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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 261 305
Rank change year-on-year +88 +44 -9
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 153 24 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.99% 0.29% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.90% 2.01% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 153 21 78
10th Percentile £41,500 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £66,250 £83,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £87,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -12.95%

All Database & 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 1,286 1,197 2,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.32% 14.35% 14.56%
Number of salaries quoted 941 690 1,978
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 5 July 2026.

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 5 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
Thames Valley +42 33 £55,000 -26.67% 9
Hampshire - 32 £60,000 - 8
Kent +3 30 £55,000 -33.33% 8
Surrey -2 29 £65,000 -7.14% 7
Berkshire +31 19 £50,000 -48.72% 4
East Sussex +2 14 £60,000 - 2
Oxfordshire - 14 £57,500 - 4
West Sussex - 11 £57,500 - 2
Isle of Wight - 4 £50,000 - 1
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 (2.61%) IIS
1 4 (2.61%) nginx
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 153 (100.00%) Azure
2 44 (28.76%) Azure DevOps
2 44 (28.76%) GitHub
2 44 (28.76%) GitHub Copilot
3 41 (26.80%) Azure AI
4 33 (21.57%) AWS
5 14 (9.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (5.88%) Entra ID
7 7 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.61%) Azure AKS
8 4 (2.61%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (2.61%) Azure Pipelines
8 4 (2.61%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (2.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.61%) Cloudflare
8 4 (2.61%) Google Play
8 4 (2.61%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (15.03%) Internet
2 5 (3.27%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (77.12%) MongoDB
2 55 (35.95%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (9.15%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.65%) Power BI
5 1 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.58%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (1.96%) Git
General
1 21 (13.73%) Finance
2 20 (13.07%) Advertising
3 16 (10.46%) Games
4 10 (6.54%) Marketing
5 8 (5.23%) Retail
6 4 (2.61%) Banking
6 4 (2.61%) Music Industry
7 3 (1.96%) Legal
8 1 (0.65%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 131 (85.62%) Developer
2 129 (84.31%) .NET Developer
3 6 (3.92%) IT Engineer
3 6 (3.92%) IT Support
3 6 (3.92%) IT Support Engineer
3 6 (3.92%) Support Engineer
4 5 (3.27%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (2.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 4 (2.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (2.61%) Head of AI
5 4 (2.61%) Head of Finance
6 3 (1.96%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (1.31%) Data Engineer
7 2 (1.31%) Database Engineer
7 2 (1.31%) DBA
7 2 (1.31%) Lead
7 2 (1.31%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (1.31%) Senior
7 2 (1.31%) Senior Developer
8 1 (0.65%) Senior Mobile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (87.58%) .NET
2 130 (84.97%) ASP.NET
2 130 (84.97%) ASP.NET Core
3 128 (83.66%) .NET Core
4 55 (35.95%) Node.js
5 48 (31.37%) ASP.NET Web API
6 47 (30.72%) React
7 45 (29.41%) Blazor
7 45 (29.41%) Entity Framework
8 44 (28.76%) AngularJS
8 44 (28.76%) Vue
9 43 (28.10%) CSS
9 43 (28.10%) HTML
10 37 (24.18%) ML.NET
11 33 (21.57%) RESTful
12 27 (17.65%) LINQ
13 22 (14.38%) .NET Framework
14 7 (4.58%) Loki
15 6 (3.92%) WinForms
15 6 (3.92%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.99%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.92%) Mobile App
3 6 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.27%) Digital TV
4 5 (3.27%) Social Network
5 4 (2.61%) iPhone
6 3 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.54%) Windows
2 6 (3.92%) Android
2 6 (3.92%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (83.66%) Full-Stack Development
2 102 (66.67%) Agile
3 58 (37.91%) Microservices
4 50 (32.68%) CI/CD
5 44 (28.76%) DevOps
6 42 (27.45%) AI
7 41 (26.80%) Machine Learning
8 36 (23.53%) Scrum
9 34 (22.22%) BDD
9 34 (22.22%) TDD
10 31 (20.26%) Multithreading
11 29 (18.95%) Kanban
12 17 (11.11%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
13 11 (7.19%) Asset Management
13 11 (7.19%) OO
13 11 (7.19%) Video Advertising
14 10 (6.54%) Analytics
15 9 (5.88%) Data Analytics
15 9 (5.88%) Fintech
16 8 (5.23%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 152 (99.35%) SQL
2 134 (87.58%) C#
3 47 (30.72%) JavaScript
4 44 (28.76%) TypeScript
5 8 (5.23%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.27%) Bicep
6 5 (3.27%) Python
7 3 (1.96%) Bash
8 1 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.61%) QA
System Software
1 51 (33.33%) Docker
2 14 (9.15%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (3.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (31.37%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.58%) Grafana
2 7 (4.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (4.58%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.96%) Scalr
3 3 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 146 (95.42%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.80%) Facebook
3 11 (7.19%) YouTube
4 9 (5.88%) Google
5 4 (2.61%) Databricks
6 2 (1.31%) Oracle
6 2 (1.31%) Xamarin