Azure SQL Database Jobs in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Azure SQL Database skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Azure SQL Database over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 207 240 299
Rank change year-on-year +33 +59 -89
Permanent jobs citing Azure SQL Database 91 56 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.88% 0.74% 0.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.01% 3.86% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 90 47 33
10th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £37,448
25th Percentile £44,063 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,106 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% +14.21% -16.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,625 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,750 £80,000 £75,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% - +12.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

Azure SQL Database is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,818 1,451 2,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 17.57% 19.13% 22.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,255 859 1,237
10th Percentile £33,244 £34,578 £33,218
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £66,450 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £84,482 £80,000 £79,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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 29 May 2024.

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 29 May 2024. 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
Merseyside +37 33 £55,000 -4.35% 2
Manchester +3 23 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Lancashire -2 14 £42,500 -25.58% 2
Cheshire -6 13 £52,500 +13.51% 1
Cumbria - 8 £55,000 - 1
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 3 (3.30%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (100.00%) Azure
2 20 (21.98%) Power Platform
3 10 (10.99%) Entra ID
4 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (6.59%) PaaS
5 5 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (5.49%) IaaS
5 5 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.20%) OCI
6 2 (2.20%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.20%) Zapier
7 1 (1.10%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.19%) Broadband
2 11 (12.09%) Internet
3 6 (6.59%) DNS
4 5 (5.49%) DHCP
4 5 (5.49%) Firewall
4 5 (5.49%) LAN
4 5 (5.49%) SD-WAN
4 5 (5.49%) SSL
4 5 (5.49%) VPN
4 5 (5.49%) WAN
4 5 (5.49%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.10%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (79.12%) SQL Server
2 20 (21.98%) Power BI
3 14 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 14 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (12.09%) Relational Database
5 10 (10.99%) RDBMS
6 6 (6.59%) Data Lake
7 5 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.30%) Big Data
8 3 (3.30%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (2.20%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (2.20%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Git
2 4 (4.40%) GitLab
3 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.10%) JIRA
3 1 (1.10%) NUnit
3 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (21.98%) Advertising
2 14 (15.38%) Finance
2 14 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.59%) Marketing
4 3 (3.30%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.20%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.20%) Games
6 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (36.26%) .NET Developer
1 33 (36.26%) Developer
2 29 (31.87%) DBA
3 27 (29.67%) SQL DBA
4 10 (10.99%) Analyst
5 9 (9.89%) C# .NET Developer
5 9 (9.89%) C# Developer
5 9 (9.89%) Lead
6 8 (8.79%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 6 (6.59%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Internet Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Azure Data Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Senior
9 4 (4.40%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Azure Developer
10 3 (3.30%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Team Leader
11 2 (2.20%) Database Team Leader
11 2 (2.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (40.66%) CSS
1 37 (40.66%) HTML
2 35 (38.46%) .NET
3 33 (36.26%) .NET Core
3 33 (36.26%) ASP.NET
3 33 (36.26%) ASP.NET MVC
3 33 (36.26%) Blazor
3 33 (36.26%) CSS3
3 33 (36.26%) Entity Framework
3 33 (36.26%) HTML5
4 3 (3.30%) PySpark
5 2 (2.20%) JSON
5 2 (2.20%) REST
5 2 (2.20%) SOAP
5 2 (2.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.58%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (12.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.29%) VMS
2 10 (10.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (42.86%) Agile
2 37 (40.66%) Full Stack Development
3 34 (37.36%) TDD
4 33 (36.26%) BDD
4 33 (36.26%) MVC
5 20 (21.98%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (17.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (15.38%) OO
8 12 (13.19%) Collaborative Working
8 12 (13.19%) DevOps
8 12 (13.19%) Disaster Recovery
8 12 (13.19%) High Availability
8 12 (13.19%) Performance Tuning
9 10 (10.99%) Continuous Delivery
9 10 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (10.99%) Mentoring
9 10 (10.99%) Server Patching
10 8 (8.79%) Release Management
11 7 (7.69%) Analytics
12 6 (6.59%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 91 (100.00%) SQL
2 35 (38.46%) C#
3 33 (36.26%) JavaScript
4 31 (34.07%) T-SQL
5 19 (20.88%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.40%) Go
6 4 (4.40%) Python
6 4 (4.40%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (16.48%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.49%) SLA
3 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (20.88%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (10.99%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.20%) vSphere
4 1 (1.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (1.10%) Ansible
2 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 69 (75.82%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.48%) Commvault
3 6 (6.59%) Facebook
4 5 (5.49%) Databricks
5 2 (2.20%) Oracle
5 2 (2.20%) Salesforce