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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 149 133
Rank change year-on-year +29 -16 +25
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 21 6 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.51% 0.24% 1.04%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.05% 1.76% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 20 6 10
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £27,500 £26,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £28,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +96.43% -37.78% -21.74%
75th Percentile £60,000 £45,063 £49,688
90th Percentile £77,500 £51,625 £52,625
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +3.55%

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 190 341 596
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.61% 13.39% 16.28%
Number of salaries quoted 114 103 246
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,000 £32,375
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -11.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £64,750
90th Percentile £104,250 £77,500 £73,886
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 1 October 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 1 October 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 - 14 £55,000 - 1
Moray - 4 £75,000 -
Edinburgh +13 3 £47,500 +74.31% 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (28.57%) Azure AI
3 6 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 6 (28.57%) SaaS
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (9.52%) GCP
6 1 (4.76%) AWS
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Databricks
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.76%) Dagster
6 1 (4.76%) Datadog
6 1 (4.76%) dbt
6 1 (4.76%) Prefect
6 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 5 (23.81%) Data Lake
2 5 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
3 1 (4.76%) MariaDB
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Flyway
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) Liquibase
General
1 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (4.76%) Finance
1 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (4.76%) Law
1 1 (4.76%) Marketing
1 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) .NET Developer
1 9 (42.86%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Applications Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Applications Support
2 6 (28.57%) Applications Support Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Database Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) .NET
1 9 (42.86%) .NET Core
1 9 (42.86%) ASP.NET
1 9 (42.86%) ASP.NET Core
1 9 (42.86%) Blazor
1 9 (42.86%) React
2 6 (28.57%) ML.NET
2 6 (28.57%) RESTful
3 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (14.29%) LINQ
4 1 (4.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) BBC
1 6 (28.57%) Client/Server
1 6 (28.57%) Social Media
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) DevOps
2 10 (47.62%) Agile
3 9 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
4 6 (28.57%) AI
4 6 (28.57%) Change Management
4 6 (28.57%) Data Architecture
4 6 (28.57%) ITIL
4 6 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 6 (28.57%) Multithreading
4 6 (28.57%) OO
5 5 (23.81%) Analytics
5 5 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (23.81%) Data Science
6 4 (19.05%) Data Acquisition
7 3 (14.29%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
7 3 (14.29%) Microservices
8 2 (9.52%) Observability
8 2 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
9 1 (4.76%) CI/CD
9 1 (4.76%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (42.86%) C#
2 9 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Grafana
1 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (33.33%) Google
3 6 (28.57%) Apple
3 6 (28.57%) Facebook
3 6 (28.57%) Sony
3 6 (28.57%) Yahoo!
4 5 (23.81%) Databricks
5 1 (4.76%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.76%) New Relic
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle