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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 81 130
Rank change year-on-year 0 +49 -20
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 37 17 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.65% 1.48% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 18.69% 10.06% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 37 15 9
10th Percentile £38,750 - £47,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -23.53%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £79,250 £87,500 £76,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +13.04%

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 198 169 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 8.82% 14.67% 12.03%
Number of salaries quoted 149 112 188
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £79,875
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,500 £54,500
% change year-on-year -0.90% +1.83% -5.22%

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 4 August 2026.

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 4 August 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
Guildford - 6 £67,500 - 2
Epsom -1 5 £65,000 -23.53% 1
Farnham - 5 £55,000 - 2
Cobham - 5 £42,500 - 1
Woking -19 4 £75,000 +66.67% 1
Egham - 4 £65,000 -
Lightwater - 3 £47,500 -
Staines -10 1 £65,000 -7.14%
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 5 (13.51%) IIS
1 5 (13.51%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 37 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (37.84%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (21.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (13.51%) Azure AKS
4 5 (13.51%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (13.51%) Azure Pipelines
4 5 (13.51%) Azure Service Bus
4 5 (13.51%) Cloudflare
5 4 (10.81%) AWS
5 4 (10.81%) Azure AI
5 4 (10.81%) GitHub
5 4 (10.81%) GitHub Copilot
5 4 (10.81%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.11%) Hyperconnected
1 3 (8.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (67.57%) MongoDB
2 12 (32.43%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (24.32%) SQL Server
4 4 (10.81%) Data Lake
4 4 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 5 (13.51%) Advertising
1 5 (13.51%) Music Industry
1 5 (13.51%) Retail
2 4 (10.81%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Games
Job Titles
1 28 (75.68%) .NET Developer
1 28 (75.68%) Developer
2 7 (18.92%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (89.19%) .NET
2 28 (75.68%) .NET Core
2 28 (75.68%) ASP.NET
2 28 (75.68%) ASP.NET Core
3 15 (40.54%) ASP.NET Web API
4 12 (32.43%) Blazor
4 12 (32.43%) Entity Framework
4 12 (32.43%) LINQ
4 12 (32.43%) Node.js
4 12 (32.43%) React
5 11 (29.73%) AngularJS
5 11 (29.73%) RESTful
5 11 (29.73%) Vue
6 5 (13.51%) ARM Templates
6 5 (13.51%) CSS
6 5 (13.51%) HTML
6 5 (13.51%) Loki
7 4 (10.81%) .NET Framework
7 4 (10.81%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (13.51%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (10.81%) iPhone
2 4 (10.81%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
1 5 (13.51%) Windows
2 4 (10.81%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (75.68%) Full-Stack Development
2 21 (56.76%) Agile
3 17 (45.95%) Microservices
4 14 (37.84%) DevOps
5 11 (29.73%) Multithreading
6 10 (27.03%) CI/CD
7 5 (13.51%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (13.51%) Continuous Deployment
7 5 (13.51%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (13.51%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
7 5 (13.51%) High Availability
7 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (13.51%) Performance Optimisation
7 5 (13.51%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (13.51%) Video Advertising
8 4 (10.81%) Analytics
8 4 (10.81%) BDD
8 4 (10.81%) Data Architecture
8 4 (10.81%) Fintech
8 4 (10.81%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) SQL
2 33 (89.19%) C#
3 12 (32.43%) JavaScript
4 11 (29.73%) TypeScript
5 5 (13.51%) Bicep
5 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) QA
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) Docker
2 5 (13.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.51%) Grafana
2 5 (13.51%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Facebook
2 5 (13.51%) YouTube
3 4 (10.81%) Databricks
3 4 (10.81%) Google