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 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 406 496 447
Rank change year-on-year +90 -49 -121
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 361 754 924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.61% 0.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.20% 2.64% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 301 607 719
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +13.82% +4.24%
75th Percentile £84,250 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +14.29%

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 11,277 28,579 34,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.28% 23.27% 27.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8,446 17,544 22,627
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,580 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +6.84% +6.36%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +2.04%

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 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in the UK

Azure SQL Database
Top 16 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 7 December 2023. 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 +110 339 £65,000 -7.14% 185
London +120 174 £77,500 -3.13% 71
UK excluding London +82 158 £57,500 - 128
Work from Home +59 147 £65,000 -7.14% 150
Midlands +119 62 £52,500 -8.70% 16
North of England +86 49 £57,500 -17.86% 42
North West +85 35 £65,000 +30.00% 22
West Midlands +113 31 £55,500 -3.48% 10
East Midlands +54 31 £47,500 -20.83% 6
South West +71 26 £57,500 +22.34% 11
South East +89 15 £58,750 -12.96% 38
Yorkshire +90 11 £52,500 -36.36% 13
East of England +106 4 £77,500 +37.78% 16
North East +32 3 £55,000 -26.67% 7
Scotland +21 1 £60,000 +29.73% 6
Wales -1 1 £63,040 +16.74% 3

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 36 (9.97%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.94%) Umbraco
3 6 (1.66%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.66%) Confluence
4 5 (1.39%) CMS
4 5 (1.39%) SAS
5 4 (1.11%) IIS
6 3 (0.83%) MS Exchange
7 2 (0.55%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.28%) Apache
8 1 (0.28%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 10 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.66%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Endur
2 1 (0.28%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (0.28%) Shopify
2 1 (0.28%) Softmar
Cloud Services
1 361 (100.00%) Azure
2 130 (36.01%) Azure Data Factory
3 126 (34.90%) Power Platform
4 122 (33.80%) Azure DevOps
5 84 (23.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 70 (19.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 63 (17.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 59 (16.34%) PaaS
9 54 (14.96%) Serverless
10 47 (13.02%) AWS
11 43 (11.91%) Azure Logic Apps
12 38 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
13 36 (9.97%) IaaS
13 36 (9.97%) PowerApps
14 34 (9.42%) SaaS
15 32 (8.86%) Azure Functions
15 32 (8.86%) Entra ID
16 31 (8.59%) Azure Storage
17 30 (8.31%) Microsoft 365
18 29 (8.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.71%) Firewall
2 15 (4.16%) DNS
3 9 (2.49%) Internet
3 9 (2.49%) Network Security
4 7 (1.94%) VPN
5 3 (0.83%) WAN
6 2 (0.55%) BGP
6 2 (0.55%) LAN
6 2 (0.55%) SAN
7 1 (0.28%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (53.46%) SQL Server
2 89 (24.65%) Power BI
3 86 (23.82%) Data Lake
4 75 (20.78%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (20.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 40 (11.08%) NoSQL
6 29 (8.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 18 (4.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 18 (4.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 16 (4.43%) MySQL
9 15 (4.16%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 15 (4.16%) Tableau
10 12 (3.32%) MongoDB
10 12 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.05%) Delta Lake
11 11 (3.05%) Relational Database
12 10 (2.77%) QlikView
13 8 (2.22%) Big Data
14 5 (1.39%) DTS
14 5 (1.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 42 (11.63%) Git
2 11 (3.05%) JIRA
3 7 (1.94%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (1.94%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.11%) NUnit
4 4 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.83%) Moq
5 3 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.55%) MSTest
6 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.28%) git-flow
7 1 (0.28%) NSubstitute
7 1 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.28%) Rhino Mocks
7 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 106 (29.36%) Social Skills
2 88 (24.38%) Finance
3 43 (11.91%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.03%) Retail
5 13 (3.60%) Marketing
6 12 (3.32%) Law
7 10 (2.77%) Legal
8 7 (1.94%) Banking
9 6 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.11%) Public Sector
10 4 (1.11%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.55%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.55%) Social Housing
11 2 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 104 (28.81%) Developer
2 75 (20.78%) Senior
3 55 (15.24%) Data Engineer
4 53 (14.68%) Azure Engineer
5 49 (13.57%) Architect
6 45 (12.47%) Lead
7 36 (9.97%) Solutions Architect
8 33 (9.14%) .NET Developer
8 33 (9.14%) Senior Developer
9 32 (8.86%) DBA
10 24 (6.65%) Administrator
11 23 (6.37%) Azure Data Engineer
12 21 (5.82%) Azure Architect
12 21 (5.82%) Azure Developer
12 21 (5.82%) Data Architect
13 19 (5.26%) Analyst
13 19 (5.26%) SQL DBA
14 18 (4.99%) C# Developer
14 18 (4.99%) DevOps Engineer
15 17 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (25.48%) .NET
2 55 (15.24%) REST
3 38 (10.53%) React
4 32 (8.86%) .NET Framework
5 26 (7.20%) CSS
6 24 (6.65%) ASP.NET
6 24 (6.65%) HTML
7 23 (6.37%) JSON
8 22 (6.09%) AngularJS
9 21 (5.82%) YAML
10 18 (4.99%) .NET Core
11 16 (4.43%) ARM Templates
12 12 (3.32%) Vue
13 11 (3.05%) ASP.NET Web API
13 11 (3.05%) jQuery
14 10 (2.77%) CSS3
15 9 (2.49%) HTML5
15 9 (2.49%) WebSockets
16 8 (2.22%) Entity Framework
17 7 (1.94%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.76%) Low-Code
2 20 (5.54%) Management Information System
3 19 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 19 (5.26%) IoT
4 15 (4.16%) Replication
5 14 (3.88%) Housing Association
6 13 (3.60%) Public Cloud
7 12 (3.32%) Data Structures
7 12 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (2.77%) Virtual Team
10 9 (2.49%) Clustering
11 8 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
12 7 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.94%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.94%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.94%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.93%) Windows
2 20 (5.54%) Windows Server
3 9 (2.49%) Linux
3 9 (2.49%) VMS
4 3 (0.83%) Unix
4 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.28%) Android
5 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (48.20%) DevOps
2 130 (36.01%) Agile
3 118 (32.69%) Business Intelligence
4 91 (25.21%) Analytics
5 86 (23.82%) CI/CD
6 78 (21.61%) ETL
7 71 (19.67%) Microservices
8 68 (18.84%) Data Modelling
9 64 (17.73%) Data Integration
10 56 (15.51%) Visualisation
11 52 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
12 48 (13.30%) Scrum
13 47 (13.02%) Data Pipeline
14 44 (12.19%) Migration
15 43 (11.91%) Roadmaps
16 35 (9.70%) Mentoring
17 34 (9.42%) Data Engineering
18 32 (8.86%) Data Visualisation
18 32 (8.86%) High Availability
19 30 (8.31%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 330 (91.41%) SQL
2 115 (31.86%) C#
3 74 (20.50%) Python
4 63 (17.45%) T-SQL
5 59 (16.34%) PowerShell
6 55 (15.24%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.43%) TypeScript
8 11 (3.05%) Bash
9 10 (2.77%) Bicep
9 10 (2.77%) R
10 9 (2.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (2.49%) Scala
11 5 (1.39%) Java
11 5 (1.39%) U-SQL
12 3 (0.83%) Go
12 3 (0.83%) Groovy
12 3 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.83%) Perl
12 3 (0.83%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (13.57%) Degree
2 31 (8.59%) Azure Certification
3 21 (5.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (4.16%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.39%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.39%) Security Cleared
7 4 (1.11%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.55%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.28%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.93%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.49%) Accessibility
2 9 (2.49%) QA
3 5 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.11%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.83%) SLA
6 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
System Software
1 47 (13.02%) Active Directory
2 44 (12.19%) Docker
3 19 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.66%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (12.47%) Kubernetes
2 28 (7.76%) Terraform
3 7 (1.94%) Ansible
4 6 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.39%) SCCM
6 4 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.83%) Foglight
7 3 (0.83%) Istio
7 3 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.55%) Nagios
8 2 (0.55%) Norton AntiVirus
8 2 (0.55%) Oracle Identity Management
8 2 (0.55%) Puppet
9 1 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.28%) Grafana
Vendors
1 169 (46.81%) Microsoft
2 70 (19.39%) Databricks
3 14 (3.88%) Google
4 13 (3.60%) Oracle
5 5 (1.39%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.39%) SolarWinds
6 4 (1.11%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.11%) Okta
6 4 (1.11%) RedGate
7 3 (0.83%) Adobe
7 3 (0.83%) Apple
7 3 (0.83%) Sitecore
7 3 (0.83%) VMware
8 2 (0.55%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.55%) Aruba
8 2 (0.55%) Dell
8 2 (0.55%) HP
8 2 (0.55%) NetApp
8 2 (0.55%) Trend Micro
8 2 (0.55%) Veritas