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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 350 377
Rank change year-on-year -64 +27 +109
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 107 271 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.57% 0.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.77% 4.38% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 78 172 163
10th Percentile £28,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £62,617 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.67% - -7.14%

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 3,860 6,184 6,394
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.49% 12.92% 20.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,618 3,153 5,013
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 15 November 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 15 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
North of England +14 29 £57,500 -4.17% 49
Midlands +53 26 £48,500 -3.00% 41
East Midlands +26 19 £48,500 -3.00% 18
South East -49 18 £65,000 - 52
North West +10 16 £57,750 -3.75% 30
Scotland -21 14 £27,500 -40.54% 7
West Midlands +40 7 £55,000 +13.40% 22
North East +14 7 £48,000 -16.52% 6
South West +33 6 £62,000 +3.33% 15
Yorkshire +9 6 £50,000 -15.25% 13
Northern Ireland +8 6 £50,000 - 2
East of England -5 5 £55,000 +15.79% 22
Wales +10 3 £56,631 +32.47% 4
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 7 (6.54%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.74%) IIS
2 4 (3.74%) nginx
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 23 (21.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 107 (100.00%) Azure
2 59 (55.14%) Power Platform
3 55 (51.40%) Azure Data Factory
4 45 (42.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 19 (17.76%) Entra ID
6 18 (16.82%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (14.95%) SaaS
8 11 (10.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 11 (10.28%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (8.41%) GCP
10 8 (7.48%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (7.48%) Snowflake
11 7 (6.54%) Azure AKS
12 6 (5.61%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (5.61%) GitHub
12 6 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (4.67%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (3.74%) Azure Pipelines
14 4 (3.74%) Cloudflare
15 3 (2.80%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) Firewall
1 1 (0.93%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (54.21%) Power BI
2 56 (52.34%) SQL Server
3 35 (32.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 31 (28.97%) Data Lake
5 13 (12.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (10.28%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (7.48%) BigQuery
7 8 (7.48%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.74%) Metadata
9 3 (2.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.80%) Big Data
9 3 (2.80%) MySQL
9 3 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.80%) Relational Database
9 3 (2.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.87%) Redis
11 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.93%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (6.54%) Git
2 4 (3.74%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.93%) git-flow
3 1 (0.93%) JIRA
3 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 37 (34.58%) Social Skills
2 31 (28.97%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (28.97%) Finance
3 17 (15.89%) Presentation Skills
4 11 (10.28%) Billing
5 9 (8.41%) Retail
6 7 (6.54%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (6.54%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.67%) Law
8 4 (3.74%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.87%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (22.43%) Developer
2 17 (15.89%) Data Engineer
3 14 (13.08%) Senior
3 14 (13.08%) SQL Developer
4 13 (12.15%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (10.28%) Analyst
5 11 (10.28%) Applications Support
5 11 (10.28%) Business Manager
5 11 (10.28%) Commercial Analyst
5 11 (10.28%) Insight Analyst
5 11 (10.28%) Insight Manager
6 10 (9.35%) Applications Engineer
6 10 (9.35%) Applications Support Engineer
6 10 (9.35%) DBA
6 10 (9.35%) Support Engineer
7 9 (8.41%) Senior Data Engineer
7 9 (8.41%) SQL DBA
8 7 (6.54%) Lead
9 6 (5.61%) Azure Data Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.89%) .NET
2 5 (4.67%) ARM Templates
3 4 (3.74%) Loki
3 4 (3.74%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (2.80%) .NET Framework
4 3 (2.80%) Entity Framework
4 3 (2.80%) RESTful
5 2 (1.87%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.87%) Blazor
5 2 (1.87%) React
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.93%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.93%) Kafka
6 1 (0.93%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.43%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (11.21%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (7.48%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.61%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.61%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.74%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.87%) IoT
6 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.87%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.87%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.87%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.87%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.87%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.67%) Windows
2 4 (3.74%) Linux
3 3 (2.80%) Android
4 2 (1.87%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.93%) VMS
5 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (56.07%) Business Intelligence
2 45 (42.06%) Analytics
3 44 (41.12%) DevOps
4 36 (33.64%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (33.64%) Visualisation
5 33 (30.84%) Decision-Making
6 26 (24.30%) Data Analysis
7 22 (20.56%) Actionable Insight
7 22 (20.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (20.56%) Process Improvement
7 22 (20.56%) Visual Analytics
7 22 (20.56%) WFM
8 21 (19.63%) Data Pipeline
8 21 (19.63%) ETL
9 20 (18.69%) Data Modelling
10 17 (15.89%) Time Management
11 15 (14.02%) AI
12 14 (13.08%) Agile
12 14 (13.08%) ITIL
12 14 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 107 (100.00%) SQL
2 24 (22.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 22 (20.56%) T-SQL
4 16 (14.95%) C#
5 11 (10.28%) Python
6 9 (8.41%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.61%) Bicep
8 2 (1.87%) C
8 2 (1.87%) Scala
9 1 (0.93%) Bash
9 1 (0.93%) Java
9 1 (0.93%) PHP
9 1 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (15.89%) Degree
2 11 (10.28%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 10 (9.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (8.41%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.87%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.87%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.87%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.76%) Data Quality
2 11 (10.28%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (4.67%) GDPR
3 5 (4.67%) QA
4 3 (2.80%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (11.21%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.54%) Docker
3 6 (5.61%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (5.61%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.67%) Grafana
2 5 (4.67%) Prometheus
3 4 (3.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (38.32%) Microsoft
2 23 (21.50%) Databricks
3 2 (1.87%) Informatica
3 2 (1.87%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.93%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle
4 1 (0.93%) RedGate
4 1 (0.93%) SAP
4 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.93%) VMware