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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 407 360
Rank change year-on-year -29 -47 +141
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 191 331 373
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.43% 0.55% 0.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.16% 3.44% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 158 217 322
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,313 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £99,500 £93,750 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

All Database and 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 6,047 9,618 10,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.61% 15.93% 21.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,058 5,465 8,099
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,450
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.08% -0.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £115,000 £97,332
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -3.23%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +58 106 £72,500 -9.38% 116
North of England -5 27 £57,500 -4.17% 49
Midlands +52 25 £48,500 -3.00% 45
East Midlands +26 18 £48,000 -4.00% 20
South East -47 17 £65,000 - 61
North West -9 16 £57,750 -3.75% 32
West Midlands +36 7 £55,000 +5.77% 25
South West +33 6 £62,000 +3.33% 17
North East +11 6 £48,000 -16.52% 6
Yorkshire +18 5 £55,000 -15.38% 11
East of England -7 5 £55,000 +15.79% 21
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 7 (3.66%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.14%) Confluence
3 5 (2.62%) IIS
4 4 (2.09%) nginx
5 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (10.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.57%) Trello
3 2 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 191 (100.00%) Azure
2 73 (38.22%) Power Platform
3 62 (32.46%) Azure Data Factory
4 47 (24.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 36 (18.85%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (15.18%) AWS
7 27 (14.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 20 (10.47%) SaaS
9 19 (9.95%) GitHub
10 14 (7.33%) Azure Logic Apps
10 14 (7.33%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (7.33%) GCP
11 12 (6.28%) Entra ID
12 11 (5.76%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (4.19%) Azure Functions
13 8 (4.19%) PowerApps
13 8 (4.19%) Serverless
13 8 (4.19%) Snowflake
14 7 (3.66%) Azure AKS
14 7 (3.66%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (35.08%) SQL Server
2 66 (34.55%) Power BI
3 48 (25.13%) Data Lake
4 43 (22.51%) MongoDB
5 34 (17.80%) Data Warehouse
6 26 (13.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 21 (10.99%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (7.33%) NoSQL
9 12 (6.28%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 11 (5.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (5.24%) Data Vault
12 9 (4.71%) Data Mining
13 8 (4.19%) BigQuery
13 8 (4.19%) NonStop SQL
13 8 (4.19%) Power Query
14 6 (3.14%) Metadata
15 4 (2.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (2.09%) Star Schema
16 3 (1.57%) GIS
16 3 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (9.95%) Git
2 8 (4.19%) JIRA
3 6 (3.14%) Visual Studio
4 4 (2.09%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.57%) JMeter
5 3 (1.57%) Postman
5 3 (1.57%) Selenium
5 3 (1.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (27.23%) Finance
2 42 (21.99%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.09%) Retail
4 22 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.90%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.66%) Advertising
6 7 (3.66%) Billing
6 7 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.09%) Law
7 4 (2.09%) Marketing
7 4 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.09%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.57%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.05%) Automotive
9 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.52%) Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (39.79%) Developer
2 47 (24.61%) .NET Developer
3 37 (19.37%) Senior
4 31 (16.23%) Data Engineer
5 19 (9.95%) Architect
6 17 (8.90%) Data Architect
7 15 (7.85%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (7.33%) Azure Architect
8 14 (7.33%) Azure Data Architect
8 14 (7.33%) Software Engineer
8 14 (7.33%) SQL Developer
9 13 (6.81%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (5.76%) Analyst
10 11 (5.76%) DBA
10 11 (5.76%) Senior Software Engineer
11 10 (5.24%) SQL DBA
12 9 (4.71%) Lead
13 8 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (4.19%) Senior Architect
13 8 (4.19%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (39.79%) .NET
2 50 (26.18%) .NET Core
3 45 (23.56%) ASP.NET
4 43 (22.51%) ASP.NET MVC
5 40 (20.94%) AngularJS
6 37 (19.37%) Entity Framework
7 36 (18.85%) ASP.NET Web API
8 30 (15.71%) .NET Framework
8 30 (15.71%) React
9 28 (14.66%) Vue
10 25 (13.09%) HTML
11 24 (12.57%) Node.js
12 22 (11.52%) HTML5
12 22 (11.52%) RESTful
13 15 (7.85%) LINQ
14 11 (5.76%) Blazor
15 10 (5.24%) CSS
16 7 (3.66%) CSS3
17 6 (3.14%) OpenAPI
17 6 (3.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (6.81%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.24%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.66%) Digital TV
6 7 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.62%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.62%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.57%) Social Media
10 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.05%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (1.05%) N-Tier
10 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.52%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.62%) Windows
2 4 (2.09%) Linux
3 3 (1.57%) Android
4 2 (1.05%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.05%) VMS
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (40.31%) Agile
2 72 (37.70%) Business Intelligence
3 63 (32.98%) DevOps
4 55 (28.80%) Analytics
5 51 (26.70%) Full-Stack Development
6 48 (25.13%) Microservices
7 45 (23.56%) MVC
8 42 (21.99%) CI/CD
8 42 (21.99%) Data Modelling
9 38 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (19.37%) Data Pipeline
11 36 (18.85%) Scrum
12 34 (17.80%) Visualisation
13 31 (16.23%) TDD
14 28 (14.66%) BDD
14 28 (14.66%) ETL
15 27 (14.14%) Kanban
16 25 (13.09%) Decision-Making
17 20 (10.47%) AI
18 18 (9.42%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 190 (99.48%) SQL
2 72 (37.70%) C#
3 47 (24.61%) JavaScript
4 31 (16.23%) Python
5 30 (15.71%) T-SQL
6 24 (12.57%) TypeScript
7 23 (12.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (6.28%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.62%) Bicep
10 3 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.57%) Scala
11 2 (1.05%) C
12 1 (0.52%) Bash
12 1 (0.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (7.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (7.33%) Degree
3 10 (5.24%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 5 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.62%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.62%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.05%) MCSE
8 1 (0.52%) ACCA
8 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.99%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.81%) QA
3 8 (4.19%) GDPR
4 7 (3.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (2.62%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.57%) WCAG
7 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 17 (8.90%) Docker
2 6 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (8.38%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.66%) Terraform
3 5 (2.62%) Grafana
3 5 (2.62%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.52%) Ansible
4 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 103 (53.93%) Microsoft
2 45 (23.56%) Databricks
3 7 (3.66%) Facebook
3 7 (3.66%) YouTube
4 4 (2.09%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (2.09%) Fortinet
4 4 (2.09%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.57%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.57%) Google
6 2 (1.05%) Informatica
6 2 (1.05%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.52%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle
7 1 (0.52%) SAP
7 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow