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 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 245 395 477
Rank change year-on-year +150 +82 -198
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 420 284 447
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.24% 0.70% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.35% 2.82% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 380 250 305
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,432 £41,750
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% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £83,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £100,000 £78,750
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 7,850 10,063 21,148
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.22% 24.80% 29.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6,228 6,908 11,090
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £36,500
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 £75,208 £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 20 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 9 (2.14%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.43%) CMS
3 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
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 (0.48%) Primavera
3 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 420 (100.00%) Azure
2 129 (30.71%) Power Platform
3 54 (12.86%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 30 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 29 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 28 (6.67%) PaaS
8 27 (6.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 24 (5.71%) Serverless
10 22 (5.24%) PowerApps
11 19 (4.52%) Azure AKS
11 19 (4.52%) Azure Service Bus
11 19 (4.52%) IaaS
12 18 (4.29%) AWS
12 18 (4.29%) Azure Functions
13 16 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (3.81%) Power Automate
14 15 (3.57%) SaaS
15 12 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (2.62%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 74 (17.62%) Broadband
2 43 (10.24%) Internet
3 13 (3.10%) Network Security
4 9 (2.14%) DNS
5 8 (1.90%) Firewall
6 7 (1.67%) LAN
6 7 (1.67%) WAN
7 5 (1.19%) DHCP
7 5 (1.19%) SD-WAN
7 5 (1.19%) SSL
7 5 (1.19%) VPN
7 5 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.48%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 291 (69.29%) SQL Server
2 117 (27.86%) Power BI
3 43 (10.24%) Data Lake
4 27 (6.43%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (3.33%) MySQL
5 14 (3.33%) Redis
6 13 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (2.62%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 11 (2.62%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.38%) MariaDB
9 7 (1.67%) Delta Lake
10 6 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.19%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (1.19%) Tableau
12 4 (0.95%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.71%) DBAmp
13 3 (0.71%) Ingres
14 1 (0.24%) OLTP
14 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (2.62%) Git
2 7 (1.67%) Jenkins
2 7 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (1.43%) MLflow
3 6 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (0.95%) GitLab
4 4 (0.95%) Moq
4 4 (0.95%) NUnit
5 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.24%) JIRA
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 122 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.24%) Advertising
3 35 (8.33%) Marketing
4 28 (6.67%) Finance
5 23 (5.48%) Games
6 13 (3.10%) Retail
7 12 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (2.38%) Music Industry
9 6 (1.43%) Aviation
10 5 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.95%) Banking
11 4 (0.95%) Police
12 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.48%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.24%) Law
14 1 (0.24%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.24%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 220 (52.38%) Developer
2 164 (39.05%) .NET Developer
3 84 (20.00%) DBA
4 77 (18.33%) SQL DBA
5 56 (13.33%) C# Developer
6 50 (11.90%) Senior
7 49 (11.67%) C# .NET Developer
8 43 (10.24%) Azure Engineer
9 37 (8.81%) Internet Developer
10 31 (7.38%) Data Engineer
11 26 (6.19%) Senior Developer
12 23 (5.48%) Azure Data Engineer
12 23 (5.48%) Senior Data Engineer
13 20 (4.76%) Software Developer
14 19 (4.52%) Architect
15 18 (4.29%) Lead
16 17 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
17 16 (3.81%) DevOps Engineer
18 15 (3.57%) Senior Software Developer
19 14 (3.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (51.43%) .NET
2 183 (43.57%) .NET Core
3 176 (41.90%) CSS
4 175 (41.67%) HTML
5 170 (40.48%) ASP.NET
5 170 (40.48%) Blazor
5 170 (40.48%) Entity Framework
6 163 (38.81%) ASP.NET MVC
7 161 (38.33%) CSS3
7 161 (38.33%) HTML5
8 26 (6.19%) .NET Framework
9 17 (4.05%) React
10 16 (3.81%) REST
11 15 (3.57%) PySpark
12 14 (3.33%) JSON
13 10 (2.38%) AngularJS
14 9 (2.14%) ARM Templates
14 9 (2.14%) SOAP
15 8 (1.90%) Web Services
16 6 (1.43%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.71%) Greenfield Project
2 25 (5.95%) Digital TV
3 15 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (2.14%) Management Information System
5 8 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (1.67%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.67%) Public Cloud
7 6 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (0.95%) Cloud Native
8 4 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.95%) Life Science
8 4 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (0.71%) BBC
9 3 (0.71%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.71%) NHS
9 3 (0.71%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.71%) Social Media
9 3 (0.71%) Wiki
10 2 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 77 (18.33%) VMS
2 21 (5.00%) Windows
3 5 (1.19%) Linux
4 3 (0.71%) Unix
5 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (48.81%) Agile
2 168 (40.00%) TDD
3 167 (39.76%) Full Stack Development
3 167 (39.76%) MVC
4 161 (38.33%) BDD
5 125 (29.76%) Business Intelligence
6 82 (19.52%) DevOps
7 79 (18.81%) Performance Tuning
8 76 (18.10%) Collaborative Working
9 75 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
10 74 (17.62%) High Availability
11 65 (15.48%) Analytics
12 36 (8.57%) Data Analytics
13 34 (8.10%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (7.14%) CI/CD
14 30 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (6.43%) OO
16 22 (5.24%) Mentoring
17 21 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 20 (4.76%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 417 (99.29%) SQL
2 221 (52.62%) C#
3 181 (43.10%) JavaScript
4 91 (21.67%) T-SQL
5 40 (9.52%) Python
6 39 (9.29%) PowerShell
7 20 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.05%) Bash
9 14 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 11 (2.62%) Go
10 11 (2.62%) U-SQL
11 10 (2.38%) Java
11 10 (2.38%) R
12 7 (1.67%) Groovy
12 7 (1.67%) PHP
12 7 (1.67%) Ruby
13 5 (1.19%) C
14 4 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.71%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 94 (22.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (5.00%) Degree
3 17 (4.05%) Azure Certification
4 11 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.38%) Security Cleared
6 7 (1.67%) SC Cleared
7 6 (1.43%) CISM
7 6 (1.43%) CISSP
7 6 (1.43%) GIAC
7 6 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.43%) SANS
8 5 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.71%) CIPD
9 3 (0.71%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.71%) HND
10 2 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.48%) CIMA
11 1 (0.24%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.43%) COBIT
3 6 (1.43%) NIST
3 6 (1.43%) SLA
3 6 (1.43%) 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 (19.52%) Virtual Machines
2 27 (6.43%) Docker
3 24 (5.71%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (6.19%) Terraform
2 24 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.10%) Ansible
4 7 (1.67%) Grafana
4 7 (1.67%) Progress Chef
4 7 (1.67%) Prometheus
4 7 (1.67%) Puppet
5 6 (1.43%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 3 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 314 (74.76%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.81%) Databricks
3 21 (5.00%) Facebook
4 10 (2.38%) New Relic
5 9 (2.14%) Apple
5 9 (2.14%) Oracle
6 7 (1.67%) SaltStack
7 6 (1.43%) Adobe
8 5 (1.19%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.71%) Google
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 (0.48%) SAP
11 1 (0.24%) BMC
11 1 (0.24%) Commvault
11 1 (0.24%) Remedy
11 1 (0.24%) Xamarin