Azure SQL Database Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 316 311
Rank change year-on-year -111 -5 +210
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 99 246 396
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.75% 0.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.48% 4.62% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 69 165 363
10th Percentile £26,250 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,300 £82,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -17.86%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,984 5,319 9,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.36% 16.30% 18.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,387 2,805 7,375
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure SQL Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
Midlands +3 30 £60,000 +14.29% 24
North of England -17 22 £55,000 -8.33% 41
East Midlands -17 16 £50,000 -2.44% 12
Scotland -28 15 £27,500 -42.11% 4
West Midlands +12 12 £64,250 +14.22% 12
North West -2 11 £58,000 -14.07% 23
South East -61 10 £65,000 - 56
East of England -11 8 £60,000 +26.32% 20
North East -7 6 - - 5
South West -15 6 £53,250 -11.25% 13
Northern Ireland -16 5 £50,000 -
Yorkshire -31 5 £45,000 -16.67% 13
Wales +2 3 £56,631 +51.02% 9
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.01%) Confluence
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 24 (24.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.03%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.01%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 99 (100.00%) Azure
2 50 (50.51%) Power Platform
3 48 (48.48%) Azure Data Factory
4 36 (36.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 20 (20.20%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (15.15%) SaaS
7 12 (12.12%) Entra ID
8 6 (6.06%) Azure AI
9 5 (5.05%) GitHub
9 5 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (4.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (4.04%) Serverless
11 3 (3.03%) Azure API Management
11 3 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (3.03%) Azure Stack
11 3 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.02%) Azure AKS
12 2 (2.02%) Azure App Service
12 2 (2.02%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.02%) DNS
1 2 (2.02%) Firewall
2 1 (1.01%) DHCP
2 1 (1.01%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (1.01%) Internet
2 1 (1.01%) Network Security
2 1 (1.01%) SAN
2 1 (1.01%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.01%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.01%) VLAN
2 1 (1.01%) VPN
2 1 (1.01%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (50.51%) SQL Server
2 48 (48.48%) Power BI
3 33 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 26 (26.26%) Data Lake
5 15 (15.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (7.07%) MongoDB
8 5 (5.05%) Metadata
9 4 (4.04%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (4.04%) Power Query
10 3 (3.03%) Big Data
10 3 (3.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (2.02%) Redis
11 2 (2.02%) Star Schema
12 1 (1.01%) Data Mining
12 1 (1.01%) MySQL
12 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
12 1 (1.01%) Spark SQL
12 1 (1.01%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Git
2 1 (1.01%) git-flow
2 1 (1.01%) JIRA
2 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (43.43%) Social Skills
2 37 (37.37%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (36.36%) Finance
4 11 (11.11%) Billing
4 11 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (7.07%) Law
6 3 (3.03%) Legal
6 3 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.01%) Back Office
7 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (20.20%) Developer
2 16 (16.16%) Senior
3 14 (14.14%) Data Engineer
3 14 (14.14%) DBA
4 13 (13.13%) Analyst
4 13 (13.13%) SQL DBA
5 11 (11.11%) Business Manager
5 11 (11.11%) Commercial Analyst
5 11 (11.11%) Insight Analyst
5 11 (11.11%) Insight Manager
6 10 (10.10%) .NET Developer
6 10 (10.10%) Applications Support
7 9 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
7 9 (9.09%) Applications Support Engineer
7 9 (9.09%) Support Engineer
8 8 (8.08%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (7.07%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (5.05%) Administrator
10 5 (5.05%) Azure Data Engineer
10 5 (5.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.20%) .NET
2 10 (10.10%) ASP.NET
3 8 (8.08%) .NET Core
3 8 (8.08%) React
4 7 (7.07%) ASP.NET Core
5 5 (5.05%) Blazor
5 5 (5.05%) ML.NET
5 5 (5.05%) RESTful
6 3 (3.03%) CSS
6 3 (3.03%) HTML
7 2 (2.02%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.02%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.02%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (2.02%) Entity Framework
7 2 (2.02%) Node.js
7 2 (2.02%) PySpark
7 2 (2.02%) REST
8 1 (1.01%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 1 (1.01%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.01%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 26 (26.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (14.14%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (8.08%) Data Structures
4 7 (7.07%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.04%) Client/Server
5 4 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.03%) Clustering
7 2 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.02%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.02%) Legacy Code
7 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.02%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.02%) N-Tier
7 2 (2.02%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.02%) Social Network
8 1 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.01%) IoT
8 1 (1.01%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.04%) VMS
2 2 (2.02%) Android
3 1 (1.01%) Windows
3 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (49.49%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (47.47%) Analytics
3 40 (40.40%) DevOps
4 36 (36.36%) Decision-Making
5 35 (35.35%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (30.30%) Visualisation
7 27 (27.27%) Actionable Insight
7 27 (27.27%) Data Analysis
8 26 (26.26%) Data Modelling
9 23 (23.23%) ETL
9 23 (23.23%) Process Improvement
10 22 (22.22%) Visual Analytics
10 22 (22.22%) WFM
11 21 (21.21%) AI
12 20 (20.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (17.17%) Agile
14 14 (14.14%) Data Analytics
15 13 (13.13%) ITIL
16 12 (12.12%) Performance Monitoring
16 12 (12.12%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 99 (100.00%) SQL
2 30 (30.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 18 (18.18%) C#
4 16 (16.16%) T-SQL
5 10 (10.10%) Python
6 6 (6.06%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.05%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.02%) C
9 1 (1.01%) Bash
9 1 (1.01%) Bicep
9 1 (1.01%) PHP
9 1 (1.01%) Scala
9 1 (1.01%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.01%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (18.18%) Degree
2 11 (11.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 10 (10.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (7.07%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.02%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.21%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (5.05%) GDPR
4 3 (3.03%) QA
5 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.04%) Docker
3 3 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.01%) Firmware
4 1 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (4.04%) Kubernetes
1 4 (4.04%) Terraform
2 1 (1.01%) Ansible
2 1 (1.01%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.01%) Grafana
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (46.46%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.12%) Databricks
3 2 (2.02%) Google
4 1 (1.01%) Apple
4 1 (1.01%) Facebook
4 1 (1.01%) FIS
4 1 (1.01%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.01%) Foundry
4 1 (1.01%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (1.01%) RedGate
4 1 (1.01%) Sony
4 1 (1.01%) Yahoo!