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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 19 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 -6 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 362 265 602
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.89% 11.67% 10.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.81% 30.81% 31.65%
Number of salaries quoted 286 180 445
10th Percentile £39,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,847
Median % change year-on-year - +2.14% -4.27%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £83,750 £76,800
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 1,040 860 1,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.93% 37.87% 32.01%
Number of salaries quoted 833 546 1,504
10th Percentile £40,050 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,750 £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 £96,000 £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 20 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 20 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% 4
Oldham +11 6 £42,000 +12.00% 2
Wigan +2 6 £42,500 +8.97% 3
Stockport +2 5 £55,000 - 2
Sale +7 3 £60,000 -
Cheadle -2 3 £55,000 - 1
Salford -17 3 £62,500 - 11
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 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.49%) IIS
3 8 (2.21%) Apache
3 8 (2.21%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.21%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.66%) Confluence
4 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.55%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.55%) CICS
6 2 (0.55%) JBoss
6 2 (0.55%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.28%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 55 (15.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.38%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.83%) NEC Housing
1 3 (0.83%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.55%) Magento
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 123 (33.98%) Azure
2 101 (27.90%) AWS
3 66 (18.23%) Power Platform
4 36 (9.94%) GCP
5 30 (8.29%) SaaS
6 26 (7.18%) GitHub
7 25 (6.91%) Serverless
8 23 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (4.70%) Amazon S3
9 17 (4.70%) Azure AI
9 17 (4.70%) Snowflake
10 16 (4.42%) Anthropic Claude
11 14 (3.87%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.76%) dbt
13 9 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (2.21%) Azure AKS
15 7 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (1.93%) Google Sheets
15 7 (1.93%) Power Automate
15 7 (1.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.04%) Firewall
2 9 (2.49%) DNS
3 6 (1.66%) DHCP
3 6 (1.66%) SAN
4 5 (1.38%) VPN
5 4 (1.10%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.83%) LTE
6 3 (0.83%) VLAN
7 1 (0.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (17.96%) SQL Server
2 62 (17.13%) Power BI
3 39 (10.77%) Tableau
4 31 (8.56%) NoSQL
5 24 (6.63%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (5.25%) MongoDB
6 19 (5.25%) Relational Database
7 17 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (4.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (4.42%) Data Lake
9 15 (4.14%) MySQL
10 14 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (3.04%) BigQuery
12 10 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (2.49%) Data Mining
14 7 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.93%) Big Data
14 7 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (1.66%) Db2
15 6 (1.66%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 30 (8.29%) Git
2 16 (4.42%) Claude Code
3 11 (3.04%) JIRA
4 8 (2.21%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.38%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.10%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.83%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.83%) GitLab
7 3 (0.83%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.55%) MSTest
8 2 (0.55%) NUnit
8 2 (0.55%) Vite
9 1 (0.28%) MLflow
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 106 (29.28%) Social Skills
2 82 (22.65%) Finance
3 67 (18.51%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.63%) Law
5 17 (4.70%) Marketing
6 14 (3.87%) Public Sector
7 12 (3.31%) Advertising
7 12 (3.31%) Retail
8 11 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.76%) Legal
10 9 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.66%) Banking
11 6 (1.66%) Billing
11 6 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.38%) General Ledger
12 5 (1.38%) Military
12 5 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.10%) Local Government
14 3 (0.83%) French Language
14 3 (0.83%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 93 (25.69%) Senior
2 74 (20.44%) Data Engineer
3 61 (16.85%) Analyst
4 59 (16.30%) Developer
5 40 (11.05%) Software Engineer
6 39 (10.77%) Lead
7 38 (10.50%) Data Analyst
8 34 (9.39%) Senior Data Engineer
9 20 (5.52%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (4.42%) Junior
10 16 (4.42%) Junior Analyst
10 16 (4.42%) Junior Data Analyst
11 15 (4.14%) Java Engineer
11 15 (4.14%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (3.87%) Database Engineer
12 14 (3.87%) Senior Java Engineer
12 14 (3.87%) SQL Developer
13 13 (3.59%) Full-Stack Developer
13 13 (3.59%) Lead Software Engineer
14 12 (3.31%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (8.56%) React
2 30 (8.29%) .NET
2 30 (8.29%) CSS
2 30 (8.29%) HTML
3 23 (6.35%) RESTful
4 21 (5.80%) Node.js
5 18 (4.97%) Kafka
6 17 (4.70%) AngularJS
7 15 (4.14%) PySpark
8 13 (3.59%) Spring
8 13 (3.59%) Vue
9 12 (3.31%) Next.js
9 12 (3.31%) Spring Boot
10 10 (2.76%) REST
11 9 (2.49%) .NET Framework
11 9 (2.49%) ASP.NET
12 8 (2.21%) FastAPI
13 7 (1.93%) Pandas
14 6 (1.66%) CSS3
14 6 (1.66%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.35%) Cloud Native
2 21 (5.80%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.59%) Legacy Applications
5 11 (3.04%) Data Centre
5 11 (3.04%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.49%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.38%) Marketing Technology
8 5 (1.38%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.38%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.10%) Clustering
9 4 (1.10%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.10%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (0.83%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.83%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.83%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.97%) Windows
2 14 (3.87%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.21%) Android
4 6 (1.66%) Linux
5 3 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (25.97%) Agile
2 89 (24.59%) Analytics
3 77 (21.27%) Business Intelligence
4 74 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
5 70 (19.34%) AI
6 67 (18.51%) CI/CD
7 58 (16.02%) Software Engineering
8 57 (15.75%) ETL
9 49 (13.54%) Data Modelling
10 48 (13.26%) Data Engineering
11 45 (12.43%) Decision-Making
12 44 (12.15%) DevOps
12 44 (12.15%) Mentoring
13 39 (10.77%) Data Pipeline
14 32 (8.84%) Full-Stack Development
15 31 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
15 31 (8.56%) Data Analysis
15 31 (8.56%) Microservices
16 30 (8.29%) Collaborative Culture
17 28 (7.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 151 (41.71%) Python
2 49 (13.54%) Java
3 43 (11.88%) C#
4 32 (8.84%) JavaScript
5 27 (7.46%) TypeScript
6 15 (4.14%) T-SQL
7 13 (3.59%) PHP
8 9 (2.49%) Scala
9 6 (1.66%) Bash
9 6 (1.66%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.38%) R
11 4 (1.10%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.55%) Bicep
13 2 (0.55%) VBA
14 1 (0.28%) C++
14 1 (0.28%) Go
14 1 (0.28%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 27 (7.46%) Degree
2 22 (6.08%) Azure Certification
3 17 (4.70%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.59%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.66%) ACCA
8 5 (1.38%) CIMA
9 4 (1.10%) MCSA
9 4 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.83%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.83%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.83%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.55%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) CFA
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (13.54%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.87%) QA
3 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.55%) GDPR
5 1 (0.28%) IFRS
5 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (3.87%) Active Directory
1 14 (3.87%) Docker
2 12 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.28%) MetaFrame
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.28%) vSphere
5 1 (0.28%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (5.80%) Terraform
2 18 (4.97%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.66%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (0.55%) Grafana
4 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) Rancher
5 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 93 (25.69%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.01%) Databricks
3 16 (4.42%) Google
3 16 (4.42%) VMware
4 15 (4.14%) Oracle
5 9 (2.49%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.66%) Adobe
7 5 (1.38%) Xamarin
8 3 (0.83%) Alteryx
8 3 (0.83%) Facebook
8 3 (0.83%) Northgate
8 3 (0.83%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.83%) Pega
8 3 (0.83%) Sage
8 3 (0.83%) SAP
8 3 (0.83%) Splunk
8 3 (0.83%) Veeam
9 2 (0.55%) Adyen
9 2 (0.55%) Cognos
9 2 (0.55%) IBM