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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 399 505 542
Rank change year-on-year +106 +37 -207
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 634 593 928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.57% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.50% 2.68% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 554 512 689
10th Percentile £39,152 £47,050 £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 £82,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,125 £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 18,127 22,107 43,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.40% 21.35% 27.84%
Number of salaries quoted 12,551 13,795 21,439
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 £79,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +97 564 £57,500 -16.36% 117
UK excluding London +112 427 £57,500 - 63
Work from Home +141 411 £57,500 -11.54% 129
London +41 174 £71,250 -10.94% 53
North of England +96 135 £55,000 -4.35% 10
South East +37 97 £57,500 -11.54% 8
North West +54 91 £55,000 -4.35% 8
East of England +61 58 £51,333 +36.89% 11
South West +16 53 £57,500 +4.55% 17
Midlands +3 36 £51,250 -3.76% 10
Yorkshire +99 29 £57,500 -
Scotland -46 29 £57,500 -11.54% 5
East Midlands -2 18 £47,500 -17.39% 4
West Midlands -8 18 £55,000 +3.29% 6
North East +6 15 £42,500 -10.53% 2
Northern Ireland +28 11 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Wales +15 8 £60,000 +118.18% 2

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 42 (6.62%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.95%) CMS
4 6 (0.95%) Confluence
5 3 (0.47%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.63%) Trello
4 3 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.32%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 634 (100.00%) Azure
2 214 (33.75%) Power Platform
3 145 (22.87%) Azure DevOps
4 112 (17.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 59 (9.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 59 (9.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 56 (8.83%) Entra ID
6 56 (8.83%) Microsoft 365
7 55 (8.68%) Serverless
8 49 (7.73%) PaaS
8 49 (7.73%) PowerApps
9 42 (6.62%) Azure Logic Apps
10 39 (6.15%) Azure Functions
11 38 (5.99%) Power Automate
12 37 (5.84%) IaaS
13 35 (5.52%) Azure Service Bus
14 33 (5.21%) AWS
15 30 (4.73%) SaaS
16 27 (4.26%) GitHub
17 24 (3.79%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 74 (11.67%) Broadband
2 42 (6.62%) Internet
3 23 (3.63%) DNS
4 20 (3.15%) Firewall
5 14 (2.21%) Network Security
6 12 (1.89%) WAN
7 8 (1.26%) VPN
8 7 (1.10%) 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
1 400 (63.09%) SQL Server
2 187 (29.50%) Power BI
3 75 (11.83%) Data Lake
4 68 (10.73%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (8.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 46 (7.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (3.63%) Relational Database
8 22 (3.47%) MySQL
9 18 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (2.52%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 15 (2.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 13 (2.05%) RDBMS
12 13 (2.05%) Redis
13 12 (1.89%) Tableau
14 10 (1.58%) MongoDB
14 10 (1.58%) NoSQL
15 9 (1.42%) Delta Lake
15 9 (1.42%) MariaDB
16 8 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
16 8 (1.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 39 (6.15%) Git
2 18 (2.84%) NUnit
3 14 (2.21%) Moq
3 14 (2.21%) Visual Studio
4 12 (1.89%) JIRA
5 8 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.26%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (0.79%) MLflow
7 4 (0.63%) GitLab
7 4 (0.63%) MSTest
8 3 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.47%) SpecFlow
8 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.16%) JMeter
10 1 (0.16%) Selenium
10 1 (0.16%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.16%) Subversion
10 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 181 (28.55%) Social Skills
2 80 (12.62%) Finance
3 42 (6.62%) Advertising
4 39 (6.15%) Marketing
5 30 (4.73%) Games
6 26 (4.10%) Retail
7 20 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
8 14 (2.21%) Legal
8 14 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (1.74%) Public Sector
10 10 (1.58%) Music Industry
11 8 (1.26%) Law
12 7 (1.10%) Banking
12 7 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.95%) Aviation
13 6 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.63%) Police
15 3 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 264 (41.64%) Developer
2 169 (26.66%) .NET Developer
