SQL Server Jobs in Bristol

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring SQL Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SQL Server over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 51 65
Rank change year-on-year -23 +14 -21
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 26 134 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 2.07% 4.32% 4.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.40% 25.48% 22.24%
Number of salaries quoted 17 117 100
10th Percentile £34,750 £33,250 £31,100
25th Percentile £40,500 £43,750 £35,483
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £72,500 £62,331
90th Percentile £79,831 £87,500 £70,000
South West median annual salary £53,750 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% +5.26%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Bristol

SQL Server 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 228 526 571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 18.15% 16.96% 21.65%
Number of salaries quoted 162 364 361
10th Percentile £31,150 £36,250 £34,723
25th Percentile £43,290 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,191
Median % change year-on-year - +1.37% +12.74%
75th Percentile £73,886 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,625 £91,934 £95,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for SQL Server in Bristol

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for SQL Server in Bristol

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Bristol over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Bristol

SQL Server
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 5 (19.23%) NetWeaver
1 5 (19.23%) Tomcat
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (7.69%) NServiceBus
4 1 (3.85%) CMS
4 1 (3.85%) IIS
4 1 (3.85%) Luigi
4 1 (3.85%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) IaaS
3 5 (19.23%) PaaS
4 4 (15.38%) SaaS
5 3 (11.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
5 3 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.85%) AWS
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.85%) Sage Pay
7 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) LAN
1 4 (15.38%) WAN
2 3 (11.54%) Firewall
2 3 (11.54%) MPLS
2 3 (11.54%) SD-WAN
2 3 (11.54%) Unified Communications
2 3 (11.54%) VPN
2 3 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.85%) DNS
3 1 (3.85%) FTP
3 1 (3.85%) HTTP
3 1 (3.85%) SMTP
3 1 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) BusinessObjects
1 5 (19.23%) SAP BW
1 5 (19.23%) SAP Data Services
1 5 (19.23%) SAP HANA
2 4 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 3 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Airbyte
5 1 (3.85%) Data Vault
5 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.85%) Power BI
5 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) GitLab
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 3 (11.54%) Visual Studio
5 2 (7.69%) Fiddler
5 2 (7.69%) Git
5 2 (7.69%) Postman
5 2 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (7.69%) TeamCity
6 1 (3.85%) Log4Net
General
1 10 (38.46%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Banking
3 5 (19.23%) General Ledger
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Unix Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Unix Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Development Manager
4 3 (11.54%) IT Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Software Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Software Development Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Software Manager
5 2 (7.69%) .NET Developer
5 2 (7.69%) .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (50.00%) .NET
2 8 (30.77%) .NET Framework
3 7 (26.92%) Web Services
4 6 (23.08%) .NET Core
4 6 (23.08%) ASP.NET
4 6 (23.08%) REST
5 5 (19.23%) HTML
6 4 (15.38%) CSS
6 4 (15.38%) RESTful
7 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
7 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (11.54%) HTML5
7 3 (11.54%) JSON
7 3 (11.54%) React
8 2 (7.69%) Bootstrap
8 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (7.69%) OAuth2
8 2 (7.69%) OpenID
8 2 (7.69%) React Native
8 2 (7.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) Linux
2 7 (26.92%) Windows Server
3 5 (19.23%) AIX
3 5 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (19.23%) Unix
3 5 (19.23%) Windows
4 3 (11.54%) Windows 10
4 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) Microservices
3 8 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (26.92%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (23.08%) DevOps
5 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
6 5 (19.23%) API Development
6 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Management
6 5 (19.23%) ITIL
6 5 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (19.23%) Service Delivery
7 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 4 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (11.54%) ITSM
8 3 (11.54%) Migration
8 3 (11.54%) MVC
8 3 (11.54%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) SQL
2 8 (30.77%) C#
3 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 5 (19.23%) C
4 5 (19.23%) Java
5 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
1 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) MCSA
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (11.54%) vSphere
2 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Terraform
1 5 (19.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (7.69%) Ansible
2 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 8 (30.77%) Oracle
3 5 (19.23%) IBM
3 5 (19.23%) SAP
4 4 (15.38%) VMware
5 3 (11.54%) CheckPoint
5 3 (11.54%) Extreme Networks
5 3 (11.54%) SolarWinds
5 3 (11.54%) Zscaler
6 1 (3.85%) Cisco
6 1 (3.85%) PayPal
6 1 (3.85%) Salesforce