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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 13 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +1
Permanent jobs citing SQL 257 414 453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 10.88% 10.21% 15.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.51% 33.66% 37.07%
Number of salaries quoted 166 217 387
10th Percentile £32,250 £38,184 £36,558
25th Percentile £35,500 £43,750 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.17% +10.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £70,625
90th Percentile £82,500 £74,250 £79,250
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%

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 767 1,230 1,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 32.47% 30.33% 43.10%
Number of salaries quoted 465 710 1,030
10th Percentile £32,750 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £83,750
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for SQL 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 +9 15 £33,500 -27.96% 19
Salford +8 8 £45,000 -10.55% 4
Stockport +3 6 £55,000 +10.00% 12
Altrincham -17 6 £55,000 -4.35%
Oldham +4 5 £37,500 -14.77% 5
Cheadle - 5 - - 1
Wigan - 4 - - 4
Sale - 3 - - 2
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - - 1
SQL
North West

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.28%) Confluence
1 11 (4.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.72%) IIS
3 6 (2.33%) Apache
3 6 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.56%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.78%) SAS
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) FactoryTalk
7 1 (0.39%) LiveLink
7 1 (0.39%) WinCC
7 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (7.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) NetSuite
1 5 (1.95%) Sage 200
1 5 (1.95%) Sage CRM
1 5 (1.95%) SAP Business One
2 4 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.39%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 125 (48.64%) Azure
2 96 (37.35%) AWS
3 37 (14.40%) Power Platform
4 28 (10.89%) GCP
5 23 (8.95%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (7.39%) SaaS
7 14 (5.45%) Entra ID
8 9 (3.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (3.50%) Serverless
9 8 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.72%) IaaS
10 7 (2.72%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.33%) GitHub
12 5 (1.95%) PaaS
12 5 (1.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (1.56%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.23%) Firewall
2 10 (3.89%) VLAN
3 6 (2.33%) DNS
3 6 (2.33%) VPN
4 5 (1.95%) DHCP
4 5 (1.95%) DMZ
4 5 (1.95%) STUN
4 5 (1.95%) VoIP
5 2 (0.78%) Network Security
6 1 (0.39%) DAB
6 1 (0.39%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (22.96%) SQL Server
2 36 (14.01%) Power BI
3 32 (12.45%) NoSQL
4 20 (7.78%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (7.39%) Relational Database
6 17 (6.61%) Tableau
7 16 (6.23%) MySQL
8 11 (4.28%) Data Lake
9 10 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (3.50%) Big Data
11 7 (2.72%) Data Mining
11 7 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (2.33%) Data Hub
12 6 (2.33%) MongoDB
12 6 (2.33%) RDBMS
12 6 (2.33%) SQL CLR
12 6 (2.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (1.95%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (1.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 33 (12.84%) GitLab
2 30 (11.67%) JIRA
2 30 (11.67%) Selenium
3 29 (11.28%) Cucumber
4 28 (10.89%) Maven
4 28 (10.89%) SonarQube
4 28 (10.89%) Sonatype Nexus
5 27 (10.51%) Bitbucket
6 14 (5.45%) Git
7 4 (1.56%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.17%) JMeter
9 2 (0.78%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.78%) MLflow
10 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.39%) JUnit
10 1 (0.39%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.39%) Postman
10 1 (0.39%) RStudio
10 1 (0.39%) Subversion
10 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 92 (35.80%) Social Skills
2 84 (32.68%) Finance
3 54 (21.01%) Retail
4 48 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (15.56%) Banking
6 32 (12.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (7.78%) Investment Banking
8 18 (7.00%) Corporate Banking
9 17 (6.61%) Manufacturing
10 12 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (4.67%) Marketing
11 8 (3.11%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (2.33%) Back Office
13 5 (1.95%) Digital Healthcare
13 5 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.56%) Law
14 4 (1.56%) Legal
14 4 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (1.17%) Games
16 2 (0.78%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 46 (17.90%) Developer
1 46 (17.90%) Senior
2 42 (16.34%) Analyst
3 39 (15.18%) Software Engineer
4 29 (11.28%) Data Engineer
5 17 (6.61%) Architect
6 16 (6.23%) Data Analyst
7 15 (5.84%) IT Support
7 15 (5.84%) Senior Data Engineer
7 15 (5.84%) Support Engineer
8 14 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (5.06%) AWS Architect
9 13 (5.06%) AWS Solution Architect
10 12 (4.67%) .NET Developer
10 12 (4.67%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (4.67%) DevOps Architect
10 12 (4.67%) Senior Architect
10 12 (4.67%) Senior DevOps
10 12 (4.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
10 12 (4.67%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (14.79%) CSS
1 38 (14.79%) HTML
2 35 (13.62%) Spring
2 35 (13.62%) Spring Boot
3 33 (12.84%) React
4 31 (12.06%) Kafka
4 31 (12.06%) RESTful
5 28 (10.89%) .NET
6 27 (10.51%) JPA
6 27 (10.51%) Redux
7 23 (8.95%) REST
8 22 (8.56%) Sass
9 19 (7.39%) CSS3
9 19 (7.39%) HTML5
10 18 (7.00%) Jest
11 13 (5.06%) JSON
12 12 (4.67%) .NET Framework
13 10 (3.89%) Hibernate
14 9 (3.50%) .NET Core
14 9 (3.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.40%) Product Ownership
2 28 (10.89%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (9.73%) Cloud Native
4 20 (7.78%) Driving Licence
5 16 (6.23%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (5.84%) EPoS
7 14 (5.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 14 (5.45%) Management Information System
8 10 (3.89%) CCTV
8 10 (3.89%) Data Structures
9 8 (3.11%) Mobile App
9 8 (3.11%) Private Cloud
10 7 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.95%) LIMS
13 3 (1.17%) Manufacturing Execution System
13 3 (1.17%) Onboarding
13 3 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 2 (0.78%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.00%) Windows
2 15 (5.84%) Linux
3 14 (5.45%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.95%) Debian
4 5 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.78%) Android
5 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.78%) Unix
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (32.30%) Agile
2 77 (29.96%) DevOps
3 70 (27.24%) CI/CD
4 58 (22.57%) Software Engineering
5 56 (21.79%) Microservices
6 52 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (19.46%) Business Intelligence
8 47 (18.29%) Containerisation
9 45 (17.51%) Full-Stack Development
10 41 (15.95%) Analytics
11 36 (14.01%) SDLC
12 35 (13.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (13.62%) Test Automation
13 34 (13.23%) Mentoring
13 34 (13.23%) Migration
14 31 (12.06%) Performance Optimisation
15 29 (11.28%) Data Management
16 28 (10.89%) Front End Development
16 28 (10.89%) Roadmaps
17 26 (10.12%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 73 (28.40%) Python
2 62 (24.12%) Java
3 53 (20.62%) JavaScript
4 43 (16.73%) C#
5 24 (9.34%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.06%) PowerShell
7 9 (3.50%) PHP
8 8 (3.11%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.72%) VBA
10 4 (1.56%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.56%) Scala
10 4 (1.56%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.17%) Bash
11 3 (1.17%) C++
11 3 (1.17%) C-shell
11 3 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.17%) Go
11 3 (1.17%) Korn
11 3 (1.17%) R
12 2 (0.78%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (8.56%) Degree
2 13 (5.06%) AWS Certification
2 13 (5.06%) Azure Certification
2 13 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (4.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (3.11%) Security Cleared
5 6 (2.33%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.95%) PhD
7 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (12.45%) QA
2 20 (7.78%) Accessibility
3 17 (6.61%) GDPR
4 16 (6.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (5.45%) NIST
6 13 (5.06%) Data Quality
7 12 (4.67%) HIPAA
8 6 (2.33%) HL7
9 5 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.95%) ISO 9001
10 3 (1.17%) SLA
11 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 56 (21.79%) Docker
2 16 (6.23%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.50%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.95%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 51 (19.84%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.06%) Terraform
3 9 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.17%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (0.78%) SCCM
6 1 (0.39%) Ansible
6 1 (0.39%) Argo
6 1 (0.39%) AssetCenter
6 1 (0.39%) Istio
6 1 (0.39%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.39%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (19.07%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.51%) Solace
3 13 (5.06%) Google
3 13 (5.06%) VMware
4 11 (4.28%) Databricks
5 10 (3.89%) Oracle
6 6 (2.33%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.95%) Facebook
7 5 (1.95%) MobileIron
7 5 (1.95%) Sage
7 5 (1.95%) SAP
7 5 (1.95%) Veeam
8 4 (1.56%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.56%) IBM
8 4 (1.56%) Moogsoft
8 4 (1.56%) Splunk
9 3 (1.17%) Bloomberg
9 3 (1.17%) DocuSign
9 3 (1.17%) Intapp
9 3 (1.17%) Sitecore