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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 15 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 -5
Permanent jobs citing SQL 390 241 408
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.08% 10.29% 10.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.65% 32.52% 33.94%
Number of salaries quoted 288 159 190
10th Percentile £37,200 £32,750 £39,563
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £91,125 £82,500 £72,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £51,750
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.38% -5.91%

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 1,159 741 1,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.11% 31.64% 31.12%
Number of salaries quoted 846 456 637
10th Percentile £40,250 £32,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,750 £46,250
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 £73,750 £69,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,250 £80,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +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 13 October 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 October 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%
Bolton -4 10 £58,250 +73.88% 7
Salford -13 10 £95,000 +111.11% 7
Stockport +3 8 £70,000 +40.00% 1
Sale +8 6 £66,250 - 1
Wigan +3 5 £37,500 -
Cheadle -3 4 £55,000 - 4
Altrincham +6 2 £51,250 -6.82% 2
Bury - 1 £55,000 -
Rochdale - 1 - - 7
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 20 (5.13%) IIS
2 16 (4.10%) Apache
2 16 (4.10%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.82%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.79%) Confluence
4 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (1.54%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (1.28%) Tomcat
7 4 (1.03%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.51%) nginx
8 2 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.26%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.26%) SAS
9 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 39 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (4.87%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) NEC Housing
1 4 (1.03%) NetSuite
1 4 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (0.77%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.51%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
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%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.26%) Sage CRM
4 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 134 (34.36%) Azure
2 110 (28.21%) AWS
3 64 (16.41%) Power Platform
4 45 (11.54%) GitHub
5 36 (9.23%) GCP
6 35 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (7.69%) Snowflake
8 25 (6.41%) SaaS
8 25 (6.41%) Serverless
9 23 (5.90%) Amazon S3
10 21 (5.38%) dbt
11 16 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
14 10 (2.56%) Anthropic Claude
14 10 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
15 9 (2.31%) Power Automate
16 8 (2.05%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.08%) Firewall
2 11 (2.82%) DNS
3 9 (2.31%) VPN
4 8 (2.05%) DHCP
4 8 (2.05%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.03%) SAN
6 3 (0.77%) HTTP
6 3 (0.77%) LTE
6 3 (0.77%) SMS
6 3 (0.77%) VLAN
7 1 (0.26%) AMQP
7 1 (0.26%) Internet
7 1 (0.26%) Network Security
7 1 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (14.62%) SQL Server
2 56 (14.36%) Power BI
3 28 (7.18%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (5.38%) MongoDB
5 20 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
6 19 (4.87%) NoSQL
7 17 (4.36%) Tableau
8 16 (4.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (4.10%) Relational Database
9 12 (3.08%) BigQuery
9 12 (3.08%) DynamoDB
9 12 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (2.56%) Metadata
11 8 (2.05%) MySQL
12 7 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.79%) Big Data
12 7 (1.79%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.54%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 35 (8.97%) Git
2 11 (2.82%) Claude Code
3 10 (2.56%) Bitbucket
3 10 (2.56%) JIRA
4 8 (2.05%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.79%) GitLab
6 5 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.77%) NUnit
7 3 (0.77%) Postman
7 3 (0.77%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.51%) MSTest
8 2 (0.51%) Vite
9 1 (0.26%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.26%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.26%) Maven
9 1 (0.26%) MLflow
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
General
1 145 (37.18%) Social Skills
2 101 (25.90%) Finance
3 80 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.00%) Law
5 28 (7.18%) Marketing
6 16 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.85%) Legal
7 15 (3.85%) Retail
8 13 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.05%) Public Sector
11 7 (1.79%) Billing
11 7 (1.79%) Games
12 6 (1.54%) Local Government
13 5 (1.28%) Advertising
13 5 (1.28%) General Ledger
13 5 (1.28%) Military
13 5 (1.28%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.77%) iGaming
14 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (24.87%) Senior
2 70 (17.95%) Data Engineer
3 69 (17.69%) Developer
4 60 (15.38%) Analyst
5 41 (10.51%) Software Engineer
6 32 (8.21%) Lead
7 28 (7.18%) Data Analyst
8 27 (6.92%) Senior Data Engineer
9 20 (5.13%) Consultant
9 20 (5.13%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (4.36%) Senior Analyst
11 15 (3.85%) .NET Developer
12 12 (3.08%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (3.08%) Support Engineer
13 11 (2.82%) Senior Developer
14 10 (2.56%) AWS Data Engineer
14 10 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (2.56%) SQL Analyst
15 9 (2.31%) Data Consultant
15 9 (2.31%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.49%) .NET
2 29 (7.44%) Node.js
2 29 (7.44%) React
3 28 (7.18%) HTML
4 25 (6.41%) PySpark
5 23 (5.90%) CSS
6 22 (5.64%) Terraform
7 16 (4.10%) REST
8 15 (3.85%) ASP.NET
8 15 (3.85%) Next.js
8 15 (3.85%) Vue
9 14 (3.59%) AngularJS
9 14 (3.59%) Kafka
10 12 (3.08%) .NET Core
10 12 (3.08%) Middleware
11 11 (2.82%) ASP.NET Core
11 11 (2.82%) Spring
11 11 (2.82%) Spring Boot
12 9 (2.31%) Entity Framework
12 9 (2.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.41%) Onboarding
2 20 (5.13%) Cloud Native
2 20 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.87%) Data Structures
4 14 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
6 10 (2.56%) Marketing Technology
7 9 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.05%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.05%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.05%) Mobile App
9 5 (1.28%) Online Gambling
10 4 (1.03%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.03%) Clustering
10 4 (1.03%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.77%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.38%) Windows
2 15 (3.85%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.54%) Linux
4 3 (0.77%) Android
4 3 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (27.95%) AI
2 103 (26.41%) Problem-Solving
3 102 (26.15%) Analytics
4 93 (23.85%) Agile
5 82 (21.03%) Business Intelligence
6 80 (20.51%) CI/CD
7 70 (17.95%) Decision-Making
8 67 (17.18%) Software Engineering
9 59 (15.13%) Data Engineering
10 55 (14.10%) Mentoring
11 54 (13.85%) Data Modelling
11 54 (13.85%) DevOps
12 53 (13.59%) Data Pipeline
13 48 (12.31%) ETL
14 44 (11.28%) Full-Stack Development
14 44 (11.28%) Stakeholder Management
15 43 (11.03%) Data Analysis
15 43 (11.03%) Validation
16 39 (10.00%) Machine Learning
17 36 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 160 (41.03%) Python
2 50 (12.82%) TypeScript
3 44 (11.28%) C#
4 42 (10.77%) JavaScript
5 41 (10.51%) Java
6 17 (4.36%) PowerShell
7 16 (4.10%) PHP
8 11 (2.82%) T-SQL
9 9 (2.31%) Bash
9 9 (2.31%) Scala
10 8 (2.05%) R
11 6 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.03%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.77%) Go
13 3 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.51%) Bicep
14 2 (0.51%) C++
15 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 44 (11.28%) Degree
2 20 (5.13%) Security Cleared
3 16 (4.10%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.08%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (2.05%) ACCA
6 8 (2.05%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.79%) CIMA
8 5 (1.28%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.03%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.03%) MCSA
9 4 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.26%) CISA
10 1 (0.26%) CISM
10 1 (0.26%) CISSP
10 1 (0.26%) HNC
10 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (17.95%) Data Quality
2 28 (7.18%) QA
3 10 (2.56%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.51%) GDPR
5 2 (0.51%) GRC
5 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.26%) COBIT
6 1 (0.26%) IFRS
6 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (4.62%) Docker
2 16 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.05%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.03%) 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 11 (2.82%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (1.03%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (0.77%) Grafana
5 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 109 (27.95%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.44%) Databricks
3 21 (5.38%) Google
4 16 (4.10%) VMware
5 14 (3.59%) Oracle
6 8 (2.05%) Informatica
6 8 (2.05%) Sage
7 7 (1.79%) SAP
7 7 (1.79%) Splunk
8 6 (1.54%) Adobe
8 6 (1.54%) HubSpot
9 5 (1.28%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.28%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 4 (1.03%) Alteryx
10 4 (1.03%) NEC
11 3 (0.77%) Facebook
11 3 (0.77%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.77%) Veeam
11 3 (0.77%) Xamarin
12 2 (0.51%) Mistral