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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 16 13
Rank change year-on-year -7 -3 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 402 260 409
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.49% 10.82% 10.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.89% 33.08% 33.28%
Number of salaries quoted 304 169 223
10th Percentile £36,800 £32,550 £38,350
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £64,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,751 £77,500
North West median annual salary £50,101 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.20% -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 1,120 786 1,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.28% 32.70% 30.12%
Number of salaries quoted 848 480 734
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,563 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,313 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +9 10 £67,500 +80.00% 1
Bolton +3 10 £54,000 +61.19% 3
Sale +8 7 £60,000 -
Stockport +2 7 £70,000 +27.27% 4
Wigan 0 5 £37,500 - 3
Salford -25 4 £62,500 +38.89% 8
Cheadle -1 3 £55,000 - 1
Altrincham +4 1 £47,500 -13.64% 3
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 17 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (3.98%) Apache
2 16 (3.98%) IIS
3 11 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.24%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.99%) Confluence
6 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (1.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.50%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.50%) nginx
8 2 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.25%) SAS
9 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 44 (10.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.00%) NEC Housing
1 4 (1.00%) NetSuite
1 4 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
1 4 (1.00%) SAP Business One
2 3 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.50%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.25%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.25%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) Odoo
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 139 (34.58%) Azure
2 120 (29.85%) AWS
3 67 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 44 (10.95%) GitHub
5 34 (8.46%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (8.46%) GCP
6 30 (7.46%) SaaS
6 30 (7.46%) Snowflake
7 29 (7.21%) Serverless
8 25 (6.22%) Amazon S3
9 20 (4.98%) dbt
10 19 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.99%) Anthropic Claude
11 12 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (2.49%) Azure AI
13 10 (2.49%) Power Automate
14 9 (2.24%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.73%) Firewall
2 13 (3.23%) DNS
3 10 (2.49%) DHCP
4 9 (2.24%) VPN
5 8 (1.99%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.49%) SAN
7 3 (0.75%) HTTP
7 3 (0.75%) LTE
7 3 (0.75%) SMS
7 3 (0.75%) VLAN
8 1 (0.25%) Internet
8 1 (0.25%) Network Security
8 1 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (15.92%) SQL Server
2 58 (14.43%) Power BI
3 31 (7.71%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (6.22%) Tableau
5 23 (5.72%) MongoDB
5 23 (5.72%) NoSQL
5 23 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (5.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (4.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (3.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 14 (3.48%) DynamoDB
10 13 (3.23%) Relational Database
11 11 (2.74%) Data Lake
12 10 (2.49%) BigQuery
12 10 (2.49%) MySQL
13 9 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.74%) Big Data
15 6 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (1.49%) Metadata
16 4 (1.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 35 (8.71%) Git
2 13 (3.23%) JIRA
3 12 (2.99%) Bitbucket
3 12 (2.99%) Claude Code
4 6 (1.49%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.00%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (1.00%) GitLab
7 3 (0.75%) NUnit
7 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.50%) MSTest
8 2 (0.50%) Postman
8 2 (0.50%) Vite
9 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.25%) Maven
9 1 (0.25%) MLflow
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
General
1 152 (37.81%) Social Skills
2 102 (25.37%) Finance
3 80 (19.90%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.20%) Law
5 27 (6.72%) Marketing
6 15 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.73%) Retail
7 13 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.99%) Legal
8 12 (2.99%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.74%) Advertising
10 7 (1.74%) Billing
10 7 (1.74%) Games
11 6 (1.49%) Local Government
12 5 (1.24%) General Ledger
12 5 (1.24%) Military
12 5 (1.24%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.00%) Banking
13 4 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (25.12%) Senior
2 75 (18.66%) Data Engineer
3 74 (18.41%) Developer
4 60 (14.93%) Analyst
5 41 (10.20%) Software Engineer
6 38 (9.45%) Lead
7 33 (8.21%) Senior Data Engineer
8 32 (7.96%) Data Analyst
9 19 (4.73%) Consultant
9 19 (4.73%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (3.48%) Support Engineer
12 13 (3.23%) .NET Developer
13 11 (2.74%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (2.74%) Senior Developer
14 10 (2.49%) Junior
14 10 (2.49%) Software Developer
14 10 (2.49%) SQL Analyst
15 9 (2.24%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.24%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (8.96%) .NET
2 32 (7.96%) HTML
3 30 (7.46%) React
4 28 (6.97%) Node.js
5 27 (6.72%) CSS
6 24 (5.97%) Terraform
7 22 (5.47%) PySpark
8 17 (4.23%) AngularJS
8 17 (4.23%) ASP.NET
9 16 (3.98%) Kafka
10 15 (3.73%) Next.js
10 15 (3.73%) Vue
11 14 (3.48%) Spring
12 13 (3.23%) RESTful
12 13 (3.23%) Spring Boot
13 12 (2.99%) .NET Core
14 11 (2.74%) ASP.NET Core
14 11 (2.74%) REST
15 9 (2.24%) Entity Framework
15 9 (2.24%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.47%) Onboarding
2 21 (5.22%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.98%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (3.98%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.49%) Marketing Technology
7 9 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.24%) Mobile App
7 9 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.99%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.24%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.24%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.24%) Online Gambling
11 4 (1.00%) AI Agents
11 4 (1.00%) Clustering
11 4 (1.00%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.72%) Windows
2 18 (4.48%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.49%) Linux
4 4 (1.00%) Android
5 2 (0.50%) Unix
6 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (25.37%) Analytics
1 102 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
2 98 (24.38%) Agile
2 98 (24.38%) AI
3 86 (21.39%) Business Intelligence
4 78 (19.40%) CI/CD
5 67 (16.67%) Data Engineering
5 67 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 67 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 55 (13.68%) ETL
6 55 (13.68%) Mentoring
7 54 (13.43%) Data Pipeline
8 51 (12.69%) DevOps
9 48 (11.94%) Data Modelling
10 42 (10.45%) Validation
11 41 (10.20%) Full-Stack Development
12 40 (9.95%) Collaborative Culture
12 40 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
13 37 (9.20%) Data Analysis
13 37 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 173 (43.03%) Python
2 47 (11.69%) C#
2 47 (11.69%) Java
3 46 (11.44%) TypeScript
4 45 (11.19%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.98%) PHP
6 17 (4.23%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.23%) T-SQL
8 9 (2.24%) Bash
8 9 (2.24%) Scala
9 8 (1.99%) R
10 5 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.00%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.75%) Bicep
12 3 (0.75%) C++
12 3 (0.75%) Go
13 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.25%) VBA
13 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (9.95%) Degree
2 18 (4.48%) Security Cleared
3 14 (3.48%) Azure Certification
3 14 (3.48%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.99%) Master's Degree
5 7 (1.74%) ACCA
5 7 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.49%) CIMA
7 5 (1.24%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.00%) MCSA
8 4 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.25%) CFA
10 1 (0.25%) HNC
10 1 (0.25%) HND
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (17.91%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.47%) QA
3 9 (2.24%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.50%) GDPR
6 1 (0.25%) IFRS
6 1 (0.25%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (4.48%) Docker
2 16 (3.98%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.99%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.25%) MetaFrame
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.25%) vSphere
5 1 (0.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (2.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Clustering
3 5 (1.24%) Grafana
4 2 (0.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 108 (26.87%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.46%) Databricks
3 19 (4.73%) VMware
4 16 (3.98%) Google
5 13 (3.23%) Oracle
6 8 (1.99%) Sage
6 8 (1.99%) SAP
7 7 (1.74%) Splunk
8 6 (1.49%) Adobe
8 6 (1.49%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.24%) Informatica
9 5 (1.24%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.24%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 4 (1.00%) Alteryx
10 4 (1.00%) NEC
10 4 (1.00%) Xamarin
11 3 (0.75%) Facebook
11 3 (0.75%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.75%) Veeam
12 2 (0.50%) Mistral