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

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 277 199 245
Rank change year-on-year -78 +46 +40
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 12 92 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.15% 0.93% 0.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.55% 5.12% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 10 91 42
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,375 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,303
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.02% +14.61%
75th Percentile £79,688 £65,000 £79,063
90th Percentile £115,000 £67,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £61,250 £57,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.52% -14.81% -

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 775 1,796 1,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.68% 18.22% 18.72%
Number of salaries quoted 450 1,276 879
10th Percentile £33,675 £33,609 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -7.07% +4.26%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £69,375
90th Percentile £87,250 £83,759 £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 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 12 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 12 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 +45 11 £67,500 +12.50% 12
Cheshire -3 1 £42,500 -19.05% 6
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 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (16.67%) AWS
5 2 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (16.67%) GCP
5 2 (16.67%) IaaS
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (16.67%) PaaS
5 2 (16.67%) SaaS
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) Power BI
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Retail
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (41.67%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Data Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Administrator
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Architect
4 2 (16.67%) DBA
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 2 (16.67%) SQL DBA
5 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Integration Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (8.33%) Blazor
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) CSS3
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) HTML5
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Analytics
2 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 3 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Database Security
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 2 (16.67%) Self-Awareness
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (16.67%) Time Management
5 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Bicep
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Databricks