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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 402 494 571
Rank change year-on-year +92 +77 -215
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 633 585 910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.59% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.46% 2.73% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 550 500 668
10th Percentile £38,750 £46,925 £43,016
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,375 £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 18,271 21,401 45,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.29% 21.52% 28.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,519 13,364 21,166
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 £77,500 £83,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

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 20 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 20 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 +101 562 £57,500 -14.81% 167
UK excluding London +109 422 £57,500 - 103
Work from Home +150 420 £57,500 -11.54% 148
London +36 179 £72,500 -9.38% 73
North of England +91 135 £55,000 -4.35% 25
South East +36 97 £57,500 -11.54% 35
North West +36 90 £55,000 -4.02% 16
East of England +47 58 £51,333 +36.89% 6
South West +13 50 £57,500 -8.00% 18
Midlands -20 34 £55,000 +3.29% 11
Yorkshire +91 29 £57,500 - 5
Scotland -46 29 £57,500 -11.54% 4
West Midlands -6 20 £55,000 +3.29% 8
North East +10 16 £42,500 -19.05% 4
East Midlands -12 14 £55,000 -4.35% 3
Northern Ireland +32 11 £55,000 -16.98% 3
Wales +9 8 £60,000 +118.18% 3

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 39 (6.16%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.26%) 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 12 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.63%) Trello
4 3 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.32%) Primavera
3 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 633 (100.00%) Azure
2 208 (32.86%) Power Platform
3 140 (22.12%) Azure DevOps
4 106 (16.75%) Azure Data Factory
5 62 (9.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 60 (9.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 59 (9.32%) Entra ID
8 55 (8.69%) Serverless
9 51 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
9 51 (8.06%) PaaS
10 48 (7.58%) PowerApps
11 39 (6.16%) Azure Functions
12 37 (5.85%) Azure Logic Apps
12 37 (5.85%) Power Automate
13 35 (5.53%) IaaS
14 33 (5.21%) AWS
15 32 (5.06%) Azure Service Bus
15 32 (5.06%) GitHub
16 29 (4.58%) SaaS
17 27 (4.27%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (11.69%) Broadband
2 43 (6.79%) Internet
3 22 (3.48%) DNS
4 20 (3.16%) Firewall
5 16 (2.53%) Network Security
6 12 (1.90%) WAN
7 8 (1.26%) VPN
8 7 (1.11%) 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
1 389 (61.45%) SQL Server
2 184 (29.07%) Power BI
3 77 (12.16%) Data Lake
4 71 (11.22%) Data Warehouse
5 50 (7.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 42 (6.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 22 (3.48%) MySQL
8 21 (3.32%) Relational Database
9 18 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (2.53%) Redis
11 15 (2.37%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 13 (2.05%) MongoDB
13 12 (1.90%) Delta Lake
13 12 (1.90%) MariaDB
13 12 (1.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 12 (1.90%) Tableau
14 11 (1.74%) RDBMS
15 10 (1.58%) NoSQL
16 8 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
17 7 (1.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 39 (6.16%) Git
2 18 (2.84%) NUnit
3 15 (2.37%) Visual Studio
4 14 (2.21%) Moq
5 12 (1.90%) JIRA
6 8 (1.26%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (1.26%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (0.95%) MLflow
8 4 (0.63%) GitLab
8 4 (0.63%) MSTest
9 3 (0.47%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.16%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.16%) JMeter
11 1 (0.16%) Selenium
11 1 (0.16%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.16%) Sourcetree
11 1 (0.16%) Subversion
11 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 180 (28.44%) Social Skills
2 79 (12.48%) Finance
3 44 (6.95%) Advertising
4 39 (6.16%) Marketing
5 30 (4.74%) Games
6 22 (3.48%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (3.48%) Retail
7 14 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.05%) Legal
9 10 (1.58%) Music Industry
9 10 (1.58%) Public Sector
10 7 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.11%) Law
10 7 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.95%) Aviation
11 6 (0.95%) Banking
11 6 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.63%) Police
13 3 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 265 (41.86%) Developer
2 169 (26.70%) .NET Developer
3 107 (16.90%) DBA
4 97 (15.32%) SQL DBA
5 95 (15.01%) Senior
6 76 (12.01%) Azure Engineer
7 73 (11.53%) Data Engineer
8 58 (9.16%) C# Developer
9 51 (8.06%) Lead
10 49 (7.74%) C# .NET Developer
11 43 (6.79%) Azure Data Engineer
12 38 (6.00%) Senior Developer
13 37 (5.85%) Internet Developer
14 33 (5.21%) Architect
15 31 (4.90%) Senior Data Engineer
16 28 (4.42%) Software Developer
17 27 (4.27%) Analyst
18 26 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
19 23 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
19 23 (3.63%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (42.50%) .NET
2 207 (32.70%) .NET Core
3 189 (29.86%) ASP.NET
4 187 (29.54%) CSS
5 184 (29.07%) Entity Framework
5 184 (29.07%) HTML
6 178 (28.12%) Blazor
7 168 (26.54%) ASP.NET MVC
8 164 (25.91%) CSS3
8 164 (25.91%) HTML5
9 54 (8.53%) .NET Framework
10 40 (6.32%) React
11 29 (4.58%) AngularJS
12 22 (3.48%) PySpark
13 21 (3.32%) REST
14 20 (3.16%) ASP.NET Web API
15 19 (3.00%) JSON
16 17 (2.69%) Razor View Engine
17 16 (2.53%) ARM Templates
17 16 (2.53%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.74%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (3.95%) Digital TV
3 20 (3.16%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.05%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.05%) Public Cloud
6 12 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (1.74%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.58%) Private Cloud
9 9 (1.42%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.11%) Social Media
12 5 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.63%) Life Science
13 4 (0.63%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.63%) NHS
13 4 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 4 (0.63%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.47%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 83 (13.11%) VMS
2 32 (5.06%) Windows
3 15 (2.37%) Linux
4 11 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (43.29%) Agile
2 191 (30.17%) DevOps
3 189 (29.86%) Business Intelligence
4 188 (29.70%) Full Stack Development
5 186 (29.38%) MVC
6 172 (27.17%) TDD
7 162 (25.59%) BDD
8 113 (17.85%) Analytics
9 92 (14.53%) Disaster Recovery
10 88 (13.90%) CI/CD
10 88 (13.90%) Performance Tuning
11 86 (13.59%) Collaborative Working
12 84 (13.27%) High Availability
13 73 (11.53%) ETL
14 70 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
15 53 (8.37%) Data Modelling
16 50 (7.90%) Data Engineering
17 48 (7.58%) Data Analytics
18 45 (7.11%) Data Pipeline
18 45 (7.11%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 614 (97.00%) SQL
2 277 (43.76%) C#
3 214 (33.81%) JavaScript
4 135 (21.33%) T-SQL
5 106 (16.75%) PowerShell
6 77 (12.16%) Python
7 32 (5.06%) TypeScript
8 23 (3.63%) Bash
9 17 (2.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 17 (2.69%) R
10 13 (2.05%) Java
11 11 (1.74%) Go
11 11 (1.74%) U-SQL
12 10 (1.58%) Scala
13 9 (1.42%) VB.NET
14 7 (1.11%) Groovy
14 7 (1.11%) PHP
14 7 (1.11%) Ruby
15 5 (0.79%) C
16 4 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 118 (18.64%) Microsoft Certification
2 63 (9.95%) Degree
3 42 (6.64%) Azure Certification
4 33 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.37%) Security Cleared
6 12 (1.90%) 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 4 (0.63%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.47%) CIPD
11 3 (0.47%) HND
12 2 (0.32%) CIMA
12 2 (0.32%) MCSA
12 2 (0.32%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.48%) Data Quality
2 15 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (2.05%) QA
4 6 (0.95%) COBIT
4 6 (0.95%) NIST
4 6 (0.95%) SLA
4 6 (0.95%) Web Application Security Consortium
5 4 (0.63%) GDPR
6 3 (0.47%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.32%) PMO
8 1 (0.16%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.16%) NCSC
System Software
1 90 (14.22%) Virtual Machines
2 50 (7.90%) Active Directory
3 43 (6.79%) Docker
4 3 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.32%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (8.53%) Terraform
2 50 (7.90%) Kubernetes
3 22 (3.48%) Ansible
4 11 (1.74%) Grafana
4 11 (1.74%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.58%) Progress Chef
6 9 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (1.11%) Puppet
8 6 (0.95%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 4 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.16%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 435 (68.72%) Microsoft
2 74 (11.69%) Databricks
3 21 (3.32%) Facebook
3 21 (3.32%) Oracle
4 15 (2.37%) Commvault
5 10 (1.58%) New Relic
6 9 (1.42%) Apple
6 9 (1.42%) Google
6 9 (1.42%) VMware
7 7 (1.11%) SaltStack
8 6 (0.95%) Adobe
8 6 (0.95%) Citrix
8 6 (0.95%) Sun
9 5 (0.79%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.63%) Alteryx
10 4 (0.63%) Nintex
10 4 (0.63%) SAP
11 3 (0.47%) RedGate
11 3 (0.47%) Xamarin
11 3 (0.47%) Yahoo!