Azure SQL Database Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Azure SQL Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 509 471
Rank change year-on-year +128 -38 -163
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 429 262 429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.61% 0.42% 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.49% 2.16% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 391 244 312
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £39,728
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% +8.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12,306 12,107 16,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.57% 19.59% 22.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8,186 7,019 10,427
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,052 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +6.12%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +115 135 £55,000 -4.02% 17
South East +53 98 £57,500 -11.54% 19
North West +60 92 £55,000 -4.35% 12
East of England +51 58 £51,333 +36.89% 17
South West +33 53 £57,500 +4.55% 15
Midlands -7 37 £50,000 -6.10% 9
Yorkshire +103 29 £57,500 - 2
Scotland -46 29 £57,500 -14.81% 8
East Midlands -3 19 £47,500 -17.39% 3
West Midlands 0 18 £55,000 +3.29% 6
North East +6 14 £50,000 +5.26% 3
Northern Ireland +33 11 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Wales +15 8 £60,000 +118.18% 1
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 18 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.63%) CMS
4 3 (0.70%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.47%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.23%) SAS
6 1 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 429 (100.00%) Azure
2 128 (29.84%) Power Platform
3 60 (13.99%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 31 (7.23%) Entra ID
7 26 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 19 (4.43%) AWS
8 19 (4.43%) PaaS
9 17 (3.96%) IaaS
10 16 (3.73%) Power Automate
11 15 (3.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 15 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (3.50%) GitHub
11 15 (3.50%) PowerApps
12 13 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (2.80%) Serverless
14 10 (2.33%) Azure App Service
14 10 (2.33%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (17.25%) Broadband
2 37 (8.62%) Internet
3 15 (3.50%) Firewall
4 12 (2.80%) WAN
5 11 (2.56%) DNS
6 8 (1.86%) VPN
7 7 (1.63%) LAN
8 5 (1.17%) DHCP
8 5 (1.17%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.17%) SSL
8 5 (1.17%) VLAN
8 5 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.93%) Network Security
10 2 (0.47%) MPLS
11 1 (0.23%) 3GPP
11 1 (0.23%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (74.36%) SQL Server
2 121 (28.21%) Power BI
3 34 (7.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 28 (6.53%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (5.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 22 (5.13%) Data Lake
7 17 (3.96%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.03%) MySQL
9 10 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (2.33%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (1.40%) MariaDB
11 6 (1.40%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.40%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.40%) Redis
11 6 (1.40%) Tableau
12 4 (0.93%) Metadata
13 3 (0.70%) Big Data
13 3 (0.70%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 17 (3.96%) Git
2 14 (3.26%) Moq
2 14 (3.26%) NUnit
3 7 (1.63%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (1.40%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.93%) GitLab
6 2 (0.47%) JIRA
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) Sourcetree
7 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.23%) Subversion
7 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 125 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 40 (9.32%) Advertising
3 33 (7.69%) Finance
4 32 (7.46%) Marketing
5 22 (5.13%) Retail
6 21 (4.90%) Games
7 14 (3.26%) Legal
8 12 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (2.33%) Music Industry
11 4 (0.93%) Aviation
11 4 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.70%) Health Technology
12 3 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.70%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.70%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.47%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.23%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 213 (49.65%) Developer
