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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 16 9
Rank change year-on-year -21 -7 -1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 265 253 574
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.93% 11.66% 11.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.89% 32.07% 34.47%
Number of salaries quoted 204 166 455
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,593 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £82,751 £77,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -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 831 789 1,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.47% 36.36% 33.63%
Number of salaries quoted 658 559 1,395
10th Percentile £38,325 £39,750 £37,050
25th Percentile £48,813 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.04% -0.87%
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 7 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 7 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 +4 8 £42,000 +12.00% 2
Bolton +21 6 £66,250 +65.63% 7
Sale +1 3 £60,000 -
Wigan -5 3 £47,500 +21.79% 6
Stockport -10 3 £55,000 -16.35% 6
Salford -17 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 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.51%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.75%) Apache
4 2 (0.75%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.75%) CICS
4 2 (0.75%) Confluence
4 2 (0.75%) JBoss
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.38%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 49 (18.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.26%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.13%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.75%) Magento
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (29.81%) Azure
2 66 (24.91%) AWS
3 52 (19.62%) Power Platform
4 27 (10.19%) GCP
5 26 (9.81%) SaaS
6 21 (7.92%) Azure AI
7 14 (5.28%) Azure AKS
7 14 (5.28%) Snowflake
8 13 (4.91%) Serverless
9 12 (4.53%) Anthropic Claude
10 11 (4.15%) GitHub
11 10 (3.77%) Amazon S3
11 10 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.64%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.89%) dbt
14 5 (1.89%) Power Automate
15 4 (1.51%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.89%) Firewall
2 4 (1.51%) DNS
3 3 (1.13%) DHCP
4 2 (0.75%) SAN
4 2 (0.75%) VLAN
5 1 (0.38%) HTTP
5 1 (0.38%) LTE
5 1 (0.38%) Network Security
5 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.38%) TCAP
5 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.38%) VPN
5 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (18.87%) Power BI
2 41 (15.47%) SQL Server
2 41 (15.47%) Tableau
3 33 (12.45%) NoSQL
4 17 (6.42%) MySQL
5 16 (6.04%) Data Mining
6 15 (5.66%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (5.28%) Data Lake
7 14 (5.28%) Relational Database
8 13 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (4.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (4.15%) MongoDB
10 9 (3.40%) BigQuery
11 8 (3.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (3.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (2.26%) DB2
12 6 (2.26%) Semantic Layer
13 5 (1.89%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (7.92%) Git
2 12 (4.53%) Claude Code
3 8 (3.02%) JIRA
4 7 (2.64%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.89%) GitLab
6 4 (1.51%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (1.13%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.13%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.13%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.75%) NUnit
9 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.38%) MSTest
9 1 (0.38%) Postman
9 1 (0.38%) Selenium
9 1 (0.38%) SoapUI
General
1 81 (30.57%) Social Skills
2 64 (24.15%) Finance
3 49 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.91%) Advertising
5 10 (3.77%) Marketing
5 10 (3.77%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.64%) Law
7 6 (2.26%) Banking
7 6 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.26%) Retail
8 5 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.13%) French Language
9 3 (1.13%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.13%) Italian Language
9 3 (1.13%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.13%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (1.13%) Spanish Language
10 2 (0.75%) Games
10 2 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 74 (27.92%) Senior
2 65 (24.53%) Analyst
3 50 (18.87%) Data Engineer
4 44 (16.60%) Data Analyst
5 39 (14.72%) Developer
6 31 (11.70%) Lead
6 31 (11.70%) Software Engineer
7 26 (9.81%) Senior Data Engineer
8 21 (7.92%) Junior
8 21 (7.92%) Junior Analyst
8 21 (7.92%) Junior Data Analyst
9 16 (6.04%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (5.28%) Java Engineer
11 13 (4.91%) Lead Software Engineer
11 13 (4.91%) Senior Java Engineer
11 13 (4.91%) Trainee
11 13 (4.91%) Trainee Analyst
11 13 (4.91%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 12 (4.53%) Database Engineer
12 12 (4.53%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.57%) .NET
2 26 (9.81%) RESTful
3 20 (7.55%) CSS
4 19 (7.17%) HTML
5 18 (6.79%) React
6 15 (5.66%) .NET Framework
7 13 (4.91%) Kafka
8 9 (3.40%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.02%) Node.js
9 8 (3.02%) Pandas
10 7 (2.64%) Spring
10 7 (2.64%) Vue
10 7 (2.64%) Web Services
11 6 (2.26%) CSS3
11 6 (2.26%) HTML5
11 6 (2.26%) REST
11 6 (2.26%) Spring Boot
12 5 (1.89%) J2EE
12 5 (1.89%) JSON
12 5 (1.89%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.30%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.28%) Onboarding
3 13 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.53%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (2.64%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.89%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.51%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.51%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.13%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.13%) Replication
9 2 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.75%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.38%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.38%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.64%) Android
2 6 (2.26%) Linux
2 6 (2.26%) Windows
3 4 (1.51%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (27.17%) Agile
2 63 (23.77%) Analytics
3 62 (23.40%) Business Intelligence
4 52 (19.62%) CI/CD
5 49 (18.49%) ETL
6 47 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (17.36%) Software Engineering
8 44 (16.60%) AI
9 35 (13.21%) Data Modelling
10 33 (12.45%) Mentoring
11 32 (12.08%) DevOps
12 31 (11.70%) Data Engineering
12 31 (11.70%) Data Pipeline
13 29 (10.94%) Clean Code
14 27 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (10.19%) Data Analysis
15 26 (9.81%) Collaborative Culture
16 25 (9.43%) Microservices
16 25 (9.43%) Scrum
17 24 (9.06%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 113 (42.64%) Python
2 43 (16.23%) Java
3 36 (13.58%) C#
4 21 (7.92%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.53%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.40%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.64%) PHP
8 5 (1.89%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.51%) Bash
9 4 (1.51%) Go
10 3 (1.13%) ANSI SQL
10 3 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (1.13%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.13%) Scala
10 3 (1.13%) VBA
11 2 (0.75%) Bicep
11 2 (0.75%) R
12 1 (0.38%) C++
12 1 (0.38%) Groovy
12 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (8.30%) Azure Certification
2 20 (7.55%) Degree
3 8 (3.02%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.64%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.13%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.75%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.38%) MBA
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.57%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.02%) QA
3 2 (0.75%) GDPR
4 1 (0.38%) HL7
4 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.38%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (6.04%) Docker
2 8 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.38%) Firmware
5 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (9.81%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.66%) Terraform
3 3 (1.13%) Ansible
3 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.13%) Rancher
4 2 (0.75%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.75%) Grafana
4 2 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (23.40%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.66%) Databricks
3 11 (4.15%) Google
3 11 (4.15%) Oracle
4 6 (2.26%) HubSpot
4 6 (2.26%) Northgate
4 6 (2.26%) VMware
5 4 (1.51%) Xamarin
6 3 (1.13%) Pega
6 3 (1.13%) SAP
7 2 (0.75%) Adyen
7 2 (0.75%) Cognos
7 2 (0.75%) Dell
7 2 (0.75%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.75%) IBM
8 1 (0.38%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.38%) Facebook
8 1 (0.38%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.38%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.38%) Veeam