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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 239 291
Rank change year-on-year -24 +52 +31
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 36 27 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.25% 0.35% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.16% 2.32% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 35 24 95
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,999
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,313 £67,500
90th Percentile £107,250 £87,500 -
England median annual salary £64,250 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% +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 1,141 1,162 2,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.83% 15.19% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 684 710 1,981
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -1.24%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 8 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 8 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 +26 12 £57,500 - 7
East Sussex -13 7 £112,500 - 2
Hampshire -22 7 £60,000 -40.89% 6
Kent -32 6 £50,000 -39.39% 7
Berkshire +12 5 £53,750 - 3
Oxfordshire - 5 £57,500 - 3
Surrey -35 2 £46,250 -27.45% 7
Buckinghamshire - 2 £90,000 - 1
West Sussex - 1 £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 36 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (25.00%) Azure AI
4 7 (19.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (16.67%) AWS
6 5 (13.89%) GitHub
6 5 (13.89%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (11.11%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
7 4 (11.11%) Snowflake
8 3 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (8.33%) Datadog
8 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
8 3 (8.33%) Serverless
8 3 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Internet
2 1 (2.78%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 8 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 7 (19.44%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (8.33%) Data Lake
5 3 (8.33%) Power BI
6 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.78%) Metadata
6 1 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 8 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (11.11%) Banking
2 4 (11.11%) Games
3 3 (8.33%) Legal
4 2 (5.56%) Advertising
4 2 (5.56%) Marketing
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 23 (63.89%) Developer
2 21 (58.33%) .NET Developer
3 4 (11.11%) Head of AI
3 4 (11.11%) Head of Finance
4 3 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (5.56%) Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Data Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) E-Commerce Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Data Consultant
6 1 (2.78%) Database Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) DBA
6 1 (2.78%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (61.11%) .NET
1 22 (61.11%) ASP.NET
1 22 (61.11%) ASP.NET Core
2 20 (55.56%) .NET Core
3 11 (30.56%) Entity Framework
4 10 (27.78%) RESTful
5 8 (22.22%) AngularJS
5 8 (22.22%) ASP.NET Web API
5 8 (22.22%) Vue
6 7 (19.44%) Node.js
7 6 (16.67%) Blazor
7 6 (16.67%) CSS
7 6 (16.67%) HTML
7 6 (16.67%) LINQ
7 6 (16.67%) React
8 5 (13.89%) ML.NET
9 3 (8.33%) .NET Framework
9 3 (8.33%) Loki
9 3 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.78%) Digital TV
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) Agile
2 20 (55.56%) Full-Stack Development
3 12 (33.33%) AI
4 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 10 (27.78%) DevOps
4 10 (27.78%) Machine Learning
5 8 (22.22%) Migration
5 8 (22.22%) Multithreading
6 6 (16.67%) Analytics
6 6 (16.67%) Data Architecture
6 6 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 6 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 6 (16.67%) Microservices
7 4 (11.11%) BDD
7 4 (11.11%) Data Development
7 4 (11.11%) ETL
7 4 (11.11%) Line Management
7 4 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
7 4 (11.11%) Roadmaps
7 4 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 36 (100.00%) SQL
2 22 (61.11%) C#
3 8 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 6 (16.67%) Python
5 3 (8.33%) Bash
5 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) DBS Check
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Docker
2 4 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Grafana
2 3 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 3 (8.33%) Scalr
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (19.44%) Databricks
3 2 (5.56%) Xamarin
4 1 (2.78%) Facebook
4 1 (2.78%) Google
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) YouTube