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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 60 98
Rank change year-on-year -32 +38 +64
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 1 43 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.059% 3.61% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.93% 19.11% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1 43 7
10th Percentile - - £53,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £43,750 £72,500 £65,000
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 & 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 108 225 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 6.42% 18.91% 16.37%
Number of salaries quoted 51 140 176
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £39,375
25th Percentile £41,875 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £59,063 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.39% -

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
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 26 January 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
Epsom 0 1 £42,500 -34.62% 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft