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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 110 83
Rank change year-on-year +35 -27 +24
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 9 19 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.80% 0.78% 2.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.42% 5.81% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 46
10th Percentile £43,100 £35,400 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £48,500 £67,963
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% -28.64% +35.28%
75th Percentile £98,750 £70,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £94,084 £86,875
South West median annual salary £52,500 £51,250 £52,700
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.75% +5.40%

All Database and 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 166 327 432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 14.83% 13.37% 25.79%
Number of salaries quoted 128 190 375
10th Percentile £36,100 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,698 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% -1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,563 £76,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,250 £85,000
South West median annual salary £48,750 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -15.22% +2.68% +12.00%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Relational Database as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Relational Database 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
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Bristol over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in Bristol

Relational Database
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 3 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub
4 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) AMQP
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (33.33%) InfluxDB
3 2 (22.22%) RDBMS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (11.11%) DB2
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) Git
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Back Office
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Backend Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Data Integration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Implementation Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
5 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
5 1 (11.11%) Data Transformation
5 1 (11.11%) High Availability
5 1 (11.11%) Logistics
5 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) Python
3 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
4 3 (33.33%) Go
4 3 (33.33%) Java
5 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
5 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
1 3 (33.33%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (33.33%) Grafana
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 3 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Cognos
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce