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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 19 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 -4
Permanent jobs citing SQL 301 254 563
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 5.29% 11.37% 11.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.48% 30.09% 33.25%
Number of salaries quoted 232 171 438
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £36,175
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £66,438
90th Percentile £93,625 £82,751 £77,500
North West median annual salary £53,250 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.50% -4.76% +1.87%

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 899 844 1,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.80% 37.80% 33.48%
Number of salaries quoted 718 543 1,395
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,850 £36,750
25th Percentile £49,000 £49,375 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.04% -5.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,778 £80,750
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 21 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 21 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 +22 8 £66,250 +80.27% 2
Wigan -1 5 £37,500 -3.85% 3
Stockport -7 5 £55,000 -16.35% 3
Sale +4 3 £60,000 -
Salford -18 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 15 (4.98%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.66%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.00%) Apache
5 3 (1.00%) IIS
6 2 (0.66%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.66%) CICS
6 2 (0.66%) Confluence
6 2 (0.66%) JBoss
7 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.33%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 54 (17.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (3.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.99%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.00%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.66%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.66%) Magento
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 95 (31.56%) Azure
2 74 (24.58%) AWS
3 58 (19.27%) Power Platform
4 29 (9.63%) GCP
5 27 (8.97%) SaaS
6 20 (6.64%) Azure AI
7 17 (5.65%) GitHub
7 17 (5.65%) Serverless
8 16 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (4.32%) Amazon S3
9 13 (4.32%) Anthropic Claude
9 13 (4.32%) Snowflake
10 11 (3.65%) Azure AKS
11 10 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
13 8 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.66%) Power Automate
14 7 (2.33%) dbt
14 7 (2.33%) PowerApps
15 6 (1.99%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.99%) Firewall
2 5 (1.66%) DNS
2 5 (1.66%) SAN
3 3 (1.00%) DHCP
3 3 (1.00%) LTE
3 3 (1.00%) VLAN
4 1 (0.33%) Network Security
4 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.33%) TCAP
4 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.33%) VPN
4 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (17.94%) Power BI
2 53 (17.61%) SQL Server
3 40 (13.29%) Tableau
4 28 (9.30%) NoSQL
5 16 (5.32%) Relational Database
5 16 (5.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (4.98%) MongoDB
6 15 (4.98%) MySQL
7 14 (4.65%) Data Lake
7 14 (4.65%) Data Mining
7 14 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
8 13 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
9 11 (3.65%) BigQuery
10 9 (2.99%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.99%) DB2
12 6 (1.99%) Semantic Layer
13 5 (1.66%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (8.31%) Git
2 13 (4.32%) Claude Code
3 8 (2.66%) JIRA
4 7 (2.33%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.33%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.00%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.00%) GitLab
6 3 (1.00%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.00%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.66%) MSTest
7 2 (0.66%) NUnit
8 1 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 93 (30.90%) Social Skills
2 69 (22.92%) Finance
3 55 (18.27%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.65%) Marketing
5 12 (3.99%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.65%) Advertising
6 11 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (3.32%) Law
8 8 (2.66%) Retail
9 6 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.33%) Banking
11 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.00%) French Language
11 3 (1.00%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.00%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (1.00%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.66%) Local Government
12 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (27.91%) Senior
2 68 (22.59%) Analyst
3 57 (18.94%) Data Engineer
4 46 (15.28%) Developer
5 44 (14.62%) Data Analyst
6 34 (11.30%) Lead
7 31 (10.30%) Senior Data Engineer
8 30 (9.97%) Software Engineer
9 20 (6.64%) Junior
9 20 (6.64%) Junior Analyst
9 20 (6.64%) Junior Data Analyst
10 15 (4.98%) Java Engineer
10 15 (4.98%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (4.98%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (4.65%) Database Engineer
11 14 (4.65%) Senior Java Engineer
12 13 (4.32%) SQL Developer
13 12 (3.99%) Lead Software Engineer
14 11 (3.65%) Trainee
14 11 (3.65%) Trainee Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.64%) .NET
2 25 (8.31%) RESTful
3 23 (7.64%) CSS
4 22 (7.31%) HTML
5 19 (6.31%) React
6 17 (5.65%) Kafka
7 11 (3.65%) AngularJS
7 11 (3.65%) Node.js
8 10 (3.32%) .NET Framework
9 9 (2.99%) Spring
10 8 (2.66%) Pandas
10 8 (2.66%) PySpark
10 8 (2.66%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.33%) REST
11 7 (2.33%) Vue
12 6 (1.99%) CSS3
12 6 (1.99%) HTML5
13 5 (1.66%) J2EE
13 5 (1.66%) JSON
13 5 (1.66%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.98%) Onboarding
2 16 (5.32%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.32%) Legacy Applications
4 11 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (2.66%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.99%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.66%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.00%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.00%) Clustering
9 3 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.00%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.00%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.32%) Windows
2 8 (2.66%) Android
2 8 (2.66%) Windows Server
3 6 (1.99%) Linux
4 3 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (25.58%) Agile
2 72 (23.92%) Analytics
3 70 (23.26%) Business Intelligence
4 56 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
5 55 (18.27%) CI/CD
5 55 (18.27%) ETL
6 51 (16.94%) AI
7 43 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 41 (13.62%) Mentoring
9 38 (12.62%) Data Modelling
10 36 (11.96%) DevOps
11 32 (10.63%) Data Engineering
12 29 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (8.97%) Data Analysis
14 26 (8.64%) Collaborative Culture
14 26 (8.64%) Data Pipeline
14 26 (8.64%) Decision-Making
15 25 (8.31%) Clean Code
15 25 (8.31%) Microservices
16 24 (7.97%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 123 (40.86%) Python
2 47 (15.61%) Java
3 35 (11.63%) C#
4 23 (7.64%) JavaScript
5 13 (4.32%) T-SQL
6 11 (3.65%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.66%) PHP
8 6 (1.99%) Bash
9 5 (1.66%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.33%) Scala
11 3 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.00%) Go
11 3 (1.00%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.00%) VBA
12 2 (0.66%) Bicep
12 2 (0.66%) R
13 1 (0.33%) C++
13 1 (0.33%) Groovy
13 1 (0.33%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 25 (8.31%) Azure Certification
2 20 (6.64%) Degree
3 11 (3.65%) Security Cleared
4 10 (3.32%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.00%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.00%) MCSA
7 3 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.66%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.33%) MBA
9 1 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.30%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.32%) QA
3 2 (0.66%) GDPR
4 1 (0.33%) HL7
4 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (4.32%) Docker
2 11 (3.65%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (6.31%) Kubernetes
1 19 (6.31%) Terraform
2 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (1.00%) Ansible
3 3 (1.00%) Rancher
4 2 (0.66%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.66%) Grafana
4 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 76 (25.25%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.65%) Databricks
3 14 (4.65%) Google
4 11 (3.65%) Oracle
5 9 (2.99%) VMware
6 8 (2.66%) HubSpot
7 6 (1.99%) Northgate
8 5 (1.66%) Xamarin
9 3 (1.00%) Adobe
9 3 (1.00%) Pega
9 3 (1.00%) SAP
10 2 (0.66%) Adyen
10 2 (0.66%) Cognos
10 2 (0.66%) Facebook
10 2 (0.66%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.66%) IBM
10 2 (0.66%) Veeam
11 1 (0.33%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.33%) Hotjar
11 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow