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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 213 253
Rank change year-on-year -37 +40 +119
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 19 97 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.18% 1.01% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.92% 5.44% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 16 78 10
10th Percentile £41,875 £45,000 £43,475
25th Percentile £61,563 £48,438 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year - +10.64% -12.96%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £78,438
90th Percentile £86,875 £84,000 £91,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year - -0.76% -6.43%

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 992 1,784 1,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.61% 18.49% 20.68%
Number of salaries quoted 563 979 1,091
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £70,438
90th Percentile £83,500 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -3.20%

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 17 December 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 17 December 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
Thames Valley -2 9 £65,000 +8.33% 11
Surrey -30 8 £66,250 +1.92% 6
Buckinghamshire +2 7 £65,000 +15.56% 4
Hampshire +31 1 £65,000 -3.70% 12
East Sussex +15 1 £45,000 -33.33% 3
Berkshire -13 1 - - 4
Oxfordshire - 1 £82,500 - 3
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 3 (15.79%) IIS
1 3 (15.79%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (52.63%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (42.11%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (31.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (26.32%) Azure AKS
5 5 (26.32%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (26.32%) GitHub
5 5 (26.32%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (26.32%) Power Platform
6 4 (21.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (21.05%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (15.79%) Azure Pipelines
7 3 (15.79%) Cloudflare
8 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
9 1 (5.26%) IaaS
9 1 (5.26%) PaaS
9 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) SQL Server
2 6 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (21.05%) Data Lake
3 4 (21.05%) Power BI
4 2 (10.53%) MySQL
4 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.26%) Metadata
5 1 (5.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Senior
2 5 (26.32%) Data Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Data Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Data Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) SQL Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Data Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) SQL DBA
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) .NET
2 3 (15.79%) ARM Templates
2 3 (15.79%) Loki
2 3 (15.79%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET
3 2 (10.53%) PySpark
3 2 (10.53%) React
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (10.53%) N-Tier
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) DevOps
2 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
3 7 (36.84%) Agile
3 7 (36.84%) Software Engineering
4 6 (31.58%) ETL
4 6 (31.58%) Microservices
5 5 (26.32%) API Management
5 5 (26.32%) Data Engineering
5 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (21.05%) Analytics
6 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (21.05%) Scrum
6 4 (21.05%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (21.05%) Sprint Retrospective
6 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
7 3 (15.79%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
7 3 (15.79%) Load Testing
7 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
7 3 (15.79%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (47.37%) C#
3 8 (42.11%) Python
4 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
5 3 (15.79%) Bicep
6 2 (10.53%) C
6 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Grafana
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
1 4 (21.05%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (36.84%) Databricks
3 2 (10.53%) Informatica