Azure SQL Database Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 483 530
Rank change year-on-year +87 +47 -188
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 436 259 381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.47% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.51% 2.42% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 391 238 286
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,475 £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 £75,000
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 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 requiring database or business intelligence skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12,437 10,695 16,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.53% 19.36% 22.15%
Number of salaries quoted 8,145 6,498 10,040
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,000 £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 £80,000 £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 12 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 12 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 +65 143 £55,000 - 24
South East +12 106 £57,500 -11.54% 26
North West +18 96 £55,000 +2.33% 14
East of England +36 58 £51,333 +36.89% 10
South West -3 49 £57,500 -2.13% 11
Midlands -55 32 £52,000 -2.80% 11
Yorkshire +72 31 £57,500 - 9
Scotland -50 29 £57,500 -8.00% 5
West Midlands -34 18 £52,000 -2.35% 8
North East -7 16 £42,500 -23.08% 1
East Midlands -23 14 £55,000 -4.35% 3
Northern Ireland +21 11 £55,000 -25.42% 3
Wales +11 8 £60,000 +118.18% 1
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 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.61%) Confluence
5 6 (1.38%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 436 (100.00%) Azure
2 127 (29.13%) Power Platform
3 68 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (8.49%) Entra ID
4 37 (8.49%) Microsoft 365
5 32 (7.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 24 (5.50%) PaaS
7 22 (5.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 18 (4.13%) AWS
8 18 (4.13%) GitHub
9 17 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (3.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 17 (3.90%) IaaS
10 16 (3.67%) Power Automate
11 15 (3.44%) PowerApps
12 14 (3.21%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (2.98%) SaaS
14 12 (2.75%) Azure AKS
15 11 (2.52%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 74 (16.97%) Broadband
2 38 (8.72%) Internet
3 15 (3.44%) Firewall
4 12 (2.75%) DNS
4 12 (2.75%) WAN
5 8 (1.83%) VPN
6 7 (1.61%) LAN
7 5 (1.15%) DHCP
7 5 (1.15%) Network Security
7 5 (1.15%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.15%) SSL
7 5 (1.15%) VLAN
7 5 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.46%) MPLS
9 1 (0.23%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.23%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 321 (73.62%) SQL Server
2 123 (28.21%) Power BI
3 30 (6.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 28 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (5.50%) Data Lake
6 23 (5.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 18 (4.13%) Relational Database
8 11 (2.52%) RDBMS
9 9 (2.06%) MySQL
10 8 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.83%) Metadata
11 7 (1.61%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (1.38%) MariaDB
12 6 (1.38%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.38%) Redis
12 6 (1.38%) Tableau
13 5 (1.15%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.92%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.69%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 29 (6.65%) Git
2 15 (3.44%) NUnit
3 14 (3.21%) Moq
4 12 (2.75%) JIRA
5 7 (1.61%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.61%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (1.15%) GitLab
7 2 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.23%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.23%) Subversion
8 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 127 (29.13%) Social Skills
2 42 (9.63%) Advertising
3 40 (9.17%) Finance
4 32 (7.34%) Marketing
5 21 (4.82%) Games
6 18 (4.13%) Retail
7 12 (2.75%) Legal
8 11 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.29%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (2.29%) Music Industry
10 4 (0.92%) Aviation
10 4 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.92%) Public Sector
11 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.69%) Health Technology
11 3 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.69%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.46%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 214 (49.08%) Developer
2 151 (34.63%) .NET Developer
3 100 (22.94%) DBA
4 95 (21.79%) SQL DBA
5 58 (13.30%) Senior
6 50 (11.47%) C# Developer
7 45 (10.32%) C# .NET Developer
8 32 (7.34%) Internet Developer
9 31 (7.11%) Senior Developer
10 29 (6.65%) Azure Engineer
10 29 (6.65%) Data Engineer
11 28 (6.42%) Software Developer
12 23 (5.28%) Lead
13 20 (4.59%) Senior Software Developer
13 20 (4.59%) Software Engineer
14 14 (3.21%) Azure Developer
15 13 (2.98%) Analyst
16 12 (2.75%) Azure Data Engineer
17 10 (2.29%) Platform Engineer
17 10 (2.29%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (49.54%) .NET
2 185 (42.43%) .NET Core
3 170 (38.99%) CSS
3 170 (38.99%) HTML
4 168 (38.53%) ASP.NET
5 163 (37.39%) Entity Framework
6 162 (37.16%) Blazor
7 151 (34.63%) ASP.NET MVC
7 151 (34.63%) CSS3
7 151 (34.63%) HTML5
8 39 (8.94%) .NET Framework
9 27 (6.19%) React
10 23 (5.28%) AngularJS
11 17 (3.90%) ASP.NET Web API
11 17 (3.90%) Razor View Engine
12 13 (2.98%) jQuery
12 13 (2.98%) LINQ
12 13 (2.98%) LINQ to SQL
13 7 (1.61%) RESTful
13 7 (1.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.63%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (5.73%) Digital TV
3 17 (3.90%) Cloud Native
4 8 (1.83%) Data Structures
4 8 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (1.83%) Public Cloud
5 7 (1.61%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (0.92%) NHS
7 4 (0.92%) Private Cloud
7 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.69%) BBC
8 3 (0.69%) Life Science
8 3 (0.69%) Social Media
8 3 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.46%) e-Learning
9 2 (0.46%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.23%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.23%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 81 (18.58%) VMS
2 24 (5.50%) Windows
3 8 (1.83%) Linux
4 6 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (48.17%) Agile
2 169 (38.76%) Full Stack Development
3 167 (38.30%) MVC
4 152 (34.86%) TDD
5 147 (33.72%) BDD
6 120 (27.52%) Business Intelligence
7 95 (21.79%) DevOps
8 86 (19.72%) Collaborative Working
9 84 (19.27%) Performance Tuning
10 81 (18.58%) Disaster Recovery
11 76 (17.43%) High Availability
12 46 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
13 45 (10.32%) Analytics
14 37 (8.49%) CI/CD
15 34 (7.80%) Mentoring
16 27 (6.19%) Data Engineering
16 27 (6.19%) Data Pipeline
16 27 (6.19%) OO
16 27 (6.19%) Software Engineering
17 26 (5.96%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 428 (98.17%) SQL
2 222 (50.92%) C#
3 188 (43.12%) JavaScript
4 111 (25.46%) T-SQL
5 63 (14.45%) PowerShell
6 32 (7.34%) Python
7 28 (6.42%) TypeScript
8 13 (2.98%) Bash
9 12 (2.75%) Java
10 11 (2.52%) Go
11 9 (2.06%) VB.NET
12 6 (1.38%) Groovy
12 6 (1.38%) PHP
12 6 (1.38%) Ruby
13 5 (1.15%) C
13 5 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.46%) C++
15 2 (0.46%) R
15 2 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 103 (23.62%) Microsoft Certification
2 28 (6.42%) Azure Certification
3 27 (6.19%) Degree
4 17 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.38%) DBS Check
5 6 (1.38%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.92%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.69%) CIPD
7 3 (0.69%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.69%) HND
7 3 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (2.29%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.61%) QA
4 6 (1.38%) GDPR
5 5 (1.15%) SLA
6 3 (0.69%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 88 (20.18%) Virtual Machines
2 38 (8.72%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.44%) Docker
4 3 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (5.28%) Terraform
2 21 (4.82%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.52%) Ansible
4 10 (2.29%) Grafana
4 10 (2.29%) Prometheus
5 8 (1.83%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.38%) Puppet
7 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 342 (78.44%) Microsoft
2 21 (4.82%) Facebook
3 20 (4.59%) Databricks
4 15 (3.44%) Commvault
5 9 (2.06%) New Relic
5 9 (2.06%) VMware
6 8 (1.83%) Oracle
7 6 (1.38%) Citrix
7 6 (1.38%) SaltStack
8 5 (1.15%) Apple
9 4 (0.92%) Informatica
10 3 (0.69%) Google
10 3 (0.69%) RedGate
10 3 (0.69%) Sony
10 3 (0.69%) Yahoo!
11 2 (0.46%) Adobe
11 2 (0.46%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.46%) Xamarin
12 1 (0.23%) Ab Initio
12 1 (0.23%) Atlassian