0.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.26% 3.67% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 151 220 345
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,813 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,813 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -14.29%

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 5,861 8,608 10,070
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.98% 17.91% 20.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,878 4,834 8,045
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,780 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -4.00%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 +68 106 £75,000 -4.76% 55
Midlands +22 28 £60,000 +17.07% 36
North of England +2 25 £55,000 -12.00% 59
East Midlands -10 16 £50,000 - 21
South East -51 16 £65,000 - 64
North West +6 13 £57,500 -8.37% 32
West Midlands +19 10 £63,500 +15.45% 14
North East +7 6 - - 9
Yorkshire -6 6 £50,000 -5.66% 18
South West +14 5 £69,000 +15.00% 23
East of England -10 5 £57,500 +21.05% 28
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 6 (3.14%) Confluence
2 5 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.52%) IIS
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (12.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (1.57%) Trello
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 191 (100.00%) Azure
2 69 (36.13%) Azure Data Factory
3 67 (35.08%) Power Platform
4 62 (32.46%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (24.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 30 (15.71%) Azure Monitor
7 28 (14.66%) GitHub
8 23 (12.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 22 (11.52%) SaaS
10 20 (10.47%) Serverless
11 19 (9.95%) AWS
11 19 (9.95%) Azure Functions
12 14 (7.33%) Azure Storage
13 12 (6.28%) PaaS
14 11 (5.76%) Azure AKS
15 9 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (4.19%) Azure Service Bus
16 8 (4.19%) Entra ID
16 8 (4.19%) Power Automate
16 8 (4.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.66%) Firewall
2 6 (3.14%) VPN
2 6 (3.14%) WAN
3 5 (2.62%) Network Security
4 4 (2.09%) DNS
5 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.52%) DHCP
6 1 (0.52%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.52%) Internet
6 1 (0.52%) LAN
6 1 (0.52%) SAN
6 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (31.94%) SQL Server
2 58 (30.37%) Power BI
3 54 (28.27%) Data Lake
4 44 (23.04%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (19.37%) MongoDB
6 27 (14.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 17 (8.90%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (8.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (6.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 11 (5.76%) Power Query
11 10 (5.24%) Data Vault
11 10 (5.24%) Delta Lake
12 9 (4.71%) Data Mining
13 6 (3.14%) Metadata
13 6 (3.14%) MySQL
13 6 (3.14%) Star Schema
14 5 (2.62%) NonStop SQL
14 5 (2.62%) NoSQL
15 4 (2.09%) GIS
15 4 (2.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (15.18%) Git
2 7 (3.66%) JIRA
3 6 (3.14%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.57%) JMeter
4 3 (1.57%) Postman
4 3 (1.57%) Selenium
4 3 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.52%) CA Release Automation
General
1 61 (31.94%) Finance
2 43 (22.51%) Social Skills
3 29 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.33%) Retail
5 7 (3.66%) Billing
5 7 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.14%) Advertising
6 6 (3.14%) Law
7 4 (2.09%) Marketing
7 4 (2.09%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.57%) Legal
8 3 (1.57%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.52%) Automotive
10 1 (0.52%) Back Office
10 1 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (30.89%) Developer
2 42 (21.99%) .NET Developer
3 38 (19.90%) Data Engineer
4 34 (17.80%) Senior
5 18 (9.42%) Architect
6 17 (8.90%) DBA
7 15 (7.85%) Data Architect
7 15 (7.85%) SQL DBA
8 13 (6.81%) Azure Architect
8 13 (6.81%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (6.28%) Analyst
9 12 (6.28%) Azure Data Architect
9 12 (6.28%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (5.76%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (5.24%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.71%) Applications Support
12 9 (4.71%) Senior Architect
12 9 (4.71%) Software Engineer
13 8 (4.19%) Senior Data Architect
14 7 (3.66%) Insight Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (34.55%) .NET
2 41 (21.47%) .NET Core
3 39 (20.42%) ASP.NET
4 31 (16.23%) ASP.NET MVC
5 29 (15.18%) Entity Framework
5 29 (15.18%) React
6 28 (14.66%) ASP.NET Web API
7 26 (13.61%) AngularJS
8 24 (12.57%) .NET Framework
9 20 (10.47%) HTML
9 20 (10.47%) Node.js
9 20 (10.47%) RESTful
10 19 (9.95%) Vue
11 15 (7.85%) HTML5
12 14 (7.33%) PySpark
13 11 (5.76%) Blazor
14 10 (5.24%) CSS
14 10 (5.24%) LINQ
15 7 (3.66%) YAML
16 6 (3.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.42%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (6.81%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.24%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.19%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.66%) Mobile App
7 6 (3.14%) Digital TV
7 6 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.62%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.09%) Clustering
10 3 (1.57%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.57%) Social Media
11 2 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.05%) N-Tier
11 2 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (1.05%) Social Network
12 1 (0.52%) EPoS
12 1 (0.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.19%) VMS
1 8 (4.19%) Windows
2 4 (2.09%) Android
3 2 (1.05%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.05%) Linux
4 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (41.36%) DevOps
2 77 (40.31%) Analytics
3 68 (35.60%) Agile
4 59 (30.89%) Business Intelligence
5 57 (29.84%) CI/CD
6 53 (27.75%) Data Modelling
7 46 (24.08%) ETL
8 44 (23.04%) Full-Stack Development
9 42 (21.99%) Data Pipeline
9 42 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (20.94%) Microservices
11 34 (17.80%) Decision-Making
12 33 (17.28%) MVC
13 29 (15.18%) Visualisation
14 28 (14.66%) Scrum
15 25 (13.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (13.09%) Log Analytics
16 24 (12.57%) Kanban
17 23 (12.04%) TDD
18 22 (11.52%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 191 (100.00%) SQL
2 63 (32.98%) C#
3 42 (21.99%) JavaScript
4 40 (20.94%) Python
5 27 (14.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (11.52%) T-SQL
7 19 (9.95%) TypeScript
8 15 (7.85%) Scala
9 12 (6.28%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.66%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.05%) Bicep
11 2 (1.05%) C
12 1 (0.52%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.52%) Bash
12 1 (0.52%) Java
12 1 (0.52%) Korn
12 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (9.42%) Azure Certification
2 14 (7.33%) Degree
2 14 (7.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (4.19%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.19%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 5 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.05%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.52%) ACCA
8 1 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (17.80%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.81%) GDPR
3 9 (4.71%) QA
4 7 (3.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (2.62%) Accessibility
6 4 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.09%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.57%) WCAG
8 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 14 (7.33%) Docker
2 7 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) Firmware
4 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.52%) vCloud
4 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 18 (9.42%) Terraform
3 7 (3.66%) Grafana
4 6 (3.14%) Ansible
4 6 (3.14%) Kibana
5 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 100 (52.36%) Microsoft
2 45 (23.56%) Databricks
3 6 (3.14%) Palo Alto
4 5 (2.62%) Facebook
4 5 (2.62%) YouTube
5 4 (2.09%) Google
5 4 (2.09%) Zscaler
6 3 (1.57%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.57%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.05%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (1.05%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.52%) Delphix
8 1 (0.52%) Foundry
8 1 (0.52%) IBM
8 1 (0.52%) Intel
8 1 (0.52%) NetApp
8 1 (0.52%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle
8 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.52%) SAP