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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 272 268
Rank change year-on-year +105 -4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 188 23 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.06% 0.25% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.91% 1.91% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 187 20 53
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,375 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% -1.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £76,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -

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 1,352 1,203 2,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.65% 13.28% 15.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,065 644 1,325
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,594 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,840 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,375 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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
Hampshire - 45 £60,000 - 5
Thames Valley +46 41 £57,500 -11.54% 15
Surrey +7 37 £65,000 +33.33% 9
Kent +16 33 £55,000 -33.33% 7
Oxfordshire - 22 £57,500 - 6
Berkshire +38 19 £50,000 -48.72% 6
East Sussex +1 15 £60,000 - 2
West Sussex - 12 £58,750 - 2
Isle of Wight - 5 £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 5 (2.66%) IIS
1 5 (2.66%) nginx
2 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 188 (100.00%) Azure
2 55 (29.26%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (26.06%) GitHub
3 49 (26.06%) GitHub Copilot
4 44 (23.40%) Azure AI
5 35 (18.62%) AWS
6 21 (11.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 13 (6.91%) Entra ID
8 11 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (4.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (3.19%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.66%) Azure AKS
11 5 (2.66%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (2.66%) Azure Pipelines
11 5 (2.66%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (2.66%) Cloudflare
12 4 (2.13%) Azure Machine Learning
12 4 (2.13%) Google Play
12 4 (2.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.83%) Internet
2 4 (2.13%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (1.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (70.74%) MongoDB
2 58 (30.85%) Elasticsearch
3 26 (13.83%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.19%) Power BI
5 6 (3.19%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (2.66%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (2.66%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.66%) Metadata
6 5 (2.66%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.66%) Star Schema
7 4 (2.13%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (4.26%) Git
1 8 (4.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 23 (12.23%) Finance
2 22 (11.70%) Advertising
3 18 (9.57%) Games
4 11 (5.85%) Marketing
5 9 (4.79%) Retail
6 5 (2.66%) Music Industry
7 4 (2.13%) Banking
8 3 (1.60%) Legal
9 1 (0.53%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 144 (76.60%) Developer
2 140 (74.47%) .NET Developer
3 15 (7.98%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (6.38%) Data Engineer
5 10 (5.32%) Lead
6 8 (4.26%) IT Engineer
6 8 (4.26%) IT Support
6 8 (4.26%) IT Support Engineer
6 8 (4.26%) Lead Data Engineer
6 8 (4.26%) Support Engineer
7 7 (3.72%) Senior
8 5 (2.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 5 (2.66%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (2.66%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (2.13%) Head of AI
9 4 (2.13%) Head of Finance
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Data Engineer
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (1.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (1.06%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (77.66%) .NET
2 141 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 141 (75.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 139 (73.94%) .NET Core
4 58 (30.85%) Node.js
5 51 (27.13%) ASP.NET Web API
6 50 (26.60%) Entity Framework
7 49 (26.06%) CSS
7 49 (26.06%) HTML
8 48 (25.53%) AngularJS
8 48 (25.53%) React
8 48 (25.53%) Vue
9 46 (24.47%) Blazor
10 40 (21.28%) ML.NET
11 35 (18.62%) RESTful
12 30 (15.96%) LINQ
13 24 (12.77%) .NET Framework
14 8 (4.26%) Loki
15 6 (3.19%) WinForms
15 6 (3.19%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.96%) Greenfield Project
2 24 (12.77%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.19%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.66%) Digital TV
5 5 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.66%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.13%) iPhone
6 4 (2.13%) Social Network
7 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.57%) Windows
2 8 (4.26%) Windows Server
3 6 (3.19%) Android
4 5 (2.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (73.94%) Full-Stack Development
2 115 (61.17%) Agile
3 66 (35.11%) CI/CD
4 62 (32.98%) Microservices
5 57 (30.32%) DevOps
6 45 (23.94%) AI
7 44 (23.40%) Machine Learning
7 44 (23.40%) Scrum
8 38 (20.21%) BDD
8 38 (20.21%) TDD
9 33 (17.55%) Multithreading
10 32 (17.02%) Kanban
11 21 (11.17%) Analytics
12 19 (10.11%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
13 14 (7.45%) Data Engineering
14 13 (6.91%) Asset Management
14 13 (6.91%) Data Architecture
15 12 (6.38%) Business Intelligence
15 12 (6.38%) Video Advertising
16 11 (5.85%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 187 (99.47%) SQL
2 151 (80.32%) C#
3 48 (25.53%) JavaScript
3 48 (25.53%) TypeScript
4 18 (9.57%) Python
5 11 (5.85%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.26%) Bicep
7 3 (1.60%) Bash
7 3 (1.60%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 5 (2.66%) Degree
2 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 5 (2.66%) Data Quality
1 5 (2.66%) GDPR
1 5 (2.66%) QA
System Software
1 57 (30.32%) Docker
2 17 (9.04%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (4.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (28.72%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (4.26%) Grafana
3 8 (4.26%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.60%) Scalr
Vendors
1 171 (90.96%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.51%) Facebook
3 12 (6.38%) YouTube
4 9 (4.79%) Google
5 8 (4.26%) Databricks
6 5 (2.66%) Informatica
6 5 (2.66%) Talend
7 2 (1.06%) Oracle
7 2 (1.06%) Xamarin