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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 710 608 811
Rank change year-on-year -102 +203 -25
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse 21 48 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.022% 0.11% 0.088%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.26% 0.65% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 19 29 73
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £75,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +63.04% -34.29%
75th Percentile £115,000 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile - £91,000 £70,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,500 £70,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -27.86% +64.71% -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 8,044 7,380 17,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.60% 16.56% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,228 4,765 12,646
10th Percentile £35,675 £35,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -10.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £110,000 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -86 21 £57,500 -20.69% 7
London -52 11 £115,000 +53.33% 5
UK excluding London -70 10 £50,500 -27.86% 4
Work from Home -9 9 £115,000 +53.33% 5
North of England -28 6 £45,000 -3.23% 1
Yorkshire -40 3 £42,500 -8.60%
North East - 3 £45,000 -
West Midlands -21 2 £68,750 -1.79%
Midlands -24 2 £68,750 -1.79%
East of England - 2 £56,000 - 1

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 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (9.52%) Luigi
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (23.81%) AWS
3 5 (23.81%) Power Platform
4 4 (19.05%) GCP
4 4 (19.05%) Snowflake
5 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (9.52%) SaaS
6 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (23.81%) Star Schema
4 4 (19.05%) Data Lake
4 4 (19.05%) Power BI
5 3 (14.29%) Tableau
6 1 (4.76%) DataStage
6 1 (4.76%) PowerCenter
6 1 (4.76%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (52.38%) Finance
2 7 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Advertising
4 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Lead
3 6 (28.57%) Data Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Business Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Informatica Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Head of Business Intelligence
7 1 (4.76%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Analytics
2 15 (71.43%) Data Modelling
3 12 (57.14%) Data Engineering
4 9 (42.86%) ETL
5 8 (38.10%) Data Governance
5 8 (38.10%) Decision-Making
6 7 (33.33%) AI
6 7 (33.33%) Asset Management
6 7 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
7 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
7 6 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (23.81%) Data Integration
9 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
10 3 (14.29%) Agile
10 3 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
10 3 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 3 (14.29%) DevOps
10 3 (14.29%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) SQL
2 7 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (28.57%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Tableau Certification
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 19 (90.48%) Databricks
2 5 (23.81%) Informatica
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Nintex