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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 78 83
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 -
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 9 37 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.78% 2.45% 0.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.04% 14.86% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7 37 2
10th Percentile £41,250 - -
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £100,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -35.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 -
90th Percentile - £82,500 -
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 112 249 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 9.70% 16.50% 18.76%
Number of salaries quoted 81 155 136
10th Percentile - £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,000 £69,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure SQL Database relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend 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 1 November 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 1 November 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
Staines - 4 £70,000 -
Epsom -4 3 £42,500 -34.62%
Horley - 1 - -
Woking - 1 £62,500 -
Azure SQL Database
South East

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) IIS
1 4 (44.44%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (44.44%) Azure AKS
4 4 (44.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (44.44%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (44.44%) Azure Pipelines
4 4 (44.44%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (44.44%) Cloudflare
4 4 (44.44%) GitHub
4 4 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Git
1 4 (44.44%) Octopus Deploy
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) .NET
2 4 (44.44%) ARM Templates
2 4 (44.44%) Loki
2 4 (44.44%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Marketing Technology
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) API Management
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Deployment
3 4 (44.44%) Load Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Mentoring
3 4 (44.44%) Microservices
3 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (44.44%) Sprint Retrospective
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum
6 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (11.11%) Customer Experience
6 1 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (11.11%) Data Strategy
6 1 (11.11%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 1 (11.11%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (88.89%) C#
3 4 (44.44%) Bicep
3 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
4 3 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Grafana
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
1 4 (44.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Databricks
3 2 (22.22%) Informatica