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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 19 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 380 267 601
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.95% 10.74% 10.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.16% 30.51% 33.61%
Number of salaries quoted 295 183 429
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,149 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year - +0.92% -5.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,818 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £84,750 £79,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -

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 1,051 875 1,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.46% 35.20% 32.54%
Number of salaries quoted 828 561 1,354
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -0.04%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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
Bolton +12 9 £62,500 +86.57% 10
Wigan +4 6 £42,500 +8.97% 10
Stockport -2 5 £55,000 - 7
Oldham +9 4 £67,500 +80.00% 7
Sale +7 3 £60,000 - 1
Cheadle -1 3 £55,000 -
Salford -19 3 £62,500 +38.89% 11
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 14 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (3.42%) IIS
3 11 (2.89%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.11%) Apache
4 8 (2.11%) Confluence
4 8 (2.11%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.53%) CICS
7 2 (0.53%) JBoss
7 2 (0.53%) nginx
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.26%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 55 (14.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.79%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.53%) Magento
2 2 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.26%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 140 (36.84%) Azure
2 110 (28.95%) AWS
3 67 (17.63%) Power Platform
4 36 (9.47%) GCP
5 28 (7.37%) GitHub
6 27 (7.11%) Serverless
7 26 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (6.58%) SaaS
9 19 (5.00%) Amazon S3
10 17 (4.47%) Azure AI
11 16 (4.21%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.21%) Snowflake
12 15 (3.95%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (2.63%) dbt
15 8 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (2.11%) Power Automate
16 7 (1.84%) Google Sheets
16 7 (1.84%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.95%) Firewall
2 13 (3.42%) DNS
3 10 (2.63%) DHCP
4 9 (2.37%) VPN
5 8 (2.11%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.58%) SAN
7 3 (0.79%) LTE
7 3 (0.79%) VLAN
8 1 (0.26%) Internet
8 1 (0.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (18.42%) SQL Server
2 62 (16.32%) Power BI
3 37 (9.74%) Tableau
4 29 (7.63%) NoSQL
5 23 (6.05%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (6.05%) MongoDB
6 20 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (4.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (4.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (4.47%) Relational Database
9 15 (3.95%) MySQL
10 10 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (2.63%) Data Lake
11 9 (2.37%) BigQuery
12 8 (2.11%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.84%) Big Data
13 7 (1.84%) Data Mining
13 7 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (8.42%) Git
2 15 (3.95%) Claude Code
3 14 (3.68%) JIRA
4 10 (2.63%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (1.32%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.05%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.79%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.79%) GitLab
7 3 (0.79%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.53%) MSTest
8 2 (0.53%) NUnit
8 2 (0.53%) Postman
8 2 (0.53%) Vite
9 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.26%) MLflow
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
General
1 122 (32.11%) Social Skills
2 88 (23.16%) Finance
3 69 (18.16%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (8.16%) Law
5 17 (4.47%) Marketing
6 15 (3.95%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.95%) Retail
7 14 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.16%) Advertising
8 12 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.89%) Legal
10 7 (1.84%) Billing
11 6 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.32%) Banking
12 5 (1.32%) General Ledger
12 5 (1.32%) Local Government
12 5 (1.32%) Military
12 5 (1.32%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.05%) Games
14 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 94 (24.74%) Senior
2 70 (18.42%) Data Engineer
3 63 (16.58%) Developer
4 59 (15.53%) Analyst
5 45 (11.84%) Software Engineer
6 41 (10.79%) Lead
7 38 (10.00%) Data Analyst
8 32 (8.42%) Senior Data Engineer
9 21 (5.53%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (4.21%) Junior
10 16 (4.21%) Junior Analyst
10 16 (4.21%) Junior Data Analyst
11 15 (3.95%) Support Engineer
12 14 (3.68%) Database Engineer
13 13 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
13 13 (3.42%) Java Engineer
13 13 (3.42%) Lead Software Engineer
13 13 (3.42%) Senior Analyst
14 12 (3.16%) .NET Developer
14 12 (3.16%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.95%) .NET
1 34 (8.95%) HTML
2 33 (8.68%) React
3 32 (8.42%) CSS
4 25 (6.58%) Node.js
4 25 (6.58%) RESTful
5 21 (5.53%) AngularJS
6 18 (4.74%) Kafka
7 16 (4.21%) Next.js
7 16 (4.21%) Vue
8 15 (3.95%) PySpark
8 15 (3.95%) Spring
9 14 (3.68%) Spring Boot
10 13 (3.42%) ASP.NET
11 11 (2.89%) Middleware
12 10 (2.63%) .NET Core
12 10 (2.63%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (2.63%) REST
13 9 (2.37%) FastAPI
14 8 (2.11%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.79%) Cloud Native
1 22 (5.79%) Onboarding
2 16 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.42%) Legacy Applications
4 12 (3.16%) Data Structures
5 11 (2.89%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.63%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.32%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.32%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.05%) Clustering
10 4 (1.05%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.05%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (0.79%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.79%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.05%) Windows
2 18 (4.74%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.11%) Android
4 7 (1.84%) Linux
5 3 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.26%) Unix
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (24.74%) Agile
1 94 (24.74%) Analytics
2 85 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
3 80 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
4 78 (20.53%) CI/CD
5 74 (19.47%) AI
6 66 (17.37%) Software Engineering
7 55 (14.47%) Decision-Making
8 49 (12.89%) ETL
9 48 (12.63%) Data Engineering
10 47 (12.37%) DevOps
11 45 (11.84%) Data Modelling
11 45 (11.84%) Mentoring
12 42 (11.05%) Data Pipeline
13 38 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
14 37 (9.74%) Full-Stack Development
15 34 (8.95%) Continuous Improvement
15 34 (8.95%) Validation
16 33 (8.68%) Data Analysis
16 33 (8.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 158 (41.58%) Python
2 49 (12.89%) C#
3 48 (12.63%) Java
4 34 (8.95%) TypeScript
5 33 (8.68%) JavaScript
6 17 (4.47%) PHP
7 15 (3.95%) T-SQL
8 12 (3.16%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.37%) Scala
10 6 (1.58%) Bash
10 6 (1.58%) R
11 5 (1.32%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.53%) Bicep
13 2 (0.53%) VBA
14 1 (0.26%) C++
14 1 (0.26%) Go
14 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 32 (8.42%) Degree
2 22 (5.79%) Azure Certification
3 15 (3.95%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.58%) ACCA
7 6 (1.58%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.32%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (1.32%) CIMA
8 5 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.05%) MCSA
9 4 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.26%) CFA
10 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (13.95%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.26%) QA
3 3 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.26%) IFRS
5 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (4.21%) Docker
1 16 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.11%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.26%) MetaFrame
5 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.26%) vSphere
5 1 (0.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 22 (5.79%) Terraform
2 18 (4.74%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.58%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (1.32%) Grafana
5 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.26%) Ansible
6 1 (0.26%) Rancher
6 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 105 (27.63%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.63%) Databricks
3 20 (5.26%) VMware
4 14 (3.68%) Oracle
5 13 (3.42%) Google
6 9 (2.37%) HubSpot
7 7 (1.84%) Splunk
8 6 (1.58%) Adobe
9 5 (1.32%) Xamarin
10 4 (1.05%) Sage
11 3 (0.79%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.79%) Facebook
11 3 (0.79%) IBM
11 3 (0.79%) Informatica
11 3 (0.79%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.79%) Pega
11 3 (0.79%) SAP
11 3 (0.79%) Veeam
12 2 (0.53%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.53%) ServiceNow