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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 206 245
Rank change year-on-year -55 +39 +113
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 15 101 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.14% 1.09% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.55% 5.91% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 14 80 18
10th Percentile £41,625 £45,000 £40,500
25th Percentile £59,688 £50,313 £45,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year - +15.56% -16.67%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,125 £83,000 £73,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -10.71%

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 967 1,708 1,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.32% 18.39% 19.73%
Number of salaries quoted 527 914 1,128
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,175
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £69,522 £75,000 £70,219
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 31 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 31 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 -3 9 £65,000 +8.33% 47
Buckinghamshire +2 7 £65,000 +15.56% 12
Surrey -33 4 £52,500 -19.23% 14
Hampshire +34 1 £65,000 -3.70% 24
East Sussex +11 1 £45,000 -33.33% 5
Berkshire -11 1 - - 26
Oxfordshire - 1 £82,500 - 9
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 1 (6.67%) IIS
1 1 (6.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Azure AKS
5 3 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (20.00%) GitHub
5 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (13.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (6.67%) Cloudflare
7 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 1 (6.67%) IaaS
7 1 (6.67%) PaaS
7 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 4 (26.67%) Data Lake
3 4 (26.67%) Power BI
4 2 (13.33%) MySQL
4 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.67%) Metadata
5 1 (6.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Senior
1 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Data Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Data Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) DBA
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) SQL DBA
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (13.33%) PySpark
2 2 (13.33%) React
3 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (6.67%) Loki
3 1 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (13.33%) N-Tier
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
1 7 (46.67%) DevOps
2 6 (40.00%) ETL
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Analytics
4 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (26.67%) Microservices
4 4 (26.67%) Scrum
5 3 (20.00%) API Management
5 3 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (20.00%) Data Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (13.33%) Concurrent Programming
6 2 (13.33%) Observability
6 2 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (13.33%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) Python
3 5 (33.33%) C#
4 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (13.33%) C
5 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
6 1 (6.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Grafana
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Databricks