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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 19 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 390 264 456
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.86% 10.48% 10.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.55% 30.41% 33.50%
Number of salaries quoted 300 181 299
10th Percentile £38,975 £32,750 £38,217
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,751 £79,000
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +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 1,097 868 1,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.48% 34.47% 30.10%
Number of salaries quoted 858 557 988
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £38,200
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.60% -0.42%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,711 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -1.38%

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 August 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 August 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 +10 8 £56,250 +67.91% 1
Oldham +10 8 £67,500 +80.00%
Wigan +4 7 £47,500 - 4
Stockport -2 5 £65,000 +18.18% 5
Sale +7 4 £60,000 -
Cheadle 0 3 £55,000 - 1
Salford -19 3 £62,500 +38.89% 4
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 (4.36%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (3.59%) IIS
3 11 (2.82%) Apache
3 11 (2.82%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.05%) Confluence
5 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.79%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.51%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.51%) CICS
7 2 (0.51%) nginx
8 1 (0.26%) JBoss
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.26%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 54 (13.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.77%) NEC Housing
1 3 (0.77%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Magento
2 2 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.26%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.26%) Odoo
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 145 (37.18%) Azure
2 121 (31.03%) AWS
3 70 (17.95%) Power Platform
4 41 (10.51%) GCP
5 35 (8.97%) GitHub
6 31 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (7.44%) Serverless
8 26 (6.67%) SaaS
9 23 (5.90%) Snowflake
10 22 (5.64%) Amazon S3
11 18 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (4.10%) Azure AI
12 16 (4.10%) dbt
13 15 (3.85%) Anthropic Claude
14 10 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (2.31%) Power Automate
16 8 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (2.05%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.85%) Firewall
2 13 (3.33%) DNS
3 10 (2.56%) DHCP
4 9 (2.31%) VPN
5 8 (2.05%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.54%) SAN
7 3 (0.77%) LTE
7 3 (0.77%) VLAN
8 2 (0.51%) HTTP
9 1 (0.26%) Internet
9 1 (0.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (18.46%) SQL Server
2 63 (16.15%) Power BI
3 35 (8.97%) Tableau
4 29 (7.44%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (7.44%) NoSQL
5 25 (6.41%) MongoDB
6 21 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
7 19 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (4.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (4.10%) Relational Database
10 15 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 13 (3.33%) BigQuery
11 13 (3.33%) MySQL
12 10 (2.56%) Data Lake
12 10 (2.56%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.79%) Big Data
13 7 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.54%) Data Mining
14 6 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 37 (9.49%) Git
2 15 (3.85%) Claude Code
3 14 (3.59%) JIRA
4 12 (3.08%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.05%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.03%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.77%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.77%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.77%) NUnit
8 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.51%) GitLab
9 2 (0.51%) MSTest
9 2 (0.51%) Postman
9 2 (0.51%) Vite
10 1 (0.26%) MLflow
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
General
1 135 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 94 (24.10%) Finance
3 76 (19.49%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.72%) Law
5 21 (5.38%) Marketing
6 16 (4.10%) Retail
7 14 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (3.33%) Advertising
8 13 (3.33%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.82%) Legal
11 7 (1.79%) Billing
12 5 (1.28%) Banking
12 5 (1.28%) General Ledger
12 5 (1.28%) Local Government
12 5 (1.28%) Military
12 5 (1.28%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.03%) Games
13 4 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 95 (24.36%) Senior
2 75 (19.23%) Data Engineer
3 68 (17.44%) Developer
4 62 (15.90%) Analyst
5 44 (11.28%) Lead
5 44 (11.28%) Software Engineer
6 40 (10.26%) Data Analyst
7 31 (7.95%) Senior Data Engineer
8 20 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
9 16 (4.10%) Junior
10 14 (3.59%) Database Engineer
10 14 (3.59%) Junior Analyst
10 14 (3.59%) Junior Data Analyst
10 14 (3.59%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (3.59%) Support Engineer
11 13 (3.33%) .NET Developer
11 13 (3.33%) Consultant
11 13 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (3.33%) Lead Software Engineer
12 12 (3.08%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.49%) .NET
2 35 (8.97%) React
3 34 (8.72%) HTML
4 30 (7.69%) CSS
5 26 (6.67%) Node.js
6 24 (6.15%) RESTful
7 22 (5.64%) AngularJS
8 18 (4.62%) Kafka
8 18 (4.62%) PySpark
9 16 (4.10%) Next.js
10 15 (3.85%) ASP.NET
10 15 (3.85%) Spring
10 15 (3.85%) Vue
11 14 (3.59%) Spring Boot
12 12 (3.08%) .NET Core
12 12 (3.08%) REST
13 11 (2.82%) ASP.NET Core
13 11 (2.82%) Middleware
14 9 (2.31%) Entity Framework
15 8 (2.05%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.38%) Onboarding
2 20 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 16 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (3.59%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
6 9 (2.31%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.31%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.05%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.54%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.28%) Replication
10 4 (1.03%) Clustering
10 4 (1.03%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.03%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.03%) Online Gambling
11 3 (0.77%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.15%) Windows
2 18 (4.62%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.03%) Android
3 4 (1.03%) Linux
4 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.26%) Unix
4 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (26.41%) Agile
2 97 (24.87%) Analytics
3 90 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (21.79%) Business Intelligence
5 81 (20.77%) AI
6 80 (20.51%) CI/CD
7 66 (16.92%) Software Engineering
8 61 (15.64%) Decision-Making
9 59 (15.13%) Data Engineering
10 53 (13.59%) ETL
11 51 (13.08%) DevOps
12 48 (12.31%) Mentoring
13 47 (12.05%) Data Modelling
14 46 (11.79%) Data Pipeline
15 40 (10.26%) Collaborative Culture
16 39 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
17 38 (9.74%) Validation
18 37 (9.49%) Data Analysis
19 34 (8.72%) Test Automation
20 32 (8.21%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 169 (43.33%) Python
2 52 (13.33%) C#
3 48 (12.31%) Java
4 37 (9.49%) JavaScript
4 37 (9.49%) TypeScript
5 19 (4.87%) PHP
6 16 (4.10%) T-SQL
7 12 (3.08%) PowerShell
8 9 (2.31%) Scala
9 6 (1.54%) Bash
9 6 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (1.54%) R
10 5 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.51%) Bicep
11 2 (0.51%) C++
11 2 (0.51%) VBA
12 1 (0.26%) Go
12 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (8.97%) Degree
2 20 (5.13%) Azure Certification
3 15 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.56%) SC Cleared
5 8 (2.05%) Master's Degree
6 7 (1.79%) ACCA
6 7 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.54%) CIMA
8 5 (1.28%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.03%) MCSA
9 4 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.77%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.26%) CFA
11 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (14.87%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.67%) QA
3 6 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.51%) GDPR
5 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.26%) IFRS
5 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (4.87%) Docker
2 16 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.85%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.05%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.26%) MetaFrame
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.26%) vSphere
6 1 (0.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 22 (5.64%) Terraform
2 16 (4.10%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (1.28%) Grafana
5 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 108 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.44%) Databricks
3 19 (4.87%) VMware
4 15 (3.85%) Google
5 12 (3.08%) Oracle
6 8 (2.05%) HubSpot
7 7 (1.79%) Splunk
8 6 (1.54%) Adobe
9 4 (1.03%) Informatica
9 4 (1.03%) Sage
9 4 (1.03%) Xamarin
10 3 (0.77%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.77%) Facebook
10 3 (0.77%) NEC
10 3 (0.77%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.77%) Pega
10 3 (0.77%) SAP
10 3 (0.77%) Veeam
11 2 (0.51%) Adyen
11 2 (0.51%) IBM