3 110 (17.35%) DBA
4 99 (15.62%) SQL DBA
5 94 (14.83%) Senior
6 71 (11.20%) Data Engineer
7 70 (11.04%) Azure Engineer
8 59 (9.31%) C# Developer
9 51 (8.04%) Lead
10 50 (7.89%) C# .NET Developer
11 40 (6.31%) Azure Data Engineer
12 38 (5.99%) Senior Developer
13 37 (5.84%) Architect
13 37 (5.84%) Internet Developer
14 32 (5.05%) Software Developer
15 28 (4.42%) Analyst
15 28 (4.42%) Senior Data Engineer
16 24 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
17 23 (3.63%) Software Engineer
18 22 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 271 (42.74%) .NET
2 201 (31.70%) .NET Core
3 183 (28.86%) ASP.NET
4 182 (28.71%) CSS
5 179 (28.23%) Entity Framework
5 179 (28.23%) HTML
6 173 (27.29%) Blazor
7 162 (25.55%) ASP.NET MVC
8 159 (25.08%) CSS3
8 159 (25.08%) HTML5
9 53 (8.36%) .NET Framework
10 40 (6.31%) React
11 29 (4.57%) AngularJS
12 21 (3.31%) REST
13 20 (3.15%) ASP.NET Web API
13 20 (3.15%) PySpark
14 18 (2.84%) JSON
15 17 (2.68%) Razor View Engine
16 16 (2.52%) ARM Templates
16 16 (2.52%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (3.94%) Digital TV
3 20 (3.15%) Cloud Native
4 14 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (2.05%) Management Information System
6 12 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 12 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 9 (1.42%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.26%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.10%) Social Media
10 5 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.63%) Life Science
11 4 (0.63%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.63%) NHS
11 4 (0.63%) Replication
11 4 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 4 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 82 (12.93%) VMS
2 35 (5.52%) Windows
3 15 (2.37%) Linux
4 14 (2.21%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (41.96%) Agile
2 193 (30.44%) DevOps
3 192 (30.28%) Business Intelligence
4 183 (28.86%) Full Stack Development
5 180 (28.39%) MVC
6 167 (26.34%) TDD
7 157 (24.76%) BDD
8 113 (17.82%) Analytics
9 94 (14.83%) Disaster Recovery
10 90 (14.20%) Performance Tuning
11 87 (13.72%) CI/CD
11 87 (13.72%) High Availability
12 86 (13.56%) Collaborative Working
13 73 (11.51%) ETL
14 66 (10.41%) Problem-Solving
15 53 (8.36%) Data Modelling
16 49 (7.73%) Data Engineering
17 48 (7.57%) Data Analytics
18 44 (6.94%) Mentoring
19 43 (6.78%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 614 (96.85%) SQL
2 279 (44.01%) C#
3 210 (33.12%) JavaScript
4 136 (21.45%) T-SQL
5 101 (15.93%) PowerShell
6 74 (11.67%) Python
7 32 (5.05%) TypeScript
8 17 (2.68%) Bash
8 17 (2.68%) R
9 15 (2.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 13 (2.05%) Java
11 11 (1.74%) Go
11 11 (1.74%) Scala
12 9 (1.42%) U-SQL
12 9 (1.42%) VB.NET
13 7 (1.10%) Groovy
13 7 (1.10%) PHP
13 7 (1.10%) Ruby
14 5 (0.79%) C
15 4 (0.63%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 117 (18.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 64 (10.09%) Degree
3 41 (6.47%) Azure Certification
4 33 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.21%) Security Cleared
6 12 (1.89%) SC Cleared
7 10 (1.58%) 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 (0.47%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.47%) CIPD
10 3 (0.47%) HND
11 2 (0.32%) CIMA
11 2 (0.32%) MCSA
11 2 (0.32%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (3.15%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.89%) 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 (0.63%) GDPR
7 3 (0.47%) 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 93 (14.67%) Virtual Machines
2 50 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 38 (5.99%) Docker
4 3 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (7.57%) Terraform
2 46 (7.26%) Kubernetes
3 17 (2.68%) Ansible
4 11 (1.74%) Grafana
4 11 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.58%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.10%) Puppet
7 6 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 6 (0.95%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 4 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 431 (67.98%) Microsoft
2 75 (11.83%) Databricks
3 24 (3.79%) Oracle
4 21 (3.31%) Facebook
5 15 (2.37%) Commvault
6 10 (1.58%) New Relic
7 9 (1.42%) Apple
7 9 (1.42%) Google
7 9 (1.42%) VMware
8 7 (1.10%) SaltStack
9 6 (0.95%) Adobe
9 6 (0.95%) Citrix
9 6 (0.95%) Sun
10 5 (0.79%) SAP
11 4 (0.63%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.63%) Nintex
11 4 (0.63%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.47%) RedGate
12 3 (0.47%) Sony
12 3 (0.47%) Xamarin