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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 16 13
Rank change year-on-year -9 -3 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 402 261 413
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.39% 11.02% 10.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.58% 33.76% 33.41%
Number of salaries quoted 305 170 218
10th Percentile £36,900 £32,650 £38,200
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 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £77,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%

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 1,130 773 1,236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.15% 32.64% 30.35%
Number of salaries quoted 846 470 716
10th Percentile £40,875 £32,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,188 £45,000
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 £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% -3.93%

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 18 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 18 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% 1
Bolton -2 10 £54,000 +61.19% 8
Sale +8 7 £62,500 - 5
Stockport +3 7 £70,000 +27.27% 2
Wigan +1 5 £37,500 - 2
Salford -25 4 £62,500 +38.89% 10
Cheadle -1 3 £55,000 - 2
Altrincham +4 2 £51,250 -6.82% 6
Bury - 1 £55,000 - 3
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
2 16 (3.98%) Apache
2 16 (3.98%) IIS
3 11 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.99%) Confluence
4 8 (1.99%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.50%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.50%) nginx
7 2 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
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%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 43 (10.70%) 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 36 (8.96%) GCP
6 35 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (7.46%) Snowflake
8 29 (7.21%) SaaS
9 28 (6.97%) Serverless
10 24 (5.97%) Amazon S3
11 20 (4.98%) dbt
12 18 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (2.99%) Anthropic Claude
13 12 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
15 10 (2.49%) GitHub Copilot
15 10 (2.49%) Microsoft Purview
15 10 (2.49%) Power Automate
16 9 (2.24%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.73%) 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 61 (15.17%) SQL Server
2 57 (14.18%) Power BI
3 30 (7.46%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (5.72%) MongoDB
4 23 (5.72%) NoSQL
4 23 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (5.72%) Tableau
5 20 (4.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (4.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (3.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (3.48%) DynamoDB
8 14 (3.48%) Relational Database
9 11 (2.74%) BigQuery
10 10 (2.49%) Data Lake
10 10 (2.49%) MySQL
11 8 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.99%) Metadata
12 7 (1.74%) Big Data
13 6 (1.49%) Delta Lake
13 6 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 36 (8.96%) 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%) Browser DevTools
6 4 (1.00%) GitLab
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
1 152 (37.81%) Social Skills
2 100 (24.88%) Finance
3 78 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (9.20%) Law
5 27 (6.72%) Marketing
6 15 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.73%) Retail
7 13 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.99%) Legal
8 12 (2.99%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.74%) Advertising
10 7 (1.74%) Billing
10 7 (1.74%) Games
11 6 (1.49%) Local Government
12 5 (1.24%) General Ledger
12 5 (1.24%) Military
12 5 (1.24%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.75%) Banking
13 3 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (24.38%) Senior
2 75 (18.66%) Data Engineer
2 75 (18.66%) Developer
3 60 (14.93%) Analyst
4 40 (9.95%) Software Engineer
5 34 (8.46%) Lead
6 32 (7.96%) Senior Data Engineer
7 31 (7.71%) Data Analyst
8 21 (5.22%) Consultant
9 18 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (4.23%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (3.48%) Support Engineer
12 13 (3.23%) .NET Developer
13 12 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.74%) Senior Developer
15 10 (2.49%) Software Developer
15 10 (2.49%) SQL Analyst
16 9 (2.24%) Junior
16 9 (2.24%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 9 (2.24%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (8.71%) .NET
2 32 (7.96%) HTML
3 31 (7.71%) React
4 29 (7.21%) Node.js
5 27 (6.72%) CSS
6 23 (5.72%) PySpark
6 23 (5.72%) Terraform
7 17 (4.23%) AngularJS
8 16 (3.98%) ASP.NET
9 15 (3.73%) Kafka
9 15 (3.73%) Next.js
9 15 (3.73%) Vue
10 14 (3.48%) Spring
11 13 (3.23%) RESTful
11 13 (3.23%) Spring Boot
12 12 (2.99%) .NET Core
12 12 (2.99%) REST
13 11 (2.74%) ASP.NET Core
14 10 (2.49%) Middleware
15 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%) Marketing Technology
6 9 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
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 5 (1.24%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.24%) Online Gambling
9 4 (1.00%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.00%) Clustering
9 4 (1.00%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (0.75%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.72%) Windows
2 18 (4.48%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.49%) Linux
4 4 (1.00%) Android
5 2 (0.50%) Unix
6 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (25.87%) Analytics
2 102 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
3 99 (24.63%) AI
4 96 (23.88%) Agile
5 84 (20.90%) Business Intelligence
6 81 (20.15%) CI/CD
7 69 (17.16%) Decision-Making
8 67 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 66 (16.42%) Data Engineering
10 56 (13.93%) Data Pipeline
11 55 (13.68%) Mentoring
12 53 (13.18%) ETL
13 52 (12.94%) DevOps
14 48 (11.94%) Data Modelling
15 44 (10.95%) Validation
16 41 (10.20%) Full-Stack Development
17 40 (9.95%) Collaborative Culture
18 39 (9.70%) Data Analysis
19 38 (9.45%) Stakeholder Management
20 37 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 169 (42.04%) Python
2 47 (11.69%) TypeScript
3 46 (11.44%) C#
4 45 (11.19%) Java
4 45 (11.19%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.98%) PHP
6 18 (4.48%) PowerShell
7 12 (2.99%) T-SQL
8 9 (2.24%) Bash
8 9 (2.24%) Scala
9 8 (1.99%) R
10 5 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.00%) Bicep
11 4 (1.00%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.75%) C++
12 3 (0.75%) Go
13 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.25%) VBA
13 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 43 (10.70%) Degree
2 18 (4.48%) Security Cleared
3 14 (3.48%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 12 (2.99%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.74%) ACCA
9 6 (1.49%) CIMA
10 5 (1.24%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.00%) MCSA
11 4 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.75%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.25%) CFA
13 1 (0.25%) HNC
13 1 (0.25%) HND
13 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (18.16%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.47%) QA
3 10 (2.49%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.75%) 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 17 (4.23%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.99%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.25%) MetaFrame
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.25%) vSphere
6 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%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 111 (27.61%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.46%) Databricks
3 19 (4.73%) VMware
4 17 (4.23%) Google
5 12 (2.99%) Oracle
6 8 (1.99%) Sage
6 8 (1.99%) SAP
7 7 (1.74%) Informatica
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%) UiPath