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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 18 12
Rank change year-on-year -19 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 273 248 572
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.10% 11.28% 11.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.54% 30.66% 34.27%
Number of salaries quoted 210 168 453
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,843 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,751 £77,500
North West median annual salary £54,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.00% -4.76% +0.96%

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 839 809 1,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.66% 36.79% 33.49%
Number of salaries quoted 667 563 1,396
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.04% -1.40%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
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 9 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 9 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 +7 8 £42,000 +12.00% 1
Bolton +22 7 £66,250 +65.63% 6
Stockport -7 4 £55,000 -16.35% 5
Sale +1 3 £60,000 -
Wigan -4 3 £47,500 +21.79% 6
Salford -13 1 - - 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 15 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.93%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.73%) Apache
4 2 (0.73%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.73%) CICS
4 2 (0.73%) Confluence
4 2 (0.73%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.37%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 50 (18.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.20%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.10%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.73%) Magento
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 83 (30.40%) Azure
2 67 (24.54%) AWS
3 53 (19.41%) Power Platform
4 27 (9.89%) GCP
5 25 (9.16%) SaaS
6 21 (7.69%) Azure AI
7 14 (5.13%) Azure AKS
7 14 (5.13%) Serverless
7 14 (5.13%) Snowflake
8 12 (4.40%) Anthropic Claude
8 12 (4.40%) GitHub
9 11 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (3.66%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.20%) Power Automate
14 5 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.83%) Firewall
2 4 (1.47%) DNS
3 3 (1.10%) DHCP
3 3 (1.10%) SAN
4 2 (0.73%) LTE
4 2 (0.73%) VLAN
5 1 (0.37%) Network Security
5 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.37%) TCAP
5 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.37%) VPN
5 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (18.32%) Power BI
2 43 (15.75%) SQL Server
3 40 (14.65%) Tableau
4 33 (12.09%) NoSQL
5 17 (6.23%) MySQL
6 15 (5.49%) Data Mining
7 14 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (5.13%) Relational Database
8 13 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (4.40%) Data Lake
9 12 (4.40%) MongoDB
9 12 (4.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (3.30%) BigQuery
11 8 (2.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (2.20%) DB2
13 6 (2.20%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (1.83%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (8.06%) Git
2 12 (4.40%) Claude Code
3 8 (2.93%) JIRA
4 7 (2.56%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.83%) GitLab
6 4 (1.47%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (1.10%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.10%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.10%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.73%) MSTest
8 2 (0.73%) NUnit
8 2 (0.73%) Postman
9 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.37%) Selenium
9 1 (0.37%) SoapUI
General
1 84 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 66 (24.18%) Finance
3 50 (18.32%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.76%) Advertising
5 11 (4.03%) Marketing
6 10 (3.66%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.93%) Law
8 7 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.20%) Banking
9 6 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.20%) Retail
10 3 (1.10%) French Language
10 3 (1.10%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.10%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.10%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (1.10%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.73%) Games
11 2 (0.73%) Legal
11 2 (0.73%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 75 (27.47%) Senior
2 64 (23.44%) Analyst
3 49 (17.95%) Data Engineer
4 43 (15.75%) Data Analyst
5 42 (15.38%) Developer
6 33 (12.09%) Lead
7 31 (11.36%) Software Engineer
8 25 (9.16%) Senior Data Engineer
9 21 (7.69%) Junior
9 21 (7.69%) Junior Analyst
9 21 (7.69%) Junior Data Analyst
10 16 (5.86%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (5.13%) Java Engineer
12 13 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
12 13 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
13 12 (4.40%) Database Engineer
13 12 (4.40%) Senior Analyst
13 12 (4.40%) Trainee
13 12 (4.40%) Trainee Analyst
13 12 (4.40%) Trainee Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (10.62%) .NET
2 26 (9.52%) RESTful
3 22 (8.06%) CSS
4 21 (7.69%) HTML
5 19 (6.96%) React
6 14 (5.13%) .NET Framework
6 14 (5.13%) Kafka
7 10 (3.66%) AngularJS
8 9 (3.30%) Node.js
9 8 (2.93%) Pandas
9 8 (2.93%) Spring
10 7 (2.56%) REST
10 7 (2.56%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.56%) Vue
10 7 (2.56%) Web Services
11 6 (2.20%) CSS3
11 6 (2.20%) HTML5
11 6 (2.20%) PySpark
12 5 (1.83%) J2EE
12 5 (1.83%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 15 (5.49%) Onboarding
3 14 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.40%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (2.20%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.83%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.83%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.47%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.10%) Replication
10 2 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.73%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.73%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.73%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.56%) Android
1 7 (2.56%) Windows
2 6 (2.20%) Linux
3 5 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (27.47%) Agile
2 63 (23.08%) Analytics
2 63 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
3 54 (19.78%) CI/CD
4 49 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (17.58%) ETL
6 47 (17.22%) AI
7 45 (16.48%) Software Engineering
8 35 (12.82%) Data Modelling
9 34 (12.45%) Mentoring
10 33 (12.09%) DevOps
11 30 (10.99%) Data Pipeline
12 29 (10.62%) Data Engineering
13 28 (10.26%) Clean Code
13 28 (10.26%) Microservices
14 27 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 26 (9.52%) Collaborative Culture
15 26 (9.52%) Data Analysis
15 26 (9.52%) Scrum
16 25 (9.16%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 116 (42.49%) Python
2 45 (16.48%) Java
3 36 (13.19%) C#
4 23 (8.42%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.76%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.30%) T-SQL
7 8 (2.93%) PHP
8 5 (1.83%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.47%) Bash
9 4 (1.47%) Go
10 3 (1.10%) ANSI SQL
10 3 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.10%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.10%) Scala
10 3 (1.10%) VBA
11 2 (0.73%) Bicep
11 2 (0.73%) R
12 1 (0.37%) C++
12 1 (0.37%) Groovy
12 1 (0.37%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 23 (8.42%) Azure Certification
2 20 (7.33%) Degree
3 8 (2.93%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.10%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.73%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.37%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.37%) MBA
7 1 (0.37%) MCSA
7 1 (0.37%) PhD
7 1 (0.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.62%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.30%) QA
3 2 (0.73%) GDPR
4 1 (0.37%) HL7
4 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (5.86%) Docker
2 9 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.49%) Terraform
3 3 (1.10%) Ansible
3 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.10%) Rancher
4 2 (0.73%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.73%) Grafana
4 2 (0.73%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.49%) Databricks
3 12 (4.40%) Oracle
4 11 (4.03%) Google
5 7 (2.56%) VMware
6 6 (2.20%) HubSpot
6 6 (2.20%) Northgate
7 4 (1.47%) Xamarin
8 3 (1.10%) Pega
8 3 (1.10%) SAP
9 2 (0.73%) Adobe
9 2 (0.73%) Adyen
9 2 (0.73%) Cognos
9 2 (0.73%) Dell
9 2 (0.73%) Facebook
9 2 (0.73%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.73%) IBM
10 1 (0.37%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow