Azure SQL Database Job Trends in the Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 197 211
Rank change year-on-year +3 +14 +69
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 30 36 62
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.34% 0.60% 0.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.91% 4.27% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 26 30 58
10th Percentile £45,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,938 £41,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £74,375 £61,250
90th Percentile £66,375 £82,325 £71,125
England median annual salary £69,500 £63,750 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.02% +10.87% -17.86%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 768 843 1,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.80% 14.14% 18.00%
Number of salaries quoted 542 483 1,297
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Azure SQL Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in the Midlands

Azure SQL Database
Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
East Midlands -17 16 £50,000 -2.44% 12
West Midlands +12 12 £64,250 +14.22% 12
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (46.67%) Power Platform
3 9 (30.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 8 (26.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (10.00%) SaaS
7 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.33%) Azure App Service
7 1 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Storage
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.33%) GCP
7 1 (3.33%) IaaS
7 1 (3.33%) PaaS
7 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (56.67%) SQL Server
2 13 (43.33%) Data Lake
2 13 (43.33%) Power BI
3 11 (36.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (13.33%) Power Query
7 3 (10.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (10.00%) Big Data
8 2 (6.67%) Star Schema
9 1 (3.33%) Metadata
9 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 7 (23.33%) Law
4 3 (10.00%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Billing
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) DBA
2 9 (30.00%) SQL DBA
3 8 (26.67%) Developer
3 8 (26.67%) Senior
4 6 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (16.67%) Azure Data Engineer
5 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 5 (16.67%) Data Engineer
5 5 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Administrator
7 2 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Specialist
7 2 (6.67%) Data Migration Specialist
7 2 (6.67%) Migration Specialist
7 2 (6.67%) Power BI Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Power BI Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Power BI Specialist
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.67%) SQL Developer
8 1 (3.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.33%) Entity Framework
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Data Structures
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (10.00%) Clustering
4 3 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (3.33%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Analytics
2 14 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (43.33%) ETL
4 11 (36.67%) DevOps
5 10 (33.33%) Decision-Making
6 8 (26.67%) Data Modelling
6 8 (26.67%) Visualisation
7 7 (23.33%) Reverse Engineering
8 6 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
8 6 (20.00%) Data Analysis
8 6 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (16.67%) Data Strategy
9 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (13.33%) Data Architecture
10 4 (13.33%) Use Case
11 3 (10.00%) Data Protection
11 3 (10.00%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) SQL
2 12 (40.00%) T-SQL
3 10 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (3.33%) Bicep
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) Python
5 1 (3.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (13.33%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Databricks