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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 349 353
Rank change year-on-year -61 +4 +174
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 135 149 439
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.57% 0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.02% 3.39% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 102 132 401
10th Percentile £27,500 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £66,938 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £82,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -17.86%

All Database & 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 4,466 4,389 11,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.93% 16.83% 17.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,581 2,948 8,144
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -8.00%

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 30 March 2026.

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 30 March 2026. 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 -32 31 £60,000 +14.29% 26
North of England -50 29 £50,000 -13.04% 50
East of England -23 22 £72,500 +52.63% 20
South East -50 21 £60,000 -14.29% 54
Scotland -20 16 £28,000 -45.37% 5
East Midlands -39 15 £50,000 -4.76% 10
West Midlands -17 14 £64,250 -4.81% 16
North West -23 14 £56,500 -16.30% 28
North East -18 8 £45,000 -21.74% 9
South West -42 7 £45,000 -25.00% 15
Yorkshire -51 7 £42,500 -3.41% 14
Northern Ireland -31 5 £50,000 - 1
Wales -24 4 £53,316 +42.17% 3
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 9 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.74%) Apache
2 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.74%) Confluence
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 24 (17.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.74%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 135 (100.00%) Azure
2 56 (41.48%) Azure Data Factory
3 55 (40.74%) Power Platform
4 38 (28.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 28 (20.74%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (11.85%) Azure AI
6 16 (11.85%) Entra ID
6 16 (11.85%) SaaS
7 12 (8.89%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (7.41%) Azure Logic Apps
8 10 (7.41%) GitHub
8 10 (7.41%) PowerApps
9 8 (5.93%) OneDrive
9 8 (5.93%) Power Automate
10 7 (5.19%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 7 (5.19%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (4.44%) Serverless
12 5 (3.70%) AWS
12 5 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.48%) DNS
1 2 (1.48%) Firewall
1 2 (1.48%) Hyperconnected
1 2 (1.48%) Internet
2 1 (0.74%) DHCP
2 1 (0.74%) Network Security
2 1 (0.74%) SAN
2 1 (0.74%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.74%) VLAN
2 1 (0.74%) VPN
2 1 (0.74%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (38.52%) Power BI
1 52 (38.52%) SQL Server
2 31 (22.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 25 (18.52%) Data Lake
4 22 (16.30%) MongoDB
5 16 (11.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (8.89%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (5.19%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.70%) Star Schema
9 4 (2.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.96%) Power Query
9 4 (2.96%) Tableau
10 3 (2.22%) Big Data
10 3 (2.22%) Metadata
10 3 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.48%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.74%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.74%) Redis
12 1 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (5.19%) Git
2 2 (1.48%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (1.48%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.74%) git-flow
3 1 (0.74%) JIRA
3 1 (0.74%) NUnit
3 1 (0.74%) Selenium
3 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (36.30%) Social Skills
2 42 (31.11%) Finance
3 35 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.15%) Billing
4 11 (8.15%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (4.44%) Law
6 5 (3.70%) Legal
7 3 (2.22%) Advertising
7 3 (2.22%) Games
7 3 (2.22%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.22%) Marketing
8 2 (1.48%) Banking
8 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Back Office
9 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 48 (35.56%) Developer
2 29 (21.48%) .NET Developer
3 24 (17.78%) Senior
4 17 (12.59%) Data Engineer
5 15 (11.11%) DBA
6 14 (10.37%) SQL DBA
7 13 (9.63%) Analyst
8 11 (8.15%) Applications Support
8 11 (8.15%) Business Manager
8 11 (8.15%) Commercial Analyst
8 11 (8.15%) Insight Analyst
8 11 (8.15%) Insight Manager
8 11 (8.15%) Senior Developer
9 10 (7.41%) Applications Engineer
9 10 (7.41%) Applications Support Engineer
9 10 (7.41%) Support Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 5 (3.70%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (34.81%) .NET
2 34 (25.19%) .NET Core
3 32 (23.70%) ASP.NET
4 27 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 18 (13.33%) CSS
5 18 (13.33%) HTML
6 14 (10.37%) RESTful
7 13 (9.63%) ML.NET
7 13 (9.63%) React
8 12 (8.89%) Blazor
9 11 (8.15%) Entity Framework
10 8 (5.93%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (5.19%) AngularJS
11 7 (5.19%) HTML5 Canvas
11 7 (5.19%) JSON
11 7 (5.19%) Microsoft Graph
11 7 (5.19%) Node.js
11 7 (5.19%) SPFx
12 6 (4.44%) Vue
13 5 (3.70%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.78%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.67%) Client/Server
4 6 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.44%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.96%) Clustering
5 4 (2.96%) Legacy Code
5 4 (2.96%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.96%) Social Network
6 3 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.48%) BBC
7 2 (1.48%) Digital TV
7 2 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.48%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.48%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.70%) VMS
2 3 (2.22%) Android
3 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.74%) Windows
3 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (41.48%) Business Intelligence
2 50 (37.04%) Analytics
3 47 (34.81%) DevOps
4 39 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (24.44%) Decision-Making
6 32 (23.70%) AI
7 31 (22.96%) Agile
8 29 (21.48%) Visualisation
9 28 (20.74%) Data Modelling
10 27 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
10 27 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 26 (19.26%) Data Analysis
12 25 (18.52%) Machine Learning
13 24 (17.78%) Process Improvement
14 22 (16.30%) Visual Analytics
14 22 (16.30%) WFM
15 21 (15.56%) CI/CD
15 21 (15.56%) ETL
16 20 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
17 16 (11.85%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 135 (100.00%) SQL
2 45 (33.33%) C#
3 29 (21.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 20 (14.81%) T-SQL
5 19 (14.07%) JavaScript
6 15 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 15 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 14 (10.37%) Python
8 3 (2.22%) Bash
9 2 (1.48%) Bicep
9 2 (1.48%) C
10 1 (0.74%) PHP
10 1 (0.74%) Scala
10 1 (0.74%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (11.85%) Degree
2 11 (8.15%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 8 (5.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.96%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.48%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.48%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.07%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.15%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.96%) GDPR
3 4 (2.96%) QA
System Software
1 12 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 11 (8.15%) Docker
3 5 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.74%) Firmware
4 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.19%) Terraform
3 3 (2.22%) Grafana
3 3 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.48%) Scalr
5 1 (0.74%) Ansible
5 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.74%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 73 (54.07%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.07%) Databricks
3 7 (5.19%) Adobe
4 6 (4.44%) Google
5 4 (2.96%) Facebook
6 2 (1.48%) Apple
6 2 (1.48%) RedGate
6 2 (1.48%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.48%) Sony
6 2 (1.48%) Yahoo!
7 1 (0.74%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.74%) FIS
7 1 (0.74%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.74%) Foundry
7 1 (0.74%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (0.74%) Oracle
7 1 (0.74%) Xamarin