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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 86 84
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +31
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 6 18 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.30% 1.24% 2.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.73% 7.26% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 35
10th Percentile £62,000 £43,290 £38,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £49,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £65,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -7.90% +22.74%
75th Percentile £102,500 £70,000 £84,528
90th Percentile - £71,250 £137,913
South West median annual salary £43,953 £50,000 £63,925
% change year-on-year -12.09% -21.78% +19.49%

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 161 248 405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 8.02% 17.15% 24.38%
Number of salaries quoted 113 145 336
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £46,339
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +26.78%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,250 £85,000 £91,934
South West median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,148
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.27% +10.30%

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
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Bristol over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in Bristol

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 (16.67%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (66.67%) Serverless
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) AMQP
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (50.00%) InfluxDB
2 1 (16.67%) DB2
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Back Office
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Backend Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Backend Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) EJB
2 1 (16.67%) OpenAPI
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) SFIA
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
3 4 (66.67%) Java
4 3 (50.00%) Go
4 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (50.00%) Grafana
2 3 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform