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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 240 294
Rank change year-on-year -5 +54 +24
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 55 25 97
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.38% 0.33% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.73% 2.25% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 55 22 94
10th Percentile £43,000 £42,500 £43,224
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £66,250 £80,938 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -14.81%

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 1,164 1,113 2,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.04% 14.48% 15.56%
Number of salaries quoted 736 646 1,994
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,375 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +19 14 £57,500 -41.03% 6
Kent -30 12 £53,750 -34.85% 7
Hampshire - 10 £60,000 - 6
East Sussex -13 8 £86,250 - 2
Berkshire +11 7 £50,000 -48.72% 3
Surrey -26 7 £50,000 -25.93% 7
Oxfordshire - 7 £57,500 - 3
West Sussex - 3 £60,000 - 2
Isle of Wight - 1 £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:

Cloud Services
1 55 (100.00%) Azure
2 16 (29.09%) Azure AI
3 15 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (25.45%) GitHub
4 14 (25.45%) GitHub Copilot
5 11 (20.00%) AWS
6 5 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (7.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (7.27%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (7.27%) Snowflake
8 3 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.45%) Amazon S3
8 3 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.45%) Datadog
8 3 (5.45%) Entra ID
8 3 (5.45%) Serverless
8 3 (5.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) Internet
2 2 (3.64%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (70.91%) MongoDB
2 17 (30.91%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (14.55%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.64%) Power BI
6 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Git
1 3 (5.45%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 10 (18.18%) Finance
2 7 (12.73%) Games
3 6 (10.91%) Advertising
4 4 (7.27%) Banking
5 3 (5.45%) Legal
5 3 (5.45%) Marketing
6 2 (3.64%) Retail
7 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 46 (83.64%) Developer
2 44 (80.00%) .NET Developer
3 4 (7.27%) Head of AI
3 4 (7.27%) Head of Finance
4 3 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (5.45%) Senior
5 2 (3.64%) Senior Developer
6 1 (1.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (1.82%) Data Engineer
6 1 (1.82%) Database Engineer
6 1 (1.82%) DBA
6 1 (1.82%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (1.82%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (1.82%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (1.82%) Senior Mobile Developer
6 1 (1.82%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (1.82%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (81.82%) .NET
1 45 (81.82%) ASP.NET
1 45 (81.82%) ASP.NET Core
2 43 (78.18%) .NET Core
3 18 (32.73%) Entity Framework
4 17 (30.91%) ASP.NET Web API
4 17 (30.91%) Node.js
5 16 (29.09%) AngularJS
5 16 (29.09%) Vue
6 15 (27.27%) RESTful
7 14 (25.45%) Blazor
7 14 (25.45%) CSS
7 14 (25.45%) HTML
7 14 (25.45%) React
8 12 (21.82%) ML.NET
9 11 (20.00%) LINQ
10 6 (10.91%) .NET Framework
11 3 (5.45%) Loki
11 3 (5.45%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (5.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (10.91%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.45%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (5.45%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.64%) Digital TV
4 2 (3.64%) Social Network
5 1 (1.82%) iPhone
5 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (78.18%) Full-Stack Development
2 37 (67.27%) Agile
3 17 (30.91%) AI
3 17 (30.91%) CI/CD
4 16 (29.09%) Machine Learning
4 16 (29.09%) Microservices
5 15 (27.27%) DevOps
6 13 (23.64%) Multithreading
7 10 (18.18%) BDD
7 10 (18.18%) Scrum
7 10 (18.18%) TDD
8 8 (14.55%) Kanban
8 8 (14.55%) Migration
9 6 (10.91%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
10 5 (9.09%) Analytics
10 5 (9.09%) Asset Management
10 5 (9.09%) Data Governance
10 5 (9.09%) OO
11 4 (7.27%) Data Architecture
11 4 (7.27%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (100.00%) SQL
2 45 (81.82%) C#
3 16 (29.09%) TypeScript
4 14 (25.45%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.27%) Python
6 3 (5.45%) Bash
6 3 (5.45%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
System Software
1 17 (30.91%) Docker
2 4 (7.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (25.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.45%) Grafana
2 3 (5.45%) Prometheus
2 3 (5.45%) Scalr
2 3 (5.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 50 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.09%) Databricks
3 4 (7.27%) Facebook
4 3 (5.45%) Google
4 3 (5.45%) YouTube
5 2 (3.64%) Xamarin
6 1 (1.82%) Oracle