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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 341 379
Rank change year-on-year -72 +38 +120
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 108 286 177
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.61% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.77% 4.42% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 78 187 155
10th Percentile £28,000 £41,375 £45,500
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 £65,000 £68,750 £69,375
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £63,867 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.19% -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 3,895 6,467 6,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.47% 13.75% 20.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,608 3,378 4,846
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 26 November 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 26 November 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
North of England +22 31 £55,000 -8.33% 28
Midlands +43 25 £48,500 +2.11% 23
South East -34 20 £65,000 - 48
East Midlands +27 18 £48,500 -3.00% 11
North West +14 17 £57,500 -4.17% 14
Scotland -16 14 £27,500 -43.59% 4
West Midlands +51 7 £55,000 +18.92% 12
North East +24 7 £48,000 -16.52% 4
Yorkshire +12 7 £45,000 -15.09% 10
South West +27 6 £62,000 +28.50% 11
Northern Ireland +9 6 £50,000 -
Wales +9 3 £56,631 +41.14% 3
East of England -11 3 £55,000 +15.79% 16
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 6 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.70%) IIS
2 4 (3.70%) nginx
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 23 (21.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.85%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 108 (100.00%) Azure
2 57 (52.78%) Power Platform
3 54 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 45 (41.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 19 (17.59%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (17.59%) Entra ID
6 16 (14.81%) SaaS
7 11 (10.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 11 (10.19%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (7.41%) GCP
10 7 (6.48%) Azure AKS
10 7 (6.48%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (6.48%) GitHub
10 7 (6.48%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (6.48%) Snowflake
11 5 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (3.70%) Azure Pipelines
12 4 (3.70%) Cloudflare
13 3 (2.78%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) DNS
1 1 (0.93%) Firewall
1 1 (0.93%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (52.78%) SQL Server
2 55 (50.93%) Power BI
3 35 (32.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 30 (27.78%) Data Lake
5 13 (12.04%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (12.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (6.48%) BigQuery
6 7 (6.48%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.63%) Metadata
8 3 (2.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.78%) Big Data
8 3 (2.78%) MySQL
8 3 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.78%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.85%) Redis
10 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.93%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (7.41%) Git
2 4 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.93%) git-flow
3 1 (0.93%) JIRA
3 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 37 (34.26%) Social Skills
2 32 (29.63%) Finance
3 31 (28.70%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (14.81%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (10.19%) Billing
6 7 (6.48%) Retail
7 6 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (4.63%) Law
9 4 (3.70%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.85%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.93%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 24 (22.22%) Developer
2 18 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 14 (12.96%) Senior
4 13 (12.04%) SQL Developer
5 12 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (10.19%) Analyst
6 11 (10.19%) Applications Support
6 11 (10.19%) Business Manager
6 11 (10.19%) Commercial Analyst
6 11 (10.19%) DBA
6 11 (10.19%) Insight Analyst
6 11 (10.19%) Insight Manager
7 10 (9.26%) Applications Engineer
7 10 (9.26%) Applications Support Engineer
7 10 (9.26%) SQL DBA
7 10 (9.26%) Support Engineer
8 9 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
9 7 (6.48%) Lead
10 6 (5.56%) Azure Data Engineer
10 6 (5.56%) SQL Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.67%) .NET
2 5 (4.63%) ARM Templates
3 4 (3.70%) .NET Framework
3 4 (3.70%) Loki
3 4 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (2.78%) Entity Framework
4 3 (2.78%) React
4 3 (2.78%) RESTful
5 2 (1.85%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.85%) Blazor
6 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.93%) Kafka
6 1 (0.93%) OAuth
6 1 (0.93%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.93%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.93%) OpenID
6 1 (0.93%) React Native
6 1 (0.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (6.48%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.56%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.70%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.78%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.85%) IoT
7 2 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.85%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.85%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.85%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.63%) Windows
2 4 (3.70%) Linux
3 3 (2.78%) Android
4 2 (1.85%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.93%) VMS
5 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (52.78%) Business Intelligence
2 46 (42.59%) Analytics
3 44 (40.74%) DevOps
4 36 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (32.41%) Visualisation
6 33 (30.56%) Decision-Making
7 27 (25.00%) Data Analysis
8 23 (21.30%) ETL
9 22 (20.37%) Actionable Insight
9 22 (20.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 22 (20.37%) Process Improvement
9 22 (20.37%) Visual Analytics
9 22 (20.37%) WFM
10 21 (19.44%) Data Modelling
10 21 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
11 16 (14.81%) AI
11 16 (14.81%) CI/CD
11 16 (14.81%) Time Management
12 14 (12.96%) Agile
12 14 (12.96%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 108 (100.00%) SQL
2 24 (22.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 22 (20.37%) T-SQL
4 17 (15.74%) C#
5 12 (11.11%) Python
6 8 (7.41%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.56%) Bicep
8 2 (1.85%) C
8 2 (1.85%) Scala
9 1 (0.93%) Bash
9 1 (0.93%) Java
9 1 (0.93%) PHP
9 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.93%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (15.74%) Degree
2 11 (10.19%) Six Sigma Green Belt
3 10 (9.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.85%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.93%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.93%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (18.52%) Data Quality
2 11 (10.19%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (4.63%) GDPR
3 5 (4.63%) QA
4 3 (2.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.48%) Docker
3 5 (4.63%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.63%) Grafana
2 5 (4.63%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 22 (20.37%) Databricks
3 2 (1.85%) Informatica
3 2 (1.85%) Xamarin
4 1 (0.93%) Foundry
4 1 (0.93%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle
4 1 (0.93%) RedGate
4 1 (0.93%) SAP
4 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.93%) VMware