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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 14 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 402 263 412
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.30% 11.09% 10.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.05% 33.89% 33.52%
Number of salaries quoted 304 171 211
10th Percentile £36,800 £32,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £72,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%

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 1,147 776 1,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.13% 32.73% 30.56%
Number of salaries quoted 852 474 692
10th Percentile £40,575 £32,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £45,375
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 £72,500 £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% -2.65%

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 24 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 24 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 +8 10 £67,500 +80.00% 2
Bolton -3 10 £54,000 +61.19% 7
Sale +8 7 £62,500 - 4
Stockport +1 7 £70,000 +27.27% 7
Wigan +2 5 £37,500 - 1
Salford -25 5 £78,750 +75.00% 14
Cheadle -1 3 £55,000 - 4
Altrincham +5 2 £51,250 -6.82% 7
Bury - 1 £55,000 - 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 (4.23%) Apache Airflow
1 17 (4.23%) IIS
2 16 (3.98%) Apache
3 11 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.24%) Confluence
5 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.49%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.50%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.50%) nginx
7 2 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.25%) SAS
8 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 42 (10.45%) 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
2 118 (29.35%) AWS
3 66 (16.42%) Power Platform
4 46 (11.44%) GitHub
5 37 (9.20%) GCP
6 35 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (7.46%) Snowflake
8 28 (6.97%) SaaS
8 28 (6.97%) Serverless
9 24 (5.97%) Amazon S3
10 20 (4.98%) dbt
11 18 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (2.99%) Anthropic Claude
12 12 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
14 10 (2.49%) GitHub Copilot
14 10 (2.49%) Power Automate
15 9 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.48%) 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 59 (14.68%) SQL Server
2 57 (14.18%) Power BI
3 30 (7.46%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (5.72%) MongoDB
4 23 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (5.47%) NoSQL
5 22 (5.47%) Tableau
6 21 (5.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (4.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (3.73%) Relational Database
9 14 (3.48%) DynamoDB
9 14 (3.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (2.99%) BigQuery
11 11 (2.74%) MySQL
12 10 (2.49%) Data Lake
13 9 (2.24%) Metadata
14 8 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
15 7 (1.74%) Big Data
16 6 (1.49%) Delta Lake
16 6 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
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%) GitLab
7 3 (0.75%) Browser DevTools
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
1 150 (37.31%) Social Skills
2 101 (25.12%) Finance
3 80 (19.90%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.20%) Law
5 28 (6.97%) Marketing
6 16 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.73%) Retail
8 13 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.99%) Legal
9 12 (2.99%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.24%) Advertising
11 7 (1.74%) Billing
11 7 (1.74%) Games
12 6 (1.49%) Local Government
13 5 (1.24%) General Ledger
13 5 (1.24%) Military
13 5 (1.24%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.75%) Banking
14 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (24.88%) Senior
2 75 (18.66%) Data Engineer
3 72 (17.91%) Developer
4 63 (15.67%) Analyst
5 41 (10.20%) Software Engineer
6 32 (7.96%) Lead
6 32 (7.96%) Senior Data Engineer
7 31 (7.71%) Data Analyst
8 22 (5.47%) Consultant
9 19 (4.73%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (3.23%) .NET Developer
11 13 (3.23%) Support Engineer
12 12 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (2.74%) Senior Developer
14 10 (2.49%) SQL Analyst
15 9 (2.24%) Data Consultant
15 9 (2.24%) Senior Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.24%) Snowflake Engineer
15 9 (2.24%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.71%) .NET
2 30 (7.46%) HTML
2 30 (7.46%) React
3 29 (7.21%) Node.js
4 25 (6.22%) CSS
5 23 (5.72%) PySpark
5 23 (5.72%) Terraform
6 16 (3.98%) AngularJS
7 15 (3.73%) ASP.NET
7 15 (3.73%) Kafka
7 15 (3.73%) Next.js
7 15 (3.73%) Vue
8 13 (3.23%) Spring
9 12 (2.99%) .NET Core
9 12 (2.99%) REST
9 12 (2.99%) RESTful
9 12 (2.99%) Spring Boot
10 11 (2.74%) ASP.NET Core
11 10 (2.49%) Middleware
12 9 (2.24%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.47%) Onboarding
2 21 (5.22%) Cloud Native
3 20 (4.98%) Product Ownership
4 17 (4.23%) Data Structures
4 17 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.49%) Marketing Technology
6 9 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (2.24%) Mobile App
6 9 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.99%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.49%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.24%) Online Gambling
10 4 (1.00%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.00%) Clustering
10 4 (1.00%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.75%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.47%) Windows
2 17 (4.23%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.49%) Linux
4 4 (1.00%) Android
5 3 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (26.62%) Analytics
2 102 (25.37%) AI
3 101 (25.12%) Problem-Solving
4 96 (23.88%) Agile
5 83 (20.65%) Business Intelligence
6 80 (19.90%) CI/CD
7 71 (17.66%) Decision-Making
8 68 (16.92%) Software Engineering
9 66 (16.42%) Data Engineering
10 56 (13.93%) Data Pipeline
11 55 (13.68%) Mentoring
12 54 (13.43%) ETL
13 53 (13.18%) DevOps
14 48 (11.94%) Data Modelling
15 45 (11.19%) Validation
16 41 (10.20%) Data Analysis
16 41 (10.20%) Full-Stack Development
17 40 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
18 38 (9.45%) Collaborative Culture
19 37 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 167 (41.54%) Python
2 48 (11.94%) TypeScript
3 45 (11.19%) JavaScript
4 44 (10.95%) C#
5 43 (10.70%) Java
6 19 (4.73%) PowerShell
7 18 (4.48%) PHP
8 11 (2.74%) T-SQL
9 9 (2.24%) Bash
9 9 (2.24%) Scala
10 8 (1.99%) R
11 5 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.00%) Bicep
12 4 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.75%) Go
14 2 (0.50%) C++
14 2 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.25%) VBA
15 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (10.70%) Degree
2 20 (4.98%) Security Cleared
3 16 (3.98%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.99%) Azure Certification
4 12 (2.99%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.74%) ACCA
6 7 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.49%) CIMA
8 5 (1.24%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.00%) MCSA
9 4 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.25%) CFA
11 1 (0.25%) HNC
11 1 (0.25%) HND
11 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (18.41%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.47%) QA
3 10 (2.49%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.00%) 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 15 (3.73%) Active Directory
2 15 (3.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (1.99%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.00%) 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%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 109 (27.11%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.46%) Databricks
3 19 (4.73%) Google
4 18 (4.48%) VMware
5 13 (3.23%) Oracle
6 8 (1.99%) Informatica
6 8 (1.99%) SAP
7 7 (1.74%) Sage
7 7 (1.74%) Splunk
8 6 (1.49%) Adobe
8 6 (1.49%) HubSpot
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