Azure SQL Database Job Trends in Scotland

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 149 217
Rank change year-on-year +32 +68 -51
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 23 4 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.68% 0.16% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.17% 1.07% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 22 2 16
10th Percentile - £47,575 £40,833
25th Percentile £27,000 £47,688 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,250 £49,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.12% -13.48% -11.54%
75th Percentile £60,000 £52,063 £65,313
90th Percentile - £52,325 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.12% +2.08% -7.69%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 206 374 1,210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.12% 14.94% 22.73%
Number of salaries quoted 103 127 354
10th Percentile £27,125 £32,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £38,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,033
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +10.51% -11.05%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,170 £65,000
90th Percentile £99,000 £96,389 £74,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% +0.83% -4.00%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in Scotland

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in Scotland

Azure SQL Database
Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 July 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
Glasgow +28 18 £29,000 - 3
Edinburgh - 4 £47,500 - 1
Moray - 1 £75,000 - 2
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 23 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) SaaS
3 11 (47.83%) Entra ID
4 6 (26.09%) Azure AI
4 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (4.35%) AWS
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (4.35%) Datadog
6 1 (4.35%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) MariaDB
3 1 (4.35%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Flyway
1 1 (4.35%) Liquibase
General
1 1 (4.35%) Finance
1 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (4.35%) Law
1 1 (4.35%) Marketing
1 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Applications Engineer
1 11 (47.83%) Applications Support
1 11 (47.83%) Applications Support Engineer
1 11 (47.83%) Support Engineer
2 9 (39.13%) .NET Developer
2 9 (39.13%) Developer
3 1 (4.35%) Applications Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Architect
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Data Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Database Architect
3 1 (4.35%) Lead
3 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) .NET
2 9 (39.13%) .NET Core
2 9 (39.13%) ASP.NET
2 9 (39.13%) ASP.NET Core
2 9 (39.13%) Blazor
2 9 (39.13%) React
3 6 (26.09%) ML.NET
3 6 (26.09%) RESTful
4 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (13.04%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Client/Server
2 6 (26.09%) BBC
2 6 (26.09%) Social Media
3 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) DevOps
2 11 (47.83%) Change Management
2 11 (47.83%) ITIL
3 10 (43.48%) Agile
4 9 (39.13%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (26.09%) AI
5 6 (26.09%) Machine Learning
5 6 (26.09%) Multithreading
5 6 (26.09%) OO
6 3 (13.04%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
6 3 (13.04%) Microservices
7 2 (8.70%) Analytics
7 2 (8.70%) Data Architecture
8 1 (4.35%) CI/CD
8 1 (4.35%) Data Governance
8 1 (4.35%) Data Security
8 1 (4.35%) Roadmaps
8 1 (4.35%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (4.35%) Technology Strategy
8 1 (4.35%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) SQL
2 10 (43.48%) C#
3 9 (39.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) Python
System Software
1 11 (47.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Grafana
1 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 7 (30.43%) Google
3 6 (26.09%) Apple
3 6 (26.09%) Facebook
3 6 (26.09%) Sony
3 6 (26.09%) Yahoo!
4 1 (4.35%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.35%) New Relic
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle