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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 16 13
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 396 272 428
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.55% 11.13% 9.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.84% 32.97% 33.18%
Number of salaries quoted 303 181 264
10th Percentile £36,700 £32,750 £38,134
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £43,740
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,751 £77,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%

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 1,105 825 1,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.49% 33.76% 30.08%
Number of salaries quoted 847 519 843
10th Percentile £40,950 £32,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,000 £45,750 £45,000
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 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,750 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +8 10 £67,500 +80.00% 1
Bolton +11 8 £50,000 +49.25% 8
Stockport +3 7 £70,000 +27.27% 3
Sale +8 6 £60,000 - 1
Wigan +4 5 £37,500 -
Cheadle -1 3 £55,000 -
Salford -28 3 £62,500 +38.89% 9
Altrincham +4 1 £47,500 -13.64% 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 17 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (4.04%) Apache
3 15 (3.79%) IIS
4 11 (2.78%) Apache Spark
5 9 (2.27%) SharePoint
6 8 (2.02%) Confluence
7 7 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (1.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.51%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.51%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.51%) nginx
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.25%) JBoss
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.25%) SAS
10 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 46 (11.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.01%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.76%) NetSuite
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
3 2 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
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 (34.60%) Azure
2 120 (30.30%) AWS
3 67 (16.92%) Power Platform
4 42 (10.61%) GitHub
5 34 (8.59%) GCP
6 33 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (8.08%) SaaS
8 30 (7.58%) Snowflake
9 28 (7.07%) Serverless
10 23 (5.81%) Amazon S3
11 20 (5.05%) dbt
12 17 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (3.28%) Anthropic Claude
14 11 (2.78%) Azure AI
14 11 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (2.53%) Power Automate
16 8 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (2.02%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.79%) Firewall
2 13 (3.28%) DNS
3 10 (2.53%) DHCP
4 9 (2.27%) VPN
5 8 (2.02%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.52%) SAN
7 3 (0.76%) HTTP
7 3 (0.76%) LTE
7 3 (0.76%) VLAN
8 1 (0.25%) Internet
8 1 (0.25%) Network Security
8 1 (0.25%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 58 (14.65%) Power BI
3 31 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (6.57%) Tableau
5 24 (6.06%) MongoDB
6 23 (5.81%) NoSQL
6 23 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (5.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (4.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (4.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (3.54%) DynamoDB
11 13 (3.28%) Relational Database
12 10 (2.53%) BigQuery
12 10 (2.53%) MySQL
13 9 (2.27%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.77%) Big Data
15 6 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (1.26%) Metadata
16 5 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (8.33%) Git
2 13 (3.28%) Claude Code
2 13 (3.28%) JIRA
3 12 (3.03%) Bitbucket
4 6 (1.52%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.01%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (1.01%) GitLab
7 3 (0.76%) NUnit
7 3 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
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
1 151 (38.13%) Social Skills
2 100 (25.25%) Finance
3 76 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.09%) Law
5 26 (6.57%) Marketing
6 15 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.54%) Retail
8 13 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (3.28%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.78%) Advertising
10 11 (2.78%) Legal
11 7 (1.77%) Billing
11 7 (1.77%) Games
12 6 (1.52%) Local Government
13 5 (1.26%) General Ledger
13 5 (1.26%) Military
13 5 (1.26%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.01%) Banking
14 4 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (25.51%) Senior
2 76 (19.19%) Developer
3 74 (18.69%) Data Engineer
4 59 (14.90%) Analyst
5 42 (10.61%) Lead
5 42 (10.61%) Software Engineer
6 32 (8.08%) Data Analyst
6 32 (8.08%) Senior Data Engineer
7 20 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
8 17 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
9 16 (4.04%) Consultant
10 14 (3.54%) Support Engineer
11 13 (3.28%) .NET Developer
12 11 (2.78%) Junior
12 11 (2.78%) Senior Developer
13 10 (2.53%) Java Engineer
13 10 (2.53%) Senior Java Engineer
13 10 (2.53%) Software Developer
13 10 (2.53%) SQL Analyst
13 10 (2.53%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.34%) .NET
2 32 (8.08%) HTML
3 31 (7.83%) React
4 28 (7.07%) Node.js
5 27 (6.82%) CSS
6 23 (5.81%) Terraform
7 20 (5.05%) PySpark
8 17 (4.29%) AngularJS
8 17 (4.29%) ASP.NET
9 16 (4.04%) Kafka
9 16 (4.04%) Next.js
10 15 (3.79%) Vue
11 14 (3.54%) RESTful
11 14 (3.54%) Spring
12 13 (3.28%) Spring Boot
13 12 (3.03%) .NET Core
13 12 (3.03%) REST
14 11 (2.78%) ASP.NET Core
15 9 (2.27%) Entity Framework
15 9 (2.27%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.81%) Onboarding
2 20 (5.05%) Cloud Native
3 18 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.04%) Data Structures
4 16 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (2.27%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.02%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.02%) Marketing Technology
7 7 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.26%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.26%) Online Gambling
10 4 (1.01%) Clustering
10 4 (1.01%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.01%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (0.76%) Replication
11 3 (0.76%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.81%) Windows
2 18 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.52%) Linux
4 4 (1.01%) Android
5 2 (0.51%) Unix
6 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (25.00%) Agile
1 99 (25.00%) Analytics
1 99 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 93 (23.48%) AI
3 84 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
4 75 (18.94%) CI/CD
5 66 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 66 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 65 (16.41%) Data Engineering
7 55 (13.89%) ETL
8 52 (13.13%) Data Pipeline
9 51 (12.88%) Mentoring
10 49 (12.37%) DevOps
11 45 (11.36%) Data Modelling
12 41 (10.35%) Collaborative Culture
12 41 (10.35%) Full-Stack Development
13 38 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (9.60%) Validation
14 36 (9.09%) Machine Learning
15 34 (8.59%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 169 (42.68%) Python
2 48 (12.12%) C#
3 46 (11.62%) Java
3 46 (11.62%) TypeScript
4 44 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 20 (5.05%) PHP
6 15 (3.79%) PowerShell
7 14 (3.54%) T-SQL
8 9 (2.27%) Bash
8 9 (2.27%) Scala
9 8 (2.02%) R
10 5 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.76%) C++
12 3 (0.76%) Go
13 2 (0.51%) Bicep
13 2 (0.51%) VBA
14 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (9.34%) Degree
2 15 (3.79%) Azure Certification
2 15 (3.79%) Security Cleared
3 12 (3.03%) Master's Degree
4 11 (2.78%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.77%) ACCA
5 7 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.52%) CIMA
7 5 (1.26%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.01%) MCSA
8 4 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.76%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.25%) CFA
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.57%) QA
3 7 (1.77%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.76%) 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 18 (4.55%) Docker
2 16 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.79%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.02%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.26%) 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 12 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.52%) Microsoft Clustering
3 5 (1.26%) Grafana
4 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 105 (26.52%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.58%) Databricks
3 19 (4.80%) VMware
4 16 (4.04%) Google
5 13 (3.28%) Oracle
6 8 (2.02%) HubSpot
7 7 (1.77%) Sage
7 7 (1.77%) Splunk
8 6 (1.52%) Adobe
8 6 (1.52%) SAP
9 4 (1.01%) Informatica
9 4 (1.01%) NEC
9 4 (1.01%) Xamarin
10 3 (0.76%) Facebook
10 3 (0.76%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.76%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 3 (0.76%) Veeam
11 2 (0.51%) IBM
11 2 (0.51%) Mistral