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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 258 279
Rank change year-on-year -7 +21 +130
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 20 78 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.22% 0.60% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.77% 3.95% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 18 60 29
10th Percentile £42,125 £45,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -14.81%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £75,125 £92,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%

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 1,130 1,976 1,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 12.60% 15.32% 20.86%
Number of salaries quoted 600 1,191 1,386
10th Percentile £30,450 £36,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £39,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,533 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +6.67%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Azure SQL Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database 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 September 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 September 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
Surrey +15 13 £45,000 -30.77% 4
Thames Valley -19 5 £65,000 - 7
Buckinghamshire -22 4 £65,000 +4.00% 1
Kent -3 2 £82,500 +17.86% 6
Berkshire -13 1 £97,500 +50.00% 4
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) IIS
1 4 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (35.00%) Power Platform
5 5 (25.00%) Azure AKS
5 5 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Azure Pipelines
6 4 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (20.00%) Cloudflare
6 4 (20.00%) GitHub
6 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
8 1 (5.00%) IaaS
8 1 (5.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (35.00%) Power BI
3 6 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (20.00%) Data Lake
5 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (10.00%) MySQL
6 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 4 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) SQL Developer
4 2 (10.00%) DBA
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) SQL DBA
5 1 (5.00%) Production DBA
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) SQL BI Developer
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Production DBA
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.00%) T-SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) .NET
2 4 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 4 (20.00%) Loki
2 4 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (10.00%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) DevOps
2 7 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (35.00%) ETL
3 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (25.00%) API Management
4 5 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 5 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (25.00%) Microservices
5 4 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 4 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 4 (20.00%) Data Science
5 4 (20.00%) Load Testing
5 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (40.00%) C#
3 7 (35.00%) T-SQL
4 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (25.00%) Python
6 4 (20.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Azure Certification
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (20.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Grafana
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) Informatica