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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 19 14
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 378 267 521
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.84% 10.70% 10.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.53% 30.72% 33.18%
Number of salaries quoted 293 183 355
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,149 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,750 £42,612
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £83,550 £78,750
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 1,064 869 1,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.45% 34.82% 31.64%
Number of salaries quoted 838 555 1,169
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 24 July 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 July 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 +11 9 £62,500 +86.57% 1
Wigan +4 7 £47,500 - 5
Oldham +9 6 £67,500 +80.00% 2
Stockport -2 5 £55,000 - 5
Sale +7 3 £60,000 -
Cheadle 0 3 £55,000 -
Salford -19 3 £62,500 +38.89% 6
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 14 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (3.44%) IIS
3 11 (2.91%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.12%) Apache
4 8 (2.12%) Confluence
4 8 (2.12%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.53%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.53%) CICS
7 2 (0.53%) JBoss
7 2 (0.53%) nginx
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 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (0.79%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.53%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.53%) Magento
2 2 (0.53%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
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
Cloud Services
1 139 (36.77%) Azure
2 112 (29.63%) AWS
3 69 (18.25%) Power Platform
4 37 (9.79%) GCP
5 28 (7.41%) GitHub
5 28 (7.41%) Serverless
6 27 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (6.61%) SaaS
8 21 (5.56%) Amazon S3
9 18 (4.76%) Snowflake
10 17 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.23%) Azure AI
12 15 (3.97%) Anthropic Claude
13 12 (3.17%) dbt
14 10 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
15 9 (2.38%) Power Automate
16 8 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
17 7 (1.85%) PowerApps
18 6 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.97%) Firewall
2 13 (3.44%) DNS
3 10 (2.65%) DHCP
4 9 (2.38%) VPN
5 8 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.59%) SAN
7 3 (0.79%) LTE
7 3 (0.79%) VLAN
8 1 (0.26%) HTTP
8 1 (0.26%) Internet
8 1 (0.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (19.31%) SQL Server
2 63 (16.67%) Power BI
3 36 (9.52%) Tableau
4 28 (7.41%) NoSQL
5 27 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (6.08%) MongoDB
7 18 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
7 18 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (4.50%) Relational Database
9 14 (3.70%) MySQL
10 13 (3.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (3.17%) BigQuery
12 10 (2.65%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.85%) Big Data
13 7 (1.85%) Data Mining
13 7 (1.85%) DynamoDB
13 7 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 33 (8.73%) Git
2 15 (3.97%) Claude Code
3 14 (3.70%) JIRA
4 11 (2.91%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.85%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.06%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.79%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.79%) IntelliJ
9 2 (0.53%) GitLab
9 2 (0.53%) MSTest
9 2 (0.53%) NUnit
9 2 (0.53%) Postman
9 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.53%) Vite
10 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.26%) MLflow
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
General
1 124 (32.80%) Social Skills
2 92 (24.34%) Finance
3 70 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.94%) Law
5 16 (4.23%) Marketing
6 15 (3.97%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.70%) Retail
8 12 (3.17%) Advertising
8 12 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.91%) Legal
10 8 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.85%) Billing
12 5 (1.32%) Banking
12 5 (1.32%) General Ledger
12 5 (1.32%) Local Government
12 5 (1.32%) Military
12 5 (1.32%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.06%) Games
14 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 91 (24.07%) Senior
2 73 (19.31%) Data Engineer
3 63 (16.67%) Developer
4 59 (15.61%) Analyst
5 42 (11.11%) Lead
5 42 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 39 (10.32%) Data Analyst
7 31 (8.20%) Senior Data Engineer
8 19 (5.03%) Senior Software Engineer
9 15 (3.97%) Junior
9 15 (3.97%) Junior Analyst
9 15 (3.97%) Junior Data Analyst
9 15 (3.97%) Support Engineer
10 14 (3.70%) Database Engineer
11 13 (3.44%) Consultant
11 13 (3.44%) Full-Stack Developer
11 13 (3.44%) Java Engineer
11 13 (3.44%) Lead Software Engineer
12 12 (3.17%) Administrator
12 12 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.47%) .NET
1 32 (8.47%) HTML
1 32 (8.47%) React
2 29 (7.67%) CSS
3 25 (6.61%) Node.js
4 22 (5.82%) RESTful
5 21 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 18 (4.76%) Kafka
7 16 (4.23%) Next.js
7 16 (4.23%) PySpark
8 15 (3.97%) Spring
8 15 (3.97%) Vue
9 14 (3.70%) Spring Boot
10 13 (3.44%) ASP.NET
11 11 (2.91%) Middleware
11 11 (2.91%) REST
12 10 (2.65%) .NET Core
12 10 (2.65%) ASP.NET Core
13 8 (2.12%) FastAPI
13 8 (2.12%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.03%) Onboarding
2 18 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 16 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.44%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.44%) Legacy Applications
5 9 (2.38%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.12%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (1.32%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.06%) Clustering
10 4 (1.06%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.06%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.06%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.06%) Replication
11 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.79%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.35%) Windows
2 18 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.32%) Linux
4 4 (1.06%) Android
5 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (24.87%) Agile
2 92 (24.34%) Analytics
3 84 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 81 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
5 75 (19.84%) CI/CD
6 72 (19.05%) AI
7 60 (15.87%) Software Engineering
8 57 (15.08%) Decision-Making
9 53 (14.02%) Data Engineering
10 51 (13.49%) ETL
11 48 (12.70%) Data Modelling
12 46 (12.17%) DevOps
13 44 (11.64%) Mentoring
14 43 (11.38%) Data Pipeline
15 39 (10.32%) Collaborative Culture
16 37 (9.79%) Full-Stack Development
17 35 (9.26%) Validation
18 34 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
18 34 (8.99%) Data Analysis
19 31 (8.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 158 (41.80%) Python
2 48 (12.70%) C#
2 48 (12.70%) Java
3 34 (8.99%) TypeScript
4 31 (8.20%) JavaScript
5 18 (4.76%) PHP
6 16 (4.23%) T-SQL
7 12 (3.17%) PowerShell
8 9 (2.38%) Scala
9 6 (1.59%) R
10 5 (1.32%) Bash
10 5 (1.32%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.53%) Bicep
12 2 (0.53%) VBA
13 1 (0.26%) C++
13 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (7.67%) Degree
2 21 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 15 (3.97%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.65%) SC Cleared
5 7 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (1.59%) ACCA
7 5 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (1.32%) CIMA
7 5 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.06%) MCSA
8 4 (1.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.79%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.26%) CFA
10 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (14.55%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.56%) QA
3 5 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.53%) GDPR
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 17 (4.50%) Docker
2 16 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.97%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.12%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.32%) 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 21 (5.56%) Terraform
2 15 (3.97%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.59%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (1.32%) Grafana
5 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 107 (28.31%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.41%) Databricks
3 20 (5.29%) VMware
4 14 (3.70%) Oracle
5 12 (3.17%) Google
6 8 (2.12%) HubSpot
7 7 (1.85%) Splunk
8 6 (1.59%) Adobe
9 4 (1.06%) Informatica
9 4 (1.06%) Sage
9 4 (1.06%) Xamarin
10 3 (0.79%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.79%) Facebook
10 3 (0.79%) IBM
10 3 (0.79%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.79%) Pega
10 3 (0.79%) SAP
10 3 (0.79%) Veeam
11 2 (0.53%) Cognos
11 2 (0.53%) MuleSoft