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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 34 65
Rank change year-on-year -30 +31 -17
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 91 289 246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.25% 5.64% 4.96%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.68% 26.98% 23.65%
Number of salaries quoted 82 281 215
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £48,125 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,747 £83,750 £77,715
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

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 440 1,071 1,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 20.56% 20.91% 20.97%
Number of salaries quoted 295 765 619
10th Percentile £39,100 £35,200 £35,427
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £54,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% -5.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,517 £84,964 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £53,941
% change year-on-year +7.84% -5.45% +1.58%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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
Bolton -11 4 £43,750 -27.08% 10
Stockport +11 3 £57,500 +53.33% 5
Oldham - 3 £37,500 -
Rochdale +10 2 £53,750 -
Altrincham +6 2 £55,000 +92.98% 5
Salford - 2 - -
Wigan - 1 £31,500 -
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 9 (9.89%) IIS
2 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.10%) Apache
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 40 (43.96%) Azure
2 27 (29.67%) AWS
3 15 (16.48%) SaaS
4 8 (8.79%) GCP
4 8 (8.79%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.49%) GitHub
6 4 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (3.30%) Firebase
7 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.20%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.20%) IaaS
8 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.20%) PaaS
8 2 (2.20%) Serverless
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.99%) DNS
2 5 (5.49%) DHCP
2 5 (5.49%) NAS
2 5 (5.49%) SAN
2 5 (5.49%) VSAN
3 2 (2.20%) DMZ
3 2 (2.20%) Firewall
3 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.20%) VPN
4 1 (1.10%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.27%) MongoDB
2 17 (18.68%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (10.99%) MySQL
4 8 (8.79%) NoSQL
4 8 (8.79%) Power BI
5 7 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (4.40%) Data Hub
6 4 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.40%) SQL CLR
7 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.30%) Metadata
7 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.10%) Apache Zeppelin
9 1 (1.10%) Cloud Spanner
9 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (13.19%) Git
2 5 (5.49%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (3.30%) JMeter
3 3 (3.30%) NUnit
4 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.10%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.10%) Maven
5 1 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.10%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (18.68%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.58%) Finance
3 9 (9.89%) Back Office
4 8 (8.79%) Retail
5 7 (7.69%) Law
6 5 (5.49%) Banking
7 4 (4.40%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.20%) Local Government
8 2 (2.20%) Marketing
9 1 (1.10%) Automotive
9 1 (1.10%) Electronics
9 1 (1.10%) Legal
9 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (57.14%) Developer
2 25 (27.47%) .NET Developer
2 25 (27.47%) Senior
3 16 (17.58%) Senior Developer
4 11 (12.09%) Software Engineer
5 10 (10.99%) C# Developer
6 9 (9.89%) Lead
7 8 (8.79%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (8.79%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (7.69%) Senior .NET Developer
8 7 (7.69%) SQL Developer
9 6 (6.59%) Lead Developer
10 5 (5.49%) C# .NET Developer
10 5 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) DBA
11 4 (4.40%) Architect
11 4 (4.40%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 4 (4.40%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (52.75%) .NET
2 21 (23.08%) .NET Core
3 18 (19.78%) CSS
4 15 (16.48%) AngularJS
4 15 (16.48%) ASP.NET
4 15 (16.48%) React
5 14 (15.38%) HTML
6 12 (13.19%) ASP.NET Web API
7 11 (12.09%) .NET Framework
7 11 (12.09%) RESTful
8 9 (9.89%) Blazor
8 9 (9.89%) Kafka
9 8 (8.79%) JSON
10 7 (7.69%) Laravel
10 7 (7.69%) XML
11 5 (5.49%) Entity Framework
11 5 (5.49%) Middleware
11 5 (5.49%) Razor View Engine
11 5 (5.49%) Web Services
11 5 (5.49%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 5 (5.49%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.40%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.40%) Private Cloud
3 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.20%) Clustering
4 2 (2.20%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.10%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.10%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.10%) EPoS
5 1 (1.10%) IoT
5 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.10%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.48%) Linux
2 14 (15.38%) Windows
3 5 (5.49%) Android
3 5 (5.49%) Apple iOS
3 5 (5.49%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.10%) Debian
4 1 (1.10%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (45.05%) Agile
2 27 (29.67%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (19.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 17 (18.68%) Mentoring
4 17 (18.68%) Microservices
4 17 (18.68%) Software Engineering
5 16 (17.58%) Performance Optimisation
6 15 (16.48%) OOP
6 15 (16.48%) TDD
7 13 (14.29%) Clean Code
7 13 (14.29%) DevOps
7 13 (14.29%) Migration
8 12 (13.19%) CI/CD
8 12 (13.19%) Roadmaps
9 11 (12.09%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 11 (12.09%) Kanban
10 10 (10.99%) Design Patterns
10 10 (10.99%) MVC
10 10 (10.99%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 41 (45.05%) C#
2 36 (39.56%) SQL
3 23 (25.27%) JavaScript
4 10 (10.99%) PHP
4 10 (10.99%) T-SQL
5 9 (9.89%) Python
6 8 (8.79%) Java
7 4 (4.40%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.20%) C++
8 2 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.10%) Bash
9 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.10%) Ruby
9 1 (1.10%) Scala
9 1 (1.10%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.10%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (6.59%) Degree
2 5 (5.49%) Azure Certification
2 5 (5.49%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (5.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.20%) CISM
4 2 (2.20%) CISSP
4 2 (2.20%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (1.10%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.30%) QA
3 2 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.20%) GDPR
3 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.20%) NCSC
3 2 (2.20%) NIST
3 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (12.09%) Docker
2 6 (6.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.49%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.20%) vSphere
5 1 (1.10%) Firmware
5 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (9.89%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.49%) Progress Chef
2 5 (5.49%) Terraform
3 3 (3.30%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (1.10%) Grafana
4 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.09%) VMware
3 6 (6.59%) Google
3 6 (6.59%) Oracle
4 4 (4.40%) Splunk
5 3 (3.30%) Sage
5 3 (3.30%) SAP
6 2 (2.20%) Databricks
7 1 (1.10%) Apple
7 1 (1.10%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.10%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.10%) EMC
7 1 (1.10%) Facebook
7 1 (1.10%) IBM
7 1 (1.10%) Imperva
7 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.10%) Talend
7 1 (1.10%) Veeam