Azure SQL Database Job Trends in Reading

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
Berkshire > Reading

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 63 96
Rank change year-on-year +15 +33 +23
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 1 13 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.17% 1.72% 0.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.64% 8.33% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £53,688 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £60,813 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.70% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £65,938 £76,250
90th Percentile - £66,250 £80,750
Berkshire median annual salary - £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - -16.67%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 61 156 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 10.30% 20.66% 18.61%
Number of salaries quoted 30 72 95
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £50,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £66,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.91% +15.22% -11.54%
75th Percentile £74,063 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,375 £112,500 £86,500
Berkshire median annual salary £63,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +16.67% -7.69%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in Reading

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks