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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 450 441 534
Rank change year-on-year -9 +93 -164
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 270 245 377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.51% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.87% 2.60% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 237 218 284
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,471 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year - +3.14% -3.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £71,750 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +12.50%

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 9,401 9,414 17,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.40% 19.55% 22.55%
Number of salaries quoted 5,708 6,273 10,171
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,300 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,627 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +25 101 £57,500 +4.55% 13
North West +6 72 £55,250 -3.91% 8
South East +13 59 £65,000 +8.33% 27
East of England +17 29 £50,000 +33.33% 7
Yorkshire +57 23 £57,500 +4.55% 1
Scotland -29 23 £57,500 -14.81% 2
South West +5 22 £57,500 -8.00% 7
Midlands -56 22 £51,000 -5.56% 10
West Midlands -35 12 £52,000 -3.70% 7
Northern Ireland +23 11 £55,000 -26.67% 1
East Midlands -31 10 £50,000 -6.98% 3
North East -9 6 £50,000 -11.50% 4
Wales +22 3 £58,750 +27.14% 2
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 15 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.44%) Apache Spark
3 11 (4.07%) Confluence
3 11 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.48%) IIS
4 4 (1.48%) nginx
5 3 (1.11%) CMS
6 1 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.37%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 270 (100.00%) Azure
2 97 (35.93%) Power Platform
3 64 (23.70%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (15.19%) Azure Data Factory
5 38 (14.07%) Microsoft 365
6 37 (13.70%) Entra ID
7 21 (7.78%) Azure Logic Apps
7 21 (7.78%) PaaS
8 19 (7.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 17 (6.30%) Dynamics 365
10 16 (5.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 16 (5.93%) GitHub
10 16 (5.93%) Power Automate
10 16 (5.93%) SaaS
11 15 (5.56%) AWS
11 15 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
11 15 (5.56%) PowerApps
12 14 (5.19%) Azure AKS
12 14 (5.19%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (15.56%) Broadband
2 13 (4.81%) Firewall
3 12 (4.44%) WAN
4 11 (4.07%) DNS
5 10 (3.70%) Internet
6 7 (2.59%) LAN
6 7 (2.59%) VPN
7 5 (1.85%) Network Security
7 5 (1.85%) VLAN
8 4 (1.48%) DHCP
8 4 (1.48%) SD-WAN
8 4 (1.48%) SSL
8 4 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.37%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.37%) 5G
9 1 (0.37%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (62.59%) SQL Server
2 94 (34.81%) Power BI
3 27 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (9.63%) Data Lake
5 24 (8.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 17 (6.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 14 (5.19%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.33%) NoSQL
8 9 (3.33%) RDBMS
9 7 (2.59%) Data Mining
10 6 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.22%) Metadata
11 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 5 (1.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (1.85%) Tableau
12 3 (1.11%) Big Data
12 3 (1.11%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.11%) Ingres
13 2 (0.74%) MySQL
13 2 (0.74%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (12.22%) Git
2 16 (5.93%) JIRA
3 9 (3.33%) NUnit
4 8 (2.96%) Moq
5 6 (2.22%) GitLab
6 4 (1.48%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.74%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.37%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.37%) Subversion
8 1 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 89 (32.96%) Social Skills
2 47 (17.41%) Finance
3 13 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.07%) Games
4 11 (4.07%) Retail
5 10 (3.70%) Advertising
5 10 (3.70%) Music Industry
6 9 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.59%) Legal
8 6 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.48%) Law
9 4 (1.48%) Marketing
10 3 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.11%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.74%) Automotive
11 2 (0.74%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.74%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.37%) Back Office
12 1 (0.37%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 96 (35.56%) Developer
2 56 (20.74%) DBA
3 55 (20.37%) Senior
3 55 (20.37%) SQL DBA
4 44 (16.30%) .NET Developer
5 30 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 29 (10.74%) Azure Engineer
6 29 (10.74%) Senior Developer
7 23 (8.52%) Software Developer
8 20 (7.41%) Senior Software Developer
9 19 (7.04%) Software Engineer
10 14 (5.19%) Senior Data Engineer
11 13 (4.81%) C# Developer
11 13 (4.81%) Lead
12 12 (4.44%) Azure Data Engineer
13 11 (4.07%) Analyst
13 11 (4.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 11 (4.07%) DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.33%) Full Stack Developer
14 9 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (37.41%) .NET
2 62 (22.96%) .NET Core
3 54 (20.00%) Entity Framework
4 53 (19.63%) CSS
4 53 (19.63%) HTML
5 52 (19.26%) Blazor
6 50 (18.52%) ASP.NET
7 42 (15.56%) ASP.NET MVC
7 42 (15.56%) CSS3
7 42 (15.56%) HTML5
8 30 (11.11%) .NET Framework
9 25 (9.26%) React
10 11 (4.07%) ASP.NET Web API
10 11 (4.07%) Razor View Engine
11 10 (3.70%) AngularJS
11 10 (3.70%) PySpark
12 7 (2.59%) jQuery
12 7 (2.59%) LINQ
12 7 (2.59%) LINQ to SQL
13 6 (2.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.93%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (4.81%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 7 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.22%) Digital TV
5 6 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.22%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.11%) Life Science
8 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.74%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.74%) Housing Association
9 2 (0.74%) Replication
10 1 (0.37%) IoT
10 1 (0.37%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.37%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.37%) NHS
10 1 (0.37%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 49 (18.15%) VMS
2 20 (7.41%) Windows
3 7 (2.59%) Linux
4 4 (1.48%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.37%) Android
6 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (31.85%) Business Intelligence
2 85 (31.48%) DevOps
3 82 (30.37%) Agile
4 55 (20.37%) Full Stack Development
5 54 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
6 52 (19.26%) MVC
7 48 (17.78%) CI/CD
7 48 (17.78%) Disaster Recovery
7 48 (17.78%) High Availability
7 48 (17.78%) Performance Tuning
8 47 (17.41%) TDD
9 43 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (14.07%) BDD
11 34 (12.59%) Analytics
12 31 (11.48%) ETL
13 30 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
14 29 (10.74%) Mentoring
15 25 (9.26%) Data Engineering
16 24 (8.89%) Data Modelling
16 24 (8.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 262 (97.04%) SQL
2 97 (35.93%) C#
3 69 (25.56%) T-SQL
4 57 (21.11%) JavaScript
5 45 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 32 (11.85%) Python
7 11 (4.07%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.22%) Go
9 5 (1.85%) C
9 5 (1.85%) Java
9 5 (1.85%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.48%) Bash
10 4 (1.48%) Bicep
10 4 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.74%) C++
13 1 (0.37%) R
13 1 (0.37%) Scala
13 1 (0.37%) VB
13 1 (0.37%) XAML
Qualifications
1 66 (24.44%) Microsoft Certification
2 30 (11.11%) Degree
3 20 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 18 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.22%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.48%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.11%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.11%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.11%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.81%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.59%) GDPR
4 4 (1.48%) SLA
5 3 (1.11%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.11%) QA
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 61 (22.59%) Virtual Machines
2 40 (14.81%) Active Directory
3 15 (5.56%) Docker
4 3 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.11%) vSphere
5 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.30%) Terraform
3 4 (1.48%) Grafana
3 4 (1.48%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.37%) Ansible
6 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 180 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.37%) Databricks
3 10 (3.70%) Commvault
4 9 (3.33%) VMware
5 6 (2.22%) Citrix
5 6 (2.22%) Informatica
6 3 (1.11%) Oracle
6 3 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.74%) BT
8 1 (0.37%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.37%) Facebook