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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 437 385
Rank change year-on-year +40 -52 +88
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 324 200 569
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 0.51% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.56% 2.95% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 290 176 501
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +6.52% -14.81%
75th Percentile £83,438 £80,313 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,375 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -12.55%

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 7,101 6,786 14,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.82% 17.36% 17.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,466 4,639 11,412
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 12 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 12 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 -6 84 £82,500 +10.00% 57
East of England +36 61 £67,500 +42.11% 21
South East +22 58 £57,500 -14.81% 43
Midlands -20 54 £55,000 +4.76% 19
North of England -17 47 £50,000 -14.89% 40
West Midlands -17 31 £63,000 -6.67% 11
North West +4 21 £50,000 -23.08% 23
East Midlands -30 21 £50,000 +3.09% 8
South West -38 16 £52,500 - 8
North East -31 13 £50,000 -13.04% 6
Yorkshire -50 13 £47,500 -12.04% 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 24 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.31%) Apache
3 1 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.31%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 324 (100.00%) Azure
2 109 (33.64%) Azure DevOps
3 78 (24.07%) Azure Data Factory
4 70 (21.60%) Power Platform
5 56 (17.28%) Azure AI
6 53 (16.36%) GitHub
7 42 (12.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 39 (12.04%) GitHub Copilot
9 37 (11.42%) Azure Monitor
10 32 (9.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 31 (9.57%) PowerApps
12 29 (8.95%) AWS
13 27 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
13 27 (8.33%) Serverless
14 26 (8.02%) Power Automate
15 24 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
16 23 (7.10%) Azure Functions
17 20 (6.17%) OneDrive
18 19 (5.86%) Adobe Creative Cloud
19 16 (4.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.63%) Internet
2 13 (4.01%) Firewall
3 9 (2.78%) DNS
3 9 (2.78%) VPN
4 5 (1.54%) WAN
5 4 (1.23%) MQTT
5 4 (1.23%) Network Security
6 3 (0.93%) Hyperconnected
7 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.62%) WinSCP
8 1 (0.31%) DHCP
8 1 (0.31%) LAN
8 1 (0.31%) SAN
8 1 (0.31%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (38.89%) MongoDB
2 74 (22.84%) SQL Server
3 61 (18.83%) Power BI
4 42 (12.96%) Elasticsearch
5 38 (11.73%) Data Lake
6 27 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
7 18 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (3.09%) Delta Lake
9 9 (2.78%) Star Schema
10 8 (2.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.16%) Power Query
11 7 (2.16%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.16%) Tableau
12 6 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (1.54%) Spark SQL
14 4 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.23%) NonStop SQL
14 4 (1.23%) NoSQL
15 3 (0.93%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (8.02%) Git
2 4 (1.23%) NUnit
3 3 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.62%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.62%) MSTest
4 2 (0.62%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.31%) JIRA
5 1 (0.31%) Postman
5 1 (0.31%) Selenium
5 1 (0.31%) Yeoman
General
1 80 (24.69%) Finance
2 46 (14.20%) Social Skills
3 21 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.94%) Advertising
5 15 (4.63%) Games
6 13 (4.01%) Banking
7 10 (3.09%) Legal
8 8 (2.47%) Marketing
9 6 (1.85%) Law
9 6 (1.85%) Retail
10 5 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.23%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.93%) Music Industry
13 2 (0.62%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.31%) Back Office
14 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.31%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.31%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 174 (53.70%) Developer
2 142 (43.83%) .NET Developer
3 52 (16.05%) Senior
4 40 (12.35%) Data Engineer
5 23 (7.10%) Azure Engineer