2 153 (35.66%) .NET Developer
3 101 (23.54%) DBA
4 94 (21.91%) SQL DBA
5 57 (13.29%) Senior
6 52 (12.12%) C# Developer
7 45 (10.49%) C# .NET Developer
8 32 (7.46%) Internet Developer
9 31 (7.23%) Senior Developer
9 31 (7.23%) Software Developer
10 29 (6.76%) Data Engineer
11 26 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
12 20 (4.66%) Senior Software Developer
13 19 (4.43%) Lead
13 19 (4.43%) Software Engineer
14 15 (3.50%) Azure Developer
15 14 (3.26%) Azure Data Engineer
16 13 (3.03%) Analyst
17 12 (2.80%) .NET Software Developer
18 9 (2.10%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (50.82%) .NET
2 180 (41.96%) .NET Core
3 165 (38.46%) CSS
3 165 (38.46%) HTML
4 163 (38.00%) ASP.NET
5 157 (36.60%) Blazor
5 157 (36.60%) Entity Framework
6 146 (34.03%) ASP.NET MVC
6 146 (34.03%) CSS3
6 146 (34.03%) HTML5
7 38 (8.86%) .NET Framework
8 28 (6.53%) React
9 24 (5.59%) AngularJS
10 17 (3.96%) ASP.NET Web API
10 17 (3.96%) Razor View Engine
11 13 (3.03%) jQuery
11 13 (3.03%) LINQ
11 13 (3.03%) LINQ to SQL
12 8 (1.86%) Vue
13 6 (1.40%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.56%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (5.83%) Digital TV
3 16 (3.73%) Cloud Native
4 10 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 9 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.63%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.63%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.93%) NHS
8 4 (0.93%) Private Cloud
8 4 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (0.70%) BBC
9 3 (0.70%) Life Science
9 3 (0.70%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.70%) Social Media
10 2 (0.47%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.47%) Housing Association
10 2 (0.47%) Replication
10 2 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 81 (18.88%) VMS
2 24 (5.59%) Windows
3 8 (1.86%) Linux
4 6 (1.40%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (46.62%) Agile
2 167 (38.93%) Full Stack Development
3 162 (37.76%) MVC
4 146 (34.03%) TDD
5 142 (33.10%) BDD
6 121 (28.21%) Business Intelligence
7 91 (21.21%) DevOps
8 84 (19.58%) Collaborative Working
9 83 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
10 81 (18.88%) Disaster Recovery
11 76 (17.72%) High Availability
12 43 (10.02%) Analytics
13 42 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (7.93%) Mentoring
15 28 (6.53%) CI/CD
16 27 (6.29%) ETL
17 26 (6.06%) Software Engineering
18 25 (5.83%) Data Modelling
19 24 (5.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 24 (5.59%) OO
Programming Languages
1 421 (98.14%) SQL
2 227 (52.91%) C#
3 188 (43.82%) JavaScript
4 114 (26.57%) T-SQL
5 60 (13.99%) PowerShell
6 29 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 27 (6.29%) Python
8 13 (3.03%) Bash
9 10 (2.33%) Go
10 9 (2.10%) VB.NET
11 8 (1.86%) Java
12 6 (1.40%) Groovy
12 6 (1.40%) PHP
12 6 (1.40%) Ruby
13 5 (1.17%) C
14 4 (0.93%) R
15 3 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 99 (23.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 27 (6.29%) Azure Certification
3 25 (5.83%) Degree
4 16 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.40%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.40%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.93%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.93%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.70%) CIPD
7 3 (0.70%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.70%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.63%) QA
3 5 (1.17%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.17%) SLA
4 4 (0.93%) GDPR
5 3 (0.70%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 84 (19.58%) Virtual Machines
2 32 (7.46%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.26%) Docker
4 3 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (4.66%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.20%) Terraform
3 10 (2.33%) Ansible
3 10 (2.33%) Grafana
3 10 (2.33%) Prometheus
4 8 (1.86%) Progress Chef
5 6 (1.40%) Puppet
6 3 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 328 (76.46%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.90%) Facebook
3 15 (3.50%) Commvault
3 15 (3.50%) Databricks
4 9 (2.10%) New Relic
4 9 (2.10%) Oracle
4 9 (2.10%) VMware
5 7 (1.63%) Apple
6 6 (1.40%) Citrix
6 6 (1.40%) SaltStack
7 4 (0.93%) Adobe
8 3 (0.70%) Google
8 3 (0.70%) RedGate
8 3 (0.70%) Sony
8 3 (0.70%) Yahoo!
9 2 (0.47%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.47%) Xamarin
10 1 (0.23%) Ab Initio
10 1 (0.23%) Sitecore