Azure SQL Database Job Trends in Surrey

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 101 97
Rank change year-on-year +21 -4 +113
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 13 31 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 1.12% 1.66% 0.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.15% 12.40% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 11 31 3
10th Percentile £41,250 - £70,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% -35.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,125 -
90th Percentile - £75,000 -
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -14.81%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 142 250 205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 12.20% 13.38% 18.13%
Number of salaries quoted 96 176 158
10th Percentile £35,625 £35,025 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,938 £40,000 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £69,063 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £75,625 £70,375
South East median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.91% -4.35% +4.55%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Surrey

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Azure SQL Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Surrey over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in Surrey

Azure SQL Database
Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 18 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
Woking - 5 £45,000 - 1
Staines - 4 £70,000 -
Epsom -11 3 £42,500 -30.61%
Horley - 1 - -
Azure SQL Database
South East

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 (30.77%) IIS
1 4 (30.77%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (69.23%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (61.54%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Azure AKS
4 4 (30.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (30.77%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (30.77%) Azure Pipelines
4 4 (30.77%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (30.77%) Cloudflare
4 4 (30.77%) GitHub
4 4 (30.77%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
5 3 (23.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
1 4 (30.77%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) .NET
2 4 (30.77%) ARM Templates
2 4 (30.77%) Loki
2 4 (30.77%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (30.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (15.38%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 5 (38.46%) Decision-Making
2 5 (38.46%) ETL
3 4 (30.77%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (30.77%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Deployment
3 4 (30.77%) Data Integration
3 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
3 4 (30.77%) Load Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
3 4 (30.77%) Microservices
3 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (30.77%) Sprint Retrospective
3 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (61.54%) C#
3 4 (30.77%) Bicep
3 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
3 4 (30.77%) T-SQL
4 3 (23.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Azure Certification
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
1 4 (30.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Grafana
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
1 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Databricks
3 2 (15.38%) Informatica