Azure SQL Database Job Trends in Wales

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 59 108
Rank change year-on-year -26 +49 -2
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 6 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.36% 0.38% 0.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.80% 2.78% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £42,500 £30,125 £54,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £30,313 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £36,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.93% -39.58% +118.18%
75th Percentile £56,875 £42,813 £65,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £43,375 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -11.54%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 125 72 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.47% 13.69% 12.68%
Number of salaries quoted 44 67 169
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,250
25th Percentile £36,625 £42,975 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £62,372 £75,216 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,250 £79,250 £71,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in Wales

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Azure SQL Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Wales over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in Wales

Azure SQL Database
Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 15 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
South Wales -27 4 £50,000 +37.93% 5
West Wales - 1 £60,000 - 1
North Wales - 1 £45,000 - 1
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure AI
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
General
1 3 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) .NET Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) .NET
1 5 (83.33%) .NET Core
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET
1 5 (83.33%) ASP.NET Core
2 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 4 (66.67%) RESTful
3 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (50.00%) Entity Framework
3 3 (50.00%) LINQ
3 3 (50.00%) Vue
4 2 (33.33%) Blazor
4 2 (33.33%) React
5 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
5 1 (16.67%) ML.NET
5 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (66.67%) Multithreading
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) ETL Development
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (16.67%) Runbook
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) C#
3 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (16.67%) Python
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft