Azure SQL Data Warehouse Contract Job Trends in the North West

Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Azure SQL Data Warehouse skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.081% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £385 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 - -
75th Percentile £395 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £460 £503 £626
% change year-on-year -8.46% -19.76% +13.86%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

Azure SQL Data Warehouse falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 366 287 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.89% 13.40% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 181 304
10th Percentile £313 £313 £277
25th Percentile £360 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -6.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £516 £575 £606
90th Percentile £603 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 11
10th Percentile £49.63 £22.72 -
25th Percentile £58.25 £23.48 £46.18
Median hourly rate £69.38 £25.43 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +172.83% -51.56% -19.23%
75th Percentile £82.38 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.30 £66.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.00% -18.80% -14.08%

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Azure SQL Data Warehouse job vacancy trend in the North West

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure SQL Data Warehouse within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester - 2 £390 - 1
Azure SQL Data Warehouse
England

Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 2 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) ETL Development
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality