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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 439 380
Rank change year-on-year -7 -59 +106
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 236 204 564
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.29% 0.52% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.38% 3.01% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 201 178 498
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +8.70% -14.81%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,125 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -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 6,980 6,769 14,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.59% 17.40% 17.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,315 4,672 11,394
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% +12.61% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,500 £115,000 £97,500
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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -20 87 £80,000 +6.67% 52
Midlands -38 41 £60,000 +14.29% 23
East of England +17 40 £90,000 +89.47% 20
South East -26 28 £60,000 -11.11% 45
North of England -53 28 £49,500 -17.50% 39
West Midlands -20 25 £65,000 -3.70% 13
East Midlands -47 14 £48,500 - 10
North West -24 13 £52,500 -22.22% 20
Yorkshire -49 10 £45,000 -15.09% 13
South West -50 8 £48,000 -8.57% 8
North East -32 5 £45,000 -21.74% 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 23 (9.75%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.42%) Apache
3 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.42%) IIS
3 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 236 (100.00%) Azure
2 83 (35.17%) Azure Data Factory
3 75 (31.78%) Azure DevOps
4 74 (31.36%) Power Platform
5 43 (18.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 34 (14.41%) Azure Monitor
7 31 (13.14%) PowerApps
8 28 (11.86%) Azure AI
8 28 (11.86%) Serverless
9 27 (11.44%) Azure Logic Apps
10 26 (11.02%) Power Automate
11 24 (10.17%) Azure Functions
11 24 (10.17%) GitHub
12 23 (9.75%) Microsoft 365
13 20 (8.47%) OneDrive
14 19 (8.05%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 17 (7.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 16 (6.78%) AWS
16 16 (6.78%) PaaS
17 15 (6.36%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.08%) Firewall
2 9 (3.81%) VPN
3 8 (3.39%) DNS
4 6 (2.54%) WAN
5 5 (2.12%) Network Security
6 4 (1.69%) Internet
7 3 (1.27%) MQTT
8 2 (0.85%) Hyperconnected
8 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.85%) WinSCP
9 1 (0.42%) DHCP
9 1 (0.42%) LAN
9 1 (0.42%) SAN
9 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.42%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (30.08%) SQL Server
2 65 (27.54%) Power BI
3 45 (19.07%) MongoDB
4 42 (17.80%) Data Lake
5 31 (13.14%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (8.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (5.51%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (4.24%) Delta Lake
9 9 (3.81%) Star Schema
10 8 (3.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 8 (3.39%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.39%) Tableau
11 7 (2.97%) Power Query
11 7 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (2.12%) Spark SQL
14 4 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.69%) Metadata
14 4 (1.69%) MySQL
15 3 (1.27%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 27 (11.44%) Git
2 3 (1.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.27%) NUnit
2 3 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.85%) JIRA
3 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.42%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (0.42%) MSTest
4 1 (0.42%) Selenium
4 1 (0.42%) Yeoman
General
1 70 (29.66%) Finance
2 46 (19.49%) Social Skills
3 20 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.51%) Banking
5 10 (4.24%) Legal
6 8 (3.39%) Advertising
7 6 (2.54%) Law
8 5 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.69%) Games
9 4 (1.69%) Marketing
10 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Back Office
12 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Music Industry
12 1 (0.42%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.42%) Retail
12 1 (0.42%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 82 (34.75%) Developer
2 52 (22.03%) Senior
3 50 (21.19%) .NET Developer
4 43 (18.22%) Data Engineer
5 23 (9.75%) Azure Engineer
6 21 (8.90%) DBA
7 20 (8.47%) Senior Developer
