SQL Server Job Trends in Bristol

Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL Server skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 68 39
Rank change year-on-year +3 -29 +15
Permanent jobs citing SQL Server 30 25 147
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.16% 2.39% 5.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 20.27% 11.96% 29.58%
Number of salaries quoted 27 17 134
10th Percentile £46,000 £37,750 £33,825
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year - -2.04% +28.95%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,886 £72,500
90th Percentile - £82,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

All Database & 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 148 209 497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 5.71% 20.02% 18.57%
Number of salaries quoted 98 146 389
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +13.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,375 £90,000 £91,934
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

SQL Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

SQL Server job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL Server
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL Server.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL Server

SQL Server
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing SQL Server in Bristol over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Salary histogram for SQL Server in Bristol

SQL Server
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 3 (10.00%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (70.00%) Azure
2 11 (36.67%) Power Platform
3 7 (23.33%) SaaS
4 3 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.33%) AWS
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
6 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) DNS
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
1 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (36.67%) Power BI
2 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.67%) MySQL
2 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.33%) GIS
3 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
General
1 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Billing
4 1 (3.33%) Local Government
4 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Developer
2 8 (26.67%) Data Scientist
3 7 (23.33%) Software Developer
4 3 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.67%) PHP Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) .NET Software Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Business Manager
6 1 (3.33%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Commercial Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Insight Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Insight Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (53.33%) .NET
2 12 (40.00%) CSS
3 11 (36.67%) ASP.NET
3 11 (36.67%) HTML
4 10 (33.33%) REST
5 8 (26.67%) AngularJS
6 5 (16.67%) Entity Framework
7 3 (10.00%) .NET Core
7 3 (10.00%) .NET Framework
7 3 (10.00%) React
8 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (6.67%) Dapper ORM
8 2 (6.67%) WPF
9 1 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (3.33%) CSS3
9 1 (3.33%) HTML5
9 1 (3.33%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (3.33%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.33%) IoT
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) SCADA
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
1 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (36.67%) AI
2 11 (36.67%) Analytics
2 11 (36.67%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (36.67%) Decision-Making
3 10 (33.33%) Data Science
3 10 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 10 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 9 (30.00%) Storytelling
5 8 (26.67%) Agile
5 8 (26.67%) Data Visualisation
5 8 (26.67%) Predictive Modelling
5 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (23.33%) API Development
7 6 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (16.67%) Scrum
9 4 (13.33%) Clean Code
10 3 (10.00%) Microservices
10 3 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) C#
2 13 (43.33%) JavaScript
3 10 (33.33%) Python
4 8 (26.67%) R
4 8 (26.67%) TypeScript
5 7 (23.33%) SQL
6 2 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (6.67%) PHP
7 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) Degree
1 1 (3.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle
2 1 (3.33%) VMware