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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 131 131
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +73
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 11 38 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.46% 1.16% 0.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.63% 6.65% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 7 25 14
10th Percentile £54,600 £41,500 £48,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £69,750 £71,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,600 £88,750
North West median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +36.84%

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 303 571 466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.64% 17.39% 20.97%
Number of salaries quoted 244 255 392
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,438 £45,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,375 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,375 £87,500 £87,419
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in Manchester

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 (18.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (81.82%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (63.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 7 (63.64%) Power Platform
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 2 (18.18%) PaaS
4 2 (18.18%) SaaS
5 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Power BI
2 5 (45.45%) Data Lake
2 5 (45.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
1 3 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Business Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Commercial Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Insight Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Insight Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
1 2 (18.18%) Blazor
1 2 (18.18%) Entity Framework
1 2 (18.18%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Android
1 2 (18.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Analytics
1 7 (63.64%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (54.55%) Data Modelling
3 5 (45.45%) Data Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (27.27%) Asset Management
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
4 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
4 3 (27.27%) Time Management
5 2 (18.18%) CRM
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 2 (18.18%) ITIL
5 2 (18.18%) ITSM
5 2 (18.18%) Pair Programming
5 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
2 1 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks
2 2 (18.18%) Xamarin