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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 494 486
Rank change year-on-year +98 -8 -156
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 427 252 403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.45% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.44% 2.31% 2.42%
Number of salaries quoted 387 231 294
10th Percentile £38,750 £38,250 £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 £82,500 £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 12,407 10,930 16,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.33% 19.33% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,121 6,530 10,124
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,750 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +91 138 £55,000 - 21
South East +28 102 £57,500 -11.54% 29
North West +34 93 £55,000 - 11
East of England +43 58 £51,333 +36.89% 6
South West +9 48 £57,500 -8.00% 15
Midlands -26 33 £52,000 -2.35% 10
Yorkshire +71 29 £57,500 - 9
Scotland -47 29 £57,500 -11.54% 5
West Midlands -34 19 £52,000 -2.35% 7
North East +1 16 £42,500 -19.05% 1
East Midlands -11 14 £55,000 -4.35% 3
Northern Ireland +22 11 £55,000 -25.42% 1
Wales +7 8 £60,000 +118.18% 2
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 13 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.41%) CMS
5 3 (0.70%) Confluence
6 1 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 427 (100.00%) Azure
2 125 (29.27%) Power Platform
3 64 (14.99%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (8.43%) Entra ID
5 33 (7.73%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (7.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 22 (5.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 22 (5.15%) PaaS
8 19 (4.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 18 (4.22%) AWS
10 17 (3.98%) IaaS
11 15 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (3.51%) GitHub
11 15 (3.51%) Power Automate
12 14 (3.28%) PowerApps
13 13 (3.04%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (2.81%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (2.81%) Serverless
15 11 (2.58%) SaaS
16 10 (2.34%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 74 (17.33%) Broadband
2 38 (8.90%) Internet
3 15 (3.51%) Firewall
4 12 (2.81%) DNS
4 12 (2.81%) WAN
5 8 (1.87%) VPN
6 7 (1.64%) LAN
7 5 (1.17%) DHCP
7 5 (1.17%) Network Security
7 5 (1.17%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.17%) SSL
7 5 (1.17%) VLAN
7 5 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.47%) MPLS
9 1 (0.23%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.23%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 318 (74.47%) SQL Server
2 122 (28.57%) Power BI
3 30 (7.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 26 (6.09%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (5.62%) Data Lake
6 23 (5.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 18 (4.22%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.58%) RDBMS
9 9 (2.11%) MySQL
10 8 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (1.41%) MariaDB
12 6 (1.41%) Metadata
12 6 (1.41%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.41%) Redis
12 6 (1.41%) Tableau
13 5 (1.17%) NoSQL
14 3 (0.70%) Big Data
14 3 (0.70%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 25 (5.85%) Git
2 15 (3.51%) NUnit
3 14 (3.28%) Moq
4 7 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.64%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (1.41%) JIRA
6 4 (0.94%) GitLab
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) Sourcetree
7 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.23%) Subversion
7 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 124 (29.04%) Social Skills
2 42 (9.84%) Advertising
3 36 (8.43%) Finance
4 32 (7.49%) Marketing
5 21 (4.92%) Games
6 18 (4.22%) Retail
7 12 (2.81%) Legal
8 11 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.34%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (2.34%) Music Industry
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 (0.70%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.70%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.47%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.23%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 211 (49.41%) Developer
2 150 (35.13%) .NET Developer
3 98 (22.95%) DBA
4 93 (21.78%) SQL DBA
5 55 (12.88%) Senior
6 49 (11.48%) C# Developer
7 44 (10.30%) C# .NET Developer
8 32 (7.49%) Internet Developer
9 30 (7.03%) Senior Developer
10 29 (6.79%) Azure Engineer
11 27 (6.32%) Data Engineer
11 27 (6.32%) Software Developer
12 23 (5.39%) Lead
13 20 (4.68%) Senior Software Developer
14 19 (4.45%) Software Engineer
15 14 (3.28%) Azure Developer
16 13 (3.04%) Analyst
17 12 (2.81%) Azure Data Engineer
18 10 (2.34%) Platform Engineer
19 9 (2.11%) .NET Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (49.88%) .NET
2 185 (43.33%) .NET Core
3 168 (39.34%) CSS
3 168 (39.34%) HTML
4 167 (39.11%) ASP.NET
5 162 (37.94%) Blazor
5 162 (37.94%) Entity Framework
6 151 (35.36%) ASP.NET MVC
6 151 (35.36%) CSS3
6 151 (35.36%) HTML5
7 38 (8.90%) .NET Framework
8 26 (6.09%) React
9 23 (5.39%) AngularJS
10 17 (3.98%) ASP.NET Web API
10 17 (3.98%) Razor View Engine
11 13 (3.04%) jQuery
11 13 (3.04%) LINQ
11 13 (3.04%) LINQ to SQL
12 7 (1.64%) Vue
13 6 (1.41%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.84%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (5.85%) Digital TV
3 17 (3.98%) Cloud Native
4 10 (2.34%) Public Cloud
5 8 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (1.64%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.41%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (0.94%) NHS
8 4 (0.94%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.70%) BBC
9 3 (0.70%) Life Science
9 3 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.70%) Social Media
9 3 (0.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.47%) e-Learning
10 2 (0.47%) Housing Association
11 1 (0.23%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.23%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 81 (18.97%) VMS
2 24 (5.62%) Windows
3 8 (1.87%) Linux
4 6 (1.41%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (48.24%) Agile
2 168 (39.34%) Full Stack Development
3 167 (39.11%) MVC
4 152 (35.60%) TDD
5 147 (34.43%) BDD
6 119 (27.87%) Business Intelligence
7 91 (21.31%) DevOps
8 85 (19.91%) Collaborative Working
9 83 (19.44%) Performance Tuning
10 81 (18.97%) Disaster Recovery
11 74 (17.33%) High Availability
12 45 (10.54%) Analytics
13 42 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (7.96%) CI/CD
14 34 (7.96%) Mentoring
15 26 (6.09%) OO
15 26 (6.09%) Software Engineering
16 25 (5.85%) Data Engineering
16 25 (5.85%) Data Pipeline
17 24 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 419 (98.13%) SQL
2 219 (51.29%) C#
3 187 (43.79%) JavaScript
4 111 (26.00%) T-SQL
5 61 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 29 (6.79%) Python
7 27 (6.32%) TypeScript
8 13 (3.04%) Bash
9 11 (2.58%) Java
10 10 (2.34%) Go
11 9 (2.11%) VB.NET
12 6 (1.41%) Groovy
12 6 (1.41%) PHP
12 6 (1.41%) Ruby
13 5 (1.17%) C
13 5 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.94%) R
15 3 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.47%) Scala
17 1 (0.23%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 101 (23.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 27 (6.32%) Azure Certification
3 25 (5.85%) Degree
4 16 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.41%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.41%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.94%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.70%) CIPD
7 3 (0.70%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.70%) HND
7 3 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (1.87%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.64%) QA
4 5 (1.17%) GDPR
4 5 (1.17%) SLA
5 3 (0.70%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 88 (20.61%) Virtual Machines
2 35 (8.20%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.51%) Docker
4 3 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (4.92%) Kubernetes
1 21 (4.92%) Terraform
2 11 (2.58%) Ansible
3 10 (2.34%) Grafana
3 10 (2.34%) Prometheus
4 8 (1.87%) Progress Chef
5 6 (1.41%) Puppet
6 3 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 336 (78.69%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.92%) Facebook
3 16 (3.75%) Databricks
4 15 (3.51%) Commvault
5 9 (2.11%) New Relic
5 9 (2.11%) VMware
6 7 (1.64%) Apple
7 6 (1.41%) Citrix
7 6 (1.41%) Oracle
7 6 (1.41%) SaltStack
8 4 (0.94%) Adobe
9 3 (0.70%) Google
9 3 (0.70%) RedGate
9 3 (0.70%) Sony
9 3 (0.70%) Yahoo!
10 2 (0.47%) Informatica
10 2 (0.47%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.47%) Xamarin
11 1 (0.23%) Ab Initio