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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 688 600 797
Rank change year-on-year -88 +197 +38
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse 24 47 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.11% 0.085%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.31% 0.64% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 21 29 73
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +47.37% -32.14%
75th Percentile £115,000 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile - £91,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year -1.89% +55.88% -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 7,820 7,329 17,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.76% 17.40% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,605 5,135 12,560
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,100 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
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 27 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 27 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 -85 24 £77,500 +19.23% 7
Work from Home +5 18 £85,000 +30.77% 3
UK excluding London -80 14 £65,000 -1.89% 7
London -34 8 £115,000 +64.29% 2
West Midlands -22 7 £75,000 +7.14%
Midlands -48 7 £75,000 +7.14%
North of England -50 6 £45,000 -3.23% 3
Yorkshire -54 3 £42,500 -8.60% 1
North East - 3 £45,000 - 1
South East -29 1 £65,000 +13.04% 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 (8.33%) Apache
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (83.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (37.50%) Power Platform
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (4.17%) AWS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (54.17%) Data Lake
3 8 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (33.33%) Power BI
4 5 (20.83%) Star Schema
5 3 (12.50%) Tableau
6 1 (4.17%) Big Data
6 1 (4.17%) DataStage
6 1 (4.17%) PowerCenter
6 1 (4.17%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (45.83%) Finance
2 7 (29.17%) Influencing Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Lead
2 6 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Business Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Head of Business Intelligence
5 2 (8.33%) Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 15 (62.50%) Analytics
3 13 (54.17%) Data Engineering
4 11 (45.83%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (37.50%) AI
5 9 (37.50%) Decision-Making
6 8 (33.33%) Agile
7 7 (29.17%) Asset Management
7 7 (29.17%) GAP Analysis
8 6 (25.00%) Data Governance
8 6 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (25.00%) ETL
8 6 (25.00%) Waterfall
9 5 (20.83%) Business Strategy
10 4 (16.67%) Data Science
10 4 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 3 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
11 3 (12.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Tableau Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 22 (91.67%) Databricks
2 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Informatica
3 1 (4.17%) Nintex