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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 20 13
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 330 257 567
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.55% 11.79% 10.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.06% 30.60% 32.60%
Number of salaries quoted 260 171 441
10th Percentile £38,525 £32,750 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £56,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +4.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,443 £66,250
90th Percentile £93,875 £82,751 £77,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +1.94%

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 969 840 1,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.30% 38.55% 33.10%
Number of salaries quoted 781 528 1,422
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,688 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -5.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +9 9 £42,000 +12.00% 1
Bolton +18 8 £66,250 +97.76%
Wigan 0 5 £37,500 -3.85% 2
Stockport -6 5 £55,000 -1.35% 1
Sale +4 3 £60,000 -
Cheadle -4 1 £55,000 - 1
Salford -19 1 - - 8
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 (5.15%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.21%) Apache
5 4 (1.21%) IIS
5 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.61%) CICS
6 2 (0.61%) Confluence
6 2 (0.61%) JBoss
7 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.30%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.30%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 52 (15.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (1.82%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.91%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.91%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.61%) Magento
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 108 (32.73%) Azure
2 84 (25.45%) AWS
3 59 (17.88%) Power Platform
4 32 (9.70%) GCP
5 28 (8.48%) SaaS
6 20 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (6.06%) GitHub
6 20 (6.06%) Serverless
7 18 (5.45%) Azure AI
8 15 (4.55%) Snowflake
9 13 (3.94%) Amazon S3
9 13 (3.94%) Anthropic Claude
10 10 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (3.03%) Azure AKS
11 9 (2.73%) dbt
11 9 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (2.42%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (2.12%) Google Sheets
13 7 (2.12%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.12%) Firewall
2 6 (1.82%) SAN
3 5 (1.52%) DNS
4 3 (0.91%) DHCP
4 3 (0.91%) LTE
4 3 (0.91%) VLAN
5 2 (0.61%) VPN
6 1 (0.30%) Network Security
6 1 (0.30%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.30%) TCAP
6 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (17.88%) SQL Server
2 55 (16.67%) Power BI
3 39 (11.82%) Tableau
4 29 (8.79%) NoSQL
5 19 (5.76%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (5.45%) Relational Database
7 17 (5.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (4.85%) Data Lake
9 15 (4.55%) MongoDB
9 15 (4.55%) MySQL
10 13 (3.94%) Data Mining
10 13 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (3.64%) BigQuery
12 10 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (2.12%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.82%) Big Data
14 6 (1.82%) DB2
14 6 (1.82%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 26 (7.88%) Git
2 13 (3.94%) Claude Code
3 8 (2.42%) JIRA
4 6 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.21%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.91%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.91%) IntelliJ
6 3 (0.91%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.61%) GitLab
7 2 (0.61%) MSTest
7 2 (0.61%) NUnit
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.30%) Postman
General
1 101 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 74 (22.42%) Finance
3 62 (18.79%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.15%) Marketing
5 13 (3.94%) Law
6 12 (3.64%) Advertising
6 12 (3.64%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.03%) Retail
9 6 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.21%) Banking
12 3 (0.91%) Billing
12 3 (0.91%) French Language
12 3 (0.91%) Games
12 3 (0.91%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.91%) Local Government
12 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.91%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.91%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 94 (28.48%) Senior
2 67 (20.30%) Analyst
3 64 (19.39%) Data Engineer
4 53 (16.06%) Developer
5 42 (12.73%) Data Analyst
6 38 (11.52%) Lead
7 34 (10.30%) Senior Data Engineer
8 33 (10.00%) Software Engineer
9 18 (5.45%) Junior
9 18 (5.45%) Junior Analyst
9 18 (5.45%) Junior Data Analyst
10 17 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
11 16 (4.85%) Senior Analyst
12 15 (4.55%) Java Engineer
13 14 (4.24%) Database Engineer
13 14 (4.24%) Senior Java Engineer
13 14 (4.24%) SQL Developer
14 12 (3.64%) Lead Software Engineer
15 11 (3.33%) Architect
15 11 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.09%) .NET
2 28 (8.48%) CSS
3 27 (8.18%) HTML
4 24 (7.27%) RESTful
5 22 (6.67%) React
6 18 (5.45%) Kafka
7 15 (4.55%) Node.js
8 13 (3.94%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.03%) .NET Framework
9 10 (3.03%) Spring
10 9 (2.73%) Spring Boot
10 9 (2.73%) Vue
11 8 (2.42%) Pandas
11 8 (2.42%) PySpark
11 8 (2.42%) REST
12 6 (1.82%) CSS3
12 6 (1.82%) HTML5
13 5 (1.52%) J2EE
13 5 (1.52%) JSON
13 5 (1.52%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.06%) Onboarding
2 19 (5.76%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.94%) Legacy Applications
4 10 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 7 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.12%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.82%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.52%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (1.21%) Clustering
8 4 (1.21%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.21%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (1.21%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.91%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.91%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.91%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.94%) Windows
2 11 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.42%) Android
4 6 (1.82%) Linux
5 3 (0.91%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (25.76%) Agile
2 81 (24.55%) Analytics
3 74 (22.42%) Business Intelligence
4 63 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (18.48%) AI
6 60 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 58 (17.58%) ETL
8 48 (14.55%) Software Engineering
9 45 (13.64%) Data Modelling
9 45 (13.64%) Mentoring
10 42 (12.73%) Data Engineering
11 40 (12.12%) DevOps
12 36 (10.91%) Decision-Making
13 33 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
14 31 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (8.79%) Data Analysis
15 29 (8.79%) Microservices
16 28 (8.48%) Clean Code
17 27 (8.18%) Collaborative Culture
18 25 (7.58%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 137 (41.52%) Python
2 49 (14.85%) Java
3 39 (11.82%) C#
4 28 (8.48%) JavaScript
5 16 (4.85%) TypeScript
6 14 (4.24%) T-SQL
7 9 (2.73%) PHP
8 6 (1.82%) Bash
9 5 (1.52%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.52%) Scala
10 4 (1.21%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.91%) R
11 3 (0.91%) VBA
12 2 (0.61%) Bicep
12 2 (0.61%) Go
13 1 (0.30%) C++
13 1 (0.30%) Groovy
13 1 (0.30%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 25 (7.58%) Azure Certification
2 21 (6.36%) Degree
3 13 (3.94%) Security Cleared
4 11 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.21%) MCSA
6 4 (1.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.61%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.30%) MBA
9 1 (0.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (11.21%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.33%) QA
3 3 (0.91%) GDPR
4 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.30%) HL7
4 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (3.94%) Active Directory
1 13 (3.94%) Docker
2 8 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.30%) Firmware
5 1 (0.30%) MetaFrame
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.30%) vSphere
5 1 (0.30%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (5.76%) Terraform
2 18 (5.45%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (0.61%) Ansible
4 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.61%) Grafana
4 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.61%) Rancher
5 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 81 (24.55%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.06%) Databricks
3 16 (4.85%) Google
4 14 (4.24%) Oracle
5 11 (3.33%) VMware
6 9 (2.73%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.82%) Northgate
8 5 (1.52%) Adobe
8 5 (1.52%) Xamarin
9 3 (0.91%) Pega
9 3 (0.91%) SAP
10 2 (0.61%) Adyen
10 2 (0.61%) Cognos
10 2 (0.61%) Facebook
10 2 (0.61%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.61%) IBM
10 2 (0.61%) Veeam
11 1 (0.30%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow