Relational Database Job Trends in Bristol

Relational Database
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 83 102
Rank change year-on-year -9 +19 -9
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 3 18 49
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.12% 1.52% 2.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.10% 7.53% 10.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 35
10th Percentile - £42,211 £33,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £64,944 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,525 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +9.45% -2.91% +31.30%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,813 £112,500
90th Percentile - £81,000 £148,564
South West median annual salary £43,953 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.09% -4.76% -3.67%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Bristol

Relational Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 143 239 457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 5.85% 20.12% 18.77%
Number of salaries quoted 97 143 369
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +17.37%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £84,750 £94,013
South West median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Relational Database relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Bristol

Relational Database
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (33.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Back Office
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Team Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Team Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) EJB
1 1 (33.33%) Keycloak
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Energy Management
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SFIA
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes