Azure SQL Database Job Trends

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs citing Azure SQL Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	273	491	405
Rank change year-on-year	+218	-86	-31
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database	822	185	393
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK	0.68%	0.37%	0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category	9.34%	2.68%	3.61%
Number of salaries quoted	659	164	251
10^th Percentile	£42,500	£42,500	£42,500
25^th Percentile	£47,500	£47,500	£47,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£57,500	£62,617	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	-8.17%	-3.67%	-
75^th Percentile	£73,750	£80,000	£75,125
90^th Percentile	£87,500	£93,825	£93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary	£55,000	£55,000	£55,250
% change year-on-year	-	-0.45%	-3.91%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Azure SQL Database 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 citing database or business intelligence skills.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing database or business intelligence skills	8,803	6,914	10,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK	7.28%	13.99%	15.79%
Number of salaries quoted	5,930	4,314	6,192
10^th Percentile	£37,250	£32,825	£37,500
25^th Percentile	£45,000	£42,780	£47,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£60,000	£65,000
Median % change year-on-year	-	-7.69%	+8.33%
75^th Percentile	£80,000	£80,000	£86,438
90^th Percentile	£95,000	£107,500	£115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary	£55,000	£52,500	£52,500
% change year-on-year	+4.76%	-	-4.55%

Azure SQL Database Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure SQL Database relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Azure SQL Database Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Azure SQL Database.

Azure SQL Database Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 24 October 2026.

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 24 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	+198	780	£57,500	-11.54%	162
UK excluding London	+229	652	£55,000	-	90
Work from Home	+204	639	£55,000	-15.38%	88
South East	+98	207	£57,500	-11.54%	27
London	-17	162	£77,500	+6.90%	74
North of England	+53	137	£53,076	-7.69%	30
Midlands	+17	104	£55,000	+14.58%	21
East of England	+47	103	£60,000	+9.09%	3
West Midlands	+15	67	£57,500	-	15
South West	-22	62	£55,000	-11.29%	5
North West	+13	61	£50,000	-13.04%	12
North East	-29	44	£55,000	+14.58%	6
East Midlands	-21	37	£52,500	+16.67%	6
Yorkshire	-7	32	£55,000	-4.35%	12
Wales	-52	21	£51,538	-8.99%	2
Scotland	+13	18	£55,000	+98.20%	2

Azure SQL Database Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 October 2026, job vacancies citing Azure SQL Database also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads citing Azure SQL Database.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	100.0%	822
2	SQL	99.3%	816
3	Microsoft	85.5%	703
4	C#	71.8%	590
5	.NET	70.8%	582
6	Full-Stack Development	64.2%	528
7	ASP.NET	63.9%	525
8	.NET Core	63.4%	521
9	ASP.NET Core	63.1%	519
10	Agile	58.0%	477
11	MongoDB	57.5%	473
12	DevOps	41.4%	340
13	CI/CD	40.4%	332
14	Azure DevOps	37.3%	307
15	AI	27.4%	225
16	JavaScript	25.5%	210
17	Docker	25.1%	206
18	Kubernetes	24.5%	201
19	GitHub	24.2%	199
20	Microservices	23.8%	196
21	Entity Framework	23.7%	195
21	React	23.7%	195
21	RESTful	23.7%	195
24	ASP.NET Web API	23.5%	193
24	Blazor	23.5%	193
26	Elasticsearch	21.9%	180
26	TypeScript	21.9%	180
28	Azure AI	21.8%	179
29	CSS	21.7%	178
30	HTML	21.5%	177

Azure SQL Database Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Database & Business Intelligence

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	MongoDB	57.5%	473
2	Elasticsearch	21.9%	180
3	SQL Server	15.9%	131
4	Power BI	12.5%	103
5	Data Warehouse	9.5%	78
6	Data Lake	4.9%	40
7	NoSQL	3.9%	32
8	Metadata	3.2%	26
9	Relational Database	3.0%	25
10	Tableau	2.1%	17
11	DynamoDB	1.8%	15
12	NonStop SQL	1.6%	13
12	PostgreSQL	1.6%	13
12	SQL Server Reporting Services	1.6%	13
12	Star Schema	1.6%	13
16	SQL Server Integration Services	1.5%	12
17	Delta Lake	1.2%	10
17	MySQL	1.2%	10
19	Amazon QuickSight	1.1%	9
19	Big Data	1.1%	9