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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 21 12
Rank change year-on-year -8 -9 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 291 251 572
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.25% 11.24% 11.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.11% 29.56% 33.85%
Number of salaries quoted 224 170 450
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £68,438
90th Percentile £93,375 £82,850 £77,750
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +1.80%

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 879 849 1,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.86% 38.02% 33.65%
Number of salaries quoted 701 551 1,404
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £49,375 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - +14.04% -1.72%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,778 £81,250
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 16 May 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 16 May 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 9 £42,000 +12.00% 1
Bolton +21 8 £66,250 +80.27% 6
Stockport -7 5 £55,000 -16.35% 2
Wigan -3 4 £42,500 +8.97% 3
Sale +5 3 £60,000 -
Salford -16 1 - - 8
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 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.69%) Apache
5 2 (0.69%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.69%) CICS
5 2 (0.69%) Confluence
5 2 (0.69%) IIS
5 2 (0.69%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.34%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 55 (18.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.06%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.03%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.69%) Magento
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (31.27%) Azure
2 70 (24.05%) AWS
3 55 (18.90%) Power Platform
4 28 (9.62%) GCP
5 26 (8.93%) SaaS
6 21 (7.22%) Azure AI
7 16 (5.50%) GitHub
8 15 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (4.81%) Serverless
10 13 (4.47%) Anthropic Claude
10 13 (4.47%) Snowflake
11 12 (4.12%) Azure AKS
12 10 (3.44%) Amazon S3
13 8 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
13 8 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (2.06%) dbt
14 6 (2.06%) Power Automate
15 5 (1.72%) Google Sheets
15 5 (1.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.06%) Firewall
2 5 (1.72%) DNS
2 5 (1.72%) SAN
3 3 (1.03%) DHCP
3 3 (1.03%) VLAN
4 2 (0.69%) LTE
5 1 (0.34%) Network Security
5 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.34%) TCAP
5 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.34%) VPN
5 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (17.87%) Power BI
2 48 (16.49%) SQL Server
3 40 (13.75%) Tableau
4 29 (9.97%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.50%) MySQL
6 15 (5.15%) Relational Database
7 14 (4.81%) Data Mining
7 14 (4.81%) MongoDB
7 14 (4.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 13 (4.47%) Data Lake
8 13 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (3.44%) BigQuery
11 9 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (2.06%) DB2
13 6 (2.06%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (1.72%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (7.90%) Git
2 13 (4.47%) Claude Code
3 8 (2.75%) JIRA
4 7 (2.41%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.37%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.03%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.03%) GitLab
6 3 (1.03%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.03%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.69%) MSTest
7 2 (0.69%) NUnit
8 1 (0.34%) Postman
General
1 92 (31.62%) Social Skills
2 67 (23.02%) Finance
3 53 (18.21%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.47%) Marketing
5 11 (3.78%) Advertising
5 11 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (3.78%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.09%) Law
7 7 (2.41%) Retail
8 6 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.37%) Banking
10 3 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.03%) French Language
10 3 (1.03%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.03%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (1.03%) Spanish Language
11 2 (0.69%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.69%) Local Government
11 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (27.49%) Senior
2 66 (22.68%) Analyst
3 53 (18.21%) Data Engineer
4 43 (14.78%) Data Analyst
4 43 (14.78%) Developer
5 34 (11.68%) Lead
6 31 (10.65%) Software Engineer
7 28 (9.62%) Senior Data Engineer
8 21 (7.22%) Junior
8 21 (7.22%) Junior Analyst
8 21 (7.22%) Junior Data Analyst
9 16 (5.50%) Senior Software Engineer
10 15 (5.15%) Java Engineer
11 14 (4.81%) Database Engineer
11 14 (4.81%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (4.81%) Senior Java Engineer
12 13 (4.47%) Lead Software Engineer
13 12 (4.12%) SQL Developer
14 11 (3.78%) Trainee
14 11 (3.78%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.28%) .NET
2 25 (8.59%) RESTful
3 23 (7.90%) CSS
4 22 (7.56%) HTML
5 19 (6.53%) React
6 15 (5.15%) Kafka
7 12 (4.12%) .NET Framework
8 11 (3.78%) AngularJS
8 11 (3.78%) Node.js
9 9 (3.09%) Spring
10 8 (2.75%) Pandas
10 8 (2.75%) PySpark
10 8 (2.75%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.41%) REST
11 7 (2.41%) Vue
12 6 (2.06%) CSS3
12 6 (2.06%) HTML5
12 6 (2.06%) Web Services
13 5 (1.72%) J2EE
13 5 (1.72%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.19%) Cloud Native
1 18 (6.19%) Onboarding
2 13 (4.47%) Legacy Applications
3 12 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.75%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.72%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.03%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.03%) Clustering
7 3 (1.03%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.03%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.09%) Windows
2 8 (2.75%) Android
3 7 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.06%) Linux
5 3 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (26.80%) Agile
2 68 (23.37%) Analytics
3 67 (23.02%) Business Intelligence
4 56 (19.24%) CI/CD
5 54 (18.56%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (17.87%) ETL
7 50 (17.18%) AI
8 44 (15.12%) Software Engineering
9 38 (13.06%) Mentoring
10 36 (12.37%) Data Modelling
10 36 (12.37%) DevOps
11 30 (10.31%) Data Engineering
12 28 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (8.93%) Collaborative Culture
13 26 (8.93%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (8.93%) Microservices
14 25 (8.59%) Clean Code
14 25 (8.59%) Data Analysis
14 25 (8.59%) Scrum
15 24 (8.25%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 118 (40.55%) Python
2 47 (16.15%) Java
3 36 (12.37%) C#
4 23 (7.90%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.12%) T-SQL
5 12 (4.12%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.41%) PHP
7 6 (2.06%) Bash
8 5 (1.72%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.03%) Go
9 3 (1.03%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.03%) Scala
9 3 (1.03%) VBA
10 2 (0.69%) Bicep
10 2 (0.69%) R
11 1 (0.34%) C++
11 1 (0.34%) Groovy
11 1 (0.34%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 25 (8.59%) Azure Certification
2 20 (6.87%) Degree
3 11 (3.78%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.44%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.03%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.03%) MCSA
7 3 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.34%) MBA
9 1 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.31%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.09%) QA
3 2 (0.69%) GDPR
4 1 (0.34%) HL7
4 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (4.47%) Docker
2 11 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 18 (6.19%) Terraform
3 3 (1.03%) Ansible
3 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (1.03%) Rancher
4 2 (0.69%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.69%) Grafana
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 72 (24.74%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.84%) Databricks
3 12 (4.12%) Google
4 11 (3.78%) Oracle
5 9 (3.09%) VMware
6 7 (2.41%) HubSpot
7 6 (2.06%) Northgate
8 5 (1.72%) Xamarin
9 3 (1.03%) Adobe
9 3 (1.03%) Pega
9 3 (1.03%) SAP
10 2 (0.69%) Adyen
10 2 (0.69%) Cognos
10 2 (0.69%) Facebook
10 2 (0.69%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.69%) IBM
10 2 (0.69%) Veeam
11 1 (0.34%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.34%) Hotjar
11 1 (0.34%) ServiceNow