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 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 243 198 256
Rank change year-on-year -45 +58 +27
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 14 92 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.95% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.06% 5.11% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 12 91 39
10th Percentile £34,500 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £45,000 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £74,063 £65,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £111,750 £67,500 £81,750
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 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 679 1,801 1,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.96% 18.53% 19.17%
Number of salaries quoted 451 1,286 887
10th Percentile £33,000 £32,875 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -7.07% +3.49%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,613 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,759 £80,000
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 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 1 May 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 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
Manchester +59 12 £67,500 +12.50% 18
Cheshire +30 2 £55,000 +4.76% 5
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 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Power Platform
4 4 (28.57%) Entra ID
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (14.29%) AWS
6 2 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (14.29%) GCP
6 2 (14.29%) GitHub
6 2 (14.29%) IaaS
6 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (14.29%) PaaS
6 2 (14.29%) SaaS
7 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Power BI
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Data Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) DBA
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 2 (14.29%) SQL DBA
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Integration Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) ARM Templates
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 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Analytics
4 4 (28.57%) Data Architecture
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (21.43%) Data Transformation
5 3 (21.43%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (21.43%) Visualisation
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%) Load Balancing
6 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (14.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) Bicep
3 2 (14.29%) C#
3 2 (14.29%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Databricks