Azure SQL Database Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 236 268
Rank change year-on-year -34 +32 +113
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 20 91 27
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.22% 0.79% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.89% 4.89% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 18 68 22
10th Percentile £42,125 £47,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £44,688 £52,141 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -14.81%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £73,438
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £99,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,060 1,861 1,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.85% 16.07% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 587 1,052 1,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,668 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% -0.60% -
75th Percentile £69,102 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £82,350
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in the South East

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the South East over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in the South East

Azure SQL Database
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 18 October 2025. 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
Surrey -5 12 £53,750 -17.31% 2
Thames Valley -18 6 £65,000 +8.33% 14
Buckinghamshire -7 4 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Kent +2 2 £82,500 +17.86% 8
Berkshire -14 1 £97,500 +56.00% 6
Oxfordshire - 1 £82,500 - 6
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (20.00%) IIS
1 4 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (55.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (45.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (30.00%) Azure AKS
4 6 (30.00%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (30.00%) Power Platform
5 5 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (25.00%) GitHub
5 5 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (20.00%) Azure Pipelines
6 4 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (20.00%) Cloudflare
7 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
8 1 (5.00%) IaaS
8 1 (5.00%) PaaS
8 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (30.00%) Power BI
3 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (20.00%) Data Lake
5 3 (15.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (10.00%) MySQL
6 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
7 1 (5.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) SQL Developer
4 2 (10.00%) DBA
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) SQL DBA
5 1 (5.00%) Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) .NET
2 4 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 4 (20.00%) Loki
2 4 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (15.00%) XML
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Replication
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) DevOps
2 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (30.00%) ETL
4 5 (25.00%) API Management
4 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (25.00%) Microservices
4 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 4 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (20.00%) Load Testing
5 4 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
5 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (15.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (40.00%) C#
3 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (30.00%) T-SQL
4 5 (25.00%) Python
5 4 (20.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (15.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Grafana
1 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) Informatica