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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 436 388
Rank change year-on-year +111 -48 +61
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 451 199 572
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 0.50% 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.23% 3.01% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 409 174 499
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -12.95%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £86,500
UK median annual salary £58,750 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 7,235 6,610 15,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 8.76% 16.76% 16.26%
Number of salaries quoted 4,809 4,397 11,535
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,900 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,810 £42,999
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £78,132
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +1 102 £80,000 +6.67% 57
South East +56 94 £55,000 -21.43% 39
East of England +56 78 £62,500 - 14
North of England +1 72 £52,500 -8.70% 34
Midlands +16 71 £55,000 +13.40% 17
West Midlands +5 43 £63,750 -5.56% 12
North West +25 33 £50,000 -14.89% 22
South West -34 30 £55,000 - 8
East Midlands -16 26 £50,000 +3.09% 5
North East -28 20 £50,000 -13.04% 5
Yorkshire -28 19 £55,000 -4.35% 7
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 26 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.77%) SharePoint Server
3 5 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) Apache
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.22%) CMS
5 1 (0.22%) DNN
5 1 (0.22%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.22%) IIS
5 1 (0.22%) Immediacy CMS
5 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.22%) Kentico
5 1 (0.22%) nginx
5 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.22%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 451 (100.00%) Azure
2 161 (35.70%) Azure DevOps
3 85 (18.85%) Azure AI
4 80 (17.74%) GitHub
5 78 (17.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 76 (16.85%) Power Platform
7 69 (15.30%) GitHub Copilot
8 60 (13.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 50 (11.09%) AWS
10 42 (9.31%) Azure Monitor
11 38 (8.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 31 (6.87%) PowerApps
13 30 (6.65%) Serverless
14 29 (6.43%) Azure Logic Apps
15 26 (5.76%) Azure Functions
15 26 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
16 25 (5.54%) Power Automate
17 22 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
17 22 (4.88%) PaaS
18 21 (4.66%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 30 (6.65%) Internet
2 11 (2.44%) Firewall
3 9 (2.00%) VPN
4 6 (1.33%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (1.11%) DNS
6 4 (0.89%) MQTT
7 2 (0.44%) WinSCP
8 1 (0.22%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.22%) LAN
8 1 (0.22%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (47.01%) MongoDB
2 81 (17.96%) Elasticsearch
3 73 (16.19%) SQL Server
4 66 (14.63%) Power BI
5 30 (6.65%) Data Lake
6 26 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.66%) Tableau
8 11 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (2.22%) Delta Lake
9 10 (2.22%) NoSQL
9 10 (2.22%) Relational Database
9 10 (2.22%) Star Schema
10 9 (2.00%) Spark SQL
11 7 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.55%) Power Query
12 6 (1.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.33%) Metadata
12 6 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.11%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 33 (7.32%) Git
2 4 (0.89%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.89%) NUnit
2 4 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.44%) JIRA
3 2 (0.44%) MSTest
3 2 (0.44%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.22%) Postman
4 1 (0.22%) Selenium
4 1 (0.22%) Yeoman
General
1 89 (19.73%) Finance
2 51 (11.31%) Social Skills
3 29 (6.43%) Advertising
4 25 (5.54%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.10%) Games
6 20 (4.43%) Marketing
7 16 (3.55%) Banking
8 10 (2.22%) Law
8 10 (2.22%) Legal
8 10 (2.22%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.00%) Retail
10 8 (1.77%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.33%) Music Industry
12 4 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.44%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.22%) Billing
14 1 (0.22%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 277 (61.42%) Developer
2 240 (53.22%) .NET Developer
3 64 (14.19%) Senior
4 43 (9.53%) Data Engineer
5 41 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 23 (5.10%) Senior Developer
7 22 (4.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 22 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 20 (4.43%) Support Engineer
9 18 (3.99%) DBA
9 18 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (2.88%) Applications Support
10 13 (2.88%) Architect
11 12 (2.66%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (2.66%) SQL DBA
12 11 (2.44%) Applications Engineer
12 11 (2.44%) Applications Support Engineer
12 11 (2.44%) Software Engineer
13 10 (2.22%) Head of Finance
13 10 (2.22%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (66.52%) .NET
2 263 (58.31%) .NET Core
3 245 (54.32%) ASP.NET
4 238 (52.77%) ASP.NET Core
5 108 (23.95%) CSS
5 108 (23.95%) HTML
6 105 (23.28%) Entity Framework
7 87 (19.29%) ASP.NET Web API
8 84 (18.63%) RESTful
9 83 (18.40%) AngularJS
10 82 (18.18%) React
11 81 (17.96%) Blazor
12 80 (17.74%) Node.js
13 79 (17.52%) Vue
14 73 (16.19%) ML.NET
15 54 (11.97%) LINQ
16 34 (7.54%) .NET Framework
17 22 (4.88%) HTML5 Canvas
18 20 (4.43%) Microsoft Graph
19 19 (4.21%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.31%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (5.99%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (3.10%) Mobile App
4 13 (2.88%) Replication
5 12 (2.66%) Digital TV
6 11 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.44%) Social Network
7 10 (2.22%) iPhone
7 10 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.77%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (1.55%) BBC
9 7 (1.55%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.55%) Clustering
9 7 (1.55%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.55%) Social Media
10 6 (1.33%) IoT
11 5 (1.11%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.89%) Legacy Code
12 4 (0.89%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.21%) Windows
2 26 (5.76%) VMS
3 14 (3.10%) Android
4 13 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.55%) Linux
6 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (55.21%) Full-Stack Development
2 211 (46.78%) Agile
3 173 (38.36%) DevOps
4 172 (38.14%) CI/CD
5 105 (23.28%) Machine Learning
6 104 (23.06%) AI
7 85 (18.85%) Analytics
7 85 (18.85%) Microservices
8 77 (17.07%) Multithreading
9 75 (16.63%) Business Intelligence
10 46 (10.20%) Infrastructure as Code
11 44 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (9.76%) Scrum
12 43 (9.53%) Data Modelling
13 40 (8.87%) OO
14 39 (8.65%) TDD
15 37 (8.20%) Data Engineering
15 37 (8.20%) High Availability
15 37 (8.20%) Migration
16 36 (7.98%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 450 (99.78%) SQL
2 294 (65.19%) C#
3 112 (24.83%) JavaScript
4 101 (22.39%) TypeScript
5 64 (14.19%) PowerShell
6 49 (10.86%) Python
7 17 (3.77%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.66%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (2.44%) Scala
10 10 (2.22%) Bicep
11 9 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (2.00%) Java
12 8 (1.77%) Bash
12 8 (1.77%) C++
13 1 (0.22%) Korn
13 1 (0.22%) R
13 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (4.66%) Azure Certification
2 11 (2.44%) Degree
3 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (1.77%) Security Cleared
5 7 (1.55%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.89%) Tableau Certification
7 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.10%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.00%) QA
3 7 (1.55%) GDPR
4 3 (0.67%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.67%) SLA
5 1 (0.22%) HL7
5 1 (0.22%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 86 (19.07%) Docker
2 15 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (2.66%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 85 (18.85%) Kubernetes
2 37 (8.20%) Terraform
3 13 (2.88%) Grafana
4 7 (1.55%) Kibana
5 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.67%) Scalr
7 1 (0.22%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 325 (72.06%) Microsoft
2 44 (9.76%) Databricks
3 30 (6.65%) Facebook
4 26 (5.76%) Google
5 19 (4.21%) Adobe
6 11 (2.44%) YouTube
7 7 (1.55%) Apple
7 7 (1.55%) Oracle
7 7 (1.55%) Sony
7 7 (1.55%) Yahoo!
8 4 (0.89%) ScienceLogic
8 4 (0.89%) SolarWinds
8 4 (0.89%) VMware
9 3 (0.67%) RedGate
10 2 (0.44%) DevExpress
10 2 (0.44%) iManage
10 2 (0.44%) Informatica
10 2 (0.44%) Intapp
10 2 (0.44%) SAP
10 2 (0.44%) Xamarin