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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 627 650 710
Rank change year-on-year +23 +60 +144
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse 36 33 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.055% 0.065% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.53% 0.36% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 29 23 85
10th Percentile £60,500 £45,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £53,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% +30.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £110,000 £82,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £111,000 £90,000 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £61,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year +6.12% +28.95% -12.04%

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 6,729 9,168 14,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.35% 17.97% 19.69%
Number of salaries quoted 4,136 5,115 11,472
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,780 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,610 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 6 February 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 6 February 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
Work from Home +90 31 £85,000 +47.83% 6
England +49 31 £77,500 +21.57% 10
UK excluding London +19 18 £65,000 +6.12% 7
London +40 15 £110,000 +41.94% 4
West Midlands +31 10 £75,000 +20.00% 2
Midlands +19 10 £75,000 +20.00% 2
Scotland -2 4 - - 1
North West +13 3 £65,000 +10.64% 1
North of England -10 3 £65,000 +42.86% 2
South East +11 1 £65,000 +13.04% 2

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 4 (11.11%) Confluence
2 2 (5.56%) Apache
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) Azure
2 21 (58.33%) Power Platform
3 19 (52.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 9 (25.00%) SaaS
5 7 (19.44%) Snowflake
6 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 18 (50.00%) Power BI
3 13 (36.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (22.22%) Data Mining
4 8 (22.22%) Data Vault
5 4 (11.11%) Metadata
5 4 (11.11%) Tableau
6 3 (8.33%) Qlik Sense
6 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
7 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (2.78%) Big Data
8 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 11 (30.56%) Retail
2 7 (19.44%) Finance
2 7 (19.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Marketing
7 1 (2.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (44.44%) Senior
2 10 (27.78%) Architect
2 10 (27.78%) Azure Architect
2 10 (27.78%) Senior Architect
3 8 (22.22%) Azure Data Architect
3 8 (22.22%) Data Architect
3 8 (22.22%) Senior Data Architect
4 7 (19.44%) Data Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) Business Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
7 3 (8.33%) Azure Data Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 3 (8.33%) Head of Business Intelligence
7 3 (8.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (8.33%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (58.33%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (41.67%) Agile
2 15 (41.67%) Data Modelling
3 12 (33.33%) Analytics
3 12 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 12 (33.33%) Data Strategy
4 11 (30.56%) DevOps
4 11 (30.56%) Kimball Methodology
5 10 (27.78%) ETL
6 9 (25.00%) Data Design
6 9 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (22.22%) AI
8 7 (19.44%) Asset Management
8 7 (19.44%) Data Governance
8 7 (19.44%) Decision-Making
8 7 (19.44%) Visualisation
9 6 (16.67%) Waterfall
10 5 (13.89%) Business Strategy
10 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (13.89%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 28 (77.78%) SQL
2 5 (13.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.78%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 21 (58.33%) Databricks
2 16 (44.44%) Microsoft