Azure SQL Database Jobs in the North of England

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 257 359
Rank change year-on-year -60 +102 +18
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 28 137 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.24% 0.78% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.31% 4.42% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 26 124 67
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,438 £43,750 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £69,563 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £76,875 £69,250 £83,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -14.81% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,214 3,102 3,468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.32% 17.56% 20.59%
Number of salaries quoted 829 2,295 1,783
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £34,723
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £41,114
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.90% +9.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,603 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £82,875 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the North of England

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the North of England.

Salary trend for Azure SQL Database in the North of England

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in the North of England

Azure SQL Database
Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
North West -82 11 £62,500 +13.64% 27
Yorkshire +46 9 £55,000 -4.35% 33
North East +28 8 £57,500 +35.29% 9
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) Power Platform
3 8 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 5 (17.86%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (17.86%) GitHub
5 4 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Functions
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (10.71%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (10.71%) Power Automate
6 3 (10.71%) PowerApps
6 3 (10.71%) Serverless
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Storage
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (7.14%) Azure WebJobs
8 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (3.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) SQL Server
2 8 (28.57%) Power BI
3 5 (17.86%) Data Lake
4 4 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 2 (7.14%) Star Schema
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 11 (39.29%) Finance
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Advertising
3 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Publishing
4 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) DBA
2 6 (21.43%) SQL DBA
3 5 (17.86%) Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Senior
3 5 (17.86%) Software Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Administrator
4 4 (14.29%) Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Applications Support
5 3 (10.71%) Applications Support Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Power Apps Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.71%) SQL Server DBA
5 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) C# Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Data Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Senior C# Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) .NET
2 5 (17.86%) AngularJS
3 4 (14.29%) Blazor
3 4 (14.29%) Node.js
4 3 (10.71%) .NET Core
5 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET
5 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (7.14%) SignalR
5 2 (7.14%) Skia Graphics Library
5 2 (7.14%) WPF
6 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.57%) CSS
6 1 (3.57%) CSS3
6 1 (3.57%) HTML
6 1 (3.57%) HTML5
6 1 (3.57%) React
6 1 (3.57%) REST
6 1 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Hedge funds
2 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) High Availability
1 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (28.57%) DevOps
3 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 6 (21.43%) Data Modelling
5 5 (17.86%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
5 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
5 5 (17.86%) Storage Management
6 4 (14.29%) Agile
6 4 (14.29%) Analytics
6 4 (14.29%) Change Data Capture
6 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
6 4 (14.29%) ITIL
6 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (10.71%) Customer Service
7 3 (10.71%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 27 (96.43%) SQL
2 8 (28.57%) C#
3 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (17.86%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.14%) Bicep
5 2 (7.14%) Python
5 2 (7.14%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (14.29%) PCI DSS
1 4 (14.29%) SOC 2
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
1 6 (21.43%) Terraform
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 14 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) Nimble Storage
3 2 (7.14%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle