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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 19 14
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 -6
Permanent jobs citing SQL 368 266 604
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.95% 11.65% 10.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.01% 30.79% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 292 181 446
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,924
Median % change year-on-year - +2.00% -4.14%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £83,750 £76,625
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 1,051 864 1,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 17.00% 37.84% 32.04%
Number of salaries quoted 843 550 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 £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 £96,250 £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 22 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 22 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 +11 9 £62,500 +86.57% 4
Oldham +11 6 £42,000 +12.00% 2
Wigan +2 6 £42,500 +8.97% 1
Stockport +2 5 £55,000 - 3
Sale +7 3 £60,000 -
Cheadle -2 3 £55,000 - 1
Salford -18 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 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.45%) Apache
2 9 (2.45%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.45%) IIS
3 8 (2.17%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.63%) Confluence
4 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.54%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.54%) CICS
6 2 (0.54%) JBoss
6 2 (0.54%) nginx
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.27%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 56 (15.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.82%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.82%) NEC Housing
1 3 (0.82%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.54%) Magento
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 124 (33.70%) Azure
2 103 (27.99%) AWS
3 67 (18.21%) Power Platform
4 38 (10.33%) GCP
5 30 (8.15%) SaaS
6 26 (7.07%) GitHub
7 25 (6.79%) Serverless
8 23 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (4.62%) Amazon S3
9 17 (4.62%) Anthropic Claude
9 17 (4.62%) Azure AI
9 17 (4.62%) Snowflake
10 14 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (2.72%) dbt
12 9 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.17%) Azure AKS
14 7 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (1.90%) Google Sheets
14 7 (1.90%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.99%) Firewall
2 9 (2.45%) DNS
3 6 (1.63%) DHCP
3 6 (1.63%) SAN
4 5 (1.36%) VPN
5 4 (1.09%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.82%) LTE
6 3 (0.82%) VLAN
7 1 (0.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (17.66%) SQL Server
2 63 (17.12%) Power BI
3 39 (10.60%) Tableau
4 31 (8.42%) NoSQL
5 24 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (5.16%) MongoDB
6 19 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (5.16%) Relational Database
7 17 (4.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (4.35%) Data Lake
9 15 (4.08%) MySQL
10 14 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (2.99%) BigQuery
12 10 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (2.45%) Data Mining
14 7 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.90%) Big Data
14 7 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (1.63%) Db2
15 6 (1.63%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 31 (8.42%) Git
2 17 (4.62%) Claude Code
3 11 (2.99%) JIRA
4 8 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.36%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.09%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.82%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.82%) GitLab
7 3 (0.82%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.54%) MSTest
8 2 (0.54%) NUnit
8 2 (0.54%) Vite
9 1 (0.27%) MLflow
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.27%) Postman
General
1 108 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 85 (23.10%) Finance
3 69 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (6.79%) Law
5 17 (4.62%) Marketing
6 14 (3.80%) Public Sector
7 12 (3.26%) Advertising
7 12 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (3.26%) Retail
8 10 (2.72%) Legal
9 9 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.63%) Banking
10 6 (1.63%) Billing
10 6 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.36%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.36%) Military
11 5 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.09%) Local Government
13 3 (0.82%) French Language
13 3 (0.82%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 93 (25.27%) Senior
2 75 (20.38%) Data Engineer
3 62 (16.85%) Analyst
4 59 (16.03%) Developer
5 41 (11.14%) Lead
5 41 (11.14%) Software Engineer
6 39 (10.60%) Data Analyst
7 34 (9.24%) Senior Data Engineer
8 20 (5.43%) Senior Software Engineer
9 16 (4.35%) Junior
9 16 (4.35%) Junior Analyst
9 16 (4.35%) Junior Data Analyst
10 15 (4.08%) Java Engineer
10 15 (4.08%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (3.80%) Database Engineer
11 14 (3.80%) Senior Java Engineer
11 14 (3.80%) SQL Developer
12 13 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
12 13 (3.53%) Lead Software Engineer
13 12 (3.26%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.70%) React
2 30 (8.15%) .NET
2 30 (8.15%) CSS
2 30 (8.15%) HTML
3 23 (6.25%) RESTful
4 21 (5.71%) Node.js
5 19 (5.16%) Kafka
6 17 (4.62%) AngularJS
7 15 (4.08%) PySpark
8 14 (3.80%) Next.js
9 13 (3.53%) Spring
9 13 (3.53%) Vue
10 12 (3.26%) Spring Boot
11 11 (2.99%) REST
12 9 (2.45%) .NET Framework
12 9 (2.45%) ASP.NET
13 8 (2.17%) FastAPI
13 8 (2.17%) Pandas
14 6 (1.63%) .NET Core
14 6 (1.63%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 22 (5.98%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.53%) Legacy Applications
5 12 (3.26%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.99%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.72%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.36%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.36%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.36%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.09%) Clustering
10 4 (1.09%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (0.82%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.82%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.82%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.89%) Windows
2 14 (3.80%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.17%) Android
4 6 (1.63%) Linux
5 3 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (25.54%) Agile
2 92 (25.00%) Analytics
3 79 (21.47%) Business Intelligence
4 76 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
5 71 (19.29%) AI
6 69 (18.75%) CI/CD
7 60 (16.30%) Software Engineering
8 57 (15.49%) ETL
9 51 (13.86%) Data Engineering
10 50 (13.59%) Data Modelling
11 49 (13.32%) Decision-Making
12 46 (12.50%) Mentoring
13 44 (11.96%) DevOps
14 40 (10.87%) Data Pipeline
15 33 (8.97%) Full-Stack Development
16 32 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
16 32 (8.70%) Data Analysis
17 31 (8.42%) Collaborative Culture
17 31 (8.42%) Microservices
18 30 (8.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 154 (41.85%) Python
2 50 (13.59%) Java
3 43 (11.68%) C#
4 32 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 29 (7.88%) TypeScript
6 15 (4.08%) T-SQL
7 13 (3.53%) PHP
8 10 (2.72%) Scala
9 6 (1.63%) Bash
9 6 (1.63%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.36%) R
11 4 (1.09%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.54%) Bicep
13 2 (0.54%) VBA
14 1 (0.27%) C++
14 1 (0.27%) Go
14 1 (0.27%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 27 (7.34%) Degree
2 22 (5.98%) Azure Certification
3 17 (4.62%) Security Cleared
4 13 (3.53%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.63%) ACCA
8 5 (1.36%) CIMA
9 4 (1.09%) MCSA
9 4 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.82%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.82%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.82%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.54%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.27%) CFA
12 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (13.59%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.80%) QA
3 3 (0.82%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.54%) GDPR
5 1 (0.27%) IFRS
5 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (3.80%) Active Directory
1 14 (3.80%) Docker
2 12 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.27%) MetaFrame
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.27%) vSphere
5 1 (0.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 21 (5.71%) Terraform
2 19 (5.16%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (0.82%) Grafana
5 2 (0.54%) 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 93 (25.27%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.15%) Databricks
3 16 (4.35%) Google
3 16 (4.35%) VMware
4 15 (4.08%) Oracle
5 9 (2.45%) HubSpot
6 6 (1.63%) Adobe
7 5 (1.36%) Xamarin
8 3 (0.82%) Alteryx
8 3 (0.82%) Facebook
8 3 (0.82%) Northgate
8 3 (0.82%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.82%) Pega
8 3 (0.82%) Sage
8 3 (0.82%) SAP
8 3 (0.82%) Splunk
8 3 (0.82%) Veeam
9 2 (0.54%) Adyen
9 2 (0.54%) Cognos
9 2 (0.54%) IBM