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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 13 11
Rank change year-on-year -23 -2 -2
Permanent jobs citing SQL 259 237 574
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.92% 11.21% 11.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.21% 32.29% 34.43%
Number of salaries quoted 202 165 455
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,751 £77,500
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 804 734 1,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.28% 34.70% 33.87%
Number of salaries quoted 640 562 1,398
10th Percentile £38,775 £38,750 £37,275
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 £80,000
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 2 May 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 2 May 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% 6
Sale - 3 £60,000 -
Wigan -3 2 £47,500 +21.79% 4
Stockport -10 2 £55,000 -16.35% 6
Salford -17 1 - - 5
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 (6.18%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.77%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.77%) CICS
4 2 (0.77%) Confluence
4 2 (0.77%) JBoss
5 1 (0.39%) Apache
5 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.39%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 46 (17.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.32%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.16%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.77%) Magento
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 80 (30.89%) Azure
2 66 (25.48%) AWS
3 49 (18.92%) Power Platform
4 27 (10.42%) GCP
5 25 (9.65%) SaaS
6 21 (8.11%) Azure AI
7 14 (5.41%) Azure AKS
8 12 (4.63%) Serverless
8 12 (4.63%) Snowflake
9 11 (4.25%) Anthropic Claude
10 10 (3.86%) Amazon S3
11 9 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.47%) GitHub
12 8 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (1.93%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.93%) dbt
15 4 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (1.54%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.54%) Firewall
2 3 (1.16%) DHCP
2 3 (1.16%) DNS
3 2 (0.77%) 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 (18.15%) Power BI
2 41 (15.83%) Tableau
3 37 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 36 (13.90%) SQL Server
5 18 (6.95%) MySQL
6 16 (6.18%) Data Mining
7 14 (5.41%) Data Lake
7 14 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (5.02%) Relational Database
9 11 (4.25%) MongoDB
9 11 (4.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (3.47%) BigQuery
11 8 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (2.70%) Semantic Layer
12 7 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (2.32%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (2.32%) DB2
13 6 (2.32%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (8.49%) Git
2 11 (4.25%) Claude Code
3 8 (3.09%) JIRA
4 7 (2.70%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.32%) GitLab
6 4 (1.54%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (1.16%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.16%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.16%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.77%) NUnit
9 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.39%) MSTest
9 1 (0.39%) Postman
9 1 (0.39%) Selenium
9 1 (0.39%) SoapUI
General
1 77 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 60 (23.17%) Finance
3 47 (18.15%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.02%) Advertising
5 10 (3.86%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.47%) Marketing
7 8 (3.09%) Law
8 6 (2.32%) Banking
9 5 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.93%) Legal
9 5 (1.93%) Retail
10 3 (1.16%) French Language
10 3 (1.16%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.16%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.16%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.16%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (1.16%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.77%) Games
11 2 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 74 (28.57%) Senior
2 66 (25.48%) Analyst
3 50 (19.31%) Data Engineer
4 43 (16.60%) Data Analyst
5 38 (14.67%) Developer
6 34 (13.13%) Software Engineer
7 30 (11.58%) Lead
8 26 (10.04%) Senior Data Engineer
9 21 (8.11%) Junior
9 21 (8.11%) Junior Analyst
9 21 (8.11%) Junior Data Analyst
10 16 (6.18%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (5.41%) Lead Software Engineer
12 13 (5.02%) Java Engineer
12 13 (5.02%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (5.02%) Trainee
12 13 (5.02%) Trainee Analyst
12 13 (5.02%) Trainee Data Analyst
13 12 (4.63%) Senior Java Engineer
14 10 (3.86%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.97%) .NET
2 27 (10.42%) RESTful
3 20 (7.72%) CSS
4 19 (7.34%) HTML
4 19 (7.34%) React
5 16 (6.18%) .NET Framework
6 11 (4.25%) Kafka
7 9 (3.47%) AngularJS
8 8 (3.09%) Pandas
8 8 (3.09%) Vue
8 8 (3.09%) Web Services
9 7 (2.70%) Node.js
10 6 (2.32%) CSS3
10 6 (2.32%) HTML5
10 6 (2.32%) REST
10 6 (2.32%) Spring
11 5 (1.93%) .NET Core
11 5 (1.93%) JSON
11 5 (1.93%) PySpark
11 5 (1.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.65%) Cloud Native
2 14 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.02%) Onboarding
4 10 (3.86%) Legacy Applications
5 9 (3.47%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.93%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.93%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.54%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.16%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.16%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.16%) Replication
8 3 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.77%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.77%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.39%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.70%) Android
2 6 (2.32%) Linux
2 6 (2.32%) Windows
3 4 (1.54%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (28.19%) Agile
2 59 (22.78%) Analytics
2 59 (22.78%) Business Intelligence
3 54 (20.85%) CI/CD
4 50 (19.31%) Software Engineering
5 46 (17.76%) ETL
6 45 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (15.83%) AI
8 34 (13.13%) Mentoring
9 33 (12.74%) Data Modelling
9 33 (12.74%) Data Pipeline
10 31 (11.97%) Data Engineering
10 31 (11.97%) DevOps
11 30 (11.58%) Clean Code
12 27 (10.42%) Data Analysis
12 27 (10.42%) Microservices
13 26 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (9.65%) Collaborative Culture
14 25 (9.65%) Containerisation
14 25 (9.65%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 113 (43.63%) Python
2 41 (15.83%) C#
2 41 (15.83%) Java
3 22 (8.49%) JavaScript
4 13 (5.02%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.70%) PHP
5 7 (2.70%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.93%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.54%) Go
8 3 (1.16%) ANSI SQL
8 3 (1.16%) Bash
8 3 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.16%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.16%) VBA
9 2 (0.77%) Bicep
9 2 (0.77%) R
9 2 (0.77%) Scala
10 1 (0.39%) C++
10 1 (0.39%) Groovy
10 1 (0.39%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 22 (8.49%) Azure Certification
2 20 (7.72%) Degree
3 9 (3.47%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (2.70%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.16%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.77%) 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 (10.42%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.09%) QA
3 2 (0.77%) 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 (7.34%) Docker
2 7 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.39%) Firmware
5 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (10.81%) Kubernetes
2 15 (5.79%) Terraform
3 3 (1.16%) Ansible
3 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.16%) Rancher
4 2 (0.77%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.77%) Grafana
4 2 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 56 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.56%) Databricks
3 11 (4.25%) Google
4 10 (3.86%) Oracle
5 6 (2.32%) HubSpot
5 6 (2.32%) Northgate
6 5 (1.93%) VMware
7 4 (1.54%) Xamarin
8 3 (1.16%) Pega
8 3 (1.16%) SAP
9 2 (0.77%) Aderant
9 2 (0.77%) Adyen
9 2 (0.77%) Cognos
9 2 (0.77%) Dell
9 2 (0.77%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.77%) IBM
10 1 (0.39%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.39%) Facebook
10 1 (0.39%) Hotjar
10 1 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud