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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 14 12
Rank change year-on-year -23 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 255 236 576
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.88% 11.23% 11.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.84% 32.20% 34.43%
Number of salaries quoted 198 164 457
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% +1.36% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,750 £82,675 £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 801 733 1,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.32% 34.89% 33.97%
Number of salaries quoted 641 563 1,404
10th Percentile £39,000 £38,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £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 £80,875
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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +1 7 £42,000 +12.00% 1
Bolton +18 5 £66,250 +65.63% 5
Sale - 3 £60,000 -
Wigan -3 2 £47,500 +21.79% 3
Stockport -10 2 £55,000 -16.35% 3
Salford -16 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 16 (6.27%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.18%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.78%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.78%) CICS
4 2 (0.78%) Confluence
4 2 (0.78%) JBoss
5 1 (0.39%) Apache
5 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.39%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 46 (18.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.35%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.18%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.78%) Magento
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (30.59%) Azure
2 65 (25.49%) AWS
3 49 (19.22%) Power Platform
4 27 (10.59%) GCP
5 24 (9.41%) SaaS
6 21 (8.24%) Azure AI
7 14 (5.49%) Azure AKS
8 12 (4.71%) Serverless
8 12 (4.71%) Snowflake
9 11 (4.31%) Anthropic Claude
10 9 (3.53%) Amazon S3
10 9 (3.53%) GitHub
11 8 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.96%) dbt
14 4 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (1.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.57%) Firewall
2 3 (1.18%) DHCP
2 3 (1.18%) DNS
3 2 (0.78%) SAN
4 1 (0.39%) HTTP
4 1 (0.39%) Network Security
4 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.39%) TCAP
4 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.39%) VLAN
4 1 (0.39%) VPN
4 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (18.43%) Power BI
2 41 (16.08%) Tableau
3 37 (14.51%) NoSQL
4 35 (13.73%) SQL Server
5 18 (7.06%) MySQL
6 16 (6.27%) Data Mining
7 14 (5.49%) Data Lake
8 13 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (5.10%) Relational Database
9 11 (4.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (3.92%) MongoDB
11 9 (3.53%) BigQuery
12 7 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (2.75%) Semantic Layer
12 7 (2.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (2.35%) DB2
13 6 (2.35%) DynamoDB
14 5 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 22 (8.63%) Git
2 11 (4.31%) Claude Code
3 8 (3.14%) JIRA
4 7 (2.75%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.35%) GitLab
6 4 (1.57%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (1.18%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.18%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.18%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.39%) NUnit
8 1 (0.39%) Postman
8 1 (0.39%) Selenium
8 1 (0.39%) SoapUI
General
1 77 (30.20%) Social Skills
2 59 (23.14%) Finance
3 47 (18.43%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.71%) Advertising
5 10 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.53%) Marketing
7 8 (3.14%) Law
8 6 (2.35%) Banking
9 5 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.96%) Legal
9 5 (1.96%) Retail
10 3 (1.18%) French Language
10 3 (1.18%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.18%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.18%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (1.18%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.78%) Games
11 2 (0.78%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 74 (29.02%) Senior
2 66 (25.88%) Analyst
3 49 (19.22%) Data Engineer
4 43 (16.86%) Data Analyst
5 36 (14.12%) Developer
6 33 (12.94%) Software Engineer
7 30 (11.76%) Lead
8 26 (10.20%) Senior Data Engineer
9 21 (8.24%) Junior
9 21 (8.24%) Junior Analyst
9 21 (8.24%) Junior Data Analyst
10 16 (6.27%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (5.49%) Lead Software Engineer
12 13 (5.10%) Java Engineer
12 13 (5.10%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (5.10%) Trainee
12 13 (5.10%) Trainee Analyst
12 13 (5.10%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 12 (4.71%) Senior Java Engineer
14 10 (3.92%) Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.37%) .NET
2 27 (10.59%) RESTful
3 20 (7.84%) CSS
4 19 (7.45%) HTML
5 18 (7.06%) React
6 16 (6.27%) .NET Framework
7 11 (4.31%) Kafka
8 9 (3.53%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.14%) Pandas
9 8 (3.14%) Vue
9 8 (3.14%) Web Services
10 7 (2.75%) Node.js
11 6 (2.35%) CSS3
11 6 (2.35%) HTML5
11 6 (2.35%) REST
11 6 (2.35%) Spring
12 5 (1.96%) .NET Core
12 5 (1.96%) JSON
12 5 (1.96%) PySpark
12 5 (1.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.80%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.92%) Legacy Applications
5 9 (3.53%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.96%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.18%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.18%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.18%) Replication
8 3 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.78%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.39%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.39%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.35%) Android
1 6 (2.35%) Linux
1 6 (2.35%) Windows
2 4 (1.57%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (27.84%) Agile
2 59 (23.14%) Business Intelligence
3 58 (22.75%) Analytics
4 53 (20.78%) CI/CD
5 49 (19.22%) Software Engineering
6 46 (18.04%) ETL
7 45 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (16.08%) AI
9 34 (13.33%) Mentoring
10 33 (12.94%) Data Modelling
11 32 (12.55%) Data Pipeline
12 30 (11.76%) Clean Code
12 30 (11.76%) Data Engineering
12 30 (11.76%) DevOps
13 27 (10.59%) Data Analysis
13 27 (10.59%) Microservices
14 26 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (9.80%) Containerisation
16 24 (9.41%) Data Analytics
16 24 (9.41%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 112 (43.92%) Python
2 41 (16.08%) Java
3 39 (15.29%) C#
4 22 (8.63%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.71%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.75%) PHP
6 7 (2.75%) T-SQL
7 5 (1.96%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.57%) Go
9 3 (1.18%) ANSI SQL
9 3 (1.18%) Bash
9 3 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.18%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.18%) VBA
10 2 (0.78%) Bicep
10 2 (0.78%) R
10 2 (0.78%) Scala
11 1 (0.39%) C++
11 1 (0.39%) Groovy
11 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (8.63%) Azure Certification
2 20 (7.84%) Degree
3 9 (3.53%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.75%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.18%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.39%) MBA
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.59%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.14%) QA
3 2 (0.78%) GDPR
4 1 (0.39%) HL7
4 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (7.45%) Docker
2 7 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.39%) Firmware
5 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (10.98%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.88%) Terraform
3 3 (1.18%) Ansible
3 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.18%) Rancher
4 2 (0.78%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.78%) Grafana
4 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 55 (21.57%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.67%) Databricks
3 11 (4.31%) Google
4 10 (3.92%) Oracle
5 6 (2.35%) HubSpot
5 6 (2.35%) Northgate
6 5 (1.96%) VMware
7 3 (1.18%) Pega
7 3 (1.18%) SAP
7 3 (1.18%) Xamarin
8 2 (0.78%) Aderant
8 2 (0.78%) Adyen
8 2 (0.78%) Cognos
8 2 (0.78%) Dell
8 2 (0.78%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.78%) IBM
9 1 (0.39%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.39%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow