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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 21 12
Rank change year-on-year -8 -9 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 280 246 571
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.18% 11.06% 11.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.75% 29.25% 34.03%
Number of salaries quoted 215 165 449
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £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% +1.87%

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 855 841 1,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.82% 37.81% 33.56%
Number of salaries quoted 679 546 1,396
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £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 £80,625
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 13 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 13 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 +8 9 £42,000 +12.00%
Bolton +24 8 £66,250 +65.63% 6
Stockport -7 5 £55,000 -16.35% 2
Wigan -4 4 £42,500 +8.97% 2
Sale +5 3 £60,000 -
Salford -15 1 - - 8
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 14 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.71%) Apache
4 2 (0.71%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.71%) CICS
4 2 (0.71%) Confluence
4 2 (0.71%) IIS
4 2 (0.71%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.36%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 54 (19.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.14%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.07%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.71%) Magento
4 1 (0.36%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 87 (31.07%) Azure
2 68 (24.29%) AWS
3 52 (18.57%) Power Platform
4 28 (10.00%) GCP
5 24 (8.57%) SaaS
6 21 (7.50%) Azure AI
7 14 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (5.00%) GitHub
7 14 (5.00%) Serverless
8 12 (4.29%) Anthropic Claude
8 12 (4.29%) Azure AKS
8 12 (4.29%) Snowflake
9 10 (3.57%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (2.14%) Power Automate
12 5 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.79%) dbt
12 5 (1.79%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.14%) Firewall
2 5 (1.79%) DNS
3 4 (1.43%) SAN
4 3 (1.07%) DHCP
4 3 (1.07%) VLAN
5 2 (0.71%) LTE
6 1 (0.36%) Network Security
6 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.36%) TCAP
6 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.36%) VPN
6 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (17.50%) Power BI
2 46 (16.43%) SQL Server
3 40 (14.29%) Tableau
4 30 (10.71%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.71%) MySQL
6 14 (5.00%) Data Mining
6 14 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 14 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 14 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 13 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (4.29%) Data Lake
8 12 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (3.57%) BigQuery
10 8 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (2.14%) DB2
12 6 (2.14%) Semantic Layer
13 5 (1.79%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (8.21%) Git
2 12 (4.29%) Claude Code
3 8 (2.86%) JIRA
4 7 (2.50%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.43%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.07%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.07%) GitLab
6 3 (1.07%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.07%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.71%) MSTest
7 2 (0.71%) NUnit
8 1 (0.36%) Postman
General
1 90 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 66 (23.57%) Finance
3 50 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.29%) Marketing
5 11 (3.93%) Advertising
5 11 (3.93%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.21%) Law
8 7 (2.50%) Retail
9 6 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.43%) Banking
11 3 (1.07%) French Language
11 3 (1.07%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.07%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (1.07%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.71%) Local Government
12 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (27.14%) Senior
2 65 (23.21%) Analyst
3 51 (18.21%) Data Engineer
4 42 (15.00%) Data Analyst
4 42 (15.00%) Developer
5 32 (11.43%) Lead
6 31 (11.07%) Software Engineer
7 27 (9.64%) Senior Data Engineer
8 21 (7.50%) Junior
8 21 (7.50%) Junior Analyst
8 21 (7.50%) Junior Data Analyst
9 15 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (5.00%) Java Engineer
11 13 (4.64%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (4.64%) Senior Java Engineer
12 12 (4.29%) Database Engineer
12 12 (4.29%) Lead Software Engineer
13 11 (3.93%) SQL Developer
13 11 (3.93%) Trainee
13 11 (3.93%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (10.00%) .NET
2 25 (8.93%) RESTful
3 22 (7.86%) CSS
4 21 (7.50%) HTML
5 19 (6.79%) React
6 14 (5.00%) Kafka
7 12 (4.29%) .NET Framework
8 10 (3.57%) AngularJS
8 10 (3.57%) Node.js
9 8 (2.86%) Pandas
9 8 (2.86%) Spring
10 7 (2.50%) REST
10 7 (2.50%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.50%) Vue
11 6 (2.14%) CSS3
11 6 (2.14%) HTML5
11 6 (2.14%) PySpark
11 6 (2.14%) Web Services
12 5 (1.79%) J2EE
12 5 (1.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.79%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (4.29%) Legacy Applications
4 7 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.79%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.79%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.07%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.07%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.71%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.71%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.86%) Android
1 8 (2.86%) Windows
2 6 (2.14%) Linux
2 6 (2.14%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.07%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (26.79%) Agile
2 64 (22.86%) Analytics
3 63 (22.50%) Business Intelligence
4 53 (18.93%) CI/CD
5 52 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (17.50%) ETL
7 48 (17.14%) AI
8 44 (15.71%) Software Engineering
9 36 (12.86%) Mentoring
10 35 (12.50%) DevOps
11 32 (11.43%) Data Modelling
12 29 (10.36%) Data Engineering
13 28 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (9.29%) Clean Code
14 26 (9.29%) Collaborative Culture
14 26 (9.29%) Data Pipeline
15 25 (8.93%) Data Analysis
15 25 (8.93%) Microservices
15 25 (8.93%) Scrum
16 22 (7.86%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 113 (40.36%) Python
2 44 (15.71%) Java
3 37 (13.21%) C#
4 22 (7.86%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.29%) TypeScript
6 11 (3.93%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.50%) PHP
8 5 (1.79%) Bash
8 5 (1.79%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.07%) Go
9 3 (1.07%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.07%) Scala
9 3 (1.07%) VBA
10 2 (0.71%) Bicep
10 2 (0.71%) R
11 1 (0.36%) C++
11 1 (0.36%) Groovy
11 1 (0.36%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 24 (8.57%) Azure Certification
2 20 (7.14%) Degree
3 9 (3.21%) Security Cleared
4 8 (2.86%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.07%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.71%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.71%) MCSA
7 2 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.36%) MBA
8 1 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.36%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.21%) QA
3 2 (0.71%) GDPR
4 1 (0.36%) HL7
4 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (5.00%) Docker
2 10 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (7.86%) Kubernetes
2 17 (6.07%) Terraform
3 3 (1.07%) Ansible
3 3 (1.07%) Rancher
4 2 (0.71%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.71%) Grafana
4 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 72 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.36%) Databricks
3 12 (4.29%) Google
4 10 (3.57%) Oracle
5 8 (2.86%) VMware
6 7 (2.50%) HubSpot
7 6 (2.14%) Northgate
8 5 (1.79%) Xamarin
9 3 (1.07%) Pega
9 3 (1.07%) SAP
10 2 (0.71%) Adobe
10 2 (0.71%) Adyen
10 2 (0.71%) Cognos
10 2 (0.71%) Facebook
10 2 (0.71%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.71%) IBM
10 2 (0.71%) Veeam
11 1 (0.36%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.36%) Hotjar
11 1 (0.36%) ServiceNow