Azure SQL Database Jobs with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 260 395 471
Rank change year-on-year +135 +76 -203
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 417 285 442
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.24% 0.70% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.36% 2.81% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 379 253 298
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,550 £41,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £100,000 £77,875
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +8.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,780 10,129 20,678
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.10% 24.72% 29.60%
Number of salaries quoted 6,206 6,948 11,045
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,438 £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 £75,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

Azure SQL Database
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Azure SQL Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Azure SQL Database trend for jobs with a WFH option

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

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 10 (2.40%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.44%) CMS
3 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.48%) Primavera
3 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 417 (100.00%) Azure
2 130 (31.18%) Power Platform
3 53 (12.71%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (11.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 29 (6.95%) Entra ID
6 27 (6.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 27 (6.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 26 (6.24%) PaaS
8 24 (5.76%) Serverless
9 22 (5.28%) PowerApps
10 20 (4.80%) Azure Service Bus
11 19 (4.56%) IaaS
12 18 (4.32%) AWS
12 18 (4.32%) Azure AKS
12 18 (4.32%) Azure Functions
13 17 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (3.84%) Power Automate
15 15 (3.60%) SaaS
16 12 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
17 10 (2.40%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 74 (17.75%) Broadband
2 42 (10.07%) Internet
3 12 (2.88%) Network Security
4 9 (2.16%) DNS
5 8 (1.92%) Firewall
6 7 (1.68%) LAN
6 7 (1.68%) WAN
7 5 (1.20%) DHCP
7 5 (1.20%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.20%) SSL
7 5 (1.20%) VPN
7 5 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.48%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (69.54%) SQL Server
2 117 (28.06%) Power BI
3 42 (10.07%) Data Lake
4 26 (6.24%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (3.36%) MySQL
6 13 (3.12%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.12%) Redis
7 10 (2.40%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 10 (2.40%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.16%) MariaDB
9 7 (1.68%) Delta Lake
10 6 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.20%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (1.20%) Tableau
12 4 (0.96%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.72%) DBAmp
13 3 (0.72%) Ingres
14 1 (0.24%) OLTP
14 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (2.64%) Git
2 7 (1.68%) Jenkins
2 7 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (1.44%) MLflow
4 4 (0.96%) GitLab
4 4 (0.96%) Moq
4 4 (0.96%) NUnit
4 4 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (0.72%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.24%) JIRA
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 122 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.31%) Advertising
3 35 (8.39%) Marketing
4 27 (6.47%) Finance
5 23 (5.52%) Games
6 13 (3.12%) Retail
7 12 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.40%) Music Industry
9 6 (1.44%) Aviation
9 6 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.96%) Banking
10 4 (0.96%) Police
11 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.48%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.24%) Law
13 1 (0.24%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.24%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 218 (52.28%) Developer
2 163 (39.09%) .NET Developer
3 84 (20.14%) DBA
4 77 (18.47%) SQL DBA
5 56 (13.43%) C# Developer
6 50 (11.99%) Senior
7 49 (11.75%) C# .NET Developer
8 41 (9.83%) Azure Engineer
9 37 (8.87%) Internet Developer
10 31 (7.43%) Data Engineer
11 26 (6.24%) Senior Developer
12 23 (5.52%) Azure Data Engineer
12 23 (5.52%) Senior Data Engineer
13 20 (4.80%) Architect
13 20 (4.80%) Software Developer
14 18 (4.32%) Lead
15 15 (3.60%) Platform Engineer
15 15 (3.60%) Senior Software Developer
16 14 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
17 12 (2.88%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (51.80%) .NET
2 182 (43.65%) .NET Core
3 175 (41.97%) CSS
4 174 (41.73%) HTML
5 169 (40.53%) ASP.NET
5 169 (40.53%) Blazor
5 169 (40.53%) Entity Framework
6 162 (38.85%) ASP.NET MVC
7 160 (38.37%) CSS3
7 160 (38.37%) HTML5
8 26 (6.24%) .NET Framework
9 17 (4.08%) React
10 16 (3.84%) REST
11 15 (3.60%) PySpark
12 14 (3.36%) JSON
13 10 (2.40%) AngularJS
14 9 (2.16%) ARM Templates
14 9 (2.16%) SOAP
15 8 (1.92%) Web Services
16 6 (1.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.79%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (6.00%) Digital TV
3 14 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.16%) Management Information System
5 8 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (1.68%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.68%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.96%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.96%) Life Science
9 4 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (0.72%) BBC
10 3 (0.72%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.72%) NHS
10 3 (0.72%) Social Media
10 3 (0.72%) Wiki
11 2 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.48%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 77 (18.47%) VMS
2 21 (5.04%) Windows
3 5 (1.20%) Linux
4 3 (0.72%) Unix
5 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (48.92%) Agile
2 167 (40.05%) TDD
3 166 (39.81%) Full Stack Development
3 166 (39.81%) MVC
4 160 (38.37%) BDD
5 125 (29.98%) Business Intelligence
6 80 (19.18%) DevOps
7 79 (18.94%) Performance Tuning
8 76 (18.23%) Collaborative Working
9 75 (17.99%) Disaster Recovery
10 74 (17.75%) High Availability
11 65 (15.59%) Analytics
12 35 (8.39%) Data Analytics
13 33 (7.91%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (7.19%) CI/CD
15 27 (6.47%) OO
15 27 (6.47%) Platform Engineering
16 23 (5.52%) Mentoring
17 21 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 20 (4.80%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 414 (99.28%) SQL
2 221 (53.00%) C#
3 180 (43.17%) JavaScript
4 91 (21.82%) T-SQL
5 39 (9.35%) Python
6 37 (8.87%) PowerShell
7 20 (4.80%) TypeScript
8 15 (3.60%) Bash
9 13 (3.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 11 (2.64%) Go
11 10 (2.40%) Java
11 10 (2.40%) R
11 10 (2.40%) U-SQL
12 7 (1.68%) Groovy
12 7 (1.68%) PHP
12 7 (1.68%) Ruby
13 5 (1.20%) C
14 3 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.72%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 93 (22.30%) Microsoft Certification
2 22 (5.28%) Degree
3 17 (4.08%) Azure Certification
4 11 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.40%) Security Cleared
6 7 (1.68%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.44%) CISM
7 6 (1.44%) CISSP
7 6 (1.44%) GIAC
7 6 (1.44%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.44%) SANS
8 5 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.72%) CIPD
9 3 (0.72%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.72%) HND
10 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.48%) CIMA
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.44%) COBIT
3 6 (1.44%) NIST
3 6 (1.44%) SLA
3 6 (1.44%) Web Application Security Consortium
4 2 (0.48%) PMO
5 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.24%) QA
System Software
1 82 (19.66%) Virtual Machines
2 25 (6.00%) Docker
3 23 (5.52%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (5.76%) Terraform
2 23 (5.52%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.64%) Ansible
4 7 (1.68%) Grafana
4 7 (1.68%) Progress Chef
4 7 (1.68%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.68%) Puppet
5 6 (1.44%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 312 (74.82%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.87%) Databricks
3 21 (5.04%) Facebook
4 10 (2.40%) New Relic
4 10 (2.40%) Oracle
5 9 (2.16%) Apple
6 7 (1.68%) SaltStack
7 6 (1.44%) Adobe
8 5 (1.20%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.72%) Google
9 3 (0.72%) Pardot
9 3 (0.72%) RedGate
9 3 (0.72%) Sony
9 3 (0.72%) VMware
9 3 (0.72%) Yahoo!
10 2 (0.48%) SAP
11 1 (0.24%) BMC
11 1 (0.24%) Commvault
11 1 (0.24%) Remedy
11 1 (0.24%) Sitecore