5 23 (7.10%) DBA
6 20 (6.17%) Senior Developer
6 20 (6.17%) Support Engineer
7 19 (5.86%) SQL DBA
8 13 (4.01%) Applications Support
8 13 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (3.40%) Applications Engineer
9 11 (3.40%) Applications Support Engineer
9 11 (3.40%) Architect
9 11 (3.40%) Senior Data Engineer
10 10 (3.09%) Administrator
10 10 (3.09%) Azure Architect
10 10 (3.09%) Head of AI
10 10 (3.09%) Head of Finance
10 10 (3.09%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (59.26%) .NET
2 165 (50.93%) .NET Core
3 144 (44.44%) ASP.NET
4 138 (42.59%) ASP.NET Core
5 73 (22.53%) CSS
5 73 (22.53%) HTML
6 66 (20.37%) Entity Framework
7 52 (16.05%) RESTful
8 51 (15.74%) ASP.NET Web API
9 47 (14.51%) AngularJS
9 47 (14.51%) React
10 45 (13.89%) Vue
11 44 (13.58%) Blazor
11 44 (13.58%) ML.NET
12 42 (12.96%) Node.js
13 33 (10.19%) LINQ
14 23 (7.10%) .NET Framework
15 22 (6.79%) HTML5 Canvas
16 20 (6.17%) Microsoft Graph
17 19 (5.86%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
2 19 (5.86%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 11 (3.40%) Replication
5 9 (2.78%) Digital TV
5 9 (2.78%) Social Network
6 7 (2.16%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.16%) Clustering
6 7 (2.16%) iPhone
6 7 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.85%) IoT
8 5 (1.54%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.54%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.54%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.23%) BBC
9 4 (1.23%) Social Media
10 3 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (6.48%) Windows
2 20 (6.17%) VMS
3 11 (3.40%) Android
4 10 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.16%) Linux
6 2 (0.62%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (43.21%) Full-Stack Development
2 125 (38.58%) Agile
3 121 (37.35%) DevOps
4 115 (35.49%) CI/CD
5 79 (24.38%) Machine Learning
6 73 (22.53%) Analytics
7 68 (20.99%) AI
8 65 (20.06%) Business Intelligence
9 47 (14.51%) Multithreading
10 46 (14.20%) Microservices
11 45 (13.89%) Data Modelling
12 39 (12.04%) Infrastructure as Code
13 38 (11.73%) ETL
13 38 (11.73%) Migration
14 34 (10.49%) Data Governance
14 34 (10.49%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (10.19%) Data Pipeline
16 32 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 32 (9.88%) High Availability
16 32 (9.88%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 324 (100.00%) SQL
2 186 (57.41%) C#
3 66 (20.37%) JavaScript
3 66 (20.37%) TypeScript
4 52 (16.05%) PowerShell
5 49 (15.12%) Python
6 22 (6.79%) T-SQL
7 14 (4.32%) Scala
8 11 (3.40%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (1.54%) Bicep
11 4 (1.23%) Bash
12 1 (0.31%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.31%) Java
12 1 (0.31%) Korn
12 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (3.70%) Azure Certification
1 12 (3.70%) Degree
2 6 (1.85%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (1.54%) SC Cleared
4 3 (0.93%) Tableau Certification
5 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.31%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.72%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.09%) GDPR
3 6 (1.85%) QA
4 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.93%) SLA
5 3 (0.93%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.31%) HL7
6 1 (0.31%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 55 (16.98%) Docker
2 16 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.54%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.31%) Firmware
4 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.31%) vCloud
4 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 32 (9.88%) Terraform
3 12 (3.70%) Grafana
4 7 (2.16%) Kibana
5 5 (1.54%) Ansible
6 3 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.93%) Scalr
7 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.31%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 227 (70.06%) Microsoft
2 45 (13.89%) Databricks
3 19 (5.86%) Adobe
4 17 (5.25%) Google
5 16 (4.94%) Facebook
6 6 (1.85%) Oracle
6 6 (1.85%) YouTube
7 4 (1.23%) Apple
7 4 (1.23%) SolarWinds
7 4 (1.23%) Sony
7 4 (1.23%) Yahoo!
8 3 (0.93%) Palo Alto
8 3 (0.93%) RedGate
8 3 (0.93%) Zscaler
9 2 (0.62%) DevExpress
9 2 (0.62%) iManage
9 2 (0.62%) Intapp
9 2 (0.62%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.31%) Delphix
10 1 (0.31%) Nimble Storage