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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 461 391
Rank change year-on-year +49 -70 +68
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 365 193 635
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.45% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.62% 2.74% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 329 159 552
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £38,981
25th Percentile £46,750 £48,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £86,250
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 7,906 7,042 17,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.52% 16.43% 17.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,877 4,594 12,500
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £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 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £97,500
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 25 May 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 25 May 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 +63 334 £60,000 -4.00% 175
UK excluding London +75 261 £55,000 - 134
Work from Home +145 241 £57,500 -11.54% 160
London -6 92 £80,000 +6.67% 57
East of England +40 61 £67,500 +8.00% 17
South East +13 56 £56,250 -19.64% 37
Midlands -20 55 £60,000 +14.29% 19
North of England -9 51 £50,000 -13.04% 40
West Midlands -15 33 £64,250 -4.81% 13
North West +14 24 £50,000 -20.00% 25
East Midlands -26 20 £50,000 +3.09% 6
Scotland +13 16 £29,000 - 7
South West -48 16 £52,500 -4.55% 8
Yorkshire -42 14 £55,000 -4.35% 10
North East -36 13 £50,000 -13.04% 5
Wales - 6 £50,000 - 7

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 26 (7.12%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.19%) SharePoint Server
3 5 (1.37%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) Apache
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.27%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 365 (100.00%) Azure
2 122 (33.42%) Azure DevOps
3 92 (25.21%) Azure Data Factory
4 74 (20.27%) Power Platform
5 58 (15.89%) Azure AI
6 51 (13.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 51 (13.97%) GitHub
7 43 (11.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 39 (10.68%) GitHub Copilot
9 38 (10.41%) Azure Monitor
10 31 (8.49%) AWS
10 31 (8.49%) PowerApps
11 27 (7.40%) Azure Logic Apps
12 26 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
12 26 (7.12%) Power Automate
12 26 (7.12%) Serverless
13 24 (6.58%) Entra ID
14 22 (6.03%) Azure Functions
14 22 (6.03%) SaaS
15 20 (5.48%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.11%) Internet
2 13 (3.56%) Firewall
3 8 (2.19%) VPN
4 6 (1.64%) DNS
5 4 (1.10%) MQTT
5 4 (1.10%) WAN
6 3 (0.82%) Hyperconnected
6 3 (0.82%) Network Security
7 2 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.55%) WinSCP
8 1 (0.27%) DHCP
8 1 (0.27%) LAN
8 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (36.71%) MongoDB
2 72 (19.73%) SQL Server
3 66 (18.08%) Power BI
4 43 (11.78%) Elasticsearch
5 35 (9.59%) Data Lake
6 24 (6.58%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (4.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (3.29%) Delta Lake
9 11 (3.01%) Relational Database
9 11 (3.01%) Tableau
10 9 (2.47%) Star Schema
11 8 (2.19%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.92%) Power Query
12 7 (1.92%) Spark SQL
13 6 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (1.37%) Metadata
14 5 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (1.10%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 32 (8.77%) Git
2 4 (1.10%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.10%) NUnit
3 3 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.55%) MSTest
4 2 (0.55%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.27%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.27%) JIRA
5 1 (0.27%) Postman
5 1 (0.27%) Selenium
5 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.27%) Yeoman
General
1 93 (25.48%) Finance
2 47 (12.88%) Social Skills
3 23 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (4.93%) Games
5 16 (4.38%) Advertising
6 14 (3.84%) Banking
7 11 (3.01%) Legal
8 9 (2.47%) Marketing
8 9 (2.47%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.37%) Law
9 5 (1.37%) Retail
10 4 (1.10%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.82%) Music Industry
12 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.27%) Billing
13 1 (0.27%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.27%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 182 (49.86%) Developer
2 149 (40.82%) .NET Developer
3 61 (16.71%) Senior
4 55 (15.07%) Data Engineer
5 31 (8.49%) Azure Engineer
6 30 (8.22%) Support Engineer
7 24 (6.58%) Applications Support
8 22 (6.03%) Applications Engineer
8 22 (6.03%) Applications Support Engineer
9 21 (5.75%) Platform Engineer
10 20 (5.48%) DBA
10 20 (5.48%) Senior Developer
11 16 (4.38%) SQL DBA
12 15 (4.11%) Lead
13 14 (3.84%) Senior Data Engineer
14 12 (3.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.29%) DevOps Engineer
14 12 (3.29%) Software Engineer
15 10 (2.74%) Architect
15 10 (2.74%) Head of Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (56.99%) .NET
2 173 (47.40%) .NET Core
3 152 (41.64%) ASP.NET
4 146 (40.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 74 (20.27%) CSS
5 74 (20.27%) HTML
6 69 (18.90%) Entity Framework
7 58 (15.89%) RESTful
8 55 (15.07%) ASP.NET Web API
9 51 (13.97%) AngularJS
9 51 (13.97%) React
10 49 (13.42%) Blazor
11 48 (13.15%) Vue
12 47 (12.88%) ML.NET
13 43 (11.78%) Node.js
14 37 (10.14%) LINQ
15 23 (6.30%) .NET Framework
16 22 (6.03%) HTML5 Canvas
17 20 (5.48%) Microsoft Graph
17 20 (5.48%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.58%) Greenfield Project
2 19 (5.21%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (3.84%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.01%) Client/Server
4 11 (3.01%) Mobile App
4 11 (3.01%) Replication
5 9 (2.47%) Digital TV
5 9 (2.47%) Social Network
6 8 (2.19%) Legacy Applications
7 7 (1.92%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.92%) Clustering
7 7 (1.92%) iPhone
8 6 (1.64%) BBC
8 6 (1.64%) IoT
8 6 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.64%) Social Media
9 5 (1.37%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.37%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.10%) Legacy Code
11 3 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.03%) VMS
2 20 (5.48%) Windows
3 11 (3.01%) Android
4 10 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.64%) Linux
6 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (43.01%) Full-Stack Development
2 146 (40.00%) DevOps
3 142 (38.90%) CI/CD
4 132 (36.16%) Agile
5 85 (23.29%) Analytics
6 81 (22.19%) Machine Learning
7 74 (20.27%) AI
8 72 (19.73%) Business Intelligence
9 57 (15.62%) Data Modelling
10 53 (14.52%) Multithreading
11 49 (13.42%) Microservices
12 46 (12.60%) Data Pipeline
13 42 (11.51%) Data Engineering
14 40 (10.96%) Infrastructure as Code
15 39 (10.68%) Migration
16 38 (10.41%) Data Governance
16 38 (10.41%) ETL
17 36 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
18 34 (9.32%) Log Analytics
19 32 (8.77%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 364 (99.73%) SQL
2 202 (55.34%) C#
3 81 (22.19%) JavaScript
4 69 (18.90%) TypeScript
5 64 (17.53%) Python
6 56 (15.34%) PowerShell
7 22 (6.03%) T-SQL
8 16 (4.38%) Scala
9 10 (2.74%) Java
9 10 (2.74%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (2.19%) C++
12 5 (1.37%) Bicep
13 4 (1.10%) Bash
14 1 (0.27%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.27%) Korn
14 1 (0.27%) R
14 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (4.66%) Azure Certification
2 12 (3.29%) Degree
3 6 (1.64%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (1.37%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.82%) Tableau Certification
6 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.32%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.47%) GDPR
3 5 (1.37%) QA
4 3 (0.82%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.82%) SLA
5 2 (0.55%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.27%) HL7
6 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 56 (15.34%) Docker
2 17 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 15 (4.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.27%) Firmware
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (14.79%) Kubernetes
2 31 (8.49%) Terraform
3 12 (3.29%) Grafana
4 7 (1.92%) Kibana
5 3 (0.82%) Ansible
5 3 (0.82%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.82%) Scalr
6 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.27%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 233 (63.84%) Microsoft
2 55 (15.07%) Databricks
3 19 (5.21%) Adobe
3 19 (5.21%) Google
4 18 (4.93%) Facebook
5 6 (1.64%) Apple
5 6 (1.64%) Oracle
5 6 (1.64%) Sony
5 6 (1.64%) Yahoo!
5 6 (1.64%) YouTube
6 4 (1.10%) SolarWinds
7 3 (0.82%) RedGate
8 2 (0.55%) DevExpress
8 2 (0.55%) iManage
8 2 (0.55%) Intapp
8 2 (0.55%) Palo Alto
8 2 (0.55%) SAP
8 2 (0.55%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.55%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.27%) Delphix