Azure SQL Database Jobs in the South West

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 243 252
Rank change year-on-year +67 +9 +44
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 9 39 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.23% 0.38% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.81% 2.93% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9 30 12
10th Percentile - £42,928 £43,525
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +17.50%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £95,798
90th Percentile - £62,725 £135,693
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £66,056
% change year-on-year +8.70% -12.95% -2.14%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 496 1,330 1,242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 12.83% 12.89% 19.28%
Number of salaries quoted 319 886 843
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £34,345
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £52,700
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +1.52% +5.40%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,948 £76,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the South West

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the South West.

Salary trend for Azure SQL Database in the South West

Azure SQL Database
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Wiltshire +43 5 £50,000 -14.89% 3
Bristol +62 3 £60,000 +4.35% 6
Dorset +40 1 £55,000 -4.35% 2
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 3 (33.33%) IaaS
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
1 3 (33.33%) LAN
1 3 (33.33%) MPLS
1 3 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 3 (33.33%) Unified Communications
1 3 (33.33%) VPN
1 3 (33.33%) WAN
1 3 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (55.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
1 5 (55.56%) Lead
1 5 (55.56%) Lead Developer
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Developer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2019
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (55.56%) Data Security
2 5 (55.56%) Database Security
2 5 (55.56%) Mentoring
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Project Delivery
3 4 (44.44%) Migration
4 3 (33.33%) ITIL
4 3 (33.33%) ITSM
4 3 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (33.33%) Service Management
4 3 (33.33%) Zero Trust
5 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) High Availability
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Management
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) T-SQL
3 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 3 (33.33%) Extreme Networks
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 3 (33.33%) SolarWinds
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
1 3 (33.33%) Zscaler