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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 388 511
Rank change year-on-year -79 +123 -23
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 103 422 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.59% 0.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.38% 3.43% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 96 384 234
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,500 £45,000 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,875 £68,750 £80,875
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% -

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 4,330 12,291 11,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.18% 17.11% 19.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,691 8,110 6,654
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +76 39 £52,500 -4.55% 113
South East +23 25 £70,000 +21.74% 155
North of England -65 25 £57,500 +4.55% 183
East Midlands +43 21 £48,500 -11.82% 42
West Midlands +65 18 £67,500 +26.17% 61
North West -81 9 £62,500 +13.64% 92
Yorkshire +42 8 £57,500 - 72
North East +39 8 £57,500 +35.29% 20
South West +63 7 £55,000 -4.35% 69
East of England -15 5 £62,500 +21.75% 101
Scotland +94 2 - - 33
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 (12.62%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.97%) Apache
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 103 (100.00%) Azure
2 43 (41.75%) Power Platform
3 31 (30.10%) Azure Data Factory
4 22 (21.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 18 (17.48%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (16.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 15 (14.56%) Entra ID
8 13 (12.62%) GitHub
8 13 (12.62%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (11.65%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (10.68%) PowerApps
11 10 (9.71%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (8.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (6.80%) Azure Functions
13 7 (6.80%) Serverless
14 6 (5.83%) Azure API Management
15 5 (4.85%) AWS
15 5 (4.85%) SaaS
15 5 (4.85%) Snowflake
16 4 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.83%) DNS
2 4 (3.88%) SAN
3 3 (2.91%) DHCP
3 3 (2.91%) Firewall
3 3 (2.91%) LAN
3 3 (2.91%) MPLS
3 3 (2.91%) Network Security
3 3 (2.91%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.91%) Unified Communications
3 3 (2.91%) VPN
3 3 (2.91%) WAN
3 3 (2.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (40.78%) SQL Server
2 40 (38.83%) Power BI
3 31 (30.10%) Data Lake
4 26 (25.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 25 (24.27%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (19.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 6 (5.83%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.88%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.91%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.91%) Tableau
10 2 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.94%) HDInsight
10 2 (1.94%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.97%) Metadata
11 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.80%) Visual Studio
2 5 (4.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (2.91%) Git
4 2 (1.94%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.97%) ERwin
5 1 (0.97%) JIRA
5 1 (0.97%) NUnit
5 1 (0.97%) Subversion
General
1 29 (28.16%) Finance
2 26 (25.24%) Social Skills
3 18 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (15.53%) Law
5 8 (7.77%) Automotive
5 8 (7.77%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (5.83%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.91%) Advertising
7 3 (2.91%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.94%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.97%) Legal
9 1 (0.97%) Local Government
9 1 (0.97%) Publishing
9 1 (0.97%) Retail
9 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (21.36%) Developer
2 18 (17.48%) DBA
3 17 (16.50%) Architect
3 17 (16.50%) Data Engineer
4 15 (14.56%) Senior
4 15 (14.56%) SQL DBA
5 12 (11.65%) Administrator
6 11 (10.68%) Software Engineer
7 10 (9.71%) Data Architect
8 7 (6.80%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.83%) SQL Developer
10 5 (4.85%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 5 (4.85%) Lead
11 4 (3.88%) SQL Server DBA
12 3 (2.91%) .NET Developer
12 3 (2.91%) Applications Support Engineer
12 3 (2.91%) C# Developer
12 3 (2.91%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (2.91%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (18.45%) .NET
2 8 (7.77%) ASP.NET
3 7 (6.80%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.85%) .NET Core
4 5 (4.85%) Blazor
4 5 (4.85%) React
5 4 (3.88%) Node.js
5 4 (3.88%) REST
5 4 (3.88%) WPF
5 4 (3.88%) XML
6 3 (2.91%) .NET Framework
6 3 (2.91%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (2.91%) RESTful
6 3 (2.91%) Vue
6 3 (2.91%) Web Services
7 2 (1.94%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (1.94%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (1.94%) PySpark
7 2 (1.94%) SignalR
7 2 (1.94%) Skia Graphics Library
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.59%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.71%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (4.85%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.88%) IoT
5 3 (2.91%) AS400
5 3 (2.91%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.94%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.97%) Clustering
7 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.80%) Windows
2 6 (5.83%) Linux
3 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (2.91%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.91%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.97%) VMS
5 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (39.81%) Business Intelligence
2 36 (34.95%) DevOps
3 34 (33.01%) Analytics
4 23 (22.33%) CI/CD
5 21 (20.39%) Agile
5 21 (20.39%) Data Engineering
6 20 (19.42%) Software Engineering
7 18 (17.48%) Visualisation
8 17 (16.50%) Data Modelling
8 17 (16.50%) ETL
8 17 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (15.53%) Data Visualisation
10 14 (13.59%) Data Analysis
10 14 (13.59%) Mentoring
11 13 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (11.65%) Data Architecture
13 11 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (10.68%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (10.68%) Root Cause Analysis
14 10 (9.71%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 103 (100.00%) SQL
2 30 (29.13%) C#
3 23 (22.33%) T-SQL
4 19 (18.45%) PowerShell
5 15 (14.56%) Python
6 7 (6.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (4.85%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.88%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.91%) Java
10 2 (1.94%) X++
11 1 (0.97%) C
11 1 (0.97%) C++
11 1 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.97%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.97%) PHP
11 1 (0.97%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (20.39%) Degree
2 14 (13.59%) Azure Certification
3 8 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (6.80%) Security Cleared
5 6 (5.83%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.94%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.56%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.85%) PCI DSS
2 5 (4.85%) QA
3 4 (3.88%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.83%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.85%) Docker
3 3 (2.91%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.91%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (12.62%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.68%) Terraform
3 1 (0.97%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 60 (58.25%) Microsoft
2 33 (32.04%) Databricks
3 4 (3.88%) Nimble Storage
3 4 (3.88%) VMware
4 3 (2.91%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.91%) CheckPoint
4 3 (2.91%) Extreme Networks
4 3 (2.91%) SAP
4 3 (2.91%) SolarWinds
4 3 (2.91%) Zscaler
5 1 (0.97%) Citrix
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle
5 1 (0.97%) Xamarin