Azure SQL Database Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 504 481
Rank change year-on-year +111 -23 -170
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 424 255 412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.43% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.45% 2.22% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 386 234 294
10th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £81,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +8.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12,286 11,501 16,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.34% 19.29% 22.66%
Number of salaries quoted 8,147 6,733 10,270
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £39,721
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Azure SQL Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in the UK excluding London

Azure SQL Database
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
North of England +94 137 £55,000 -4.35% 16
South East +31 97 £57,500 -11.54% 20
North West +46 92 £55,000 -4.02% 9
East of England +44 58 £51,333 +36.89% 9
South West +12 51 £57,500 -8.00% 19
Midlands -11 33 £55,000 +3.29% 11
Yorkshire +97 29 £57,500 - 3
Scotland -35 29 £57,500 -11.54% 5
West Midlands -16 19 £55,000 +3.29% 7
North East +5 16 £42,500 -19.05% 4
East Midlands -11 14 £55,000 -4.35% 4
Northern Ireland +32 11 £55,000 -8.33% 2
Wales +15 8 £60,000 +118.18% 3
Azure SQL Database
UK

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.42%) CMS
4 5 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 424 (100.00%) Azure
2 125 (29.48%) Power Platform
3 58 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (8.02%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (7.78%) Entra ID
6 31 (7.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 25 (5.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 20 (4.72%) PaaS
9 18 (4.25%) AWS
10 17 (4.01%) IaaS
11 15 (3.54%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (3.54%) GitHub
11 15 (3.54%) Power Automate
12 14 (3.30%) PowerApps
13 13 (3.07%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (3.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (2.83%) Serverless
15 10 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
15 10 (2.36%) SaaS
16 9 (2.12%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 74 (17.45%) Broadband
2 37 (8.73%) Internet
3 15 (3.54%) Firewall
4 12 (2.83%) WAN
5 11 (2.59%) DNS
6 8 (1.89%) VPN
7 7 (1.65%) LAN
8 5 (1.18%) DHCP
8 5 (1.18%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.18%) SSL
8 5 (1.18%) VLAN
8 5 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.94%) Network Security
10 2 (0.47%) MPLS
11 1 (0.24%) 3GPP
11 1 (0.24%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 317 (74.76%) SQL Server
2 120 (28.30%) Power BI
3 29 (6.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 26 (6.13%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (5.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 21 (4.95%) Data Lake
7 17 (4.01%) Relational Database
8 13 (3.07%) MySQL
9 11 (2.59%) RDBMS
10 10 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.42%) MariaDB
12 6 (1.42%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.42%) Redis
12 6 (1.42%) Tableau
13 5 (1.18%) NoSQL
14 4 (0.94%) Metadata
15 3 (0.71%) Big Data
15 3 (0.71%) Hadoop
15 3 (0.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (4.48%) Git
2 14 (3.30%) Moq
2 14 (3.30%) NUnit
3 7 (1.65%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (1.42%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.94%) GitLab
6 2 (0.47%) JIRA
7 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.24%) Sourcetree
7 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.24%) Subversion
7 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 121 (28.54%) Social Skills
2 42 (9.91%) Advertising
3 32 (7.55%) Finance
3 32 (7.55%) Marketing
4 21 (4.95%) Games
5 19 (4.48%) Retail
6 12 (2.83%) Legal
7 11 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.36%) Music Industry
9 9 (2.12%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (0.94%) Aviation
10 4 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.94%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.71%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.71%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.47%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.24%) Law
Job Titles
1 210 (49.53%) Developer
2 150 (35.38%) .NET Developer
3 100 (23.58%) DBA
4 94 (22.17%) SQL DBA
5 53 (12.50%) Senior
6 51 (12.03%) C# Developer
7 44 (10.38%) C# .NET Developer
8 32 (7.55%) Internet Developer
9 29 (6.84%) Senior Developer
10 28 (6.60%) Software Developer
11 26 (6.13%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (6.13%) Data Engineer
12 20 (4.72%) Lead
12 20 (4.72%) Senior Software Developer
13 19 (4.48%) Software Engineer
14 14 (3.30%) Azure Developer
15 13 (3.07%) Analyst
16 12 (2.83%) Azure Data Engineer
17 10 (2.36%) .NET Software Developer
18 9 (2.12%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (50.71%) .NET
2 184 (43.40%) .NET Core
3 166 (39.15%) ASP.NET
3 166 (39.15%) CSS
3 166 (39.15%) HTML
4 161 (37.97%) Blazor
4 161 (37.97%) Entity Framework
5 150 (35.38%) ASP.NET MVC
5 150 (35.38%) CSS3
5 150 (35.38%) HTML5
6 38 (8.96%) .NET Framework
7 27 (6.37%) React
8 23 (5.42%) AngularJS
9 17 (4.01%) ASP.NET Web API
9 17 (4.01%) Razor View Engine
10 13 (3.07%) jQuery
10 13 (3.07%) LINQ
10 13 (3.07%) LINQ to SQL
11 7 (1.65%) Vue
12 6 (1.42%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.91%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (5.90%) Digital TV
3 16 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 10 (2.36%) Public Cloud
5 9 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.65%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (1.18%) Data Structures
9 4 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.94%) NHS
9 4 (0.94%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.71%) BBC
10 3 (0.71%) Life Science
10 3 (0.71%) Social Media
10 3 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.47%) e-Learning
11 2 (0.47%) Housing Association
11 2 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.24%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.24%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 81 (19.10%) VMS
2 24 (5.66%) Windows
3 8 (1.89%) Linux
4 6 (1.42%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (48.11%) Agile
2 169 (39.86%) Full Stack Development
3 166 (39.15%) MVC
4 150 (35.38%) TDD
5 146 (34.43%) BDD
6 119 (28.07%) Business Intelligence
7 86 (20.28%) DevOps
8 84 (19.81%) Collaborative Working
9 83 (19.58%) Performance Tuning
10 81 (19.10%) Disaster Recovery
11 75 (17.69%) High Availability
12 42 (9.91%) Analytics
13 40 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (8.02%) Mentoring
15 30 (7.08%) CI/CD
16 26 (6.13%) OO
16 26 (6.13%) Software Engineering
17 24 (5.66%) ETL
17 24 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 21 (4.95%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 416 (98.11%) SQL
2 224 (52.83%) C#
3 188 (44.34%) JavaScript
4 111 (26.18%) T-SQL
5 60 (14.15%) PowerShell
6 29 (6.84%) TypeScript
7 26 (6.13%) Python
8 13 (3.07%) Bash
9 10 (2.36%) Go
10 9 (2.12%) Java
10 9 (2.12%) VB.NET
11 6 (1.42%) Groovy
11 6 (1.42%) PHP
11 6 (1.42%) Ruby
12 5 (1.18%) C
13 4 (0.94%) R
14 3 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 99 (23.35%) Microsoft Certification
2 26 (6.13%) Azure Certification
3 25 (5.90%) Degree
4 15 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.42%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.42%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.94%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.71%) CIPD
7 3 (0.71%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.71%) HND
7 3 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.65%) QA
3 5 (1.18%) SLA
4 4 (0.94%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.94%) GDPR
5 3 (0.71%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 86 (20.28%) Virtual Machines
2 33 (7.78%) Active Directory
3 14 (3.30%) Docker
4 3 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.25%) Terraform
3 10 (2.36%) Ansible
3 10 (2.36%) Grafana
3 10 (2.36%) Prometheus
4 8 (1.89%) Progress Chef
5 6 (1.42%) Puppet
6 3 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 332 (78.30%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.95%) Facebook
3 15 (3.54%) Commvault
4 14 (3.30%) Databricks
5 10 (2.36%) Oracle
6 9 (2.12%) New Relic
6 9 (2.12%) VMware
7 7 (1.65%) Apple
8 6 (1.42%) Citrix
8 6 (1.42%) SaltStack
9 4 (0.94%) Adobe
10 3 (0.71%) Google
10 3 (0.71%) RedGate
10 3 (0.71%) Sony
10 3 (0.71%) Yahoo!
11 2 (0.47%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.47%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.24%) Ab Initio
12 1 (0.24%) Sitecore