Azure SQL Database Job Trends

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 335 465 402
Rank change year-on-year +130 -63 +41
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 488 208 645
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.47% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.11% 2.82% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 446 174 558
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £38,852
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -

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 requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,989 7,386 17,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.62% 16.63% 16.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,163 4,762 12,631
10th Percentile £35,500 £35,525 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,714 £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 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £111,925 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £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 job vacancy trend in the UK

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend

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

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +111 451 £60,000 -4.00% 161
UK excluding London +134 373 £55,000 - 120
Work from Home +174 348 £55,000 -15.38% 145
London +1 102 £80,000 +6.67% 54
South East +56 94 £55,000 -21.43% 39
East of England +56 78 £62,500 - 14
North of England +1 72 £52,500 -8.70% 34
Midlands +16 71 £55,000 +13.40% 17
West Midlands +5 43 £63,750 -5.56% 12
North West +25 33 £50,000 -14.89% 22
South West -34 30 £55,000 - 10
East Midlands -16 26 £50,000 +3.09% 5
North East -28 20 £50,000 -13.04% 5
Scotland +33 19 £29,000 - 3
Yorkshire -28 19 £55,000 -4.35% 7
Wales - 9 £50,000 - 3

Azure SQL Database
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 27 (5.53%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.64%) SharePoint Server
3 5 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.20%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) DNN
5 1 (0.20%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.20%) IIS
5 1 (0.20%) Immediacy CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.20%) Kentico
5 1 (0.20%) nginx
5 1 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Sitefinity
5 1 (0.20%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 488 (100.00%) Azure
2 167 (34.22%) Azure DevOps
3 91 (18.65%) Azure AI
4 89 (18.24%) Azure Data Factory
5 80 (16.39%) GitHub
6 78 (15.98%) Power Platform
7 69 (14.14%) GitHub Copilot
8 62 (12.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 53 (10.86%) AWS
10 48 (9.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 42 (8.61%) Azure Monitor
12 31 (6.35%) PowerApps
13 30 (6.15%) Azure Logic Apps
13 30 (6.15%) Serverless
14 27 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
15 26 (5.33%) Azure Functions
15 26 (5.33%) Entra ID
16 25 (5.12%) Power Automate
17 22 (4.51%) Azure Service Bus
17 22 (4.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (6.15%) Internet
2 11 (2.25%) Firewall
3 9 (1.84%) VPN
4 6 (1.23%) Hyperconnected
5 5 (1.02%) DNS
6 4 (0.82%) MQTT
7 2 (0.41%) WinSCP
8 1 (0.20%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.20%) LAN
8 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 224 (45.90%) MongoDB
2 83 (17.01%) Elasticsearch
3 74 (15.16%) SQL Server
4 68 (13.93%) Power BI
5 31 (6.35%) Data Lake
6 26 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (2.66%) Tableau
8 11 (2.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (2.05%) Delta Lake
9 10 (2.05%) NoSQL
9 10 (2.05%) Relational Database
9 10 (2.05%) Star Schema
10 9 (1.84%) Spark SQL
11 7 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (1.43%) Power Query
12 6 (1.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.23%) Metadata
12 6 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.02%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 33 (6.76%) Git
2 4 (0.82%) Jenkins
2 4 (0.82%) NUnit
2 4 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.41%) JIRA
3 2 (0.41%) MSTest
3 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.20%) Postman
4 1 (0.20%) Selenium
4 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.20%) Yeoman
General
1 100 (20.49%) Finance
2 52 (10.66%) Social Skills
3 29 (5.94%) Advertising
4 27 (5.53%) Games
5 26 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (4.51%) Marketing
7 16 (3.28%) Banking
8 10 (2.05%) Law
8 10 (2.05%) Legal
8 10 (2.05%) Public Sector
9 9 (1.84%) Retail
10 8 (1.64%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.23%) Music Industry
12 4 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.41%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.41%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.20%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.20%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 291 (59.63%) Developer
2 254 (52.05%) .NET Developer
3 65 (13.32%) Senior
4 54 (11.07%) Data Engineer
5 41 (8.40%) Azure Engineer
6 31 (6.35%) Support Engineer
7 27 (5.53%) Platform Engineer
8 24 (4.92%) Applications Support
9 23 (4.71%) Senior Developer
10 22 (4.51%) Applications Engineer
10 22 (4.51%) Applications Support Engineer
10 22 (4.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 22 (4.51%) DevOps Engineer
11 18 (3.69%) DBA
12 15 (3.07%) Lead
13 13 (2.66%) Architect
13 13 (2.66%) Senior Data Engineer
14 12 (2.46%) SQL DBA
15 11 (2.25%) Software Engineer
16 10 (2.05%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 315 (64.55%) .NET
2 277 (56.76%) .NET Core
3 259 (53.07%) ASP.NET
4 252 (51.64%) ASP.NET Core
5 109 (22.34%) CSS
5 109 (22.34%) Entity Framework
5 109 (22.34%) HTML
6 95 (19.47%) ASP.NET Web API
7 94 (19.26%) RESTful
8 92 (18.85%) React
9 91 (18.65%) Blazor
10 87 (17.83%) AngularJS
11 83 (17.01%) Vue
12 82 (16.80%) Node.js
13 79 (16.19%) ML.NET
14 60 (12.30%) LINQ
15 36 (7.38%) .NET Framework
16 22 (4.51%) HTML5 Canvas
17 20 (4.10%) Microsoft Graph
18 19 (3.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 42 (8.61%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (5.53%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (2.87%) Mobile App
4 13 (2.66%) Replication
5 12 (2.46%) Digital TV
6 11 (2.25%) BBC
6 11 (2.25%) Client/Server
6 11 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.25%) Social Media
6 11 (2.25%) Social Network
7 10 (2.05%) iPhone
7 10 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
9 7 (1.43%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.43%) Clustering
9 7 (1.43%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.23%) IoT
11 5 (1.02%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.82%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (5.74%) Windows
2 26 (5.33%) VMS
3 14 (2.87%) Android
4 13 (2.66%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.43%) Linux
6 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (53.89%) Full-Stack Development
2 222 (45.49%) Agile
3 191 (39.14%) DevOps
4 183 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 112 (22.95%) AI
6 111 (22.75%) Machine Learning
7 96 (19.67%) Analytics
8 89 (18.24%) Microservices
9 87 (17.83%) Multithreading
10 77 (15.78%) Business Intelligence
11 53 (10.86%) Data Modelling
12 48 (9.84%) Data Engineering
13 46 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
13 46 (9.43%) Scrum
14 45 (9.22%) Problem-Solving
15 44 (9.02%) Data Pipeline
15 44 (9.02%) OO
16 39 (7.99%) TDD
17 38 (7.79%) Migration
18 37 (7.58%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 487 (99.80%) SQL
2 309 (63.32%) C#
3 122 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 105 (21.52%) TypeScript
5 65 (13.32%) PowerShell
6 61 (12.50%) Python
7 17 (3.48%) T-SQL
8 12 (2.46%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (2.25%) Scala
10 10 (2.05%) Bicep
11 9 (1.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 9 (1.84%) Java
12 8 (1.64%) Bash
12 8 (1.64%) C++
13 1 (0.20%) Korn
13 1 (0.20%) R
13 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (4.30%) Azure Certification
2 12 (2.46%) Degree
3 9 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (1.64%) Security Cleared
5 7 (1.43%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (0.82%) Tableau Certification
8 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.56%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.84%) QA
3 7 (1.43%) GDPR
4 3 (0.61%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.61%) SLA
5 1 (0.20%) HL7
5 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
5 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 86 (17.62%) Docker
2 23 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 85 (17.42%) Kubernetes
2 37 (7.58%) Terraform
3 13 (2.66%) Grafana
4 7 (1.43%) Kibana
5 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.61%) Scalr
7 1 (0.20%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 342 (70.08%) Microsoft
2 53 (10.86%) Databricks
3 34 (6.97%) Facebook
4 30 (6.15%) Google
5 19 (3.89%) Adobe
6 11 (2.25%) Apple
6 11 (2.25%) Sony
6 11 (2.25%) Yahoo!
6 11 (2.25%) YouTube
7 7 (1.43%) Oracle
8 4 (0.82%) ScienceLogic
8 4 (0.82%) SolarWinds
8 4 (0.82%) VMware
9 3 (0.61%) RedGate
10 2 (0.41%) DevExpress
10 2 (0.41%) iManage
10 2 (0.41%) Informatica
10 2 (0.41%) Intapp
10 2 (0.41%) SAP
10 2 (0.41%) Xamarin