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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 18 13
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 392 267 459
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.73% 10.72% 10.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.19% 31.30% 34.05%
Number of salaries quoted 300 178 293
10th Percentile £38,975 £32,525 £38,350
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,751 £78,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 1,114 853 1,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.28% 34.24% 30.12%
Number of salaries quoted 867 541 953
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,125 £39,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +10 10 £67,500 +80.00% 2
Bolton +9 7 £50,000 +49.25% 1
Wigan +3 6 £42,500 - 2
Sale +8 5 £60,000 -
Stockport +1 5 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Cheadle 0 3 £55,000 - 1
Salford -21 3 £62,500 +38.89% 7
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 (4.34%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.83%) IIS
3 14 (3.57%) Apache
4 11 (2.81%) Apache Spark
5 8 (2.04%) Confluence
5 8 (2.04%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.51%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.51%) CICS
8 2 (0.51%) nginx
9 1 (0.26%) JBoss
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.26%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 51 (13.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.02%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.77%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.51%) Magento
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.26%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.26%) Odoo
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 146 (37.24%) Azure
2 125 (31.89%) AWS
3 70 (17.86%) Power Platform
4 39 (9.95%) GCP
4 39 (9.95%) GitHub
5 34 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (7.40%) Serverless
7 27 (6.89%) SaaS
7 27 (6.89%) Snowflake
8 23 (5.87%) Amazon S3
9 18 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (4.59%) dbt
10 15 (3.83%) Anthropic Claude
10 15 (3.83%) Azure AI
11 11 (2.81%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.55%) Power Automate
13 9 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (2.04%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.83%) Firewall
2 13 (3.32%) DNS
3 10 (2.55%) DHCP
4 9 (2.30%) VPN
5 8 (2.04%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.53%) SAN
7 3 (0.77%) HTTP
7 3 (0.77%) LTE
7 3 (0.77%) VLAN
8 1 (0.26%) Internet
8 1 (0.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 61 (15.56%) Power BI
3 33 (8.42%) Tableau
4 29 (7.40%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (6.89%) NoSQL
6 25 (6.38%) MongoDB
7 23 (5.87%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 18 (4.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (4.08%) Relational Database
11 13 (3.32%) DynamoDB
12 11 (2.81%) BigQuery
12 11 (2.81%) MySQL
13 9 (2.30%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.79%) Big Data
15 6 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (1.28%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 35 (8.93%) Git
2 15 (3.83%) Claude Code
3 13 (3.32%) JIRA
4 12 (3.06%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.04%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.02%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.77%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.77%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.77%) NUnit
8 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.51%) GitLab
9 2 (0.51%) MSTest
9 2 (0.51%) Postman
9 2 (0.51%) Vite
10 1 (0.26%) MLflow
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
General
1 143 (36.48%) Social Skills
2 96 (24.49%) Finance
3 75 (19.13%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.18%) Law
5 23 (5.87%) Marketing
6 16 (4.08%) Retail
7 14 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (3.32%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.06%) Advertising
9 12 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.81%) Legal
11 7 (1.79%) Billing
12 5 (1.28%) Games
12 5 (1.28%) General Ledger
12 5 (1.28%) Local Government
12 5 (1.28%) Military
12 5 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.02%) Banking
14 3 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (24.23%) Senior
2 72 (18.37%) Data Engineer
3 71 (18.11%) Developer
4 63 (16.07%) Analyst
5 45 (11.48%) Lead
5 45 (11.48%) Software Engineer
6 38 (9.69%) Data Analyst
7 31 (7.91%) Senior Data Engineer
8 20 (5.10%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (3.83%) Junior
10 14 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (3.57%) Support Engineer
11 13 (3.32%) .NET Developer
11 13 (3.32%) Consultant
11 13 (3.32%) Junior Analyst
11 13 (3.32%) Junior Data Analyst
11 13 (3.32%) Lead Software Engineer
12 12 (3.06%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (3.06%) Java Engineer
12 12 (3.06%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.95%) .NET
2 35 (8.93%) HTML
2 35 (8.93%) React
3 30 (7.65%) CSS
4 27 (6.89%) Node.js
5 22 (5.61%) RESTful
6 21 (5.36%) AngularJS
7 18 (4.59%) Kafka
7 18 (4.59%) PySpark
8 16 (4.08%) ASP.NET
8 16 (4.08%) Next.js
9 14 (3.57%) Spring
9 14 (3.57%) Vue
10 13 (3.32%) Spring Boot
11 12 (3.06%) .NET Core
11 12 (3.06%) REST
12 11 (2.81%) ASP.NET Core
12 11 (2.81%) Middleware
13 9 (2.30%) Entity Framework
14 8 (2.04%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.36%) Cloud Native
1 21 (5.36%) Onboarding
2 16 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.55%) Legacy Applications
5 9 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.30%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 8 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
8 6 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.28%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.28%) Online Gambling
10 4 (1.02%) Clustering
10 4 (1.02%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.02%) Replication
11 3 (0.77%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.12%) Windows
2 18 (4.59%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.02%) Android
3 4 (1.02%) Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.26%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (26.79%) Agile
2 100 (25.51%) Analytics
3 91 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
4 87 (22.19%) AI
5 84 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
6 79 (20.15%) CI/CD
7 68 (17.35%) Software Engineering
8 62 (15.82%) Data Engineering
8 62 (15.82%) Decision-Making
9 53 (13.52%) DevOps
10 52 (13.27%) ETL
11 49 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
12 48 (12.24%) Mentoring
13 47 (11.99%) Data Modelling
14 42 (10.71%) Collaborative Culture
15 39 (9.95%) Full-Stack Development
16 37 (9.44%) Validation
17 35 (8.93%) Data Analysis
17 35 (8.93%) Machine Learning
18 33 (8.42%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 172 (43.88%) Python
2 53 (13.52%) C#
3 48 (12.24%) Java
4 39 (9.95%) TypeScript
5 38 (9.69%) JavaScript
6 20 (5.10%) PHP
7 15 (3.83%) T-SQL
8 12 (3.06%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.30%) Scala
10 7 (1.79%) Bash
11 6 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.53%) R
12 5 (1.28%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.51%) Bicep
13 2 (0.51%) C++
13 2 (0.51%) Go
13 2 (0.51%) VBA
14 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 37 (9.44%) Degree
2 19 (4.85%) Azure Certification
3 16 (4.08%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.81%) Master's Degree
4 11 (2.81%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.79%) ACCA
5 7 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.53%) CIMA
7 5 (1.28%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.02%) MCSA
8 4 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.77%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.26%) CFA
11 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (15.82%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.63%) QA
3 6 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.51%) GDPR
5 1 (0.26%) IFRS
5 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (4.59%) Docker
2 16 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.83%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.26%) MetaFrame
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.26%) vSphere
6 1 (0.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 22 (5.61%) Terraform
2 15 (3.83%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (1.28%) Grafana
5 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 108 (27.55%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.65%) Databricks
3 19 (4.85%) VMware
4 15 (3.83%) Google
5 12 (3.06%) Oracle
6 8 (2.04%) HubSpot
7 7 (1.79%) Splunk
8 6 (1.53%) Adobe
9 4 (1.02%) Informatica
9 4 (1.02%) NEC
9 4 (1.02%) Sage
9 4 (1.02%) Xamarin
10 3 (0.77%) Facebook
10 3 (0.77%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.77%) Pega
10 3 (0.77%) SAP
10 3 (0.77%) Veeam
11 2 (0.51%) Adyen
11 2 (0.51%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.51%) IBM