Azure SQL Database Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure SQL Database (formerly SQL Azure)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 105 141
Rank change year-on-year -27 +36 +66
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 8 2 9
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.22% 0.15% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.56% 1.05% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £38,750 - £52,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £57,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -17.86%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £69,367 - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 312 191 433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 8.71% 14.31% 14.09%
Number of salaries quoted 188 164 333
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £35,200
25th Percentile £46,104 £47,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £79,159 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,450 £80,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +21.05% -9.52%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure SQL Database relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Azure SQL Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in West Yorkshire

Azure SQL Database
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. 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
Leeds - 2 £69,305 -
Brighouse - 2 £42,500 -
Wakefield - 2 £57,500 - 1
Bradford - 1 £47,500 - 1
Azure SQL Database
Yorkshire

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AI
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) .NET Developer
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
2 5 (62.50%) .NET Core
2 5 (62.50%) ASP.NET
2 5 (62.50%) ASP.NET Core
3 4 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 4 (50.00%) Entity Framework
3 4 (50.00%) Vue
4 3 (37.50%) RESTful
5 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
5 2 (25.00%) Node.js
5 2 (25.00%) React
5 2 (25.00%) WinForms
5 2 (25.00%) WPF
6 1 (12.50%) CSS
6 1 (12.50%) FHIR
6 1 (12.50%) HTML
6 1 (12.50%) ML.NET
6 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) BDD
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) TDD
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Data Security
4 2 (25.00%) Kanban
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (25.00%) MVVM
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Web Application Development
5 1 (12.50%) AI
5 1 (12.50%) ETL
5 1 (12.50%) OO
5 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
5 1 (12.50%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) C#
3 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (12.50%) C++
5 1 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) OutSystems