SQL Server Jobs in Manchester

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 44 50
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 125 271 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.07% 4.62% 5.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 26.04% 23.90% 24.75%
Number of salaries quoted 85 253 214
10th Percentile £32,000 £38,084 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,043 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.93% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £83,000 £80,000
North West median annual salary £50,890 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.22% +2.00% +2.04%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Manchester

SQL Server 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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 480 1,134 1,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 19.46% 19.34% 23.52%
Number of salaries quoted 308 720 628
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,500 £36,270
25th Percentile £47,375 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% +5.45%
75th Percentile £73,886 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,096 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +3.77%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing SQL Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Manchester

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Manchester

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Manchester

SQL Server
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SQL Server within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Altrincham +2 6 £55,000 +92.98% 4
Stockport +13 5 £48,750 -2.50% 13
Oldham - 5 £37,500 - 2
Salford - 5 - - 5
Bolton -6 4 £47,500 -11.63% 11
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - - 7
Sale - 3 - - 1
Wigan - 3 - - 1
Bury +2 2 £52,500 +23.53% 7
SQL Server
North West

SQL Server
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 12 (9.60%) IIS
1 12 (9.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (7.20%) Confluence
3 1 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.80%) CMS
3 1 (0.80%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 67 (53.60%) Azure
2 56 (44.80%) AWS
3 15 (12.00%) GCP
4 13 (10.40%) SaaS
5 11 (8.80%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (5.60%) GitHub
7 6 (4.80%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.20%) Firebase
9 3 (2.40%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.60%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.60%) Serverless
11 1 (0.80%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.80%) dbt
11 1 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.80%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.80%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.80%) Stitch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.40%) DNS
2 10 (8.00%) DHCP
3 9 (7.20%) Firewall
4 8 (6.40%) NAS
4 8 (6.40%) SAN
5 5 (4.00%) VLAN
5 5 (4.00%) VSAN
6 2 (1.60%) DMZ
6 2 (1.60%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.60%) VPN
7 1 (0.80%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (25.60%) MongoDB
2 16 (12.80%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (8.80%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.60%) MySQL
5 6 (4.80%) Data Hub
5 6 (4.80%) Power BI
5 6 (4.80%) SQL CLR
6 5 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (3.20%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.40%) Metadata
8 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.80%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.80%) DB2
10 1 (0.80%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.80%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (22.40%) Bitbucket
1 28 (22.40%) Maven
2 27 (21.60%) Cucumber
2 27 (21.60%) GitLab
2 27 (21.60%) JIRA
2 27 (21.60%) Selenium
2 27 (21.60%) SonarQube
2 27 (21.60%) Sonatype Nexus
3 17 (13.60%) Git
4 5 (4.00%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (2.40%) JMeter
5 3 (2.40%) NUnit
6 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (36.00%) Finance
2 32 (25.60%) Banking
3 30 (24.00%) Retail
4 27 (21.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (20.80%) Social Skills
6 18 (14.40%) Corporate Banking
6 18 (14.40%) Investment Banking
7 13 (10.40%) Back Office
8 7 (5.60%) Law
9 6 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.60%) Local Government
10 2 (1.60%) Marketing
11 1 (0.80%) Legal
11 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 61 (48.80%) Developer
2 35 (28.00%) .NET Developer
3 30 (24.00%) Software Engineer
4 24 (19.20%) Senior
5 18 (14.40%) Senior Developer
6 13 (10.40%) Lead
7 10 (8.00%) Lead Developer
7 10 (8.00%) Senior .NET Developer
8 8 (6.40%) Lead .NET Developer
9 7 (5.60%) C# Developer
9 7 (5.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (5.60%) SQL Developer
10 6 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.00%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 5 (4.00%) IT Support
12 4 (3.20%) C# .NET Developer
12 4 (3.20%) Data Engineer
12 4 (3.20%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (40.00%) .NET
2 46 (36.80%) CSS
3 42 (33.60%) HTML
4 41 (32.80%) Kafka
5 34 (27.20%) React
6 28 (22.40%) Spring Boot
7 27 (21.60%) JPA
7 27 (21.60%) Redux
7 27 (21.60%) Spring
8 25 (20.00%) RESTful
9 23 (18.40%) .NET Core
10 22 (17.60%) Sass
11 21 (16.80%) CSS3
11 21 (16.80%) HTML5
11 21 (16.80%) REST
12 18 (14.40%) Jest
13 14 (11.20%) ASP.NET
13 14 (11.20%) ASP.NET Web API
13 14 (11.20%) Blazor
14 10 (8.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 31 (24.80%) Product Ownership
2 27 (21.60%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (7.20%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (5.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 6 (4.80%) Clustering
5 6 (4.80%) Private Cloud
6 5 (4.00%) Driving Licence
6 5 (4.00%) EPoS
6 5 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.00%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.60%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.80%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.80%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.80%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.20%) Windows
2 17 (13.60%) Linux
3 11 (8.80%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.80%) Debian
5 1 (0.80%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.80%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (56.80%) Agile
2 50 (40.00%) Microservices
3 49 (39.20%) Performance Optimisation
4 46 (36.80%) Full-Stack Development
5 37 (29.60%) DevOps
5 37 (29.60%) Software Engineering
6 36 (28.80%) SDLC
7 35 (28.00%) CI/CD
7 35 (28.00%) Mentoring
8 31 (24.80%) Front End Development
9 30 (24.00%) Migration
10 29 (23.20%) Containerisation
11 28 (22.40%) Test Automation
12 27 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (20.80%) User Experience
14 24 (19.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (17.60%) OOP
16 21 (16.80%) Clean Code
17 19 (15.20%) Kanban
17 19 (15.20%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 67 (53.60%) SQL
2 49 (39.20%) JavaScript
3 47 (37.60%) C#
4 35 (28.00%) Java
5 22 (17.60%) TypeScript
6 10 (8.00%) Python
7 8 (6.40%) T-SQL
8 7 (5.60%) PHP
9 2 (1.60%) C++
9 2 (1.60%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.80%) Bash
10 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.80%) Ruby
10 1 (0.80%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.80%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (4.00%) Azure Certification
1 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (3.20%) Degree
3 2 (1.60%) CISM
3 2 (1.60%) CISSP
3 2 (1.60%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (23.20%) QA
2 19 (15.20%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.80%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.60%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.60%) NCSC
4 2 (1.60%) NIST
4 2 (1.60%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.80%) GDPR
System Software
1 37 (29.60%) Docker
2 12 (9.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.20%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.00%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (26.40%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.00%) Progress Chef
2 5 (4.00%) Terraform
3 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.40%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.80%) Grafana
Vendors
1 32 (25.60%) Microsoft
2 27 (21.60%) Solace
3 17 (13.60%) VMware
4 9 (7.20%) Splunk
5 6 (4.80%) Google
5 6 (4.80%) Oracle
5 6 (4.80%) Veeam
6 5 (4.00%) MobileIron
7 3 (2.40%) Cisco
7 3 (2.40%) ESET
7 3 (2.40%) Sophos
8 2 (1.60%) Sage
8 2 (1.60%) SAP
9 1 (0.80%) Apple
9 1 (0.80%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.80%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.80%) IBM
9 1 (0.80%) Imperva
9 1 (0.80%) Rollbar
9 1 (0.80%) Talend