Azure SQL Database Jobs in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 199 236
Rank change year-on-year -68 +37 +80
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 14 99 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.88% 0.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.89% 5.26% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 12 95 47
10th Percentile £34,500 £38,750 £36,500
25th Percentile £51,563 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - +22.11%
75th Percentile £65,313 £65,000 £75,625
90th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £61,250 £57,500 £66,056
% change year-on-year +6.52% -12.95% -2.14%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 740 1,881 1,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.67% 16.79% 19.99%
Number of salaries quoted 428 1,236 871
10th Percentile £33,050 £32,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +3.57%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £84,964 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £58,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.76% -10.77% +8.33%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Azure SQL Database in the North West

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Azure SQL Database in the North West

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in the North West over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in the North West

Azure SQL Database
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
Manchester +46 11 £55,000 -8.33% 33
Cheshire -7 3 £70,000 +33.33% 12
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (35.71%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) Azure Data Factory
2 8 (57.14%) Power Platform
3 7 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
5 4 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Power BI
2 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 5 (35.71%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (35.71%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (35.71%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (14.29%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Lead
3 2 (14.29%) DBA
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 2 (14.29%) SQL DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) Blazor
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) CSS3
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) HTML5
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (35.71%) Analytics
3 5 (35.71%) Business Strategy
3 5 (35.71%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
3 5 (35.71%) Self-Awareness
3 5 (35.71%) Strategic Roadmap
3 5 (35.71%) Time Management
3 5 (35.71%) Workshop Facilitation
4 4 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) ETL
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 2 (14.29%) Database Security
6 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (7.14%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) C#
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks