SQL Job Trends in Manchester

SQL (Structured Query Language)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring SQL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 16 13
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 401 260 403
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.31% 11.08% 10.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.24% 33.90% 33.36%
Number of salaries quoted 304 168 209
10th Percentile £36,800 £32,750 £38,650
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,063 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £73,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%

All Programming Languages
Manchester

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,138 767 1,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.07% 32.68% 30.52%
Number of salaries quoted 850 465 689
10th Percentile £41,175 £32,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

SQL job vacancy trend in Manchester

SQL
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SQL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing SQL

SQL
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Manchester over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL in Manchester

SQL
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 within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 23 September 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
Oldham +8 10 £67,500 +80.00% 2
Bolton -3 10 £54,000 +61.19% 7
Sale +8 8 £62,500 - 5
Stockport +1 7 £70,000 +27.27% 8
Wigan +2 5 £37,500 - 1
Salford -27 5 £78,750 +75.00% 16
Cheadle -1 3 £55,000 - 4
Altrincham +5 2 £51,250 -6.82% 7
Bury - 1 £55,000 - 4
SQL
North West

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
1 17 (4.24%) IIS
2 16 (3.99%) Apache
3 11 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.24%) Confluence
5 7 (1.75%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (1.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.50%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.50%) nginx
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.25%) SAS
9 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 42 (10.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.25%) SAP Business One
2 4 (1.00%) NEC Housing
2 4 (1.00%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.25%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.25%) Magento
5 1 (0.25%) Odoo
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 138 (34.41%) Azure
2 118 (29.43%) AWS
3 65 (16.21%) Power Platform
4 46 (11.47%) GitHub
5 37 (9.23%) GCP
6 35 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (7.48%) Snowflake
8 28 (6.98%) SaaS
8 28 (6.98%) Serverless
9 24 (5.99%) Amazon S3
10 20 (4.99%) dbt
11 18 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.99%) Anthropic Claude
12 12 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (2.49%) GitHub Copilot
14 10 (2.49%) Microsoft Purview
14 10 (2.49%) Power Automate
15 9 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.49%) Firewall
2 13 (3.24%) DNS
3 10 (2.49%) DHCP
4 9 (2.24%) VPN
5 8 (2.00%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.50%) SAN
7 3 (0.75%) HTTP
7 3 (0.75%) LTE
7 3 (0.75%) SMS
7 3 (0.75%) VLAN
8 1 (0.25%) Internet
8 1 (0.25%) Network Security
8 1 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (14.96%) SQL Server
2 56 (13.97%) Power BI
3 30 (7.48%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (5.74%) MongoDB
4 23 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (5.49%) NoSQL
5 22 (5.49%) Tableau
6 21 (5.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (4.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (3.74%) Relational Database
8 15 (3.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 14 (3.49%) DynamoDB
10 12 (2.99%) BigQuery
11 11 (2.74%) MySQL
12 10 (2.49%) Data Lake
13 8 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (2.00%) Metadata
14 7 (1.75%) Big Data
15 6 (1.50%) Delta Lake
15 6 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 35 (8.73%) Git
2 13 (3.24%) JIRA
3 12 (2.99%) Bitbucket
3 12 (2.99%) Claude Code
4 6 (1.50%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.00%) GitLab
7 3 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.75%) NUnit
7 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.50%) MSTest
8 2 (0.50%) Postman
8 2 (0.50%) Vite
9 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.25%) Maven
9 1 (0.25%) MLflow
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
General
1 150 (37.41%) Social Skills
2 100 (24.94%) Finance
3 80 (19.95%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.23%) Law
5 28 (6.98%) Marketing
6 16 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.74%) Retail
8 13 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.99%) Legal
9 12 (2.99%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.24%) Advertising
11 7 (1.75%) Billing
11 7 (1.75%) Games
12 6 (1.50%) Local Government
13 5 (1.25%) General Ledger
13 5 (1.25%) Military
13 5 (1.25%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.75%) Banking
14 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (24.94%) Senior
2 75 (18.70%) Data Engineer
3 72 (17.96%) Developer
4 61 (15.21%) Analyst
5 41 (10.22%) Software Engineer
6 33 (8.23%) Lead
7 32 (7.98%) Senior Data Engineer
8 30 (7.48%) Data Analyst
9 22 (5.49%) Consultant
10 19 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
11 17 (4.24%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.24%) .NET Developer
12 13 (3.24%) Support Engineer
13 12 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.74%) Senior Developer
15 10 (2.49%) SQL Analyst
16 9 (2.24%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 9 (2.24%) Snowflake Engineer
16 9 (2.24%) Software Developer
17 8 (2.00%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.73%) .NET
2 30 (7.48%) HTML
2 30 (7.48%) React
3 29 (7.23%) Node.js
4 25 (6.23%) CSS
5 23 (5.74%) PySpark
5 23 (5.74%) Terraform
6 16 (3.99%) AngularJS
6 16 (3.99%) ASP.NET
7 15 (3.74%) Kafka
7 15 (3.74%) Next.js
7 15 (3.74%) Vue
8 13 (3.24%) Spring
9 12 (2.99%) .NET Core
9 12 (2.99%) REST
9 12 (2.99%) RESTful
9 12 (2.99%) Spring Boot
10 11 (2.74%) ASP.NET Core
11 10 (2.49%) Middleware
12 9 (2.24%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.49%) Onboarding
2 21 (5.24%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.99%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.24%) Data Structures
4 17 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.49%) Marketing Technology
6 9 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.24%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (2.00%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.50%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.25%) Online Gambling
10 4 (1.00%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.00%) Clustering
10 4 (1.00%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.75%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.49%) Windows
2 17 (4.24%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.50%) Linux
4 4 (1.00%) Android
5 3 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (26.18%) Analytics
2 101 (25.19%) AI
2 101 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
3 95 (23.69%) Agile
4 82 (20.45%) Business Intelligence
5 80 (19.95%) CI/CD
6 71 (17.71%) Decision-Making
7 68 (16.96%) Software Engineering
8 66 (16.46%) Data Engineering
9 56 (13.97%) Data Pipeline
10 54 (13.47%) Mentoring
11 53 (13.22%) ETL
12 52 (12.97%) DevOps
13 48 (11.97%) Data Modelling
14 44 (10.97%) Validation
15 41 (10.22%) Full-Stack Development
16 39 (9.73%) Data Analysis
16 39 (9.73%) Stakeholder Management
17 38 (9.48%) Collaborative Culture
17 38 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 167 (41.65%) Python
2 48 (11.97%) TypeScript
3 45 (11.22%) C#
4 44 (10.97%) JavaScript
5 43 (10.72%) Java
6 18 (4.49%) PHP
6 18 (4.49%) PowerShell
7 12 (2.99%) T-SQL
8 9 (2.24%) Bash
8 9 (2.24%) Scala
9 8 (2.00%) R
10 5 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.00%) Bicep
11 4 (1.00%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.75%) Go
13 2 (0.50%) C++
14 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.25%) VBA
14 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (10.47%) Degree
2 19 (4.74%) Security Cleared
3 15 (3.74%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.99%) Azure Certification
4 12 (2.99%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.75%) ACCA
6 7 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.50%) CIMA
8 5 (1.25%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.00%) MCSA
9 4 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.25%) CFA
11 1 (0.25%) HNC
11 1 (0.25%) HND
11 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (18.20%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.48%) QA
3 10 (2.49%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.50%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) IFRS
6 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (4.49%) Docker
2 15 (3.74%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.25%) MetaFrame
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.25%) vSphere
5 1 (0.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (2.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Clustering
3 5 (1.25%) Grafana
4 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 108 (26.93%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.48%) Databricks
3 18 (4.49%) Google
3 18 (4.49%) VMware
4 13 (3.24%) Oracle
5 9 (2.24%) SAP
6 7 (1.75%) Informatica
6 7 (1.75%) Sage
6 7 (1.75%) Splunk
7 6 (1.50%) Adobe
7 6 (1.50%) HubSpot
8 5 (1.25%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (1.00%) Alteryx
9 4 (1.00%) NEC
9 4 (1.00%) Xamarin
10 3 (0.75%) Facebook
10 3 (0.75%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.75%) Veeam
11 2 (0.50%) UiPath