Senior SQL Developer Jobs in Manchester

Senior SQL Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior SQL Developer salary in Manchester is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 220 236
Rank change year-on-year +79 +16 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior SQL Developer 3 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.14% 0.039% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.041% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 -
North West median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +64.71% -37.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,928 4,846 4,542
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.09% 94.61% 91.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 3,745 2,665
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,000 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +0.11% -8.90% +4.54%

Senior SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Senior SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Senior SQL Developer in Manchester

Senior SQL Developer
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior SQL Developer in Manchester.

Salary trend for Senior SQL Developer in Manchester

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Senior SQL Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Senior SQL Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Back Office
1 3 (100.00%) Workflow
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (100.00%) Statistics
1 3 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 3 (100.00%) Wealth Management
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
1 3 (100.00%) SQL CLR
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 3 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
1 3 (100.00%) Fintech
1 3 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Hub
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
1 3 (100.00%) SQL CLR
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (100.00%) Back Office
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 3 (100.00%) Fintech
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 3 (100.00%) Statistics
1 3 (100.00%) Wealth Management
1 3 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware