SQL Jobs in Manchester

SQL (Structured Query Language)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 267 615 629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.81% 10.51% 14.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.34% 32.49% 35.34%
Number of salaries quoted 183 442 486
10th Percentile £31,350 £36,250 £37,879
25th Percentile £40,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -5.65% +15.00%
75th Percentile £73,818 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,550 £78,625 £78,146
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

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 880 1,893 1,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 35.63% 32.36% 41.65%
Number of salaries quoted 565 1,426 1,237
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £84,000
North West median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +4.55%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Manchester

SQL
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in Manchester.

Salary trend for SQL in Manchester

SQL
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 2025. 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 -8 14 £33,500 -27.96% 14
Stockport -3 10 £55,000 +22.22% 9
Salford +8 7 £45,000 -25.00% 7
Oldham +2 6 £37,500 -21.88% 3
Altrincham -12 6 £55,000 -4.35% 11
Cheadle +4 5 - - 5
Wigan -6 5 £39,000 +62.50% 6
Ashton-under-Lyne -2 3 - - 8
Sale - 3 - -
SQL
North West

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.12%) Confluence
1 11 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.62%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.62%) IIS
3 5 (1.87%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.12%) Apache
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.75%) SAS
6 1 (0.37%) CMS
6 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.87%) NetSuite
1 5 (1.87%) Sage 200
1 5 (1.87%) Sage CRM
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.37%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.37%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 117 (43.82%) Azure
2 101 (37.83%) AWS
3 41 (15.36%) Power Platform
4 35 (13.11%) GCP
5 17 (6.37%) SaaS
6 16 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (5.62%) Serverless
8 13 (4.87%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (4.12%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (4.12%) Entra ID
10 9 (3.37%) GitHub
11 8 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 8 (3.00%) Snowflake
12 7 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (2.62%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (1.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 5 (1.87%) PaaS
15 4 (1.50%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.49%) DNS
1 12 (4.49%) Firewall
2 11 (4.12%) DHCP
3 5 (1.87%) NAS
3 5 (1.87%) SAN
3 5 (1.87%) VLAN
3 5 (1.87%) VSAN
4 2 (0.75%) LoRaWAN
5 1 (0.37%) Network Security
5 1 (0.37%) RTP
5 1 (0.37%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.37%) VPN
5 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (25.09%) SQL Server
2 39 (14.61%) Power BI
3 31 (11.61%) NoSQL
4 23 (8.61%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (8.24%) MySQL
6 19 (7.12%) Relational Database
7 13 (4.87%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (4.49%) Tableau
9 11 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (3.75%) Big Data
10 10 (3.75%) MongoDB
11 9 (3.37%) Data Lake
12 7 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (2.25%) Data Hub
13 6 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (2.25%) RDBMS
13 6 (2.25%) SQL CLR
13 6 (2.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 5 (1.87%) DynamoDB
14 5 (1.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 33 (12.36%) Selenium
2 31 (11.61%) GitLab
2 31 (11.61%) Maven
3 30 (11.24%) Cucumber
3 30 (11.24%) JIRA
3 30 (11.24%) SonarQube
3 30 (11.24%) Sonatype Nexus
4 29 (10.86%) Bitbucket
5 21 (7.87%) Git
6 5 (1.87%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.87%) JMeter
6 5 (1.87%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.12%) JUnit
7 3 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.75%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.75%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.75%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 88 (32.96%) Social Skills
2 80 (29.96%) Finance
3 49 (18.35%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (17.98%) Retail
5 45 (16.85%) Banking
6 35 (13.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 23 (8.61%) Manufacturing
8 18 (6.74%) Corporate Banking
8 18 (6.74%) Investment Banking
9 8 (3.00%) Law
9 8 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (2.25%) Back Office
11 6 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.87%) Digital Healthcare
12 5 (1.87%) Marketing
13 4 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.12%) Games
15 2 (0.75%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 56 (20.97%) Developer
