Azure SQL Data Warehouse Job Trends

Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Azure SQL Data Warehouse skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 661 610 789
Rank change year-on-year -51 +179 +56
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse 28 37 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.090% 0.078%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.38% 0.49% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 25 27 64
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £48,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +26.32% -32.14%
75th Percentile £115,000 £83,750 £65,500
90th Percentile - £92,000 £82,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% +35.29% -19.05%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Azure SQL Data Warehouse 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,436 7,517 16,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.28% 18.38% 18.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4,417 5,140 12,445
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,395 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.10% +4.76% -4.55%

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the UK

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse within the UK over the 6 months to 3 April 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
England -75 27 £80,000 +36.17% 8
Work from Home +8 22 £110,000 +100.00% 5
UK excluding London -56 13 £65,000 +13.04% 6
London -11 12 £115,000 +76.92% 3
West Midlands -12 8 £75,000 +22.45%
Midlands -29 8 £75,000 +22.45%
North of England -63 4 £45,000 +1.12% 3
North East - 3 £45,000 - 2
South East -37 1 £65,000 +13.04% 3
Yorkshire -57 1 £42,500 -8.60%

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 2 (7.14%) Apache
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) Azure
2 19 (67.86%) Azure Data Factory
3 11 (39.29%) Power Platform
4 4 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (14.29%) SaaS
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.57%) AWS
6 1 (3.57%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (50.00%) Data Lake
3 9 (32.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (32.14%) Power BI
4 3 (10.71%) Data Mining
4 3 (10.71%) Data Vault
4 3 (10.71%) Star Schema
4 3 (10.71%) Tableau
5 1 (3.57%) Big Data
5 1 (3.57%) DataStage
5 1 (3.57%) PowerCenter
5 1 (3.57%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (3.57%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 11 (39.29%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Retail
5 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Lead
1 7 (25.00%) Senior
2 5 (17.86%) Architect
2 5 (17.86%) Azure Architect
2 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Data Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Senior Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Data Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Business Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Data Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Head of Business Intelligence
3 3 (10.71%) Senior Data Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Data Modelling
2 15 (53.57%) Analytics
3 14 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 13 (46.43%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (35.71%) AI
6 9 (32.14%) Agile
6 9 (32.14%) Decision-Making
7 7 (25.00%) Asset Management
7 7 (25.00%) ETL
7 7 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
7 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (21.43%) Waterfall
9 5 (17.86%) Business Strategy
9 5 (17.86%) Data Strategy
10 4 (14.29%) Data Design
10 4 (14.29%) Data Governance
10 4 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (14.29%) Kimball Methodology
10 4 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
11 3 (10.71%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 17 (60.71%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Tableau Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 23 (82.14%) Databricks
2 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) Informatica
3 1 (3.57%) Nintex