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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 17 14
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 -7
Permanent jobs citing SQL 348 270 586
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.79% 11.89% 10.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.63% 31.14% 31.92%
Number of salaries quoted 274 183 439
10th Percentile £39,300 £31,400 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £83,550 £77,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -2.91% -1.44%

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 1,005 867 1,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.71% 38.19% 31.78%
Number of salaries quoted 807 549 1,461
10th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% -8.33%
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% -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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +9 8 £66,250 +97.76% 2
Oldham +11 7 £42,000 +12.00% 1
Wigan +1 5 £37,500 -3.85% 1
Stockport -1 5 £55,000 - 3
Sale +7 3 £60,000 -
Cheadle -1 2 £55,000 -
Salford -15 1 - - 12
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 16 (4.60%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.30%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.01%) Apache
4 6 (1.72%) IIS
5 5 (1.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 5 (1.44%) Confluence
6 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.57%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.57%) CICS
7 2 (0.57%) JBoss
7 2 (0.57%) nginx
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.29%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 51 (14.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.15%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.86%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.86%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.57%) Magento
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 119 (34.20%) Azure
2 96 (27.59%) AWS
3 62 (17.82%) Power Platform
4 35 (10.06%) GCP
5 29 (8.33%) SaaS
6 25 (7.18%) GitHub
7 23 (6.61%) Serverless
8 22 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (4.89%) Azure AI
9 17 (4.89%) Snowflake
10 15 (4.31%) Amazon S3
11 13 (3.74%) Anthropic Claude
12 12 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.87%) Azure AKS
13 10 (2.87%) dbt
14 9 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (2.01%) Google Sheets
15 7 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (2.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.30%) Firewall
2 6 (1.72%) DNS
2 6 (1.72%) SAN
3 4 (1.15%) DHCP
4 3 (0.86%) LTE
4 3 (0.86%) VPN
5 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (17.53%) SQL Server
2 58 (16.67%) Power BI
3 40 (11.49%) Tableau
4 32 (9.20%) NoSQL
5 23 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (5.46%) MongoDB
6 19 (5.46%) Relational Database
7 17 (4.89%) MySQL
7 17 (4.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (4.31%) Data Lake
10 13 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (3.16%) BigQuery
12 10 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (2.87%) Data Mining
13 7 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (2.01%) Big Data
13 7 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.72%) Db2
14 6 (1.72%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 29 (8.33%) Git
2 13 (3.74%) Claude Code
3 10 (2.87%) JIRA
4 8 (2.30%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.44%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.15%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (1.15%) GitLab
7 3 (0.86%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.86%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.57%) MSTest
8 2 (0.57%) NUnit
8 2 (0.57%) Vite
9 1 (0.29%) MLflow
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.29%) Postman
General
1 102 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 76 (21.84%) Finance
3 66 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (4.89%) Law
4 17 (4.89%) Marketing
5 13 (3.74%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.45%) Advertising
6 12 (3.45%) Retail
7 11 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.44%) Banking
10 5 (1.44%) Billing
11 4 (1.15%) Local Government
12 3 (0.86%) French Language
12 3 (0.86%) Games
12 3 (0.86%) Italian Language
12 3 (0.86%) Legal
12 3 (0.86%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (0.86%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 94 (27.01%) Senior
2 71 (20.40%) Data Engineer
3 64 (18.39%) Analyst
4 56 (16.09%) Developer
5 39 (11.21%) Data Analyst
5 39 (11.21%) Lead
5 39 (11.21%) Software Engineer
6 34 (9.77%) Senior Data Engineer
7 20 (5.75%) Senior Software Engineer
8 16 (4.60%) Junior
8 16 (4.60%) Junior Analyst
8 16 (4.60%) Junior Data Analyst
8 16 (4.60%) Senior Analyst
9 15 (4.31%) Java Engineer
10 14 (4.02%) Database Engineer
10 14 (4.02%) Senior Java Engineer
10 14 (4.02%) SQL Developer
11 12 (3.45%) Architect
11 12 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
11 12 (3.45%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (8.91%) .NET
2 30 (8.62%) CSS
3 29 (8.33%) HTML
4 28 (8.05%) React
5 25 (7.18%) RESTful
6 19 (5.46%) Node.js
7 18 (5.17%) Kafka
8 15 (4.31%) AngularJS
9 12 (3.45%) Spring
10 11 (3.16%) Spring Boot
10 11 (3.16%) Vue
11 10 (2.87%) .NET Framework
11 10 (2.87%) Next.js
12 9 (2.59%) PySpark
12 9 (2.59%) REST
13 7 (2.01%) ASP.NET
13 7 (2.01%) FastAPI
13 7 (2.01%) Pandas
14 6 (1.72%) CSS3
14 6 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.61%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.03%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.74%) Legacy Applications
5 10 (2.87%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.30%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.72%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.44%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.44%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.44%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.15%) Clustering
10 4 (1.15%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.86%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.86%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.86%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.31%) Windows
2 12 (3.45%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.30%) Android
4 7 (2.01%) Linux
5 3 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (27.01%) Agile
2 86 (24.71%) Analytics
3 78 (22.41%) Business Intelligence
4 68 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
5 66 (18.97%) AI
5 66 (18.97%) CI/CD
6 58 (16.67%) ETL
7 55 (15.80%) Software Engineering
8 48 (13.79%) Data Modelling
9 47 (13.51%) Data Engineering
10 44 (12.64%) Decision-Making
10 44 (12.64%) DevOps
10 44 (12.64%) Mentoring
11 37 (10.63%) Data Pipeline
12 31 (8.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (8.91%) Data Analysis
12 31 (8.91%) Microservices
13 30 (8.62%) Collaborative Culture
14 28 (8.05%) Clean Code
14 28 (8.05%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 148 (42.53%) Python
2 50 (14.37%) Java
3 42 (12.07%) C#
4 32 (9.20%) JavaScript
5 23 (6.61%) TypeScript
6 14 (4.02%) T-SQL
7 11 (3.16%) PHP
8 9 (2.59%) Scala
9 6 (1.72%) Bash
10 5 (1.44%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.15%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.15%) R
12 3 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.86%) VBA
13 2 (0.57%) Bicep
13 2 (0.57%) Go
14 1 (0.29%) C++
14 1 (0.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (6.90%) Degree
2 22 (6.32%) Azure Certification
3 16 (4.60%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.74%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.15%) MCSA
7 4 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (0.86%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.57%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.57%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.29%) ACCA
10 1 (0.29%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (13.22%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.74%) QA
3 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.57%) GDPR
4 1 (0.29%) HL7
4 1 (0.29%) IFRS
4 1 (0.29%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (3.74%) Docker
2 12 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.29%) MetaFrame
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.29%) vSphere
6 1 (0.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 22 (6.32%) Terraform
2 19 (5.46%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (0.57%) Ansible
4 2 (0.57%) Grafana
4 2 (0.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.57%) Rancher
5 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 83 (23.85%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.76%) Databricks
3 16 (4.60%) Google
4 15 (4.31%) Oracle
5 13 (3.74%) VMware
6 9 (2.59%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.72%) Adobe
8 5 (1.44%) Xamarin
9 4 (1.15%) Northgate
10 3 (0.86%) Facebook
10 3 (0.86%) Pega
10 3 (0.86%) SAP
11 2 (0.57%) Adyen
11 2 (0.57%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.57%) Cognos
11 2 (0.57%) IBM
11 2 (0.57%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.57%) Sage
11 2 (0.57%) Splunk
11 2 (0.57%) Veeam