Azure SQL Database Job Trends in London

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London 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 303 304 340
Rank change year-on-year +1 +36 +23
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 102 88 178
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.48% 0.72% 0.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.23% 3.30% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 82 70 141
10th Percentile £47,625 £52,375 £50,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £60,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £99,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £119,875 £115,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -12.95%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,409 2,666 5,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 11.31% 21.82% 21.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,596 1,780 3,944
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £46,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,014 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £111,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £135,000 £135,875
England 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 London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure SQL Database relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in London

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure SQL Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in London

Azure SQL Database
Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +8 24 £77,500 +3.33% 27
South London - 6 £80,000 -
West London - 4 £50,000 - 1
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 5 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.98%) CMS
3 1 (0.98%) DNN
3 1 (0.98%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.98%) Immediacy CMS
3 1 (0.98%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.98%) Kentico
3 1 (0.98%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.98%) Sitefinity
3 1 (0.98%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 102 (100.00%) Azure
2 44 (43.14%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 33 (32.35%) Azure Monitor
5 29 (28.43%) Power Platform
6 22 (21.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 18 (17.65%) Azure Service Bus
8 17 (16.67%) Azure Functions
8 17 (16.67%) Serverless
9 16 (15.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 13 (12.75%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (11.76%) GitHub
12 8 (7.84%) Azure AI
12 8 (7.84%) Azure Event Grid
13 7 (6.86%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (6.86%) Azure Storage
13 7 (6.86%) Entra ID
13 7 (6.86%) PowerApps
13 7 (6.86%) SaaS
13 7 (6.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.88%) Firewall
2 2 (1.96%) WinSCP
3 1 (0.98%) Internet
3 1 (0.98%) LAN
3 1 (0.98%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.98%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (34.31%) SQL Server
2 23 (22.55%) Power BI
3 18 (17.65%) MongoDB
4 12 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (9.80%) Delta Lake
5 10 (9.80%) NoSQL
6 9 (8.82%) Data Lake
6 9 (8.82%) Spark SQL
7 7 (6.86%) Tableau
8 6 (5.88%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (3.92%) Metadata
9 4 (3.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.94%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.94%) Power Query
10 3 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.98%) MySQL
12 1 (0.98%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 14 (13.73%) Git
2 4 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.98%) JIRA
3 1 (0.98%) Yeoman
General
1 48 (47.06%) Finance
2 13 (12.75%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.76%) Banking
4 9 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.90%) Legal
6 4 (3.92%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.96%) Advertising
7 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Games
7 2 (1.96%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.96%) Law
8 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.98%) Legal Technology
8 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.98%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (26.47%) Data Engineer
2 21 (20.59%) Senior
3 20 (19.61%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (17.65%) Developer
5 13 (12.75%) Support Engineer
6 12 (11.76%) .NET Developer
7 10 (9.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 10 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (9.80%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (8.82%) Applications Support
8 9 (8.82%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (6.86%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (6.86%) Applications Support Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Architect
10 6 (5.88%) DBA
10 6 (5.88%) Head of AI
10 6 (5.88%) Head of Finance
10 6 (5.88%) Reliability Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Senior Reliability Engineer
10 6 (5.88%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (36.27%) .NET
2 21 (20.59%) .NET Core
3 18 (17.65%) PySpark
4 15 (14.71%) ASP.NET
5 12 (11.76%) ASP.NET Core
6 11 (10.78%) YAML
7 10 (9.80%) ADO
7 10 (9.80%) AngularJS
7 10 (9.80%) Entity Framework
8 9 (8.82%) .NET Framework
9 8 (7.84%) Vue
10 7 (6.86%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (6.86%) React
10 7 (6.86%) WPF
11 5 (4.90%) ARM Templates
11 5 (4.90%) Kafka
12 4 (3.92%) Node.js
12 4 (3.92%) SubSonic
13 3 (2.94%) CSS
13 3 (2.94%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.82%) Replication
2 5 (4.90%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (4.90%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.94%) Clustering
3 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.94%) Tandem
4 2 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.98%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.98%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.98%) IoT
5 1 (0.98%) Legacy Code
5 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.98%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.98%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.69%) VMS
2 15 (14.71%) Windows
3 5 (4.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.96%) Linux
5 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (61.76%) CI/CD
2 47 (46.08%) Analytics
2 47 (46.08%) DevOps
3 32 (31.37%) Log Analytics
4 30 (29.41%) Agile
5 28 (27.45%) Data Pipeline
6 25 (24.51%) Migration
7 23 (22.55%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (22.55%) Data Engineering
8 22 (21.57%) High Availability
9 20 (19.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (18.63%) Data Governance
10 19 (18.63%) Microservices
10 19 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (17.65%) Data Modelling
11 18 (17.65%) Incident Management
12 16 (15.69%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (15.69%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (14.71%) ETL
13 15 (14.71%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 102 (100.00%) SQL
2 31 (30.39%) C#
3 28 (27.45%) Python
4 27 (26.47%) PowerShell
5 10 (9.80%) Scala
6 8 (7.84%) JavaScript
6 8 (7.84%) Kusto Query Language
6 8 (7.84%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.92%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.98%) Bash
9 1 (0.98%) Java
9 1 (0.98%) Korn
9 1 (0.98%) R
9 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (11.76%) Azure Certification
2 8 (7.84%) Degree
3 4 (3.92%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.92%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.75%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.92%) QA
3 3 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (16.67%) Docker
2 6 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 15 (14.71%) Terraform
3 8 (7.84%) Grafana
4 7 (6.86%) Kibana
Vendors
1 40 (39.22%) Microsoft
2 23 (22.55%) Databricks
3 2 (1.96%) iManage
3 2 (1.96%) Intapp
3 2 (1.96%) SAP
4 1 (0.98%) Alterian
4 1 (0.98%) Delphix
4 1 (0.98%) Facebook
4 1 (0.98%) Informatica
4 1 (0.98%) Intel
4 1 (0.98%) Litera
4 1 (0.98%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.98%) Optimizely
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle
4 1 (0.98%) Pure Storage
4 1 (0.98%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.98%) RedGate
4 1 (0.98%) Sitecore
4 1 (0.98%) SolarWinds
4 1 (0.98%) Sybase