7 20 (8.47%) Support Engineer
8 17 (7.20%) SQL DBA
9 14 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (5.93%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (5.51%) Architect
11 12 (5.08%) Applications Support
12 10 (4.24%) Applications Engineer
12 10 (4.24%) Applications Support Engineer
12 10 (4.24%) Azure Architect
12 10 (4.24%) Head of AI
12 10 (4.24%) Head of Finance
13 9 (3.81%) Senior Support Engineer
14 8 (3.39%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (43.22%) .NET
2 75 (31.78%) .NET Core
3 54 (22.88%) ASP.NET
4 41 (17.37%) ASP.NET Core
5 38 (16.10%) HTML
6 36 (15.25%) CSS
7 30 (12.71%) Entity Framework
8 26 (11.02%) RESTful
9 24 (10.17%) ASP.NET Web API
10 22 (9.32%) HTML5 Canvas
10 22 (9.32%) React
11 19 (8.05%) AngularJS
11 19 (8.05%) JSON
11 19 (8.05%) Microsoft Graph
11 19 (8.05%) PySpark
11 19 (8.05%) SPFx
12 18 (7.63%) .NET Framework
13 17 (7.20%) Blazor
14 16 (6.78%) ML.NET
15 15 (6.36%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
1 9 (3.81%) Replication
2 8 (3.39%) Cloud Native
2 8 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (2.97%) Clustering
3 7 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (2.97%) Mobile App
3 7 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.12%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.12%) IoT
4 5 (2.12%) Legacy Code
4 5 (2.12%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.12%) Social Network
5 3 (1.27%) Digital TV
5 3 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.85%) BBC
6 2 (0.85%) iPhone
6 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.63%) VMS
1 18 (7.63%) Windows
2 9 (3.81%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.54%) Android
3 6 (2.54%) Linux
4 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (37.29%) DevOps
2 76 (32.20%) CI/CD
3 67 (28.39%) Business Intelligence
4 64 (27.12%) Agile
4 64 (27.12%) Analytics
5 51 (21.61%) Machine Learning
6 49 (20.76%) Full-Stack Development
7 45 (19.07%) Data Modelling
8 41 (17.37%) AI
9 40 (16.95%) ETL
10 37 (15.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 37 (15.68%) Migration
11 35 (14.83%) Data Governance
11 35 (14.83%) Data Pipeline
11 35 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (13.56%) Performance Tuning
14 31 (13.14%) Data Engineering
15 29 (12.29%) Log Analytics
16 27 (11.44%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 236 (100.00%) SQL
2 95 (40.25%) C#
3 48 (20.34%) Python
4 47 (19.92%) PowerShell
5 44 (18.64%) JavaScript
6 36 (15.25%) TypeScript
7 22 (9.32%) T-SQL
8 15 (6.36%) Scala
9 12 (5.08%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (3.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (2.12%) Bicep
12 4 (1.69%) Bash
13 1 (0.42%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.42%) Java
13 1 (0.42%) Korn
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (5.51%) Azure Certification
1 13 (5.51%) Degree
2 7 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (2.97%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.54%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.27%) Tableau Certification
5 2 (0.85%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.02%) Data Quality
2 12 (5.08%) GDPR
3 5 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.12%) QA
4 4 (1.69%) SOC 2
5 3 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.27%) SLA
6 1 (0.42%) HL7
6 1 (0.42%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 27 (11.44%) Docker
2 17 (7.20%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.12%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.42%) Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.42%) vCloud
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (13.98%) Terraform
2 27 (11.44%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.08%) Grafana
4 7 (2.97%) Kibana
5 6 (2.54%) Ansible
6 3 (1.27%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.27%) Scalr
7 1 (0.42%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.42%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 138 (58.47%) Microsoft
2 49 (20.76%) Databricks
3 19 (8.05%) Adobe
4 7 (2.97%) Facebook
4 7 (2.97%) Google
5 6 (2.54%) Oracle
6 4 (1.69%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.69%) SolarWinds
6 4 (1.69%) Zscaler
7 3 (1.27%) RedGate
8 2 (0.85%) Apple
8 2 (0.85%) DevExpress
8 2 (0.85%) iManage
8 2 (0.85%) Intapp
8 2 (0.85%) Sony
8 2 (0.85%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.85%) Yahoo!
8 2 (0.85%) YouTube
9 1 (0.42%) Foundry
9 1 (0.42%) VMware