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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 371 391
Rank change year-on-year -85 +20 +108
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 74 251 190
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.51% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.89% 3.99% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 69 159 160
10th Percentile £33,350 £41,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -3.48% -4.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,000 £79,125
UK median annual salary £62,617 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.67% - -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 3,913 6,290 6,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.44% 12.90% 20.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,428 3,219 5,215
10th Percentile £29,675 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,576
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.89% +0.42%

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 21 October 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 21 October 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
South East -42 20 £65,000 - 74
Midlands +24 19 £47,500 -5.00% 35
North of England -28 15 £55,000 -0.90% 59
East Midlands +15 13 £45,000 -10.00% 16
North West -21 10 £56,250 -0.44% 33
Scotland -31 9 £28,000 -37.78% 14
West Midlands +48 6 £57,500 +15.00% 18
East of England -15 5 £55,000 +15.79% 29
South West +48 4 £62,000 +1.22% 16
Yorkshire +3 4 £57,500 +2.22% 17
Wales +14 1 £56,631 +32.47% 10
North East +7 1 £48,000 +12.94% 9
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 7 (9.46%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.41%) IIS
2 4 (5.41%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 74 (100.00%) Azure
2 35 (47.30%) Power Platform
3 30 (40.54%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (28.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 17 (22.97%) Entra ID
6 16 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (14.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 11 (14.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (12.16%) GCP
8 9 (12.16%) SaaS
9 8 (10.81%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (10.81%) Snowflake
10 7 (9.46%) Azure AKS
11 6 (8.11%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (8.11%) GitHub
11 6 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (6.76%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (5.41%) Azure Pipelines
13 4 (5.41%) Cloudflare
14 3 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (45.95%) Power BI
2 30 (40.54%) SQL Server
3 25 (33.78%) Data Lake
4 12 (16.22%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (12.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (12.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (10.81%) BigQuery
6 8 (10.81%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.41%) Metadata
8 3 (4.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (4.05%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.70%) MySQL
9 2 (2.70%) Redis
10 1 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Git
2 4 (5.41%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.35%) git-flow
3 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 13 (17.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.16%) Retail
3 8 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.81%) Finance
4 7 (9.46%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.05%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.70%) Law
8 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (35.14%) Developer
2 15 (20.27%) SQL Developer
3 11 (14.86%) Data Engineer
4 10 (13.51%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) Applications Support
5 8 (10.81%) Architect
6 7 (9.46%) Applications Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Applications Support Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 7 (9.46%) DBA
6 7 (9.46%) Lead
6 7 (9.46%) Senior
6 7 (9.46%) Support Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Data Architect
7 6 (8.11%) Database Developer
7 6 (8.11%) SQL Database Developer
7 6 (8.11%) SQL DBA
8 5 (6.76%) Lead Developer
9 4 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.92%) .NET
2 5 (6.76%) ARM Templates
3 4 (5.41%) Loki
3 4 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (4.05%) .NET Framework
4 3 (4.05%) Entity Framework
4 3 (4.05%) RESTful
4 3 (4.05%) XML
5 2 (2.70%) Blazor
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (1.35%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.35%) Kafka
6 1 (1.35%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.05%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.70%) IoT
5 2 (2.70%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.35%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.35%) Clustering
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.35%) Replication
6 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.76%) Windows
2 4 (5.41%) Linux
3 3 (4.05%) Android
4 2 (2.70%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.35%) VMS
5 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (48.65%) DevOps
2 35 (47.30%) Business Intelligence
3 18 (24.32%) Data Pipeline
4 17 (22.97%) Analytics
4 17 (22.97%) ETL
5 15 (20.27%) Data Visualisation
5 15 (20.27%) Visualisation
6 13 (17.57%) CI/CD
6 13 (17.57%) Data Modelling
7 12 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (14.86%) Dimensional Modelling
9 10 (13.51%) Decision-Making
9 10 (13.51%) ITIL
9 10 (13.51%) Mentoring
10 9 (12.16%) Agile
10 9 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (10.81%) Data Architecture
11 8 (10.81%) Data Governance
11 8 (10.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 8 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 74 (100.00%) SQL
2 22 (29.73%) T-SQL
3 13 (17.57%) C#
4 9 (12.16%) PowerShell
5 8 (10.81%) Python
6 6 (8.11%) Bicep
7 2 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.70%) Scala
8 1 (1.35%) Bash
8 1 (1.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (16.22%) Azure Certification
2 9 (12.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (8.11%) Degree
4 5 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.05%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) GDPR
2 4 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.05%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 10 (13.51%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.46%) Docker
3 6 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (8.11%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.76%) Grafana
2 5 (6.76%) Prometheus
3 4 (5.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (44.59%) Microsoft
2 20 (27.03%) Databricks
3 2 (2.70%) Informatica
3 2 (2.70%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.35%) Oracle
4 1 (1.35%) SAP
4 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.35%) VMware