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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 409 360
Rank change year-on-year -55 -49 +131
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 226 215 571
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.31% 0.59% 0.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.32% 3.19% 3.97%
Number of salaries quoted 180 185 508
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £39,450
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% -17.86%
75th Percentile £86,250 £81,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -17.86%

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 6,802 6,743 14,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.19% 18.45% 17.92%
Number of salaries quoted 4,237 4,759 11,411
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -10.20%

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 10 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 10 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 +3 91 £81,250 +8.33% 65
North of England -63 35 £50,000 -14.89% 50
Midlands -59 34 £57,500 +9.52% 26
East of England -27 27 £86,250 +81.58% 20
South East -44 23 £60,000 -14.29% 54
West Midlands -23 17 £63,500 +5.83% 16
North West -29 17 £56,500 -16.30% 28
East Midlands -57 15 £50,000 +3.09% 10
North East -29 9 £45,000 -21.74% 9
South West -46 9 £49,000 -14.78% 15
Yorkshire -52 9 £43,750 -17.45% 14
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 11 (4.87%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.21%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.33%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) Apache
4 1 (0.44%) IIS
4 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 25 (11.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.33%) Trello
4 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 226 (100.00%) Azure
2 87 (38.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 84 (37.17%) Power Platform
4 65 (28.76%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (25.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 33 (14.60%) Azure Monitor
7 29 (12.83%) Serverless
8 26 (11.50%) GitHub
9 25 (11.06%) Azure Functions
10 23 (10.18%) Azure AI
11 22 (9.73%) PowerApps
12 20 (8.85%) Azure Logic Apps
13 18 (7.96%) Power Automate
14 17 (7.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 16 (7.08%) SaaS
16 14 (6.19%) Azure Storage
16 14 (6.19%) Entra ID
16 14 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
17 13 (5.75%) PaaS
18 12 (5.31%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.98%) Firewall
2 6 (2.65%) VPN
2 6 (2.65%) WAN
3 5 (2.21%) DNS
3 5 (2.21%) Network Security
4 2 (0.88%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.88%) Internet
4 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.88%) WinSCP
5 1 (0.44%) DHCP
5 1 (0.44%) LAN
5 1 (0.44%) SAN
5 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (36.73%) SQL Server
2 73 (32.30%) Power BI
3 48 (21.24%) Data Lake
4 35 (15.49%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (12.39%) MongoDB
6 27 (11.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 24 (10.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (4.87%) Power Query
9 10 (4.42%) Delta Lake
9 10 (4.42%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (3.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 8 (3.54%) Relational Database
10 8 (3.54%) Star Schema
10 8 (3.54%) Tableau
11 6 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (2.21%) Spark SQL
12 5 (2.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.77%) Metadata
13 4 (1.77%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 26 (11.50%) Git
2 5 (2.21%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.77%) JIRA
4 3 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.88%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.88%) NUnit
6 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.44%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (0.44%) Selenium
6 1 (0.44%) Yeoman
General
1 82 (36.28%) Finance
2 53 (23.45%) Social Skills
3 35 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.31%) Banking
5 9 (3.98%) Legal
6 7 (3.10%) Billing
6 7 (3.10%) Law
6 7 (3.10%) Marketing
6 7 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.65%) Advertising
8 5 (2.21%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.77%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.77%) Retail
10 3 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Games
12 1 (0.44%) Automotive
12 1 (0.44%) Back Office
12 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.44%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 62 (27.43%) Developer
2 45 (19.91%) Data Engineer
3 43 (19.03%) Senior
4 33 (14.60%) .NET Developer
5 22 (9.73%) DBA
6 19 (8.41%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (8.41%) SQL DBA
