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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 19 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 375 265 610
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.99% 11.31% 10.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.34% 30.46% 32.36%
Number of salaries quoted 296 180 447
10th Percentile £39,500 £31,700 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £77,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 1,061 870 1,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.94% 37.13% 32.70%
Number of salaries quoted 849 556 1,466
10th Percentile £40,500 £33,875 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,778 £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 29 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 29 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 +12 9 £62,500 +86.57% 1
Wigan +4 6 £42,500 +8.97% 1
Oldham +11 5 £42,000 +12.00%
Stockport +3 5 £55,000 - 2
Sale +7 3 £60,000 - 1
Cheadle -1 3 £55,000 - 1
Salford -18 3 £62,500 +38.89% 9
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 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.93%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.93%) IIS
3 9 (2.40%) Apache
4 8 (2.13%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (1.60%) Confluence
7 5 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.53%) CICS
8 2 (0.53%) JBoss
8 2 (0.53%) nginx
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.27%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 55 (14.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.80%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.53%) Magento
2 2 (0.53%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 133 (35.47%) Azure
2 106 (28.27%) AWS
3 67 (17.87%) Power Platform
4 37 (9.87%) GCP
5 29 (7.73%) SaaS
6 26 (6.93%) GitHub
7 25 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (6.67%) Serverless
8 17 (4.53%) Amazon S3
8 17 (4.53%) Anthropic Claude
8 17 (4.53%) Azure AI
9 16 (4.27%) Snowflake
10 14 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.67%) dbt
12 9 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.13%) Azure AKS
13 8 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (2.13%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.87%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.47%) Firewall
2 11 (2.93%) DNS
3 8 (2.13%) DHCP
4 7 (1.87%) VPN
5 6 (1.60%) SAN
5 6 (1.60%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.80%) LTE
6 3 (0.80%) VLAN
7 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (18.13%) SQL Server
2 62 (16.53%) Power BI
3 38 (10.13%) Tableau
4 31 (8.27%) NoSQL
5 24 (6.40%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (5.60%) MongoDB
7 19 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (4.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 17 (4.53%) Relational Database
10 16 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (4.00%) MySQL
12 14 (3.73%) Data Lake
13 11 (2.93%) BigQuery
14 10 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (2.13%) Data Mining
16 7 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (1.87%) Big Data
16 7 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 6 (1.60%) DynamoDB
17 6 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 32 (8.53%) Git
2 17 (4.53%) Claude Code
3 11 (2.93%) JIRA
4 8 (2.13%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.07%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.80%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.80%) GitLab
7 3 (0.80%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.53%) MSTest
8 2 (0.53%) NUnit
8 2 (0.53%) Vite
9 1 (0.27%) MLflow
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 111 (29.60%) Social Skills
2 84 (22.40%) Finance
3 68 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.73%) Law
5 17 (4.53%) Marketing
6 15 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.00%) Retail
7 12 (3.20%) Advertising
7 12 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.93%) Legal
9 6 (1.60%) Billing
9 6 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.33%) Banking
10 5 (1.33%) Games
10 5 (1.33%) General Ledger
10 5 (1.33%) Military
10 5 (1.33%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.07%) Local Government
12 3 (0.80%) French Language
Job Titles
1 95 (25.33%) Senior
2 75 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 63 (16.80%) Developer
4 61 (16.27%) Analyst
5 41 (10.93%) Lead
5 41 (10.93%) Software Engineer
6 38 (10.13%) Data Analyst
7 34 (9.07%) Senior Data Engineer
8 20 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 16 (4.27%) Junior
9 16 (4.27%) Junior Analyst
9 16 (4.27%) Junior Data Analyst
10 15 (4.00%) Java Engineer
11 14 (3.73%) Database Engineer
11 14 (3.73%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (3.73%) Senior Java Engineer
11 14 (3.73%) SQL Developer
12 13 (3.47%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
12 13 (3.47%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (8.80%) .NET
2 32 (8.53%) HTML
2 32 (8.53%) React
3 31 (8.27%) CSS
4 24 (6.40%) RESTful
5 22 (5.87%) Node.js
6 19 (5.07%) Kafka
7 18 (4.80%) AngularJS
8 15 (4.00%) PySpark
9 14 (3.73%) Next.js
9 14 (3.73%) Vue
10 13 (3.47%) Spring
11 12 (3.20%) Spring Boot
12 11 (2.93%) ASP.NET
12 11 (2.93%) REST
13 9 (2.40%) .NET Framework
14 8 (2.13%) .NET Core
14 8 (2.13%) ASP.NET Core
14 8 (2.13%) Middleware
14 8 (2.13%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.13%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.87%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.47%) Legacy Applications
5 11 (2.93%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.93%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.67%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.33%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.33%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.33%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.07%) Clustering
10 4 (1.07%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.07%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (0.80%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.80%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.80%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.60%) Windows
2 16 (4.27%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.13%) Android
4 6 (1.60%) Linux
5 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (25.60%) Agile
1 96 (25.60%) Analytics
2 81 (21.60%) Problem-Solving
3 79 (21.07%) Business Intelligence
4 74 (19.73%) CI/CD
5 71 (18.93%) AI
6 64 (17.07%) Software Engineering
7 54 (14.40%) ETL
8 52 (13.87%) Data Engineering
8 52 (13.87%) Decision-Making
9 48 (12.80%) Data Modelling
10 46 (12.27%) Mentoring
11 45 (12.00%) DevOps
12 43 (11.47%) Data Pipeline
13 35 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (9.33%) Full-Stack Development
14 34 (9.07%) Collaborative Culture
15 32 (8.53%) Data Analysis
16 31 (8.27%) Microservices
16 31 (8.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 155 (41.33%) Python
2 48 (12.80%) Java
3 47 (12.53%) C#
4 33 (8.80%) JavaScript
5 30 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 15 (4.00%) PHP
6 15 (4.00%) T-SQL
7 9 (2.40%) Scala
8 8 (2.13%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.60%) Bash
10 5 (1.33%) R
11 4 (1.07%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.53%) Bicep
13 2 (0.53%) VBA
14 1 (0.27%) C++
14 1 (0.27%) Go
14 1 (0.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 27 (7.20%) Degree
2 22 (5.87%) Azure Certification
3 18 (4.80%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.47%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.60%) ACCA
6 6 (1.60%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.33%) CIMA
8 4 (1.07%) MCSA
8 4 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (0.80%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.53%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.27%) CFA
11 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.07%) QA
3 3 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.27%) IFRS
5 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 15 (4.00%) Docker
2 14 (3.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.60%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.27%) MetaFrame
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.27%) vSphere
5 1 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 22 (5.87%) Terraform
2 18 (4.80%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.60%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (0.80%) Grafana
5 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Rancher
6 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 99 (26.40%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.27%) Databricks
3 18 (4.80%) VMware
4 15 (4.00%) Google
5 13 (3.47%) Oracle
6 9 (2.40%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.60%) Adobe
8 5 (1.33%) Xamarin
9 4 (1.07%) Sage
10 3 (0.80%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.80%) Facebook
10 3 (0.80%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.80%) Pega
10 3 (0.80%) SAP
10 3 (0.80%) Splunk
10 3 (0.80%) Veeam
11 2 (0.53%) Adyen
11 2 (0.53%) Cognos
11 2 (0.53%) IBM
11 2 (0.53%) MuleSoft