Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
Period
to 12 April 2021

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Azure SQL Data Warehouse skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure SQL Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 12 April 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse
UK
6 months to
12 Apr 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 613 779 908
Rank change year-on-year +166 +129 +86
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse 239 227 204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.20% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.10% 0.74% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 203 163 174
10th Percentile £41,890 £43,750 £45,225
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £79,688
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +20.00%

Azure SQL Data Warehouse 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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 21,785 30,573 42,368
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK 26.40% 26.93% 28.45%
Number of salaries quoted 17,600 25,217 35,073
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.78% - +5.88%

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the UK

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Salary trend for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the UK

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse over the 6 months to 12 April 2021.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Data Warehouse in the UK

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Top 14 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 12 April 2021. 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
Job
Vacancies
England +131 217 £67,500 - 35
London +109 112 £75,000 - 16
UK excluding London +106 100 £57,500 - 19
North of England +71 48 £65,000 +4.00% 2
Work from Home -93 36 £60,000 +4.35% 7
North West +54 25 £60,000 -
Yorkshire +24 23 £72,500 -3.33% 2
Midlands +33 22 £55,000 - 9
West Midlands +30 20 £55,000 +4.76% 7
South East +63 16 £39,400 -31.48% 2
South West +10 8 £50,000 +5.26% 1
East of England +54 3 £75,000 +25.00% 5
Scotland +4 3 £75,000 +51.52%
East Midlands +23 2 £37,563 -48.19% 2

For the 6 months to 12 April 2021, IT jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

1 239 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 239 (100.00%) Azure
2 171 (71.55%) SQL
3 168 (70.29%) Power Platform
4 167 (69.87%) Business Intelligence
5 144 (60.25%) Microsoft
6 141 (59.00%) Power BI
7 114 (47.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 113 (47.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 103 (43.10%) SQL Server
10 97 (40.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 95 (39.75%) Python
12 92 (38.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 92 (38.49%) Analytics
12 92 (38.49%) Data Lake
13 90 (37.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 86 (35.98%) Agile Software Development
15 83 (34.73%) Data Modelling
16 79 (33.05%) AWS
17 78 (32.64%) Visualisation
18 76 (31.80%) ETL
18 76 (31.80%) DevOps
19 74 (30.96%) Databricks
20 56 (23.43%) Finance
21 48 (20.08%) Migration
22 46 (19.25%) Big Data
23 45 (18.83%) Microsoft Analysis Services
24 43 (17.99%) Amazon Redshift
25 40 (16.74%) T-SQL
26 36 (15.06%) PaaS

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (10.88%) Apache Spark
2 24 (10.04%) Apache
3 14 (5.86%) Apache Synapse
4 3 (1.26%) Confluence
5 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (5.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 19 (7.95%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.42%) Sentinel
Cloud Services
1 239 (100.00%) Azure
2 168 (70.29%) Power Platform
3 114 (47.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 79 (33.05%) AWS
5 36 (15.06%) Dynamics 365
5 36 (15.06%) PaaS
6 34 (14.23%) Azure Stack
7 24 (10.04%) GCP
8 22 (9.21%) PowerApps
9 20 (8.37%) IaaS
10 14 (5.86%) Serverless
11 12 (5.02%) Azure Functions
12 9 (3.77%) Amazon Kinesis
13 7 (2.93%) Data Lake Analytics
14 6 (2.51%) SaaS
15 4 (1.67%) Amazon EMR
16 3 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
16 3 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
16 3 (1.26%) Azure Active Directory
16 3 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 239 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 141 (59.00%) Power BI
3 113 (47.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 103 (43.10%) SQL Server
5 97 (40.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 92 (38.49%) Data Lake
6 92 (38.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 90 (37.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 46 (19.25%) Big Data
9 45 (18.83%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 43 (17.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 34 (14.23%) Tableau
12 29 (12.13%) Cosmos DB
13 25 (10.46%) Amazon Athena
14 19 (7.95%) Snowflake Schema
15 18 (7.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 18 (7.53%) OLTP
16 16 (6.69%) NoSQL
17 13 (5.44%) Hadoop
18 11 (4.60%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.93%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.09%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.67%) JIRA
4 2 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.84%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.84%) Git (software)
4 2 (0.84%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.84%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 56 (23.43%) Finance
2 30 (12.55%) Retail
3 28 (11.72%) Public Sector
4 10 (4.18%) Legal
5 5 (2.09%) Law
6 3 (1.26%) Banking
7 2 (0.84%) Marketing
8 1 (0.42%) Advertising
8 1 (0.42%) Automotive
8 1 (0.42%) Publishing
8 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (28.45%) Data Engineer
2 41 (17.15%) Developer
3 40 (16.74%) Architect
4 31 (12.97%) Consultant
5 30 (12.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 29 (12.13%) Data Consultant
7 25 (10.46%) Data Architect
8 24 (10.04%) Azure Engineer
9 23 (9.62%) Azure Consultant
10 22 (9.21%) Analyst
10 22 (9.21%) Senior Data Engineer
11 20 (8.37%) Azure Architect
12 15 (6.28%) Microsoft Consultant
13 13 (5.44%) Power BI Developer
14 12 (5.02%) Data Analyst
15 11 (4.60%) AWS Architect
16 9 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 9 (3.77%) Data Warehouse Analyst
16 9 (3.77%) Head of Applications
17 8 (3.35%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.02%) PySpark
2 11 (4.60%) .NET
3 10 (4.18%) Kafka
3 10 (4.18%) Web Services
4 5 (2.09%) JSON
4 5 (2.09%) XML
5 4 (1.67%) MDX
6 3 (1.26%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.84%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.84%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.84%) RESTful
7 2 (0.84%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.42%) COM
8 1 (0.42%) REST
8 1 (0.42%) SOAP
8 1 (0.42%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (7.95%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (5.86%) Algorithms
4 8 (3.35%) NHS
5 5 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.26%) Social Media
8 2 (0.84%) Blog
8 2 (0.84%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.84%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.42%) FMCG
9 1 (0.42%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.42%) User Experience
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.42%) Unix
1 1 (0.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (69.87%) Business Intelligence
2 92 (38.49%) Analytics
3 86 (35.98%) Agile Software Development
4 83 (34.73%) Data Modelling
5 78 (32.64%) Visualisation
6 76 (31.80%) DevOps
6 76 (31.80%) ETL
7 48 (20.08%) Migration
8 33 (13.81%) Data Engineering
8 33 (13.81%) Project Management
9 31 (12.97%) Data Analytics
10 29 (12.13%) Data Integration
10 29 (12.13%) Machine Learning
11 28 (11.72%) Data Visualisation
11 28 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
12 27 (11.30%) Waterfall
13 25 (10.46%) ERP
14 24 (10.04%) Data Management
15 23 (9.62%) Continuous Integration
16 21 (8.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 171 (71.55%) SQL
2 95 (39.75%) Python
3 40 (16.74%) T-SQL
4 21 (8.79%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
4 21 (8.79%) Scala
5 18 (7.53%) C#
6 14 (5.86%) PL/SQL
6 14 (5.86%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.93%) Java
8 6 (2.51%) U-SQL
9 5 (2.09%) R
10 3 (1.26%) Perl
11 2 (0.84%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.42%) HiveQL
12 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (13.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (3.35%) DBS Check
3 6 (2.51%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.51%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.42%) Degree
4 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.53%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.09%) QA
System Software
1 12 (5.02%) Docker
2 5 (2.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.84%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 15 (6.28%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.84%) Ansible
2 2 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (0.84%) Terraform
3 1 (0.42%) Oozie
Vendors
1 144 (60.25%) Microsoft
2 74 (30.96%) Databricks
3 19 (7.95%) Google
4 9 (3.77%) SAP
5 5 (2.09%) Vertica
6 4 (1.67%) Informatica
7 3 (1.26%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.26%) IBM
7 3 (1.26%) Oracle
7 3 (1.26%) Splunk
8 2 (0.84%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.84%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.84%) Cloudera
8 2 (0.84%) Hortonworks
8 2 (0.84%) Talend
8 2 (0.84%) Teradata
9 1 (0.42%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.42%) ESRI
9 1 (0.42%) Intel
9 1 (0.42%) Netezza