2 47 (17.60%) Senior
3 43 (16.10%) Software Engineer
4 40 (14.98%) Analyst
5 24 (8.99%) Data Engineer
6 21 (7.87%) Lead
7 19 (7.12%) Architect
8 16 (5.99%) Data Analyst
9 15 (5.62%) IT Support
9 15 (5.62%) Senior Developer
9 15 (5.62%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (4.12%) AWS Architect
10 11 (4.12%) AWS Solution Architect
10 11 (4.12%) Senior Data Engineer
11 10 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (3.75%) DevOps Architect
11 10 (3.75%) Senior Architect
11 10 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (3.75%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.75%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (15.36%) CSS
1 41 (15.36%) HTML
2 39 (14.61%) React
3 37 (13.86%) Spring
4 36 (13.48%) Spring Boot
5 35 (13.11%) Kafka
6 33 (12.36%) RESTful
7 32 (11.99%) .NET
8 28 (10.49%) Redux
9 27 (10.11%) JPA
10 23 (8.61%) REST
11 22 (8.24%) Sass
12 19 (7.12%) CSS3
12 19 (7.12%) HTML5
13 18 (6.74%) Jest
14 13 (4.87%) JSON
15 12 (4.49%) Hibernate
16 11 (4.12%) .NET Core
16 11 (4.12%) .NET Framework
16 11 (4.12%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 39 (14.61%) Product Ownership
2 27 (10.11%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (7.49%) Cloud Native
4 15 (5.62%) EPoS
5 12 (4.49%) Management Information System
6 11 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (4.12%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (3.75%) CCTV
7 10 (3.75%) Driving Licence
8 8 (3.00%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.62%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 7 (2.62%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.62%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.87%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.87%) LIMS
12 4 (1.50%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.24%) Linux
2 17 (6.37%) Windows
3 8 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.87%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.50%) Unix
6 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (39.70%) Agile
2 71 (26.59%) DevOps
3 63 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (23.60%) Software Engineering
4 60 (22.47%) CI/CD
5 54 (20.22%) Mentoring
5 54 (20.22%) Microservices
6 50 (18.73%) Business Intelligence
6 50 (18.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 48 (17.98%) Migration
8 44 (16.48%) Analytics
9 42 (15.73%) Containerisation
10 39 (14.61%) Test Automation
11 36 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (13.48%) SDLC
12 35 (13.11%) Performance Optimisation
13 32 (11.99%) ETL
14 29 (10.86%) Front End Development
15 28 (10.49%) User Experience
16 26 (9.74%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 72 (26.97%) Python
2 68 (25.47%) Java
2 68 (25.47%) JavaScript
3 40 (14.98%) C#
4 35 (13.11%) TypeScript
5 19 (7.12%) PHP
6 10 (3.75%) PL/SQL
6 10 (3.75%) T-SQL
7 9 (3.37%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.00%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.62%) C-shell
9 7 (2.62%) Korn
10 6 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (2.25%) Go
11 5 (1.87%) R
12 4 (1.50%) Scala
12 4 (1.50%) VBA
13 3 (1.12%) Bash
13 3 (1.12%) C++
14 1 (0.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 27 (10.11%) Degree
2 17 (6.37%) Azure Certification
2 17 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (4.49%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 9 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (3.37%) PhD
6 7 (2.62%) Security Cleared
7 6 (2.25%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (1.50%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.37%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.73%) QA
2 22 (8.24%) Accessibility
3 18 (6.74%) Data Quality
4 13 (4.87%) GDPR
5 11 (4.12%) NIST
6 10 (3.75%) HIPAA
7 9 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (2.25%) ISO 9001
9 5 (1.87%) HL7
10 2 (0.75%) SLA
11 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (22.85%) Docker
2 11 (4.12%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.87%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (19.10%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.87%) Terraform
3 5 (1.87%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (1.12%) Istio
6 1 (0.37%) Argo
6 1 (0.37%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.37%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.37%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (20.22%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.11%) Solace
3 21 (7.87%) Google
4 18 (6.74%) Oracle
5 16 (5.99%) VMware
6 7 (2.62%) Informatica
7 6 (2.25%) Databricks
8 5 (1.87%) MobileIron
8 5 (1.87%) Sage
8 5 (1.87%) Veeam
9 3 (1.12%) Adobe
9 3 (1.12%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.12%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.12%) DocuSign
9 3 (1.12%) IBM
9 3 (1.12%) iManage
9 3 (1.12%) Intapp
9 3 (1.12%) Moogsoft
9 3 (1.12%) New Relic
9 3 (1.12%) Splunk