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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 16 13
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 394 249 416
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.15% 10.48% 10.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.35% 32.98% 33.74%
Number of salaries quoted 296 164 208
10th Percentile £37,000 £32,750 £38,775
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £72,813 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £72,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £51,750
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.38% -4.17%

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 1,147 755 1,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 14.99% 31.78% 31.02%
Number of salaries quoted 843 463 677
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £39,850
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £45,500
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 £87,400 £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 4 October 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 4 October 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 10 £67,500 +80.00%
Bolton -1 10 £54,000 +61.19% 8
Stockport 0 7 £70,000 +40.00% 7
Salford -18 7 £95,000 +111.11% 11
Sale +8 6 £66,250 - 1
Wigan +5 5 £37,500 - 5
Cheadle -2 3 £55,000 - 4
Altrincham +4 2 £51,250 -6.82% 4
Bury - 1 £55,000 - 3
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 18 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
1 18 (4.57%) IIS
2 16 (4.06%) Apache
3 11 (2.79%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.03%) Confluence
5 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.52%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (1.02%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.76%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.51%) nginx
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.25%) SAS
10 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 40 (10.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.02%) NEC Housing
1 4 (1.02%) NetSuite
1 4 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.76%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.25%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.25%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) Odoo
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 137 (34.77%) Azure
2 112 (28.43%) AWS
3 65 (16.50%) Power Platform
4 47 (11.93%) GitHub
5 37 (9.39%) GCP
6 35 (8.88%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (7.87%) Snowflake
8 26 (6.60%) SaaS
8 26 (6.60%) Serverless
9 23 (5.84%) Amazon S3
10 20 (5.08%) dbt
11 17 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.79%) Anthropic Claude
13 11 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (2.79%) Microsoft Purview
14 10 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (2.54%) GitHub Copilot
14 10 (2.54%) Power Automate
15 8 (2.03%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.55%) Firewall
2 13 (3.30%) DNS
3 10 (2.54%) DHCP
4 9 (2.28%) VPN
5 8 (2.03%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.52%) SAN
7 3 (0.76%) HTTP
7 3 (0.76%) LTE
7 3 (0.76%) SMS
7 3 (0.76%) VLAN
8 1 (0.25%) Internet
8 1 (0.25%) Network Security
8 1 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (14.72%) SQL Server
2 56 (14.21%) Power BI
3 28 (7.11%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (5.84%) MongoDB
5 21 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (5.08%) NoSQL
7 19 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (4.82%) Tableau
8 17 (4.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (4.31%) Relational Database
9 14 (3.55%) DynamoDB
9 14 (3.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (3.05%) BigQuery
11 9 (2.28%) Data Lake
11 9 (2.28%) Metadata
12 8 (2.03%) MySQL
13 7 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.78%) Big Data
14 6 (1.52%) Delta Lake
14 6 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 34 (8.63%) Git
2 12 (3.05%) Bitbucket
3 11 (2.79%) Claude Code
4 10 (2.54%) JIRA
5 6 (1.52%) GitLab
5 6 (1.52%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.76%) NUnit
7 3 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.51%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.51%) MSTest
8 2 (0.51%) Postman
8 2 (0.51%) Vite
9 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.25%) Maven
9 1 (0.25%) MLflow
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
General
1 147 (37.31%) Social Skills
2 99 (25.13%) Finance
3 81 (20.56%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.64%) Law
5 28 (7.11%) Marketing
6 16 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.81%) Retail
8 13 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (3.30%) Legal
9 12 (3.05%) Public Sector
10 11 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.78%) Billing
11 7 (1.78%) Games
12 6 (1.52%) Advertising
12 6 (1.52%) Local Government
13 5 (1.27%) General Ledger
13 5 (1.27%) Military
