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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 425 324 404
Rank change year-on-year -101 +80 +83
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 98 278 148
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.73% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.51% 4.71% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 69 188 123
10th Percentile £27,650 £41,463 £46,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,631 £56,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% -2.17% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £82,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -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 3,897 5,897 6,103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.18% 15.54% 20.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,460 3,122 4,613
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,150
25th Percentile £38,750 £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 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.43% +4.63% -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 25 December 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 25 December 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 +17 29 £56,250 +12.50% 39
North of England +1 25 £57,500 -8.00% 36
East Midlands -11 17 £48,500 -3.00% 18
South East -48 16 £65,000 - 55
North West -3 13 £57,500 -8.00% 22
Scotland -25 13 £27,500 -43.59% 5
West Midlands +24 11 £63,000 +14.55% 21
North East +18 6 - - 7
Northern Ireland -1 6 £50,000 - 1
Yorkshire -6 6 £50,000 -23.08% 7
South West +15 5 £69,000 +43.01% 18
Wales +6 3 £56,631 +41.14% 4
East of England -9 1 £62,500 +31.58% 18
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 (2.04%) IIS
1 2 (2.04%) nginx
2 1 (1.02%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.02%) Confluence
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (23.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 98 (100.00%) Azure
2 49 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 48 (48.98%) Azure Data Factory
4 41 (41.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 19 (19.39%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (16.33%) SaaS
7 13 (13.27%) Entra ID
8 9 (9.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (8.16%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (6.12%) Azure AKS
11 5 (5.10%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (5.10%) GitHub
11 5 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (4.08%) GCP
12 4 (4.08%) PaaS
13 3 (3.06%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (3.06%) Azure Stack
13 3 (3.06%) Serverless
13 3 (3.06%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.06%) Firewall
2 2 (2.04%) DNS
3 1 (1.02%) DHCP
3 1 (1.02%) Network Security
3 1 (1.02%) SAN
3 1 (1.02%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.02%) VLAN
3 1 (1.02%) VPN
3 1 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (55.10%) SQL Server
2 47 (47.96%) Power BI
3 36 (36.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 29 (29.59%) Data Lake
5 15 (15.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (13.27%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (5.10%) Metadata
8 4 (4.08%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.06%) Big Data
9 3 (3.06%) BigQuery
9 3 (3.06%) MySQL
9 3 (3.06%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (2.04%) Power Query
10 2 (2.04%) Redis
11 1 (1.02%) Data Mining
11 1 (1.02%) Spark SQL
11 1 (1.02%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (8.16%) Git
2 2 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.02%) git-flow
3 1 (1.02%) JIRA
3 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 40 (40.82%) Social Skills
2 34 (34.69%) Finance
3 33 (33.67%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.22%) Billing
4 11 (11.22%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.12%) Law
6 4 (4.08%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.06%) Legal
7 3 (3.06%) Retail
8 2 (2.04%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.02%) Back Office
9 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (17.35%) Developer
2 16 (16.33%) Data Engineer
2 16 (16.33%) Senior
3 15 (15.31%) DBA
4 14 (14.29%) SQL DBA
5 12 (12.24%) Analyst
6 11 (11.22%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (11.22%) Business Manager
6 11 (11.22%) Commercial Analyst
6 11 (11.22%) Insight Analyst
6 11 (11.22%) Insight Manager
7 10 (10.20%) Applications Support
8 9 (9.18%) Applications Engineer
8 9 (9.18%) Applications Support Engineer
8 9 (9.18%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (9.18%) Support Engineer
9 7 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
9 7 (7.14%) SQL Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Administrator
10 5 (5.10%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.33%) .NET
2 4 (4.08%) .NET Framework
2 4 (4.08%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.06%) Entity Framework
3 3 (3.06%) React
3 3 (3.06%) RESTful
4 2 (2.04%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.04%) Blazor
4 2 (2.04%) Loki
4 2 (2.04%) PySpark
4 2 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.02%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (1.02%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.02%) Kafka
5 1 (1.02%) OAuth
5 1 (1.02%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.02%) OpenAPI
5 1 (1.02%) OpenID
5 1 (1.02%) React Native
5 1 (1.02%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (25.51%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (13.27%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (8.16%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.14%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.08%) Client/Server
5 4 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.06%) Clustering
6 3 (3.06%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.04%) IoT
7 2 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.04%) N-Tier
7 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.08%) VMS
2 3 (3.06%) Android
2 3 (3.06%) Windows
3 2 (2.04%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.04%) Linux
4 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (51.02%) Business Intelligence
2 49 (50.00%) Analytics
3 40 (40.82%) DevOps
4 35 (35.71%) Decision-Making
4 35 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (32.65%) Visualisation
6 27 (27.55%) Data Analysis
7 25 (25.51%) Data Modelling
7 25 (25.51%) ETL
8 24 (24.49%) Actionable Insight
9 22 (22.45%) Process Improvement
9 22 (22.45%) Visual Analytics
9 22 (22.45%) WFM
10 21 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (15.31%) AI
11 15 (15.31%) CI/CD
11 15 (15.31%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (15.31%) ITIL
12 13 (13.27%) Data Analytics
12 13 (13.27%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 98 (100.00%) SQL
2 27 (27.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 21 (21.43%) T-SQL
4 14 (14.29%) C#
5 11 (11.22%) Python
6 8 (8.16%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.10%) Bicep
8 2 (2.04%) C
8 2 (2.04%) Scala
9 1 (1.02%) Bash
9 1 (1.02%) PHP
9 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.02%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (16.33%) Degree
2 11 (11.22%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 10 (10.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (9.18%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.04%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.02%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.02%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.22%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (7.14%) GDPR
4 3 (3.06%) QA
5 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (12.24%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.12%) Docker
3 5 (5.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.02%) Firmware
4 1 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (5.10%) Kubernetes
1 5 (5.10%) Terraform
2 3 (3.06%) Grafana
2 3 (3.06%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.02%) Ansible
3 1 (1.02%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 40 (40.82%) Microsoft
2 17 (17.35%) Databricks
3 2 (2.04%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.02%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.02%) Foundry
4 1 (1.02%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (1.02%) RedGate
4 1 (1.02%) VMware