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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 19 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 -6 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 377 264 610
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.99% 11.15% 10.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.47% 30.31% 32.38%
Number of salaries quoted 296 179 447
10th Percentile £39,000 £31,650 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £84,000 £77,500
North West median annual salary £54,250 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.50% -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 1,063 871 1,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.88% 36.78% 32.71%
Number of salaries quoted 848 556 1,462
10th Percentile £40,500 £33,875 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +15.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,778 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +11 9 £62,500 +86.57% 1
Wigan +4 6 £42,500 +8.97% 3
Oldham +11 5 £42,000 +12.00% 2
Stockport +3 5 £55,000 - 2
Sale +7 3 £60,000 -
Cheadle 0 3 £55,000 - 1
Salford -16 3 £62,500 +38.89% 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 15 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.18%) IIS
3 11 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.39%) Apache
5 8 (2.12%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.86%) Confluence
6 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.53%) CICS
8 2 (0.53%) JBoss
8 2 (0.53%) nginx
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.27%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 55 (14.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.80%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.53%) Magento
2 2 (0.53%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 134 (35.54%) Azure
2 108 (28.65%) AWS
3 68 (18.04%) Power Platform
4 36 (9.55%) GCP
5 28 (7.43%) SaaS
6 27 (7.16%) GitHub
7 26 (6.90%) Serverless
8 25 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (4.77%) Amazon S3
10 17 (4.51%) Anthropic Claude
10 17 (4.51%) Azure AI
11 16 (4.24%) Snowflake
12 15 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (2.65%) dbt
14 8 (2.12%) Azure AKS
14 8 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (2.12%) Google Sheets
14 8 (2.12%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.71%) Firewall
2 12 (3.18%) DNS
3 9 (2.39%) DHCP
4 8 (2.12%) VPN
5 7 (1.86%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.59%) SAN
7 3 (0.80%) LTE
7 3 (0.80%) VLAN
8 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (18.30%) SQL Server
2 63 (16.71%) Power BI
3 39 (10.34%) Tableau
4 30 (7.96%) NoSQL
5 23 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (5.57%) MongoDB
7 19 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (4.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 17 (4.51%) Relational Database
10 16 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
11 15 (3.98%) MySQL
12 12 (3.18%) Data Lake
13 10 (2.65%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (2.65%) BigQuery
14 8 (2.12%) Data Mining
15 7 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (1.86%) Big Data
15 7 (1.86%) DynamoDB
15 7 (1.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 32 (8.49%) Git
2 17 (4.51%) Claude Code
3 12 (3.18%) JIRA
4 9 (2.39%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.33%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.06%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.80%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.80%) GitLab
7 3 (0.80%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.53%) MSTest
8 2 (0.53%) NUnit
8 2 (0.53%) Vite
9 1 (0.27%) MLflow
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 113 (29.97%) Social Skills
2 86 (22.81%) Finance
3 68 (18.04%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.49%) Law
5 18 (4.77%) Marketing
6 15 (3.98%) Public Sector
6 15 (3.98%) Retail
7 13 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (3.18%) Advertising
8 12 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.92%) Legal
10 6 (1.59%) Billing
10 6 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.33%) Banking
11 5 (1.33%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.33%) Military
11 5 (1.33%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.06%) Games
12 4 (1.06%) Local Government
13 3 (0.80%) French Language
Job Titles
1 95 (25.20%) Senior
2 73 (19.36%) Data Engineer
3 63 (16.71%) Analyst
4 62 (16.45%) Developer
5 41 (10.88%) Lead
5 41 (10.88%) Software Engineer
6 39 (10.34%) Data Analyst
7 33 (8.75%) Senior Data Engineer
8 20 (5.31%) Senior Software Engineer
9 16 (4.24%) Junior
9 16 (4.24%) Junior Analyst
9 16 (4.24%) Junior Data Analyst
10 15 (3.98%) Java Engineer
10 15 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (3.71%) Database Engineer
11 14 (3.71%) Senior Java Engineer
11 14 (3.71%) SQL Developer
11 14 (3.71%) Support Engineer
12 13 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (3.45%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.49%) .NET
1 32 (8.49%) HTML
1 32 (8.49%) React
2 31 (8.22%) CSS
3 24 (6.37%) RESTful
4 23 (6.10%) Node.js
5 19 (5.04%) AngularJS
5 19 (5.04%) Kafka
6 15 (3.98%) PySpark
7 14 (3.71%) Next.js
7 14 (3.71%) Spring
7 14 (3.71%) Vue
8 13 (3.45%) Spring Boot
9 11 (2.92%) ASP.NET
10 10 (2.65%) REST
11 9 (2.39%) Middleware
12 8 (2.12%) .NET Core
12 8 (2.12%) .NET Framework
12 8 (2.12%) ASP.NET Core
12 8 (2.12%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.10%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.84%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
5 12 (3.18%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.92%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.65%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.33%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.33%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.33%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.06%) Clustering
11 4 (1.06%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (0.80%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.80%) Management Information System
12 3 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.80%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.84%) Windows
2 17 (4.51%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.12%) Android
4 6 (1.59%) Linux
5 3 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (25.46%) Analytics
2 95 (25.20%) Agile
3 82 (21.75%) Business Intelligence
4 81 (21.49%) Problem-Solving
5 74 (19.63%) CI/CD
6 71 (18.83%) AI
7 64 (16.98%) Software Engineering
8 54 (14.32%) Decision-Making
9 53 (14.06%) ETL
10 50 (13.26%) Data Engineering
11 47 (12.47%) Data Modelling
12 45 (11.94%) Mentoring
13 44 (11.67%) DevOps
14 43 (11.41%) Data Pipeline
15 35 (9.28%) Collaborative Culture
15 35 (9.28%) Full-Stack Development
16 34 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
17 32 (8.49%) Data Analysis
18 31 (8.22%) Microservices
18 31 (8.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 155 (41.11%) Python
2 49 (13.00%) Java
3 46 (12.20%) C#
4 33 (8.75%) JavaScript
5 30 (7.96%) TypeScript
6 15 (3.98%) PHP
6 15 (3.98%) T-SQL
7 9 (2.39%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.39%) Scala
8 6 (1.59%) Bash
9 5 (1.33%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.33%) R
10 4 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.53%) Bicep
11 2 (0.53%) VBA
12 1 (0.27%) C++
12 1 (0.27%) Go
12 1 (0.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 28 (7.43%) Degree
2 22 (5.84%) Azure Certification
3 18 (4.77%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.59%) ACCA
6 6 (1.59%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.33%) CIMA
8 4 (1.06%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.06%) MCSA
8 4 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.53%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.27%) CFA
10 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (13.53%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.04%) QA
3 3 (0.80%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 1 (0.27%) IFRS
5 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (3.98%) Active Directory
1 15 (3.98%) Docker
1 15 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (1.86%) Hyper-V
3 5 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.27%) MetaFrame
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.27%) vSphere
4 1 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 22 (5.84%) Terraform
2 18 (4.77%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (0.80%) Grafana
5 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.27%) Ansible
6 1 (0.27%) Rancher
6 1 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.27%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 100 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.96%) Databricks
3 19 (5.04%) VMware
4 15 (3.98%) Google
5 14 (3.71%) Oracle
6 10 (2.65%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.59%) Adobe
8 5 (1.33%) Xamarin
9 4 (1.06%) Sage
9 4 (1.06%) Splunk
10 3 (0.80%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.80%) Facebook
10 3 (0.80%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.80%) Pega
10 3 (0.80%) SAP
10 3 (0.80%) Veeam
11 2 (0.53%) Adyen
11 2 (0.53%) Cognos
11 2 (0.53%) IBM
11 2 (0.53%) MuleSoft