Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Azure SQL Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 397 490 548
Rank change year-on-year +93 +58 -216
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 629 603 933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.58% 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.48% 2.67% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 552 523 705
10th Percentile £39,750 £46,400 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,375 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Azure SQL Database 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,076 22,599 42,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.44% 21.59% 27.62%
Number of salaries quoted 12,541 13,991 21,425
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +6.12%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in the UK

Azure SQL Database
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure SQL Database within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +117 561 £57,500 -17.86% 133
UK excluding London +128 429 £57,500 - 80
Work from Home +151 408 £57,500 -14.81% 131
London +39 169 £70,000 -12.50% 55
North of England +115 135 £55,000 -4.02% 16
South East +53 98 £57,500 -11.54% 19
North West +60 92 £55,000 -4.35% 11
East of England +51 58 £51,333 +36.89% 18
South West +33 53 £57,500 +4.55% 15
Midlands -7 37 £50,000 -6.10% 8
Yorkshire +103 29 £57,500 - 2
Scotland -46 29 £57,500 -14.81% 7
East Midlands -3 19 £47,500 -17.39% 3
West Midlands 0 18 £55,000 +3.29% 5
North East +6 14 £50,000 +5.26% 3
Northern Ireland +33 11 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Wales +15 8 £60,000 +118.18% 1

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 44 (7.00%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.11%) CMS
4 6 (0.95%) Confluence
5 5 (0.79%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.48%) Apache
7 2 (0.32%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.16%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 13 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.64%) Trello
4 3 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.32%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 629 (100.00%) Azure
2 215 (34.18%) Power Platform
3 140 (22.26%) Azure DevOps
4 113 (17.97%) Azure Data Factory
5 59 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 58 (9.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 57 (9.06%) Microsoft 365
8 55 (8.74%) Entra ID
9 54 (8.59%) Serverless
10 49 (7.79%) PaaS
10 49 (7.79%) PowerApps
11 44 (7.00%) Azure Logic Apps
12 39 (6.20%) Azure Functions
13 38 (6.04%) Power Automate
14 37 (5.88%) IaaS
15 35 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
16 33 (5.25%) AWS
17 30 (4.77%) SaaS
18 27 (4.29%) GitHub
19 25 (3.97%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 74 (11.76%) Broadband
2 42 (6.68%) Internet
3 22 (3.50%) DNS
4 20 (3.18%) Firewall
5 14 (2.23%) Network Security
6 12 (1.91%) WAN
7 8 (1.27%) VPN
8 7 (1.11%) LAN
9 5 (0.79%) DHCP
9 5 (0.79%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.79%) SSL
9 5 (0.79%) VLAN
9 5 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.32%) MPLS
11 1 (0.16%) 3GPP
11 1 (0.16%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (62.96%) SQL Server
2 186 (29.57%) Power BI
3 74 (11.76%) Data Lake
4 67 (10.65%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (9.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 46 (7.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (3.66%) Relational Database
8 22 (3.50%) MySQL
9 18 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (2.54%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 15 (2.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 13 (2.07%) Redis
13 12 (1.91%) RDBMS
14 11 (1.75%) NoSQL
14 11 (1.75%) Tableau
15 10 (1.59%) MongoDB
16 9 (1.43%) Delta Lake
16 9 (1.43%) MariaDB
17 8 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
17 8 (1.27%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 36 (5.72%) Git
2 18 (2.86%) NUnit
3 14 (2.23%) Moq
4 12 (1.91%) JIRA
4 12 (1.91%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.27%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (0.64%) GitLab
6 4 (0.64%) MLflow
6 4 (0.64%) MSTest
7 3 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.48%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.16%) JMeter
8 1 (0.16%) Selenium
8 1 (0.16%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.16%) Subversion
8 1 (0.16%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 183 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 75 (11.92%) Finance
3 42 (6.68%) Advertising
4 37 (5.88%) Marketing
5 30 (4.77%) Games
6 26 (4.13%) Retail
7 22 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (2.70%) Legal
9 15 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.59%) Music Industry
10 10 (1.59%) Public Sector
11 9 (1.43%) Law
12 7 (1.11%) Banking
12 7 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.95%) Aviation
13 6 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.64%) Police
15 3 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 267 (42.45%) Developer
2 172 (27.34%) .NET Developer
3 110 (17.49%) DBA
4 99 (15.74%) SQL DBA
5 96 (15.26%) Senior
6 69 (10.97%) Data Engineer
7 68 (10.81%) Azure Engineer
8 59 (9.38%) C# Developer
9 50 (7.95%) C# .NET Developer
10 46 (7.31%) Lead
11 40 (6.36%) Azure Data Engineer
11 40 (6.36%) Senior Developer
12 37 (5.88%) Architect
12 37 (5.88%) Internet Developer
13 32 (5.09%) Software Developer
14 27 (4.29%) Senior Data Engineer
15 26 (4.13%) Analyst
16 23 (3.66%) Software Engineer
16 23 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
17 21 (3.34%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 272 (43.24%) .NET
2 199 (31.64%) .NET Core
3 184 (29.25%) CSS
4 182 (28.93%) ASP.NET
5 181 (28.78%) HTML
6 179 (28.46%) Entity Framework
7 173 (27.50%) Blazor
8 160 (25.44%) ASP.NET MVC
9 159 (25.28%) CSS3
9 159 (25.28%) HTML5
10 51 (8.11%) .NET Framework
11 40 (6.36%) React
12 30 (4.77%) AngularJS
13 22 (3.50%) REST
14 20 (3.18%) ASP.NET Web API
15 19 (3.02%) PySpark
16 17 (2.70%) ARM Templates
16 17 (2.70%) JSON
16 17 (2.70%) Razor View Engine
17 16 (2.54%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.63%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (3.97%) Digital TV
3 19 (3.02%) Cloud Native
4 14 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.07%) Data Structures
5 13 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (2.07%) Management Information System
6 12 (1.91%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.43%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.27%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.11%) Social Media
10 5 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 4 (0.64%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.64%) NHS
11 4 (0.64%) Reinsurance
11 4 (0.64%) Replication
11 4 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 81 (12.88%) VMS
2 35 (5.56%) Windows
3 14 (2.23%) Linux
3 14 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (41.65%) Agile
2 191 (30.37%) Business Intelligence
3 188 (29.89%) DevOps
4 185 (29.41%) Full Stack Development
5 178 (28.30%) MVC
6 167 (26.55%) TDD
7 157 (24.96%) BDD
8 111 (17.65%) Analytics
9 94 (14.94%) Disaster Recovery
10 89 (14.15%) Performance Tuning
11 86 (13.67%) Collaborative Working
11 86 (13.67%) High Availability
12 82 (13.04%) CI/CD
13 74 (11.76%) ETL
14 64 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
15 55 (8.74%) Data Modelling
16 47 (7.47%) Data Analytics
17 46 (7.31%) Data Engineering
18 42 (6.68%) Data Pipeline
18 42 (6.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 610 (96.98%) SQL
2 280 (44.52%) C#
3 213 (33.86%) JavaScript
4 135 (21.46%) T-SQL
5 100 (15.90%) PowerShell
6 72 (11.45%) Python
7 32 (5.09%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.70%) Bash
8 17 (2.70%) R
9 15 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (1.91%) Java
11 11 (1.75%) Go
12 10 (1.59%) Scala
13 9 (1.43%) U-SQL
13 9 (1.43%) VB.NET
14 7 (1.11%) Groovy
14 7 (1.11%) PHP
14 7 (1.11%) Ruby
15 5 (0.79%) Bicep
15 5 (0.79%) C
Qualifications
1 117 (18.60%) Microsoft Certification
2 62 (9.86%) Degree
3 40 (6.36%) Azure Certification
4 32 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.23%) Security Cleared
6 12 (1.91%) SC Cleared
7 10 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (0.95%) CISM
8 6 (0.95%) CISSP
8 6 (0.95%) DBS Check
8 6 (0.95%) GIAC
8 6 (0.95%) SANS
9 5 (0.79%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.48%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.48%) CIPD
10 3 (0.48%) HND
11 2 (0.32%) CIMA
11 2 (0.32%) MCSA
11 2 (0.32%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.34%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.91%) QA
4 6 (0.95%) COBIT
4 6 (0.95%) NIST
4 6 (0.95%) Web Application Security Consortium
5 5 (0.79%) SLA
6 4 (0.64%) GDPR
7 3 (0.48%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.32%) PMO
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 92 (14.63%) Virtual Machines
2 49 (7.79%) Active Directory
3 38 (6.04%) Docker
4 4 (0.64%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.32%) vSphere
7 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 47 (7.47%) Terraform
2 45 (7.15%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.70%) Ansible
4 11 (1.75%) Grafana
4 11 (1.75%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.59%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.11%) Puppet
7 6 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.95%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 4 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 431 (68.52%) Microsoft
2 74 (11.76%) Databricks
3 23 (3.66%) Oracle
4 21 (3.34%) Facebook
5 15 (2.38%) Commvault
6 10 (1.59%) New Relic
7 9 (1.43%) Apple
7 9 (1.43%) VMware
8 8 (1.27%) Google
9 7 (1.11%) SaltStack
10 6 (0.95%) Adobe
10 6 (0.95%) Citrix
10 6 (0.95%) Sun
11 5 (0.79%) SAP
12 4 (0.64%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.64%) Nintex
13 3 (0.48%) RedGate
13 3 (0.48%) Sony
13 3 (0.48%) Xamarin
13 3 (0.48%) Yahoo!