Azure SQL Database Job Trends in Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Azure SQL Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 133 193
Rank change year-on-year -49 +60 +90
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 13 10 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.21% 0.41% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.05% 2.68% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 21
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,625 £39,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% -6.09% -
75th Percentile £57,813 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £66,000 £65,125 £76,250
England median annual salary £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +8.70% -14.81%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 633 373 871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.31% 15.16% 15.46%
Number of salaries quoted 316 319 721
10th Percentile £31,375 £26,250 £31,579
25th Percentile £38,772 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £77,424 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £89,074 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

Azure SQL Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Azure SQL Database job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Azure SQL Database
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Azure SQL Database

Azure SQL Database
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure SQL Database in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure SQL Database in Yorkshire

Azure SQL Database
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
West Yorkshire -40 6 £45,000 -20.35% 4
South Yorkshire -28 2 £42,500 +21.43% 3
East Yorkshire - 2 £47,500 - 1
North Yorkshire -3 1 £55,000 - 2
Azure SQL Database
England

Azure SQL Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (23.08%) Azure AI
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure App Service
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.69%) Firebase
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) MongoDB
2 3 (23.08%) Data Lake
2 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 2 (15.38%) Star Schema
4 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (7.69%) InfluxDB
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Power BI
General
1 1 (7.69%) Advertising
1 1 (7.69%) Back Office
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) .NET Developer
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Web Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Data Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (61.54%) .NET
2 7 (53.85%) .NET Core
2 7 (53.85%) ASP.NET
2 7 (53.85%) ASP.NET Core
3 6 (46.15%) ASP.NET Web API
3 6 (46.15%) RESTful
4 5 (38.46%) AngularJS
4 5 (38.46%) Entity Framework
4 5 (38.46%) Vue
5 3 (23.08%) React
6 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
6 2 (15.38%) LINQ
6 2 (15.38%) ML.NET
7 1 (7.69%) Blazor
7 1 (7.69%) FHIR
7 1 (7.69%) HTML
7 1 (7.69%) OAuth
7 1 (7.69%) OpenID
7 1 (7.69%) React Native
7 1 (7.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) BBC
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Code
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (38.46%) AI
3 5 (38.46%) Multithreading
4 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) Data Ingestion
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) Data Security
5 3 (23.08%) ETL
5 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
6 2 (15.38%) BDD
6 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (15.38%) Data Management
6 2 (15.38%) DevOps
6 2 (15.38%) Dimensional Modelling
6 2 (15.38%) OO
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (15.38%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (61.54%) C#
3 6 (46.15%) TypeScript
4 4 (30.77%) Python
5 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) DBS Check
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Apple
3 1 (7.69%) Facebook
3 1 (7.69%) Foundry
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) OutSystems
3 1 (7.69%) Sony
3 1 (7.69%) Yahoo!