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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 262 365
Rank change year-on-year -15 +103 -13
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 31 135 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.28% 0.78% 0.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.76% 4.34% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 29 122 62
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,063 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,303
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.02% +14.61%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £75,938
90th Percentile £82,500 £69,750 £86,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -17.86% +3.70%

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 1,123 3,113 3,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.25% 18.02% 20.81%
Number of salaries quoted 837 2,332 1,838
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,579 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £41,243
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,603 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £62,779 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.18% -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 1 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 1 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 -45 14 £67,500 +22.73% 30
Yorkshire +56 9 £53,000 -7.83% 26
North East +44 8 £57,500 +15.00% 6
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 (6.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) Azure Data Factory
2 9 (29.03%) Power Platform
3 8 (25.81%) Entra ID
4 6 (19.35%) GitHub
5 5 (16.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (16.13%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (12.90%) Azure Functions
6 4 (12.90%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (12.90%) Serverless
7 3 (9.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (9.68%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (9.68%) Power Automate
7 3 (9.68%) PowerApps
8 2 (6.45%) AWS
8 2 (6.45%) GCP
8 2 (6.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) SAN
2 2 (6.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) SQL Server
2 8 (25.81%) Power BI
3 6 (19.35%) Data Lake
4 4 (12.90%) MongoDB
5 3 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
7 1 (3.23%) Power Query
7 1 (3.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 11 (35.48%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Advertising
4 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Retail
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) DBA
2 6 (19.35%) Architect
2 6 (19.35%) Senior
2 6 (19.35%) SQL DBA
3 5 (16.13%) Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Software Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (12.90%) Administrator
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Applications Support
5 3 (9.68%) Applications Support Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Data Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Power Apps Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) SQL Server DBA
5 3 (9.68%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Lead
6 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) .NET
2 5 (16.13%) AngularJS
2 5 (16.13%) Blazor
3 4 (12.90%) Node.js
4 3 (9.68%) .NET Core
5 2 (6.45%) ARM Templates
5 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET
5 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (6.45%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (6.45%) SignalR
5 2 (6.45%) Skia Graphics Library
5 2 (6.45%) WPF
6 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.23%) CSS
6 1 (3.23%) HTML5
6 1 (3.23%) React
6 1 (3.23%) RESTful
6 1 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Hedge funds
2 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.45%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) DevOps
2 9 (29.03%) High Availability
2 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
4 7 (22.58%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (19.35%) Data Modelling
5 6 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (19.35%) Roadmaps
6 5 (16.13%) Analytics
6 5 (16.13%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
6 5 (16.13%) Storage Management
7 4 (12.90%) Change Data Capture
7 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
7 4 (12.90%) Data Architecture
7 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (12.90%) ITIL
8 3 (9.68%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (9.68%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 29 (93.55%) SQL
2 8 (25.81%) C#
2 8 (25.81%) PowerShell
3 5 (16.13%) TypeScript
4 4 (12.90%) Bicep
5 2 (6.45%) Python
5 2 (6.45%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (12.90%) PCI DSS
1 4 (12.90%) SOC 2
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Kubernetes
1 8 (25.81%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Databricks
2 4 (12.90%) Nimble Storage
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle