SQL Jobs in Manchester

SQL (Structured Query Language)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring SQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL over the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 12 10
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing SQL 248 573 924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 11.45% 10.72% 19.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.66% 32.46% 43.00%
Number of salaries quoted 163 440 459
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £42,500 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,751 £77,500 £76,500
North West median annual salary £50,650 £51,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -1.65% - +4.04%

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 809 1,765 2,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 37.35% 33.02% 45.43%
Number of salaries quoted 500 1,412 1,266
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,750 £39,544
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.99% - -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing SQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for SQL in Manchester

SQL
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SQL in Manchester.

Salary trend for SQL in Manchester

SQL
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

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 27 May 2025. 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
Stockport -3 12 £55,750 +31.18% 6
Bolton -20 11 £33,500 -25.56% 16
Oldham 0 6 £37,500 -21.88% 1
Salford +6 5 - - 4
Cheadle +3 5 - - 1
Altrincham -7 5 £55,000 - 12
Wigan -7 5 £39,000 +62.50% 2
Ashton-under-Lyne -4 3 - - 6
Sale - 3 - - 1
SQL
North West

SQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.44%) Confluence
2 9 (3.63%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.02%) IIS
4 5 (2.02%) SAS
5 4 (1.61%) Apache
5 4 (1.61%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 16 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.02%) NetSuite
1 5 (2.02%) Sage 200
1 5 (2.02%) Sage CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.40%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.40%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 106 (42.74%) Azure
2 96 (38.71%) AWS
3 41 (16.53%) Power Platform
4 35 (14.11%) GCP
5 18 (7.26%) SaaS
6 15 (6.05%) Serverless
7 14 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (4.84%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (3.63%) GitHub
10 9 (3.63%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (2.02%) dbt
13 4 (1.61%) Apigee
13 4 (1.61%) AWS IoT
13 4 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.61%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.63%) DNS
2 8 (3.23%) DHCP
3 5 (2.02%) NAS
3 5 (2.02%) SAN
3 5 (2.02%) VSAN
4 4 (1.61%) Firewall
5 2 (0.81%) LoRaWAN
5 2 (0.81%) VLAN
6 1 (0.40%) RTP
6 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.40%) VPN
6 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (24.60%) SQL Server
2 39 (15.73%) Power BI
3 27 (10.89%) NoSQL
3 27 (10.89%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (8.47%) MySQL
5 19 (7.66%) Relational Database
6 15 (6.05%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (4.84%) Big Data
8 11 (4.44%) MongoDB
9 9 (3.63%) Data Lake
9 9 (3.63%) Tableau
10 8 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (2.42%) RDBMS
12 5 (2.02%) Data Hub
12 5 (2.02%) SQL CLR
12 5 (2.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (1.61%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 35 (14.11%) Selenium
2 31 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 31 (12.50%) GitLab
2 31 (12.50%) Maven
3 30 (12.10%) JIRA
3 30 (12.10%) SonarQube
3 30 (12.10%) Sonatype Nexus
4 29 (11.69%) Bitbucket
5 18 (7.26%) Git
6 8 (3.23%) Jenkins
7 5 (2.02%) JMeter
7 5 (2.02%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (1.21%) JUnit
8 3 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.21%) Postman
9 2 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.81%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.81%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.81%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.81%) Visual Studio
General
1 79 (31.85%) Finance
2 76 (30.65%) Social Skills
3 54 (21.77%) Banking
4 44 (17.74%) Retail
5 41 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (14.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (7.26%) Corporate Banking
7 18 (7.26%) Investment Banking
8 17 (6.85%) Manufacturing
9 9 (3.63%) Law
10 5 (2.02%) Back Office
10 5 (2.02%) Digital Healthcare
10 5 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.61%) Marketing
11 4 (1.61%) Wholesale Banking
12 3 (1.21%) Games
12 3 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.21%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (19.76%) Developer
2 45 (18.15%) Senior
2 45 (18.15%) Software Engineer
3 37 (14.92%) Analyst
4 31 (12.50%) Lead
5 28 (11.29%) Data Engineer
6 14 (5.65%) Data Analyst
7 13 (5.24%) Architect
7 13 (5.24%) Senior Developer
8 11 (4.44%) Consultant
8 11 (4.44%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (4.03%) Applications Support
10 9 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.63%) SQL Developer
10 9 (3.63%) Team Leader
11 7 (2.82%) .NET Developer
11 7 (2.82%) Applications Support Analyst
11 7 (2.82%) IT Support
11 7 (2.82%) Junior
11 7 (2.82%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (16.94%) React
2 40 (16.13%) CSS
2 40 (16.13%) HTML
3 39 (15.73%) Kafka
4 36 (14.52%) Spring
5 35 (14.11%) Spring Boot
6 33 (13.31%) RESTful
7 28 (11.29%) Redux
8 27 (10.89%) JPA
9 25 (10.08%) .NET
10 23 (9.27%) REST
11 21 (8.47%) Sass
12 20 (8.06%) CSS3
12 20 (8.06%) HTML5
13 18 (7.26%) Jest
14 12 (4.84%) Hibernate
14 12 (4.84%) JSON
15 11 (4.44%) AngularJS
15 11 (4.44%) Node.js
16 9 (3.63%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.71%) Product Ownership
2 28 (11.29%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (4.84%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.82%) EPoS
5 7 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.82%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 7 (2.82%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.82%) Renewable Energy
5 7 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.42%) Private Cloud
7 5 (2.02%) CCTV
7 5 (2.02%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.02%) LIMS
8 4 (1.61%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.61%) IoT
9 3 (1.21%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.69%) Linux
2 14 (5.65%) Windows
3 4 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.21%) Unix
5 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (41.53%) Agile
2 64 (25.81%) DevOps
3 60 (24.19%) Software Engineering
4 58 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (22.98%) Mentoring
6 53 (21.37%) CI/CD
7 49 (19.76%) Microservices
8 46 (18.55%) Full-Stack Development
8 46 (18.55%) Migration
9 44 (17.74%) Analytics
9 44 (17.74%) Business Intelligence
10 42 (16.94%) Test Automation
11 37 (14.92%) ETL
12 36 (14.52%) Containerisation
13 35 (14.11%) SDLC
14 34 (13.71%) Performance Optimisation
15 29 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (11.29%) Coaching
16 28 (11.29%) Front End Development
16 28 (11.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 68 (27.42%) Python
2 67 (27.02%) JavaScript
3 61 (24.60%) Java
4 35 (14.11%) TypeScript
5 27 (10.89%) C#
6 18 (7.26%) PHP
7 12 (4.84%) T-SQL
8 10 (4.03%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.23%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.23%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.82%) C-shell
10 7 (2.82%) Go
10 7 (2.82%) Korn
11 6 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (2.02%) Scala
13 4 (1.61%) Bash
14 3 (1.21%) C++
14 3 (1.21%) R
14 3 (1.21%) VBA
15 1 (0.40%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 37 (14.92%) Degree
2 14 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (5.24%) Azure Certification
4 9 (3.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (3.63%) PhD
5 8 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.02%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.61%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.40%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.71%) QA
2 22 (8.87%) Accessibility
3 16 (6.45%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.23%) GDPR
5 6 (2.42%) ISO 9001
6 5 (2.02%) HIPAA
6 5 (2.02%) HL7
6 5 (2.02%) NIST
7 4 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (23.39%) Docker
2 7 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.02%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.21%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 46 (18.55%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.47%) Terraform
3 5 (2.02%) Progress Chef
4 4 (1.61%) Istio
5 3 (1.21%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.40%) Argo
6 1 (0.40%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.40%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (19.76%) Microsoft
2 27 (10.89%) Solace
3 24 (9.68%) Oracle
4 17 (6.85%) Google
5 14 (5.65%) VMware
6 9 (3.63%) Databricks
6 9 (3.63%) Informatica
7 5 (2.02%) Sage
8 4 (1.61%) Splunk
9 3 (1.21%) Adobe
9 3 (1.21%) DocuSign
9 3 (1.21%) iManage
9 3 (1.21%) Intapp
9 3 (1.21%) New Relic
10 2 (0.81%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.81%) IBM
10 2 (0.81%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.81%) Moogsoft
10 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.81%) Veeam