13 5 (1.27%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.51%) Banking
14 2 (0.51%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 101 (25.63%) Senior
2 71 (18.02%) Data Engineer
3 70 (17.77%) Developer
4 63 (15.99%) Analyst
5 41 (10.41%) Software Engineer
6 31 (7.87%) Data Analyst
6 31 (7.87%) Lead
7 30 (7.61%) Senior Data Engineer
8 21 (5.33%) Consultant
9 19 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (4.31%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (3.55%) .NET Developer
12 12 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (3.05%) Senior Developer
12 12 (3.05%) Support Engineer
13 10 (2.54%) SQL Analyst
14 9 (2.28%) Data Consultant
14 9 (2.28%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 9 (2.28%) Snowflake Engineer
14 9 (2.28%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.14%) .NET
2 30 (7.61%) React
3 29 (7.36%) Node.js
4 27 (6.85%) HTML
5 24 (6.09%) PySpark
6 22 (5.58%) CSS
7 20 (5.08%) Terraform
8 15 (3.81%) ASP.NET
8 15 (3.81%) Next.js
8 15 (3.81%) Vue
9 14 (3.55%) AngularJS
9 14 (3.55%) Kafka
10 13 (3.30%) REST
11 12 (3.05%) .NET Core
12 11 (2.79%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (2.79%) Middleware
13 10 (2.54%) Spring
13 10 (2.54%) Spring Boot
14 9 (2.28%) Entity Framework
14 9 (2.28%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.09%) Onboarding
2 21 (5.33%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 18 (4.57%) Data Structures
5 15 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.54%) Marketing Technology
8 9 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (2.28%) Mobile App
8 9 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.03%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.52%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.02%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.02%) Clustering
11 4 (1.02%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
11 4 (1.02%) Online Gambling
12 3 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.58%) Windows
2 17 (4.31%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.52%) Linux
4 4 (1.02%) Android
5 3 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (26.90%) AI
1 106 (26.90%) Analytics
2 104 (26.40%) Problem-Solving
3 92 (23.35%) Agile
4 83 (21.07%) Business Intelligence
5 79 (20.05%) CI/CD
6 71 (18.02%) Decision-Making
7 67 (17.01%) Software Engineering
8 62 (15.74%) Data Engineering
9 56 (14.21%) Data Pipeline
10 55 (13.96%) Mentoring
11 53 (13.45%) Data Modelling
11 53 (13.45%) DevOps
12 52 (13.20%) ETL
13 44 (11.17%) Data Analysis
13 44 (11.17%) Validation
14 42 (10.66%) Full-Stack Development
15 40 (10.15%) Stakeholder Management
16 37 (9.39%) Machine Learning
17 36 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 165 (41.88%) Python
2 49 (12.44%) TypeScript
3 45 (11.42%) C#
4 42 (10.66%) JavaScript
5 40 (10.15%) Java
6 19 (4.82%) PowerShell
7 16 (4.06%) PHP
8 11 (2.79%) T-SQL
9 9 (2.28%) Bash
9 9 (2.28%) Scala
10 8 (2.03%) R
11 6 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.02%) Bicep
12 4 (1.02%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.76%) Go
13 3 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.51%) C++
15 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.25%) VBA
15 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 44 (11.17%) Degree
2 20 (5.08%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.06%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.05%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.54%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.78%) ACCA
8 6 (1.52%) CIMA
9 5 (1.27%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.02%) MCSA
10 4 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.76%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.25%) CFA
12 1 (0.25%) HNC
12 1 (0.25%) HND
12 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (18.53%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.60%) QA
3 10 (2.54%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.51%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) IFRS
6 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (4.31%) Docker
2 16 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.03%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.25%) MetaFrame
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.25%) vSphere
6 1 (0.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (2.54%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Clustering
3 5 (1.27%) Grafana
4 3 (0.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 111 (28.17%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.61%) Databricks
3 21 (5.33%) Google
4 18 (4.57%) VMware
5 14 (3.55%) Oracle
6 8 (2.03%) Informatica
7 7 (1.78%) Sage
7 7 (1.78%) SAP
7 7 (1.78%) Splunk
8 6 (1.52%) Adobe
8 6 (1.52%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.27%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 4 (1.02%) Alteryx
10 4 (1.02%) NEC
10 4 (1.02%) Xamarin
11 3 (0.76%) Facebook
11 3 (0.76%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.76%) Veeam
12 2 (0.51%) UiPath