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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 366 355
Rank change year-on-year -49 -11 +129
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 189 321 346
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 0.65% 0.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.19% 3.62% 3.68%
Number of salaries quoted 148 224 293
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,344 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,563 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,375 £93,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -10.71%

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 5,918 8,858 9,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.36% 17.95% 20.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,891 5,026 7,473
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,348 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £96,908
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 2 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 2 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 +59 108 £75,000 - 73
Midlands +14 29 £58,750 +17.50% 34
North of England +4 24 £56,250 -10.00% 41
East Midlands -20 16 £49,250 -1.50% 17
South East -60 15 £65,000 - 50
North West +14 12 £57,750 -7.60% 26
West Midlands +21 11 £63,000 +22.93% 17
North East +11 6 - - 7
Yorkshire -5 6 £50,000 -15.25% 8
South West +18 5 £69,000 +43.01% 16
East of England -13 2 £62,500 +31.58% 20
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 (3.17%) Confluence
2 5 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.06%) IIS
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.53%) nginx
4 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (12.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.59%) Trello
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 189 (100.00%) Azure
2 68 (35.98%) Power Platform
3 66 (34.92%) Azure Data Factory
4 55 (29.10%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (25.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 27 (14.29%) GitHub
7 26 (13.76%) Azure Monitor
8 25 (13.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 24 (12.70%) AWS
10 23 (12.17%) SaaS
11 17 (8.99%) Serverless
12 16 (8.47%) Azure Functions
13 12 (6.35%) Azure AKS
13 12 (6.35%) PaaS
14 11 (5.82%) Azure Storage
15 9 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (4.76%) Entra ID
15 9 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (4.23%) GCP
17 7 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.70%) Firewall
2 6 (3.17%) VPN
3 5 (2.65%) Network Security
3 5 (2.65%) WAN
4 4 (2.12%) DNS
5 1 (0.53%) DHCP
5 1 (0.53%) SAN
5 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.53%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (32.80%) SQL Server
2 60 (31.75%) Power BI
3 56 (29.63%) Data Lake
4 42 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (19.05%) MongoDB
6 27 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 18 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (8.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (6.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 10 (5.29%) Data Vault
10 10 (5.29%) Power Query
11 9 (4.76%) Data Mining
12 8 (4.23%) Delta Lake
13 7 (3.70%) Metadata
14 6 (3.17%) NonStop SQL
14 6 (3.17%) NoSQL
14 6 (3.17%) Star Schema
15 5 (2.65%) MySQL
15 5 (2.65%) Relational Database
16 4 (2.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (14.81%) Git
2 7 (3.70%) JIRA
3 6 (3.17%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.59%) JMeter
4 3 (1.59%) Postman
4 3 (1.59%) Selenium
4 3 (1.59%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.53%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 57 (30.16%) Finance
2 44 (23.28%) Social Skills
3 26 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.99%) Retail
5 9 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.70%) Advertising
6 7 (3.70%) Billing
7 6 (3.17%) Law
8 4 (2.12%) Marketing
8 4 (2.12%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.59%) Legal
9 3 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.53%) Automotive
11 1 (0.53%) Back Office
11 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (30.16%) Developer
2 42 (22.22%) .NET Developer
3 36 (19.05%) Data Engineer
4 34 (17.99%) Senior
5 20 (10.58%) Architect
6 18 (9.52%) DBA
7 17 (8.99%) Data Architect
7 17 (8.99%) SQL DBA
8 15 (7.94%) Azure Architect
8 15 (7.94%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (7.41%) Azure Data Architect
10 13 (6.88%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (6.35%) Analyst
12 11 (5.82%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (4.76%) Administrator
13 9 (4.76%) Senior Architect
13 9 (4.76%) Software Engineer
14 8 (4.23%) Azure Data Engineer
14 8 (4.23%) Senior Data Architect
14 8 (4.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (34.39%) .NET
2 41 (21.69%) .NET Core
3 39 (20.63%) ASP.NET
4 37 (19.58%) ASP.NET MVC
5 32 (16.93%) ASP.NET Web API
5 32 (16.93%) Entity Framework
6 31 (16.40%) AngularJS
7 28 (14.81%) React
8 27 (14.29%) .NET Framework
9 22 (11.64%) Vue
10 21 (11.11%) HTML
10 21 (11.11%) Node.js
11 19 (10.05%) RESTful
12 18 (9.52%) HTML5
13 12 (6.35%) LINQ
14 11 (5.82%) PySpark
15 9 (4.76%) CSS
16 8 (4.23%) Blazor
17 7 (3.70%) YAML
18 6 (3.17%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.99%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 12 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (5.29%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.23%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.17%) Digital TV
6 6 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.17%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.65%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.59%) Clustering
8 3 (1.59%) Social Media
9 2 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.06%) N-Tier
9 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.53%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.23%) VMS
2 5 (2.65%) Windows
3 3 (1.59%) Android
4 2 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (39.68%) Analytics
2 73 (38.62%) DevOps
3 69 (36.51%) Agile
4 64 (33.86%) Business Intelligence
5 53 (28.04%) Data Modelling
6 50 (26.46%) CI/CD
7 44 (23.28%) Full-Stack Development
8 43 (22.75%) ETL
9 42 (22.22%) Microservices
10 41 (21.69%) Data Pipeline
11 40 (21.16%) Problem-Solving
12 39 (20.63%) MVC
13 33 (17.46%) Decision-Making
14 31 (16.40%) Scrum
14 31 (16.40%) Visualisation
15 27 (14.29%) Kanban
15 27 (14.29%) TDD
16 24 (12.70%) BDD
16 24 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
17 20 (10.58%) AI
Programming Languages
1 189 (100.00%) SQL
2 62 (32.80%) C#
3 44 (23.28%) JavaScript
4 39 (20.63%) Python
5 26 (13.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 26 (13.76%) T-SQL
6 22 (11.64%) TypeScript
7 14 (7.41%) Scala
8 13 (6.88%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (2.12%) Bicep
11 2 (1.06%) C
12 1 (0.53%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (8.47%) Azure Certification
2 15 (7.94%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (6.88%) Degree
4 8 (4.23%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.23%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.70%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 5 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.06%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.53%) ACCA
9 1 (0.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.53%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (17.46%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.41%) GDPR
3 9 (4.76%) QA
4 7 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (2.65%) Accessibility
6 4 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.12%) SOC 2
7 3 (1.59%) WCAG
8 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 14 (7.41%) Docker
2 8 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.53%) Firmware
4 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.53%) vCloud
4 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (10.05%) Kubernetes
2 16 (8.47%) Terraform
3 6 (3.17%) Ansible
4 5 (2.65%) Grafana
5 3 (1.59%) Kibana
6 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.53%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 102 (53.97%) Microsoft
2 47 (24.87%) Databricks
3 8 (4.23%) Palo Alto
4 6 (3.17%) Facebook
4 6 (3.17%) YouTube
5 5 (2.65%) Fortinet
6 4 (2.12%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (2.12%) Zscaler
7 3 (1.59%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.59%) Google
8 2 (1.06%) Xamarin
9 1 (0.53%) Foundry
9 1 (0.53%) IBM
9 1 (0.53%) NetApp
9 1 (0.53%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (0.53%) VMware