7 17 (7.52%) Support Engineer
8 16 (7.08%) Analyst
9 14 (6.19%) Architect
9 14 (6.19%) Senior Data Engineer
10 13 (5.75%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.75%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.87%) Azure Architect
12 10 (4.42%) Head of AI
12 10 (4.42%) Head of Finance
13 9 (3.98%) Applications Support
13 9 (3.98%) Data Architect
14 8 (3.54%) Administrator
14 8 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (34.07%) .NET
2 50 (22.12%) .NET Core
3 40 (17.70%) ASP.NET
4 26 (11.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 25 (11.06%) HTML
6 23 (10.18%) CSS
7 21 (9.29%) Entity Framework
8 18 (7.96%) PySpark
8 18 (7.96%) React
9 17 (7.52%) RESTful
10 16 (7.08%) ASP.NET Web API
11 15 (6.64%) .NET Framework
12 13 (5.75%) JSON
13 12 (5.31%) AngularJS
13 12 (5.31%) Blazor
13 12 (5.31%) HTML5 Canvas
13 12 (5.31%) ML.NET
14 10 (4.42%) Node.js
14 10 (4.42%) REST
14 10 (4.42%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.08%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.54%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.10%) Replication
5 6 (2.65%) Clustering
5 6 (2.65%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.21%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.21%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.77%) Legacy Code
7 4 (1.77%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.77%) Social Media
7 4 (1.77%) Social Network
8 3 (1.33%) Digital TV
8 3 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.64%) VMS
2 14 (6.19%) Windows
3 6 (2.65%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.77%) Android
5 3 (1.33%) Linux
6 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (38.05%) Analytics
2 79 (34.96%) DevOps
3 76 (33.63%) Business Intelligence
4 70 (30.97%) CI/CD
5 58 (25.66%) Agile
6 53 (23.45%) Data Modelling
7 47 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (19.91%) ETL
9 42 (18.58%) Machine Learning
10 40 (17.70%) Migration
11 39 (17.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (17.26%) Data Pipeline
12 38 (16.81%) AI
13 35 (15.49%) Full-Stack Development
14 34 (15.04%) Data Governance
15 33 (14.60%) Decision-Making
16 32 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
17 31 (13.72%) Data Engineering
18 30 (13.27%) Performance Tuning
19 28 (12.39%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 226 (100.00%) SQL
2 71 (31.42%) C#
3 44 (19.47%) Python
4 33 (14.60%) PowerShell
5 30 (13.27%) JavaScript
6 27 (11.95%) T-SQL
7 24 (10.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 21 (9.29%) TypeScript
9 15 (6.64%) Scala
10 10 (4.42%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (2.21%) Bicep
12 4 (1.77%) Bash
13 2 (0.88%) C
14 1 (0.44%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.44%) Java
14 1 (0.44%) Korn
14 1 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (7.96%) Degree
2 12 (5.31%) Azure Certification
3 9 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (3.98%) Security Cleared
4 8 (3.54%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.10%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 4 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.33%) Tableau Certification
8 2 (0.88%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.44%) ACCA
9 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.44%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (15.93%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.75%) GDPR
3 8 (3.54%) QA
4 7 (3.10%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.77%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.33%) SLA
8 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.44%) HL7
9 1 (0.44%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 23 (10.18%) Docker
2 17 (7.52%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.65%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.44%) Firmware
4 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.44%) vCloud
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (12.83%) Terraform
2 25 (11.06%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.31%) Grafana
4 7 (3.10%) Kibana
5 6 (2.65%) Ansible
6 3 (1.33%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.33%) Scalr
7 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.44%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 114 (50.44%) Microsoft
2 53 (23.45%) Databricks
3 10 (4.42%) Adobe
4 8 (3.54%) Google
5 5 (2.21%) Oracle
6 4 (1.77%) Facebook
6 4 (1.77%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.77%) SolarWinds
6 4 (1.77%) Zscaler
7 3 (1.33%) RedGate
8 2 (0.88%) DevExpress
8 2 (0.88%) iManage
8 2 (0.88%) Intapp
9 1 (0.44%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.44%) IBM
9 1 (0.44%) Intel
9 1 (0.44%) NetApp
9 1 (0.44%) SAP
9 1 (0.44%) Sybase
9 1 (0.44%) Yahoo!