Azure SQL Database Job Trends in Manchester

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 150 187
Rank change year-on-year -10 +37 +17
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 8 10 23
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.15% 0.45% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.24% 2.22% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 23
10th Percentile £43,000 £33,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £54,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £55,000 £74,063 £66,250
90th Percentile - £92,250 £87,750
North West median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% -4.02%

All Database & 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 357 451 1,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 6.61% 20.28% 20.22%
Number of salaries quoted 273 287 757
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,400 £35,300
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £64,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +17.43% -5.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,500 £95,000 £84,964
North West median annual salary £50,000 £57,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.28% +14.00% -7.31%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure SQL Database relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in Manchester

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Azure SQL Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Azure SQL Database

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 13 May 2026. 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
Salford -11 1 - -
Azure SQL Database
North West

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
4 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
1 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) VLAN
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MSTest
1 2 (25.00%) NUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) .NET Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Administrator
2 2 (25.00%) DBA
2 2 (25.00%) SQL DBA
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) Ninject
2 2 (25.00%) Spring.NET
2 2 (25.00%) Unity DI Container
2 2 (25.00%) WPF
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) ADO
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (25.00%) Social Network
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
3 2 (25.00%) Kanban
3 2 (25.00%) MVVM
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) AI
4 1 (12.50%) Data Validation
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Test Management
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Facebook
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet