Azure SQL Database Jobs in Manchester

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 188 176
Rank change year-on-year +31 -12 +71
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 11 33 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.45% 0.56% 1.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.29% 2.90% 5.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9 30 42
10th Percentile £33,750 £43,489 £37,875
25th Percentile - £53,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +25.67%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £73,625 £84,500
North West median annual salary £56,250 £55,000 £56,053
% change year-on-year +2.27% -1.88% +24.51%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 480 1,136 1,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 19.43% 19.42% 23.77%
Number of salaries quoted 308 722 634
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,550 £36,270
25th Percentile £47,375 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% +5.45%
75th Percentile £73,886 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,000 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +3.57%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Azure SQL Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in Manchester

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Manchester.

Salary trend for Azure SQL Database in Manchester

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in Manchester

Azure SQL Database
Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Oldham - 2 £37,500 -
Salford - 1 - -
Azure SQL Database
North West

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (45.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (72.73%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (54.55%) Power Platform
4 5 (45.45%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (45.45%) Entra ID
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Power BI
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
3 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
General
1 5 (45.45%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (45.45%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (45.45%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) DBA
3 2 (18.18%) SQL DBA
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (45.45%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (45.45%) Business Strategy
2 5 (45.45%) Requirements Gathering
2 5 (45.45%) Roadmaps
2 5 (45.45%) Self-Awareness
2 5 (45.45%) Strategic Roadmap
2 5 (45.45%) Time Management
2 5 (45.45%) Workshop Facilitation
3 3 (27.27%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (18.18%) Database Security
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) ITSM
5 1 (9.09%) Service Management
5 1 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) T-SQL
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks