Azure SQL Database Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 257 406
Rank change year-on-year -34 +149 +54
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 108 411 289
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.72% 1.21% 0.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.31% 5.31% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 95 375 259
10th Percentile £43,000 £38,750 £43,300
25th Percentile £46,750 £50,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -14.81% +8.00%
75th Percentile £79,375 £67,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £77,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £61,250 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.52% -14.81% +3.85%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,263 7,737 10,523
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.82% 22.86% 24.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,407 6,233 7,238
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,199 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £95,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

Azure SQL Database
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure SQL Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure SQL Database trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Azure SQL Database.

Azure SQL Database salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Azure SQL Database salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.63%) Confluence
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.70%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 108 (100.00%) Azure
2 34 (31.48%) GitHub
3 27 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 18 (16.67%) AWS
5 15 (13.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (12.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 14 (12.96%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (10.19%) PowerApps
8 10 (9.26%) SaaS
9 9 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 9 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (6.48%) PaaS
10 7 (6.48%) Serverless
11 6 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (4.63%) Azure Functions
13 4 (3.70%) GCP
13 4 (3.70%) Google Analytics
13 4 (3.70%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.56%) Network Security
2 1 (0.93%) DNS
2 1 (0.93%) Firewall
2 1 (0.93%) LAN
2 1 (0.93%) MPLS
2 1 (0.93%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.93%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.93%) VPN
2 1 (0.93%) WAN
2 1 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (39.81%) SQL Server
2 30 (27.78%) MongoDB
3 21 (19.44%) Data Lake
3 21 (19.44%) Power BI
4 19 (17.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (12.04%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (12.04%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (10.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 5 (4.63%) NonStop SQL
8 5 (4.63%) Power Query
9 4 (3.70%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.85%) Data Mining
10 2 (1.85%) Metadata
11 1 (0.93%) MySQL
11 1 (0.93%) Redis
11 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (13.89%) JIRA
2 11 (10.19%) Visual Studio
3 8 (7.41%) Git
4 6 (5.56%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.63%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.85%) ERwin
7 1 (0.93%) git-flow
7 1 (0.93%) kappa
7 1 (0.93%) NUnit
7 1 (0.93%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.93%) Subversion
General
1 35 (32.41%) Social Skills
2 28 (25.93%) Finance
3 15 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.19%) Law
5 8 (7.41%) Automotive
6 6 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.70%) Advertising
7 4 (3.70%) Marketing
8 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.93%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 51 (47.22%) Developer
2 30 (27.78%) .NET Developer
3 20 (18.52%) Senior
4 18 (16.67%) Data Engineer
5 13 (12.04%) Software Engineer
6 12 (11.11%) DBA
7 11 (10.19%) SQL DBA
8 10 (9.26%) Administrator
9 9 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
10 8 (7.41%) Lead
11 7 (6.48%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (6.48%) Senior Developer
12 6 (5.56%) Architect
12 6 (5.56%) Lead Developer
13 5 (4.63%) Analyst
14 4 (3.70%) Azure Architect
14 4 (3.70%) Performance Analyst
14 4 (3.70%) Senior .NET Developer
14 4 (3.70%) SQL Developer
15 3 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (53.70%) .NET
2 40 (37.04%) ASP.NET
3 36 (33.33%) .NET Core
4 32 (29.63%) AngularJS
5 30 (27.78%) ASP.NET MVC
6 28 (25.93%) HTML
7 26 (24.07%) .NET Framework
8 24 (22.22%) HTML5
9 21 (19.44%) ASP.NET Web API
9 21 (19.44%) Entity Framework
10 20 (18.52%) React
11 18 (16.67%) CSS
12 17 (15.74%) RESTful
12 17 (15.74%) Vue
13 16 (14.81%) Node.js
14 10 (9.26%) CSS3
15 9 (8.33%) Blazor
15 9 (8.33%) LINQ
16 7 (6.48%) REST
17 6 (5.56%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.19%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.70%) Digital TV
5 4 (3.70%) Social Media
6 3 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.85%) IoT
7 2 (1.85%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.93%) Clustering
8 1 (0.93%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.85%) Windows
1 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (0.93%) Linux
2 1 (0.93%) VMS
2 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (55.56%) Agile
2 38 (35.19%) Full-Stack Development
3 35 (32.41%) Microservices
3 35 (32.41%) MVC
4 33 (30.56%) DevOps
5 28 (25.93%) Analytics
6 24 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 24 (22.22%) Scrum
7 21 (19.44%) ETL
8 19 (17.59%) Software Engineering
9 18 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (15.74%) TDD
11 16 (14.81%) BDD
11 16 (14.81%) Data Engineering
11 16 (14.81%) Kanban
11 16 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (12.96%) Data Analysis
13 12 (11.11%) Mentoring
14 11 (10.19%) Data Visualisation
14 11 (10.19%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 103 (95.37%) SQL
2 65 (60.19%) C#
3 35 (32.41%) JavaScript
4 22 (20.37%) T-SQL
5 21 (19.44%) Python
5 21 (19.44%) TypeScript
6 15 (13.89%) PowerShell
7 8 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (6.48%) Java
9 5 (4.63%) C
9 5 (4.63%) C++
9 5 (4.63%) Objective-C
9 5 (4.63%) PHP
10 3 (2.78%) Bicep
11 1 (0.93%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (15.74%) Degree
2 9 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.78%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.74%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.56%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.70%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.93%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (7.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.19%) Terraform
3 2 (1.85%) Ansible
4 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.93%) Grafana
4 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 65 (60.19%) Microsoft
2 22 (20.37%) Databricks
3 9 (8.33%) Google
4 5 (4.63%) Xamarin
5 4 (3.70%) Facebook
5 4 (3.70%) YouTube
6 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.93%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.93%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (0.93%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.93%) SAP
6 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.93%) VMware
6 1 (0.93%) Zscaler