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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 17 14
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 389 268 449
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.68% 10.74% 10.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.17% 31.46% 33.58%
Number of salaries quoted 296 179 292
10th Percentile £39,000 £32,600 £38,300
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,313
90th Percentile £93,750 £82,751 £78,625
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 1,106 852 1,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 16.16% 34.15% 30.01%
Number of salaries quoted 857 541 951
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,125 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £80,000
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

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 13 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 13 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
Oldham +9 10 £67,500 +80.00% 1
Bolton +10 7 £50,000 +49.25% 2
Wigan +3 6 £42,500 - 2
Stockport +1 6 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Sale +8 5 £60,000 -
Cheadle -1 3 £55,000 -
Salford -23 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 18 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (3.86%) Apache
2 15 (3.86%) IIS
3 11 (2.83%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.06%) Confluence
4 8 (2.06%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.29%) 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 49 (12.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) NEC Housing
2 3 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.77%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.51%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.51%) Magento
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.26%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.26%) Odoo
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 144 (37.02%) Azure
2 126 (32.39%) AWS
3 69 (17.74%) Power Platform
4 40 (10.28%) GitHub
5 39 (10.03%) GCP
6 34 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (7.46%) Serverless
8 28 (7.20%) Snowflake
9 27 (6.94%) SaaS
10 23 (5.91%) Amazon S3
11 19 (4.88%) dbt
12 18 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (3.86%) Anthropic Claude
14 14 (3.60%) Azure AI
15 11 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
16 10 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (2.57%) Power Automate
17 9 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
18 8 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
18 8 (2.06%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.86%) Firewall
2 13 (3.34%) DNS
3 10 (2.57%) DHCP
4 9 (2.31%) VPN
5 8 (2.06%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.54%) SAN
7 3 (0.77%) HTTP
7 3 (0.77%) LTE
7 3 (0.77%) VLAN
8 1 (0.26%) Internet
8 1 (0.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (17.99%) SQL Server
2 60 (15.42%) Power BI
3 31 (7.97%) Tableau
4 29 (7.46%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (6.68%) NoSQL
6 25 (6.43%) MongoDB
7 24 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
8 20 (5.14%) Azure SQL Database
9 18 (4.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (4.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (4.11%) Relational Database
11 14 (3.60%) DynamoDB
12 11 (2.83%) BigQuery
12 11 (2.83%) MySQL
13 9 (2.31%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.80%) Big Data
15 6 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 5 (1.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 35 (9.00%) Git
2 15 (3.86%) Claude Code
3 14 (3.60%) JIRA
4 12 (3.08%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.06%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.29%) 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
1 144 (37.02%) Social Skills
2 96 (24.68%) Finance
3 74 (19.02%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.25%) Law
5 23 (5.91%) Marketing
6 17 (4.37%) Retail
7 14 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (3.34%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.08%) Advertising
9 12 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.83%) Legal
11 7 (1.80%) Billing
12 6 (1.54%) Games
13 5 (1.29%) General Ledger
13 5 (1.29%) Local Government
13 5 (1.29%) Military
13 5 (1.29%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.03%) Banking
15 3 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (24.68%) Senior
2 72 (18.51%) Data Engineer
3 71 (18.25%) Developer
4 62 (15.94%) Analyst
5 44 (11.31%) Lead
6 43 (11.05%) Software Engineer
7 36 (9.25%) Data Analyst
8 31 (7.97%) Senior Data Engineer
9 20 (5.14%) Senior Software Engineer
10 15 (3.86%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (3.60%) Junior
11 14 (3.60%) Support Engineer
12 13 (3.34%) .NET Developer
12 13 (3.34%) Consultant
13 12 (3.08%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (3.08%) Java Engineer
13 12 (3.08%) Junior Analyst
13 12 (3.08%) Junior Data Analyst
13 12 (3.08%) Lead Software Engineer
13 12 (3.08%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.77%) .NET
2 35 (9.00%) HTML
2 35 (9.00%) React
3 30 (7.71%) CSS
4 27 (6.94%) Node.js
5 21 (5.40%) AngularJS
5 21 (5.40%) RESTful
6 18 (4.63%) Kafka
6 18 (4.63%) PySpark
7 16 (4.11%) ASP.NET
7 16 (4.11%) Next.js
8 14 (3.60%) Spring
8 14 (3.60%) Vue
9 13 (3.34%) Spring Boot
10 12 (3.08%) .NET Core
10 12 (3.08%) REST
11 11 (2.83%) ASP.NET Core
11 11 (2.83%) Middleware
12 9 (2.31%) Entity Framework
13 8 (2.06%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.40%) Cloud Native
1 21 (5.40%) Onboarding
2 16 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (4.11%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.60%) Data Structures
4 10 (2.57%) Legacy Applications
5 9 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.31%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.06%) Data Centre
7 7 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
8 6 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.29%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.29%) Online Gambling
10 4 (1.03%) Clustering
10 4 (1.03%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.03%) Replication
11 3 (0.77%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.17%) Windows
2 18 (4.63%) 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
1 106 (27.25%) Agile
2 98 (25.19%) Analytics
3 92 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (22.62%) AI
5 83 (21.34%) Business Intelligence
6 78 (20.05%) CI/CD
7 67 (17.22%) Software Engineering
8 63 (16.20%) Data Engineering
8 63 (16.20%) Decision-Making
9 53 (13.62%) ETL
10 52 (13.37%) DevOps
11 50 (12.85%) Data Pipeline
12 48 (12.34%) Mentoring
13 47 (12.08%) Data Modelling
14 43 (11.05%) Collaborative Culture
15 39 (10.03%) Full-Stack Development
16 37 (9.51%) Validation
17 36 (9.25%) Machine Learning
18 34 (8.74%) Data Analysis
19 33 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 170 (43.70%) Python
2 52 (13.37%) C#
3 49 (12.60%) Java
4 39 (10.03%) TypeScript
5 38 (9.77%) JavaScript
6 19 (4.88%) PHP
7 15 (3.86%) T-SQL
8 12 (3.08%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.31%) Scala
10 7 (1.80%) Bash
11 6 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.54%) R
12 5 (1.29%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.51%) Bicep
13 2 (0.51%) C++
13 2 (0.51%) Go
13 2 (0.51%) VBA
14 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 38 (9.77%) Degree
2 18 (4.63%) Azure Certification
3 16 (4.11%) Security Cleared
4 12 (3.08%) Master's Degree
5 11 (2.83%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.80%) ACCA
6 7 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.54%) CIMA
8 5 (1.29%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.03%) MCSA
9 4 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (0.77%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.26%) CFA
12 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (16.20%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.68%) QA
3 6 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.51%) 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 18 (4.63%) Docker
2 16 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.86%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.06%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.29%) 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 (5.66%) Terraform
2 14 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (1.29%) Grafana
5 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 106 (27.25%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.97%) Databricks
3 19 (4.88%) VMware
4 15 (3.86%) Google
5 12 (3.08%) Oracle
6 8 (2.06%) HubSpot
7 7 (1.80%) Splunk
8 6 (1.54%) Adobe
9 4 (1.03%) Informatica
9 4 (1.03%) NEC
9 4 (1.03%) Sage
9 4 (1.03%) Xamarin
10 3 (0.77%) Facebook
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%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.51%) IBM