Azure SQL Database Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 425 454
Rank change year-on-year -56 +29 +96
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 104 358 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.48% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.22% 3.18% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 96 317 229
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £42,819
25th Percentile £45,625 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £74,375 £70,000 £82,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% -3.70%

All Database and 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 4,680 11,258 9,928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.83% 14.99% 19.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,915 7,248 6,491
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,840 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,400 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure SQL Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London

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 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 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
Midlands +85 34 £48,500 -6.73% 30
North of England -47 27 £57,500 +4.55% 74
South East +16 22 £70,000 +19.15% 49
East Midlands +53 21 £48,500 -3.00% 12
West Midlands +70 13 £60,000 +15.38% 18
North West -66 13 £55,000 - 45
South West +68 8 £55,000 -4.35% 14
East of England +4 8 £58,750 +17.50% 26
North East +40 7 £57,500 - 8
Yorkshire +25 7 £60,000 +4.35% 21
Scotland +63 4 £49,750 -13.48% 6
Northern Ireland +29 1 - - 3
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.85%) IIS
2 4 (3.85%) nginx
3 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.96%) Apache
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 104 (100.00%) Azure
2 42 (40.38%) Power Platform
3 38 (36.54%) Azure Data Factory
4 27 (25.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 19 (18.27%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (18.27%) Entra ID
6 17 (16.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 12 (11.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 10 (9.62%) Snowflake
9 9 (8.65%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (7.69%) GCP
10 8 (7.69%) GitHub
10 8 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (6.73%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (5.77%) Azure API Management
12 6 (5.77%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (4.81%) AWS
13 5 (4.81%) Azure AKS
13 5 (4.81%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (3.85%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.85%) DNS
2 3 (2.88%) DHCP
2 3 (2.88%) Firewall
3 2 (1.92%) LAN
3 2 (1.92%) MPLS
3 2 (1.92%) SAN
3 2 (1.92%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.92%) Unified Communications
3 2 (1.92%) VPN
3 2 (1.92%) WAN
3 2 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.96%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (45.19%) SQL Server
2 41 (39.42%) Power BI
3 32 (30.77%) Data Lake
4 24 (23.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 19 (18.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (10.58%) NoSQL
8 7 (6.73%) BigQuery
9 4 (3.85%) MongoDB
9 4 (3.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.88%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.88%) Metadata
10 3 (2.88%) Tableau
11 2 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.92%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (5.77%) Git
2 4 (3.85%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (3.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.96%) NUnit
4 1 (0.96%) Subversion
General
1 23 (22.12%) Finance
2 22 (21.15%) Social Skills
3 19 (18.27%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.54%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (10.58%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (10.58%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (8.65%) Law
7 8 (7.69%) Retail
8 3 (2.88%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.92%) Automotive
10 1 (0.96%) Advertising
10 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.96%) Legal
10 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (23.08%) Developer
2 18 (17.31%) DBA
3 15 (14.42%) Data Engineer
3 15 (14.42%) SQL DBA
4 14 (13.46%) SQL Developer
5 12 (11.54%) Administrator
6 11 (10.58%) Architect
6 11 (10.58%) Software Engineer
7 10 (9.62%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (9.62%) Senior
8 9 (8.65%) Lead
9 7 (6.73%) Lead Developer
10 6 (5.77%) Data Architect
11 5 (4.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 5 (4.81%) Database Developer
11 5 (4.81%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.81%) SQL Database Developer
12 4 (3.85%) Azure Data Engineer
12 4 (3.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (22.12%) .NET
2 7 (6.73%) AngularJS
3 5 (4.81%) .NET Core
3 5 (4.81%) ARM Templates
3 5 (4.81%) ASP.NET
3 5 (4.81%) Blazor
3 5 (4.81%) React
4 4 (3.85%) Loki
4 4 (3.85%) Node.js
4 4 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (3.85%) XML
5 3 (2.88%) RESTful
5 3 (2.88%) Vue
5 3 (2.88%) Web Services
6 2 (1.92%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.92%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (1.92%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (1.92%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (1.92%) SignalR
6 2 (1.92%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.62%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.85%) IoT
5 3 (2.88%) AS400
6 2 (1.92%) Clustering
6 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.92%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.96%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.96%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.96%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.69%) Windows
2 7 (6.73%) Linux
3 3 (2.88%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (1.92%) VMS
4 2 (1.92%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (40.38%) Business Intelligence
2 35 (33.65%) DevOps
3 27 (25.96%) Analytics
4 20 (19.23%) ETL
5 19 (18.27%) Data Pipeline
6 18 (17.31%) CI/CD
6 18 (17.31%) Data Engineering
6 18 (17.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (17.31%) Visualisation
7 17 (16.35%) Data Visualisation
7 17 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (15.38%) Data Modelling
8 16 (15.38%) Software Engineering
9 14 (13.46%) Agile
9 14 (13.46%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (12.50%) Roadmaps
11 12 (11.54%) Mentoring
11 12 (11.54%) Workshop Facilitation
12 11 (10.58%) Self-Awareness
12 11 (10.58%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 104 (100.00%) SQL
2 31 (29.81%) T-SQL
3 26 (25.00%) C#
4 12 (11.54%) PowerShell
5 11 (10.58%) Python
6 6 (5.77%) Bicep
7 5 (4.81%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.88%) Java
9 2 (1.92%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.92%) Scala
10 1 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (13.46%) Degree
2 9 (8.65%) Azure Certification
3 8 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.85%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.88%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.96%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.58%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.73%) QA
3 4 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.85%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.85%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.96%) GDPR
4 1 (0.96%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (8.65%) Docker
2 6 (5.77%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.81%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.92%) vSphere
5 1 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (14.42%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.62%) Terraform
3 4 (3.85%) Grafana
3 4 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.96%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 52 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 30 (28.85%) Databricks
3 4 (3.85%) SAP
3 4 (3.85%) VMware
4 3 (2.88%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.92%) CheckPoint
5 2 (1.92%) Extreme Networks
5 2 (1.92%) Informatica
5 2 (1.92%) Nimble Storage
5 2 (1.92%) Oracle
5 2 (1.92%) SolarWinds
5 2 (1.92%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.96%) Citrix
6 1 (0.96%) ServiceNow