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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 200 245
Rank change year-on-year -58 +45 +103
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 16 102 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.15% 1.13% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.68% 6.17% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 15 81 37
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £40,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -18.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -14.29%

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 954 1,653 1,632
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.17% 18.28% 19.02%
Number of salaries quoted 531 868 1,223
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,698 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% +5.91% -
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £83,750
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 9 January 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 9 January 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 -2 10 £65,000 +8.33% 15
Buckinghamshire +3 7 £65,000 +15.56% 2
Surrey -37 3 £42,500 -34.62% 7
Berkshire -14 2 £50,000 -20.00% 10
Hampshire +29 1 £65,000 -3.70% 11
East Sussex +8 1 £45,000 -33.33% 3
Kent -16 1 £27,500 -68.57% 11
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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
4 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (18.75%) GitHub
5 3 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (6.25%) Azure AI
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
7 1 (6.25%) IaaS
7 1 (6.25%) PaaS
7 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Hyperconnected
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (25.00%) Power BI
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (12.50%) MySQL
3 2 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (6.25%) Metadata
4 1 (6.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
General
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
1 4 (25.00%) Senior
1 4 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 2 (12.50%) E-Commerce Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Data Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) DBA
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) SQL DBA
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) .NET
2 4 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (25.00%) React
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (12.50%) Blazor
3 2 (12.50%) PySpark
4 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (6.25%) ML.NET
4 1 (6.25%) Node.js
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (12.50%) N-Tier
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.25%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Agile
1 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
1 7 (43.75%) DevOps
2 6 (37.50%) ETL
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Analytics
4 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (25.00%) Microservices
4 4 (25.00%) Scrum
5 3 (18.75%) AI
5 3 (18.75%) API Management
5 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (18.75%) Data Strategy
5 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
5 3 (18.75%) OO
5 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (12.50%) Migration
6 2 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) C#
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) C
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Databricks