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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 311 356
Rank change year-on-year -99 +45 +122
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 99 275 230
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.77% 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.64% 4.88% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 70 185 203
10th Percentile £26,250 £41,250 £39,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,700 £82,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -14.29%

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 3,750 5,630 6,867
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.84% 15.67% 19.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,387 2,923 5,243
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% -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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +12 27 £60,000 +17.07% 30
North of England -10 25 £55,000 -12.00% 46
East Midlands -10 16 £50,000 - 17
South East -47 16 £65,000 - 51
North West -1 13 £57,500 -8.00% 29
Scotland -21 13 £27,500 -42.11% 7
West Midlands +12 9 £64,250 +16.82% 12
North East +14 6 - - 8
Yorkshire -12 6 £50,000 -5.66% 9
South West +14 5 £69,000 +15.00% 20
Northern Ireland -8 5 £50,000 - 2
East of England -12 5 £57,500 +21.05% 22
Wales +7 3 £56,631 +41.14% 5
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 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.01%) Confluence
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (23.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.02%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (100.00%) Azure
2 46 (46.46%) Power Platform
3 45 (45.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 38 (38.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 23 (23.23%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (16.16%) SaaS
7 13 (13.13%) Entra ID
8 7 (7.07%) GitHub
9 6 (6.06%) Azure AI
10 5 (5.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 5 (5.05%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (5.05%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (4.04%) PaaS
12 3 (3.03%) Azure AKS
12 3 (3.03%) Azure API Management
12 3 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (3.03%) Azure Stack
12 3 (3.03%) Serverless
13 2 (2.02%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.02%) DNS
1 2 (2.02%) Firewall
2 1 (1.01%) DHCP
2 1 (1.01%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (1.01%) Internet
2 1 (1.01%) Network Security
2 1 (1.01%) SAN
2 1 (1.01%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.01%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.01%) VLAN
2 1 (1.01%) VPN
2 1 (1.01%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (49.49%) SQL Server
2 45 (45.45%) Power BI
3 35 (35.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 25 (25.25%) Data Lake
5 14 (14.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (7.07%) MongoDB
8 4 (4.04%) Metadata
8 4 (4.04%) Power Query
9 3 (3.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.03%) Big Data
9 3 (3.03%) MySQL
9 3 (3.03%) Relational Database
9 3 (3.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (2.02%) Redis
10 2 (2.02%) Star Schema
11 1 (1.01%) BigQuery
11 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (7.07%) Git
2 1 (1.01%) git-flow
2 1 (1.01%) JIRA
General
1 40 (40.40%) Social Skills
2 36 (36.36%) Finance
3 34 (34.34%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.11%) Billing
4 11 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (6.06%) Law
6 3 (3.03%) Legal
6 3 (3.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.01%) Back Office
7 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (23.23%) Developer
2 15 (15.15%) Senior
3 14 (14.14%) DBA
4 13 (13.13%) Data Engineer
4 13 (13.13%) SQL DBA
5 12 (12.12%) Analyst
6 11 (11.11%) Business Manager
6 11 (11.11%) Commercial Analyst
6 11 (11.11%) Insight Analyst
6 11 (11.11%) Insight Manager
7 10 (10.10%) .NET Developer
7 10 (10.10%) Applications Support
8 9 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
8 9 (9.09%) Applications Support Engineer
8 9 (9.09%) Support Engineer
9 8 (8.08%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (7.07%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (5.05%) Administrator
11 5 (5.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 5 (5.05%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.21%) .NET
2 9 (9.09%) ASP.NET
3 8 (8.08%) React
4 7 (7.07%) .NET Core
4 7 (7.07%) ASP.NET Core
4 7 (7.07%) Blazor
4 7 (7.07%) RESTful
5 5 (5.05%) ML.NET
6 4 (4.04%) .NET Framework
6 4 (4.04%) Entity Framework
7 2 (2.02%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.02%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (2.02%) CSS
7 2 (2.02%) HTML
7 2 (2.02%) Node.js
7 2 (2.02%) PySpark
8 1 (1.01%) Azure Blueprints
8 1 (1.01%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.01%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.01%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (25.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (13.13%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (8.08%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.07%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.04%) Client/Server
5 4 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.04%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.03%) Clustering
7 2 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.02%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.02%) N-Tier
7 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.02%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.02%) Social Network
8 1 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.04%) Android
1 4 (4.04%) VMS
2 2 (2.02%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.01%) Windows
3 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (47.47%) Business Intelligence
2 46 (46.46%) Analytics
3 42 (42.42%) DevOps
4 36 (36.36%) Decision-Making
5 35 (35.35%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (29.29%) Visualisation
7 27 (27.27%) Data Analysis
8 25 (25.25%) Actionable Insight
8 25 (25.25%) Data Modelling
8 25 (25.25%) ETL
9 22 (22.22%) Process Improvement
9 22 (22.22%) Visual Analytics
9 22 (22.22%) WFM
10 20 (20.20%) AI
10 20 (20.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (18.18%) Agile
12 16 (16.16%) CI/CD
13 14 (14.14%) ITIL
14 13 (13.13%) Data Analytics
15 12 (12.12%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 99 (100.00%) SQL
2 29 (29.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 19 (19.19%) C#
4 17 (17.17%) T-SQL
5 11 (11.11%) Python
6 6 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.06%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.02%) C
8 1 (1.01%) Bash
8 1 (1.01%) Bicep
8 1 (1.01%) PHP
8 1 (1.01%) Scala
8 1 (1.01%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.01%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (16.16%) Degree
2 11 (11.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 10 (10.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (9.09%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.02%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.01%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.01%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (20.20%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (6.06%) GDPR
4 3 (3.03%) QA
5 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (12.12%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.05%) Docker
3 2 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.01%) Firmware
4 1 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (4.04%) Kubernetes
1 4 (4.04%) Terraform
2 1 (1.01%) Ansible
2 1 (1.01%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.01%) Grafana
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 46 (46.46%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.14%) Databricks
3 2 (2.02%) Google
3 2 (2.02%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.01%) Apple
4 1 (1.01%) Facebook
4 1 (1.01%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.01%) Foundry
4 1 (1.01%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (1.01%) RedGate
4 1 (1.01%) Sony
4 1 (1.01%) Yahoo!