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

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 363 496
Rank change year-on-year +105 +133 -206
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 425 301 447
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.20% 0.79% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.34% 3.23% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 384 270 301
10th Percentile £38,750 £44,919 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +0.81%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £98,875 £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
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 7,953 9,306 22,629
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.55% 24.42% 30.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6,269 6,627 11,168
10th Percentile £37,033 £40,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,750 £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 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £104,000 £101,550 £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 7 June 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 8 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.41%) CMS
3 5 (1.18%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.18%) Confluence
4 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.24%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.47%) Primavera
3 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 425 (100.00%) Azure
2 128 (30.12%) Power Platform
3 58 (13.65%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (10.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 31 (7.29%) Entra ID
6 30 (7.06%) PaaS
7 29 (6.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 26 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 22 (5.18%) Azure AKS
9 22 (5.18%) Serverless
10 21 (4.94%) PowerApps
11 20 (4.71%) Azure Service Bus
11 20 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
12 19 (4.47%) Azure Functions
13 18 (4.24%) IaaS
14 16 (3.76%) AWS
15 15 (3.53%) Azure Logic Apps
15 15 (3.53%) Power Automate
15 15 (3.53%) SaaS
16 14 (3.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 74 (17.41%) Broadband
2 43 (10.12%) Internet
3 13 (3.06%) Network Security
4 8 (1.88%) Firewall
5 7 (1.65%) DNS
5 7 (1.65%) LAN
5 7 (1.65%) WAN
6 5 (1.18%) DHCP
6 5 (1.18%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.18%) SSL
6 5 (1.18%) VPN
6 5 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.47%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 293 (68.94%) SQL Server
2 114 (26.82%) Power BI
3 42 (9.88%) Data Lake
4 31 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (3.29%) Redis
6 13 (3.06%) MySQL
6 13 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (2.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 11 (2.59%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.35%) MariaDB
9 7 (1.65%) Delta Lake
10 6 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.18%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (1.18%) Tableau
12 4 (0.94%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.94%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.71%) Data Mining
13 3 (0.71%) DBAmp
13 3 (0.71%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 15 (3.53%) Git
2 8 (1.88%) Jenkins
2 8 (1.88%) JIRA
3 7 (1.65%) MLflow
3 7 (1.65%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (1.18%) GitLab
5 5 (1.18%) NUnit
6 4 (0.94%) Moq
7 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 123 (28.94%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.12%) Advertising
3 35 (8.24%) Marketing
4 31 (7.29%) Finance
5 23 (5.41%) Games
6 13 (3.06%) Retail
7 12 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.35%) Music Industry
9 6 (1.41%) Aviation
10 5 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.94%) Banking
11 4 (0.94%) Police
12 3 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.47%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.24%) Law
14 1 (0.24%) Legal
14 1 (0.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 222 (52.24%) Developer
2 164 (38.59%) .NET Developer
3 84 (19.76%) DBA
4 77 (18.12%) SQL DBA
5 57 (13.41%) Senior
6 56 (13.18%) C# Developer
7 49 (11.53%) C# .NET Developer
8 43 (10.12%) Azure Engineer
9 37 (8.71%) Internet Developer
10 33 (7.76%) Data Engineer
11 28 (6.59%) Senior Developer
12 26 (6.12%) Senior Data Engineer
13 23 (5.41%) Azure Data Engineer
14 20 (4.71%) Software Developer
15 18 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
16 17 (4.00%) Architect
16 17 (4.00%) Lead
17 16 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
18 15 (3.53%) Senior Software Developer
19 14 (3.29%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (50.59%) .NET
2 183 (43.06%) .NET Core
3 179 (42.12%) CSS
4 178 (41.88%) HTML
5 170 (40.00%) ASP.NET
5 170 (40.00%) Blazor
5 170 (40.00%) Entity Framework
6 163 (38.35%) ASP.NET MVC
7 161 (37.88%) CSS3
7 161 (37.88%) HTML5
8 26 (6.12%) .NET Framework
9 19 (4.47%) PySpark
9 19 (4.47%) React
10 16 (3.76%) REST
11 14 (3.29%) JSON
12 10 (2.35%) AngularJS
13 9 (2.12%) ARM Templates
13 9 (2.12%) SOAP
14 8 (1.88%) Web Services
15 6 (1.41%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.59%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (5.88%) Digital TV
3 15 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.12%) Management Information System
5 8 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (1.65%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.41%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (0.94%) Cloud Native
8 4 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.94%) Life Science
8 4 (0.94%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (0.71%) BBC
9 3 (0.71%) NHS
9 3 (0.71%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.71%) Social Media
9 3 (0.71%) Wiki
10 2 (0.47%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 77 (18.12%) VMS
2 21 (4.94%) Windows
3 5 (1.18%) Linux
4 3 (0.71%) Unix
5 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (49.65%) Agile
2 169 (39.76%) TDD
3 168 (39.53%) Full Stack Development
4 167 (39.29%) MVC
5 161 (37.88%) BDD
6 121 (28.47%) Business Intelligence
7 86 (20.24%) DevOps
8 80 (18.82%) Performance Tuning
9 76 (17.88%) Collaborative Working
9 76 (17.88%) High Availability
10 75 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
11 62 (14.59%) Analytics
12 35 (8.24%) Data Analytics
12 35 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (7.29%) CI/CD
14 29 (6.82%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (6.35%) OO
16 24 (5.65%) Data Engineering
17 22 (5.18%) Mentoring
18 21 (4.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 422 (99.29%) SQL
2 220 (51.76%) C#
3 183 (43.06%) JavaScript
4 91 (21.41%) T-SQL
5 45 (10.59%) Python
6 42 (9.88%) PowerShell
7 21 (4.94%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.00%) Bash
9 13 (3.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (2.82%) Go
11 11 (2.59%) U-SQL
12 10 (2.35%) Java
13 7 (1.65%) Groovy
13 7 (1.65%) PHP
13 7 (1.65%) Ruby
14 6 (1.41%) R
15 5 (1.18%) C
15 5 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.71%) VB.NET
17 1 (0.24%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 95 (22.35%) Microsoft Certification
2 22 (5.18%) Degree
3 18 (4.24%) Azure Certification
4 13 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.35%) Security Cleared
6 7 (1.65%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.41%) CISM
7 6 (1.41%) CISSP
7 6 (1.41%) GIAC
7 6 (1.41%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.41%) SANS
8 5 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.71%) CIPD
9 3 (0.71%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.71%) HND
10 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.47%) CIMA
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (2.35%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.41%) COBIT
3 6 (1.41%) NIST
3 6 (1.41%) SLA
3 6 (1.41%) Web Application Security Consortium
4 3 (0.71%) GDPR
5 2 (0.47%) PMO
6 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.24%) QA
System Software
1 82 (19.29%) Virtual Machines
2 25 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 25 (5.88%) Docker
3 3 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (6.82%) Terraform
2 23 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.29%) Ansible
4 7 (1.65%) Grafana
4 7 (1.65%) Progress Chef
4 7 (1.65%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.65%) Puppet
5 6 (1.41%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 3 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 316 (74.35%) Microsoft
2 41 (9.65%) Databricks
3 21 (4.94%) Facebook
4 10 (2.35%) New Relic
5 9 (2.12%) Oracle
6 7 (1.65%) SaltStack
7 6 (1.41%) Apple
8 5 (1.18%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.71%) Adobe
9 3 (0.71%) Google
9 3 (0.71%) Informatica
9 3 (0.71%) Pardot
9 3 (0.71%) RedGate
9 3 (0.71%) Sony
9 3 (0.71%) VMware
9 3 (0.71%) Yahoo!
10 2 (0.47%) SAP
11 1 (0.24%) BMC
11 1 (0.24%) Commvault
11 1 (0.24%) Remedy