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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 394 363
Rank change year-on-year -56 -31 +125
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 230 214 568
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.57% 0.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.30% 3.17% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 182 184 504
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,625 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,313 £46,750 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +8.70% -17.86%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £104,500 £103,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £66,250 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.00% +8.70% -14.81%

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 6,975 6,746 14,518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.94% 18.00% 17.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,286 4,770 11,390
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +4 86 £80,000 +6.67% 59
North of England -46 38 £50,000 -16.67% 37
Midlands -56 35 £60,000 +14.29% 29
East of England -7 33 £90,000 +89.47% 23
South East -50 24 £60,000 -14.29% 41
West Midlands -31 18 £64,250 +7.08% 18
North West -24 17 £56,500 -16.30% 20
East Midlands -52 15 £50,000 +3.09% 11
Yorkshire -58 11 £43,750 -17.45% 9
North East -40 10 £45,000 -21.74% 8
South West -53 9 £49,000 -6.67% 11
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 16 (6.96%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.43%) Apache
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.43%) IIS
3 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (9.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 230 (100.00%) Azure
2 95 (41.30%) Azure Data Factory
3 86 (37.39%) Power Platform
4 65 (28.26%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (25.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 33 (14.35%) Azure Monitor
7 27 (11.74%) Serverless
8 26 (11.30%) PowerApps
9 24 (10.43%) Azure AI
10 23 (10.00%) Azure Functions
10 23 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
10 23 (10.00%) GitHub
11 22 (9.57%) Power Automate
12 19 (8.26%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (6.96%) OneDrive
14 15 (6.52%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 15 (6.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 15 (6.52%) SaaS
15 14 (6.09%) Azure Storage
15 14 (6.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.78%) Firewall
2 8 (3.48%) VPN
3 7 (3.04%) DNS
4 6 (2.61%) WAN
5 5 (2.17%) Network Security
6 2 (0.87%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.87%) Internet
6 2 (0.87%) MQTT
6 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.87%) WinSCP
7 1 (0.43%) DHCP
7 1 (0.43%) LAN
7 1 (0.43%) SAN
7 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (36.09%) SQL Server
2 77 (33.48%) Power BI
3 46 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 33 (14.35%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (13.04%) MongoDB
6 25 (10.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 22 (9.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (4.35%) Delta Lake
8 10 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (3.91%) Star Schema
9 9 (3.91%) Tableau
10 8 (3.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 8 (3.48%) Relational Database
11 7 (3.04%) Power Query
12 6 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (2.61%) Spark SQL
13 5 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 4 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.74%) Metadata
14 4 (1.74%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (11.74%) Git
2 3 (1.30%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (1.30%) Visual Studio
3 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.87%) JIRA
3 2 (0.87%) NUnit
4 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.43%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (0.43%) Selenium
4 1 (0.43%) Yeoman
General
1 84 (36.52%) Finance
2 57 (24.78%) Social Skills
3 35 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.22%) Banking
5 9 (3.91%) Legal
6 7 (3.04%) Billing
6 7 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.61%) Advertising
7 6 (2.61%) Law
8 5 (2.17%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.17%) Marketing
9 4 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Games
11 2 (0.87%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.87%) Retail
12 1 (0.43%) Automotive
12 1 (0.43%) Back Office
12 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.43%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 64 (27.83%) Developer
2 49 (21.30%) Senior
3 46 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 34 (14.78%) .NET Developer
5 20 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
5 20 (8.70%) DBA
6 19 (8.26%) Support Engineer
7 17 (7.39%) Senior Developer
7 17 (7.39%) SQL DBA
8 15 (6.52%) Senior Data Engineer
9 14 (6.09%) Analyst
10 13 (5.65%) Architect
10 13 (5.65%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.78%) Applications Support
12 10 (4.35%) Azure Architect
12 10 (4.35%) Head of AI
12 10 (4.35%) Head of Finance
13 9 (3.91%) Applications Engineer
13 9 (3.91%) Applications Support Engineer
14 8 (3.48%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (36.52%) .NET
2 56 (24.35%) .NET Core
3 42 (18.26%) ASP.NET
4 31 (13.48%) HTML
5 29 (12.61%) CSS
6 27 (11.74%) ASP.NET Core
7 23 (10.00%) Entity Framework
8 19 (8.26%) PySpark
9 18 (7.83%) HTML5 Canvas
9 18 (7.83%) React
9 18 (7.83%) RESTful
10 17 (7.39%) .NET Framework
10 17 (7.39%) ASP.NET Web API
11 16 (6.96%) JSON
12 15 (6.52%) Microsoft Graph
12 15 (6.52%) SPFx
13 12 (5.22%) AngularJS
13 12 (5.22%) Blazor
13 12 (5.22%) ML.NET
14 10 (4.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.96%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.04%) Replication
6 6 (2.61%) Clustering
6 6 (2.61%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.17%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.17%) Legacy Code
7 5 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.74%) IoT
8 4 (1.74%) Social Network
9 3 (1.30%) Digital TV
9 3 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.87%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.39%) VMS
2 16 (6.96%) Windows
3 8 (3.48%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.17%) Android
4 5 (2.17%) Linux
5 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (35.22%) Analytics
2 80 (34.78%) Business Intelligence
2 80 (34.78%) DevOps
3 73 (31.74%) CI/CD
4 55 (23.91%) Agile
5 52 (22.61%) Data Modelling
6 49 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (19.57%) Machine Learning
8 43 (18.70%) ETL
9 42 (18.26%) AI
9 42 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (16.96%) Data Pipeline
11 38 (16.52%) Migration
12 37 (16.09%) Data Governance
13 35 (15.22%) Full-Stack Development
14 34 (14.78%) Data Engineering
15 33 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
16 32 (13.91%) Performance Tuning
17 31 (13.48%) Decision-Making
18 28 (12.17%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 230 (100.00%) SQL
2 78 (33.91%) C#
3 46 (20.00%) Python
4 41 (17.83%) PowerShell
5 35 (15.22%) JavaScript
6 26 (11.30%) TypeScript
7 24 (10.43%) T-SQL
8 22 (9.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 15 (6.52%) Scala
10 10 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (2.17%) Bicep
12 4 (1.74%) Bash
13 2 (0.87%) C
14 1 (0.43%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.43%) Java
14 1 (0.43%) Korn
14 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (8.70%) Degree
2 13 (5.65%) Azure Certification
3 9 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (3.04%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.04%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 6 (2.61%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.30%) Tableau Certification
8 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.87%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.43%) ACCA
9 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.43%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (15.65%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.65%) GDPR
3 7 (3.04%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (3.04%) QA
4 5 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.74%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.30%) SLA
7 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.43%) HL7
7 1 (0.43%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 24 (10.43%) Docker
2 17 (7.39%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.61%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.43%) Firmware
4 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.43%) vCloud
4 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (13.04%) Terraform
2 25 (10.87%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.22%) Grafana
4 7 (3.04%) Kibana
5 6 (2.61%) Ansible
6 3 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.30%) Scalr
7 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.43%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 120 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 51 (22.17%) Databricks
3 15 (6.52%) Adobe
4 6 (2.61%) Google
5 5 (2.17%) Oracle
6 4 (1.74%) Facebook
6 4 (1.74%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.74%) SolarWinds
6 4 (1.74%) Zscaler
7 3 (1.30%) RedGate
8 2 (0.87%) DevExpress
8 2 (0.87%) iManage
8 2 (0.87%) Intapp
8 2 (0.87%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.43%) Delphix
9 1 (0.43%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.43%) Foundry
9 1 (0.43%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (0.43%) OutSystems
9 1 (0.43%) YouTube